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nicefishfilms · 1 year ago

Excellent! I've been trying to articulate this for some time. Thank you for saving me the the effort. I bow in your general direction.

Anthony Farrior · 1 year ago

Ditto, It's an acquiesce for some, but the sad truth is that our content does not begin and end on our blog. It's not even frustrating anymore, it's just good to know we've been helpful to someone... Thanx for showing us your outline :)

Louis Gray · 1 year ago

I wouldn't call it a "sad truth" or "frustrating". It's simply an evolution of content creation and distribution. We need to be sharp and move to where the conversation is going, not just to where we say it should be.

Anthony Farrior · 1 year ago

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Chris Brogan · 1 year ago

That made me think about a post I did over a year ago: http://www.chrisbrogan.com/i-blogged-off-blog-t... . I totally agree with your premise. An off-platform flow of content is a great way to be.

ChangeForge | Ken Stewart · 1 year ago

Louis, I have found it interesting immersing myself in blogging and "social media" - seeing all of this literally collide. It's almost as if I have a cup of water in each hand and throw them both together on the table in front of me...

The ensuing rippling effect is always different for each exercise - and so it is with each way I see a new content creator emerge. Leo is doing it with Audio and augmenting with Video, whereas Bwana uses his videos to be very helpful or just plain conversational, and Scoble - well he's just on the edge ;-)

It's so amazing to watch, and I would be lying if I didn't say I would love to make a living doing this all day - but I have come to the conclusion (happily) that this is most about sharing ideas, broadening my perspective on life, and connecting with people in meaningful ways...

As Randy Paush said, "every man wants to leave a legacy" [paraphrasing here]. What's mine going to be? It doesn't have to be big - just meaningful; the best way to do that is have a heart of service, in this person's humble opinion.

gregorylent · 1 year ago

i think randy paush's statement is from a more primitive time, just be in the moment is the message for these times .. legacy was an ego idea in a more finite world .. we are already in infinity, and legacy is becoming an absurd concept .. to me anyway ..

i commend your idea of a "heart of service", that is a fabulous phrase, and way to live. thanks for that.

ChangeForge | Ken Stewart · 1 year ago

Gregory, I have reservations about living in the moment, quite frankly. Perhaps I am old beyond my years. A legacy to me is simply knowing that your efforts made a difference in some measurable way... to me that entails my family and close friends. If I make a difference anywhere else by way of the simple life I lead, then all the better. Legacy to me is not a vanity trip; it is what we all seek to achieve - a knowledge that our life did have meaning and was for some purpose.

Louis Gray · 1 year ago

Your comment on sharing ideas vs. making a living is right. If folks would start to think about blogging and social media as communications and discovery tools first, and less so like potential ATMs, we'd all be seeing better collaboration and content.

gregorylent · 1 year ago

thanks for this ... a step on the way to full flow in all directions ... the term content provider is not long for this world i think ... the same with the concept of ownership, it is over ...

mystics say, our thoughts are not really ours ... tech is verifying that ...

CraigK · 1 year ago

Louis:

If nothing else that is an attribute to your quality content you offer all of your readers on a daily basis. If you are at the point where the blog itself doesn't matter, just the content you provide, then clearly you have made it and are very successful at blogging.

Craig
www.budgetpulse.com

frank · 1 year ago

hey Luis ...

very nice read here ... i'm working on a new blog for my company. we are very close to getting it launched .... how the 'content' will be pushed out to the world is definitely something that i have thought a lot about during the process of building, thinking, talking, reading and all the other things i have done to try and get us ready.

this post helps give me a better framework for thinking about how we should view our blog. your observations/experience is right on.

thank for sharing ...

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http://twitter.com/franswaa

Ari Herzog · 1 year ago

Whoa, you email your Blogger posts? You don't do it from the blogspot.com site? I never knew there was an alternative!? And why do you ping Feedburner rather than Feedburner automatically being pinged through its javascript code?

I use feedly as my reader, and visit every post to read in full and comment. Like now. So I see your changes, if there are any.

Louis Gray · 1 year ago

Ari, I don't e-mail my Blogger posts. But I do compose them in Apple
Mail before posting them. You can e-mail your posts to Blogger, but I
don't do it.

Also, the reason I directly ping FeedBurner is so that I can get the
blog post on FriendFeed before alerting Twitter. That way, in theory,
more comments end up on the FriendFeed blog item, and get passed back
to my blog using custom Yahoo! Pipes code from Pat Hawks.