DrContrarian

90% of Bloggers rehash what the other 10% generate 80% of Content is produced individuals and 20% by corporations pretending to be individual 70% of the traffic is made up by 30% of the surfers 60% of blogs are opinion pieces and 40% is mashed up 'findings' 50% of Bloggers are trying to monetize and the other 50% are pretending they don't want to 40% of Bloogers can spell and 60% can't (;-) 30% of comments are genuine and 70% are designed to direct eyeballs to their own site 20% of Bloggers know what they are writing about and 80% write about a niche they think they can own 10% of blog headlines describe the topic and 90% are designed to misdirect traffic to the site

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We are presenting on "Brand Me" up on the Gold Coast next week, and is my wont, I have been doing some research. I came across a blog The Buzz Machine (click on the link above) - which does not have anything to do with branding per se, but made a very interesting observation. I quote from the blog: For young people, writes [Dov] Seidman, this means understanding that your reputation in life is going to get set in stone so much earlier. More and more of what you say or do or write will end up as a digital fingerprint that never gets erased. Our generation got to screw up and none of those screw-ups appeared on our first job résumés, which we got to write. For this generation, much of what they say, do or write will be preserved online forever. Before employers even read their résumés, they’ll Google them. If you are a parent, this is pretty important to communicate to your children. Now along with the talk about condoms, drugs and not getting into strangers' cars, you also...

This is a first for me- I am just going to promote another website. The quotes below are from a manifesto called "The Hughtrain" - a play on the original Cluetrain. Quote 1: Why did I leave the big world of corporations and Amex cards... The big city is an anachronism. All those skyscrapers, architecturally impressive as they are, were built to house large, tightly controlled, centralized bureaucracies within a very small area of land, geographically near the other like-minded bureaucracies with whom they did business. You wanted to work for Corporation X? You had to buy a house within commuting distance to Corporation X ’ s Central HQ. Ninety percent of the people you needed to talk to on a daily basis were within an elevator ride of your desk. Amazing how dated something so recent can seem. Now e-mail and its spawn are the new elevators. Quote 2: Why did you start a Blog - one of those things that when you are in start-up mode, is important but not urgent. HOW TO HA...

I promised myself that I will only start blogging when I have something relevant to say. Not everyday, but regularly enough. This is my tester... bear with me.