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Is Blog Evangelism Cruel?

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Much debate on Nick Carr’s latest stab in the a-list face today. Im not going to spend a huge deal of time on it, but I do want to say that I love it, and no, I don’t think Nick’s a troll, I think he just hit’s a nerve with some folks — and I thank him for doing so, somebody should.

Whether you agree or not, it’s a pretty funny read, and I Particularly liked the Epilogue, it hit the proverbial nail right on the head. Also, this quote from Seth Finkelstein:

“Blog evangelism is very cruel, as it preys on people’s frustrated hopes and dreams.”

That quote was what actually got me to write this post. Because like some others, I did see that Nick missed a large part of the people that make up the so called “blogosphere” — though I think in both of those cases the writers were taking an easy target (the post would have been 3 days long if it had covered every conceivable angle) and that they clearly have a vested interest in poo poo’ing the idea of an innocent fraud in the ‘sphere.

Apart from the people writing for collegues, a few friends, just their family or like one blog I write, purely for oneself, the part of the ‘sphere that’s missing from Nicks’s article for me, is the working blogosphere. The bloggers that make up a large section of the Performancing community. Those bloggers not as interested in whether a popular blog will link to them as how much revenue they’ve made that month, where it’s come from and how to increase it.

I suspect for those bloggers, and certainly for myself, the arguments, name calling and circling of wagons over Nick’s piece is simply amusing.

Just another day in the echochamber heh…

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Exchange is Already Evolving Based on Feedback

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Only some few hours after launching Performancing Exchange, a “classifieds style marketplace for the professional blogging community”, we’ve already got a ton of feedback, and the service has already began to reshape.

One of the things we found early on was that the category “services offered” was just asking for trouble, particularly when the service is free… Also, a better place for individual bloggers to showcase their talents and skills is the newly redesigned user profiles, which are soon to be made searchable by “for hire”.

Keeping it very simple certainly seems the way forward, and now we have just 3 categories:

  • Blogging Jobs
  • Services wanted
  • Blogs for sale

No posts were lost when the old categories were removed, but they don’t appear on the /exchange page any longer.

There are certainly a few good blogging exchange posts, including B5Media’s business bloggers wanted, and they’ll certainly be more to come.

As always, opinions and susggestions most welcome.

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Performancing Teams with Jeeran for PFF in Arabic!

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With the recent release of Performancing Firefox 1.3, we introduced the ability to localize our free, open source blog editor. I’m pleased to announce, that in partnership with Jeeran, the Middle East’s largest blogging service, our first localization is now available.

Thanks to a great deal of hard work from Jeeran’s Laith Zraikat, one of the Jeeran founding partners, and Jed Brown, Performancing’s lead XUL developer, the Arabic version of PFF is complete, including “right to left” support.

If you’re not familiar with Jeeran, some of their key features include:

More Localizations to Follow…

Now that the framework is in place, i’ll be emailing all the kind folks who’ve offered to work on tranlations for:

  • German
  • French
  • Dutch
  • Italian
  • Spanish
  • Chinese and
  • Turkish

Im sure there will be more to follow aswell. If you don’t see your language covered there, and you speak reasonable English, feel free to contact me at [email protected] and we’ll gratefully add you to the team!

Exchange Gears up for Beta!

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A recent thread on performancing sparked some very quick dev work on our part to put together a plan we’d had on the back burner for some months. A marketplace for bloggers and companies wishing to hire, or engage those bloggers.

Think of it as a kind of craigslist meets job board for bloggers. Raj and Ahmed have kindly agreed to head up this new section of Performancing and we’re well set for launch next week.

Check Your Performancing Profiles!

Ahead of launch, we’ve already put a new profile system in place. I’ll be posting about it seperately, aswell as sending out an email to all members shortly, but for now — check out Ahmed and Raj’s links above, then go edit your own.. here’s how:

  1. Go to “my account” on the right
  2. Hit “edit” at the top
  3. Hit “professional details” at the top
  4. fill in details..

This should allow people to see at a glance whether Performancing members are for hire (in any capacity, such as paid bloggers, designers etc), see their background, and their blog and recent entries on Performancing.

Profiles will shortly be searchable by “for hire” also 🙂

I’ll outline some more on Performancing Exchange in coming posts, for now though, have fun with the new profiles, and let me know what you think of the idea in general — or ask questions.

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