:)Posted on 01/11/2010 7:00:31 PM PST by Jihadi Du Jour
"bandwidththief; bloggymcblogger; blogpimp; blogselfpromo; blogspam; checkoutmyblog; comeseemyblog; didjareadmyblog; ihaveablog; iminteresting; listentome; lookatme; payattentiontome; pimpmyblog; readme; readmyblog; readmyramblings; trollingforhits" ? NO HARM NO FOUL NO FREEPERHATE.
Joseph, allow me to ask a few serious questions.
I assume you are Joseph Speranzella, SFO? (Whatever an SFO is).
A quick review of your posting history shows thread after thread started by you, all linking to a column you wrote somewhere.
I presume you think highly of your opinion. That’s fine, that puts you in good company.
Now, with this large body of work of yours.....what is your goal here in posting link after link? Do you seek to educate, or direct traffic?
I think the answer must be the latter. If indeed you seek to educate primarily, you could simply post your entire thesis on each thread and then stay around to defend it.
Whether you think we need to digest such a large number of theses is up to you. We can click on the thread, or just move along.
But I ask again, what is YOUR purpose?
You post a lot about religion and spiritual matters. Do you seek to inspire? Inform? Elevate?
If any of the above, why not post, instead of tease and redirect?
Is there something in the Great Commission that calls on Christians to go forth and excerpt the Good News, and redirect the listener to a version replete with ads for Miracle Whip or Heavenly Hash (the spiritual version of Google Words)?
If you are here to be part of the FR community, why not just be a part of it? Why USE FR for virtually exclusive commercial purposes?
I am NOT saying I want to read 100 vanities from you a day. I don’t. I’m just suggesting you try to contribute something helpful, and not just spam the boards.
It might make a difference.
FreeRepublic is a microcosm of the whole internet, which in turn is a significant part of what let’s call the “information universe”.
And there’s a fundamental problem you must grapple with when fishing for information. Anywhere — the library, the Internet, FreeRepublic.
Namely:
Do you cast a wide net? Advantage: you catch more and miss less. Disadvantage: a LOT of what you catch is trash, and it’s time-consuming to filter. Also, casting a wide net implies a certain confidence in your abilities TO filter.
Or, do you go into a prottected cove and fish (with a necessarily smaller net)? (Metaphor for letting someone else do your prefiltering for you.) The advantages and disadvantages are swapped.
Neither philosophy is “good” or “bad”. They’re just different.
Me? In most situations I prefer the wide-net open-water approach, because I have confidence in my own research skills (honed over time), and because I distrust the motives of anyone who presumes to filter what I see.
This even extends to yadda yadda blogpimp commentary about the same old news articles — because, occasionally, a blogger presents a slightly different viewpoint that gets me thinking in a different, useful way.
Or, as you point out, the “market blog” guesswork commentary. Well, pal, I got news for you — even the “experts” disagree big-time about what we’re headed for economically speaking. ESPECIALLY in the market commentary I like to cast that wide net for new viewpoints — and at the same time I distrust ALL of it.
Your mileage may vary.
I link to my articles because they have more to offer in the way of spiritual direction and the Christian life than just the black and white forums of FR. You need not be insulting or facetious about something like The Great Commission. But if such sarcasm is your brand of humor...I accept that. I have been a member of FR community for some time now and I always link back to the discussion at the end of my articles.
So I really don't have an answer for you since you seem to be set that I'm trolling. It is in some ways a little of both. It does have a "soul" purpose but not the sole purpose of getting "hits"
Thanks for the tips.
I am a wide-net caster, which is why I just use the “all articles” feed and look over every one.
I also can read quickly, but I can’t read through a link without actually clicking the link. It slows me down, I get caught by filters, I lose the train of thought, and then in the comments you get a lot of people who comment only on what is excerpted.
Which means that we would ALL be better off if the entire content was posted here. Which, in the case of bloggers, is perfectly possible.
So, any blogger who doesn’t post their entire entry is inconveniencing the entire community of FreeRepublic. It’s not that they are posting, it’s that they are posting in an inconvenient way.
So, why are they doing this, and why should we all be happy about it?
The market blogs are an issue only to the degree that when there is an actual NEWS story about something that has happened, it can be very important. But when there is a hyperbolic headline suggesting something disastrous has just happened, and it’s in NEWS, but then it turns out it’s just someone’s fantasy blog post, it is like the boy crying wolf, you can’t ignore it but it makes it harder to find the real news.
Good questions, I would like to see a more thorough answer, why not just post them here, and let us read them here?
I got it figured out
I am not opposed to posting the articles in full here. I'm paying attention to this thread and the advice in it. I am however opposed to the hatefulness of people FR with regard to linking. As there is nothing wrong in doing so people should not be so quick to keyword ranting. Just my opinion.
Thank you. :)
sorry I just saw yours was a reply to 43...my bad.
I read post 43, that is why I posted to it, I was hoping that you would better answer the guys questions. Are you always this insulting here at FR, with accusations of hate and whining that people responding to your vanity are all meanies?
But there is no cause for the keyword rants. especially when I'm posting to specific audiences. Those interested in spirituality and religious things click through as quickly to my Examiner.com articles as they do to the NY Times or others. It just seems that some are a bit hateful that's all.
I don’t mean to sound insulting either BTW.
good night.
“Joseph, allow me to ask a few serious questions.
I assume you are Joseph Speranzella, SFO? (Whatever an SFO is).
A quick review of your posting history shows thread after thread started by you, all linking to a column you wrote somewhere.
I presume you think highly of your opinion. That’s fine, that puts you in good company.
Now, with this large body of work of yours.....what is your goal here in posting link after link? Do you seek to educate, or direct traffic?
I think the answer must be the latter. If indeed you seek to educate primarily, you could simply post your entire thesis on each thread and then stay around to defend it.
Whether you think we need to digest such a large number of theses is up to you. We can click on the thread, or just move along.
But I ask again, what is YOUR purpose?
You post a lot about religion and spiritual matters. Do you seek to inspire? Inform? Elevate?
If any of the above, why not post, instead of tease and redirect?
Is there something in the Great Commission that calls on Christians to go forth and excerpt the Good News, and redirect the listener to a version replete with ads for Miracle Whip or Heavenly Hash (the spiritual version of Google Words)?
If you are here to be part of the FR community, why not just be a part of it? Why USE FR for virtually exclusive commercial purposes?
I am NOT saying I want to read 100 vanities from you a day. I don’t. I’m just suggesting you try to contribute something helpful, and not just spam the boards.
It might make a difference.”
Looks like you nailed it.
Thanks to all who genuinely tried to converse and advise me.
and really...Peace be with you.
Joe
Why not Opus and be done with it?
Yeah? Well, so’s yer mother!
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