The end is slowly drawing near and I’ve yet to crack a dollar. The whole tumblr thing put me back a few days but I’m working on the new content. I found myself being a perfectionist again and having to slap myself out of it. These test sites should be all about “good enough”.

Random Thought of the Day: Does anyone else find Caro on the 30 Day Challenge Forum helpful but annoying? Kinda like an uptight librarian. I can read forum posts and predict the ones she’ll reply to and what she’ll say. I’m half-tempted to write a Caro-bot script and save her hours of posting! All in fun, Caro. Smile ok?

On another note, the whole discussion on “quality” content is really annoying me. Seriously, the stuff that Ed showed us about cutting/pasting snippets of factoids and doing minor little article posts did not lend itself to quality posting. But I’m kinda begging the question. What the heck is “quality” and who decides? It’s subjective.

So far the quality discussion is more like what theologians do with Via Negativa. Quality is being defined by what it is NOT rather than what it is. My standard is to write something that I would like to read. I reject the absurd hypocrisy of the web 2.0 elitists that say if it’s got an affiliate link, it’s spam. There’s an old phrase that says “thou shalt not muzzle thy ox”. If you’re busting your ass developing sites and writing content for others to read freely, so what if you throw a link or two in there?!

The meltdown continues from the tumblr fiasco. I recovered my content and have written even better copy for the new site. I’m going to use my own sub-domains so that I have complete ownership of my work.

Even after living 40 years on the planet, I still get surprised at how sheepish people can get. I’ve found some posts on the 30 DC forum that are virtual ass kisses to Ed and Dan. C’mon people. It’s one thing to be appreciative, it’s another to chug down the Kool Aid.

Sorry Ed and the rest of the 30 DC gang for certain people trying to wreck the 30DC. These are the same people no matter what industry you are in try to ruin for every body else…
I am sorry Ed, Dan, Rob, Nic plus Caro and Lisa and I hope I didn’t forget anybody for the few that try to ruin for the rest of us…

Please people, never lose your self-respect and never apologize for other people.

Total drama day. It appears the 13 year old that owns or manages tumblr.com whipped up some hypocritical self-righteousness and started deleting all the tumblr pages that could be identified with the 30 day challenge. Wow, tough guy!

SEO niche keyword spammers have discovered that Tumblr matters and ranks well. Crap… They call themselves “affiliate marketers”. I call them scum, and I’ve already developed accurate heuristics for detecting them.

I guess we are supposed to be impressed with his heuristic skillz. I’m sure all the fanboyz will be soo happy that tumblr was saved from the evil affiliate marketers. Hehe… Kids and their playgrounds. You won a battle but lost a war. Just think about how many people you just pissed off by acting like an idiot. I can tell you what tumblr means to me … crap.

Moving onward to Ed and Dan. Ok, yeah, they had some damage control to do, but they are going overboard with apologies. Tumblr should be thanking Ed and Dan for the attention, traffic, and CONTENT. Just in case you hadn’t noticed, most tumblr diaries are worthless and devoid of content (maybe they should name change to ‘Dumblr’). At least 30 DC’ers were writing content.

Moving onward, the best thing that will come from this is it will force 30 DC’ers to move to a real platform to launch a sustainable content-driven IM business. I hated tumblr from the day we were told to use it. Good riddance.