Blog Rot! or How Not To Play in the NBA....

One of the incidental benefits of pitching software to smart people is that you have to elevate your game! I just finished watching America's team, i.e. the Duke Blue Devils demolish the only team that had beaten them this year, FSU by 31. I returned to my trusty computer to do a little work and to read some of the many different Weblogs that I read all the time.

What is truly remarkable about the blogging community is the dynamic nature of the writing and thinking.

I read about a dozen different blogs a day, and do so 2-3 times a day depending on how the spirit moves me. It's funny I find greater joy at times in sharing great links with the really great bloggers than I ranting on them myself.

One reason why it is so easy for me to troll the blogging community with such ease is because of the software that our team has built, i.e. ActiveWords.

ActiveWords allows you to name that blog! Hence when I type "wls" I don't get "WLS" 890 in Chicago, the former home of Dick Biondi, I get "Doc", when I type "wldan", I get Dan Gillmor, etc.

By using this simple convention, I am a word away from all of the blogs that I read, and adding one is a piece of cake.

Now for the bad news, some of these really smart people and great writers fall victim to "Blog Rot", which I define as not staying in the game and offering up great stuff on a daily basis. Perhaps they have day jobs, but if they want to play in the "NBA" or National Bloggers Association, Blog Rot can't be part of their game.

10:14:19 PM