Riff-Raff, and you don’t Stop.

I said riff-raff and…

Vladville: 18 blog comments. Andy’s Blog: 10 comments. Susan’s blog: 4 comments. Four other blog posts on the topic elsewhere. I don’t need to tell you how much email today’s post generated from friends, fellow entrepreneurs and random bystanders.

I’m going to let you in on a big secret, that I think most the audience gets: Sometimes saying controversial things gets people talking. For more, it starts a thinking process. Who am I, where do I fit, how do I go from here to there. Over the past year we’ve seen an incredible growth in the number of SMB blogs and IT folks who are getting into blogging.

Everything I do in public is meant to strike up some sort of a response or a conversation. Thats why it’s written in such a way. Want to be bored to death – go read the ownwebnow.com/blog corporate blog. Go ahead, I’ll wait three seconds for you to get bored to tears and come back to Vladville. To the blog written without a spell check, podcasts done over Skype and many videos where you’re left to wonder where the other hand is and why the camera is shaking so much??? (pause to let you consider that for a moment and.. there you go, eeeeewww)

The point is, it’s all about the conversation. It’s all about people putting up their thoughts and their responses for the public to see, enjoy and respond to. And whether you like it or not, agree with the points or not… guess what, you’re talking. It’s like a book written by hundreds of people. There you go folks, thats the big secret. Gotcha.

P.S. Every time someone gets offended by one of my posts they wonder how this is going to negatively reflect on my business. This is also why most corporations do not allow blogging or make people dance as far away from the company identification as possible – they fear that negative sentiments somehow reflect negatively on the brand – and in that they write dry and boring text that provokes no emotion and eventually gets no audience. And thats where the fail, because they don’t comprehend that Web 2.0 is about connectivity, exposure and the sense of communty – not a huge “we like you, give us money” sign surrounded by banners, dripping in unsincerity. That I think would be a bigger insult than anything I could ever come up with.