tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7858655869764574297.post8952620869223775591..comments2008-02-19T10:54:34.263-08:00Comments on Blogging Without a Wire: Status QuoYehuda Berlingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16038826060312027387noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7858655869764574297.post-60215818714127355192007-08-27T10:59:00.000-07:002007-08-27T10:59:00.000-07:00Thanks, Gavin. It could be that I'll get good enou...Thanks, Gavin. It could be that I'll get good enough at this job at some point that I will be able to give definitive numbers at how much traffic I bring in over a certain period.<BR/><BR/>But right now, I can't think that way.<BR/><BR/>YehudaYehuda Berlingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16038826060312027387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7858655869764574297.post-46456227764187151252007-08-27T10:29:00.000-07:002007-08-27T10:29:00.000-07:00I love the philosophy you've got here. Perhaps mos...I love the philosophy you've got here. Perhaps most of all because no one else really appreciates it / hasn't seen it make money, and thus have 'value' to them.<BR/><BR/>I mean, how many companies out there have leadership that essentially just follows trends? <BR/><BR/>How many companies see BoingBoing as "just a bunch of link opportunities that draw people to sites, and thus make money each day?<BR/><BR/>How many think the content doesn't matter -- that the writers may as well be RSS feeds?<BR/><BR/>At Gama's Origins Game Expo in Ohio this past year, we saw a start up called geekalize spending good money to push what is essentially just a message board with some minor community commerce and gamers-only social networking functions built in as "the new thing". What makes that competitive with the existing mass social sites like Myspace & Face book, or the already established gamer-focused social sites like Boardgamegeek? Their marketing director couldn't answer that question and I don't think their staff has really even thought about it, because "people are making money doing it already... so why can't we?"<BR/><BR/>Keep up the good work! Struggle or no, I think you are onto something really cool here -- something sincere which other's won't be able to immediately emulate -- and eventually, you'll find someone who actually gets it :)Gavin Schmitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08490611166440023913noreply@blogger.com