13 Aug
Getting My Groove Back?
Posted August 13th, 2008 | View Comments
I haven’t written much in the last few days, but today is the day I get my groove back, such as it is.
There have been a few reasons why I’ve been off my usual Elite Properties web site thing of beauty feed lately. The first reason is that recently all my blogs got hacked (read more here).
Don’t we all just love Internet criminals? Sure we do — we love them every bit as much as regular criminals.
At around the same time that these ne’er-do-wells were making up two days of security-related work for me to do, I was disabling the comments here. Partly I got tired of the noise-to-signal ratio, and partly I was inspired to react to the smug hyperbole of the article, Without Comments Your Blog is a Web 1.0 Website.
No, without comments my blog is an efficient content management system. Or better yet, it’s a better blog, because now it’s a place where someone who takes credit or blame for his work writes something that may or may not be credit-worthy or blame-worthy. Indeed, as we learn from Joel on Software, a blog is very much a blog without comments, at least according to the guy who invented them.
The most disheartening development over the past few weeks, however, has not been the prevention of anonymous drivel, but the seasonal downturn in the number of web site inquiries from real people. Over the last week or two it seems that the number of serious inquiries has slowed to something of a trickle, so if other companies are slowing as well, I expect to see a downturn in the September numbers. (July’s volume figures bested June’s, which I didn’t expect — the jury’s still out on how August will shape up).
It’s time to get another part time job as a Chippendales model to tide me over until next year!
