1.) Every so often I’ll check in with an update on the blogging process. This is an update. It’s presented in the popular list format. Take your time with the list, and please enjoy every item individually. Try to chew each list item at least 50 times to ensure healthy digestion. Remember to breathe.

2.) Many people find obvious facts to be tedious. They deem the unexceptional to be just that, and not worth further comment. Then of course there are marketing people, some of whom I’m proud to be associated, and they occasionally justify their existence by constantly promoting every mundane detail.

3.) My blog is one year old. Yes. Time is a fleeting companion. Yes, I’m aware that you’ve been around. Congratulations to you too.

4.) Readers have not commented on this blog’s lack of features. Indeed this is fairly plain blog. No widgets, no streaming mashup content that plots my daily menu against the food pyramid. The content has no driving editorial policy, no identifiable theme, and no known market niche.

5.) There are fewer features now than there used to be. Over a period of weeks I began eliminating what was called the “money back” area of the sidebar. It was a blogroll. The title was meant to suggest that you could have your money back if you didn’t like what you found at each link. It must have worked because nobody asked for their money back. Also, nobody complained when I gradually trimmed the list down, and eventually removed it entirely. Now it’s gone – not forgotten.

6.) I remain very aware of traffic levels, search keyphrases, referrers, etc. This month was the fourth consecutive month of traffic growth.

7.) Here’s a warning to all you bloggers in the technorati popularity range of 650,000-655,000:

“I’m gunning for you with everything I’ve got. I show no mercy. I street fight and I’m a mean sonofabitch and you better believe I’m coming.”

8.) I’m not sure how you all got into the top 650,000 but I’m betting it was because you know to scramble, kick, bite, and scratch. Those tactics are well and good. They also remind me of the old “knife in a gun fight” story.

9.) Will overtly aggressive language move me into top 650,000 blogs? We shall see, we shall see. I read stories about how social media is making us all become friends. We’re probably ready for some cultural backlash on the friendliness front.

10.) Some new school management thinkers actually frown on the use of war metaphors in business. They claim it leads to lost productivity, unnecessary stress, misguided strategies, etc. What I want to know is: what/how? So prove it new school management thinkers. Prove to me that a woman can waste perfectly productive time creating gender neutral straw people and knocking them down. And don’t discount that she feels utterly inspired in the process. Don’t forget that the market will reward her. Don’t ignore the historic evidence that quixotic anger is a time honored a way of being. It’s as popular as any other cultural archtype. You prove that it’s not useful and we’ll all continue evolving at our own pace.

11.) Cultural archtypes exist/persist because people use them as a means to succeed in their environment. Let’s not mistakenly reduce evolution to a biophysical phenomenon. Cultural and spiritual evolution are happening too.

12.) Just maybe not here. Or maybe? You be the judge. Text #4927 with the message “salvation” to cast your vote. Databases are standing by.

Thanks again for coming…

[tags]road to salvation, technorati top 650k, quixotic anger[/tags]