http://www.jonburgess.com Not just another blog; an expert blog! Fri, 16 Apr 2010 17:04:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Blogging sure doesn't come naturally to most Gen-X'ers, it really is the younger crowd's thing.  So it has been awhile since I last posted.  Not much has changed, I think Twitter is a waist of time, but Facebook is growing on me for marketing reasons. Here is a snap shot of ... http://www.jonburgess.com/?p=86 The cost of Twitter? I was thinking, since I went another day with no hits to my sites from my Twits, how much is this whole twitter thing costing me? Well... Twitter seems to be one of the slower sites I have ever been on, but it doesn't take that ... http://www.jonburgess.com/?p=84 I got a new follower,  this guy, http://twitter.com/Zen_Is_2_Now.  Now he actually seems like his is in my general industry, so maybe I'll get some hits..... So I took a look and he is following 4,707 and has 4,303 followers.  Now, I'm not sure, but if you follow that many people, is ... http://www.jonburgess.com/?p=81 We got one hit out of Twitter yesterday.   I lost a follower; they probably thought my stuff was not targeted to them. Other things I noticed about Twitter. We have been talking for a number of years about Web 2.0, and about being more open, or getting your "skin in ... http://www.jonburgess.com/?p=74 Ok, I got 4 news followers, but 3 of them were porn links, and one was my brother.  The moral of the story, once PORN gets ahold of a website, it is all over. http://www.jonburgess.com/?p=72 With the Inland Empire economy and employment struggling, it seems like many organizations have been hit.  Our local chapter of the American Advertising Federation, Inland Empire, has been hit with a loss of membership.  We have been members for a few years, and with the decline in membership, I thought that ... http://www.jonburgess.com/?p=70 No hit yesterday, seems like it isn't a supprise anymore. Has anyone noticed how slow Twitter seems to be? And how often the style sheets don't load. Up to 17 followers. http://www.jonburgess.com/?p=68 12 Days of Twitter, suspended actions for the weekend.  Instead I lived in the real world... if I had twitted, this is what you missed; I took the kids to the park, I mowed the lawn, I cleaned the garage, I talked to the neighbor, I drank some Coors Light, I ... http://www.jonburgess.com/?p=66 Twitter... 3 posts, zero hits. Ok, I joined Digg; I think that will give me a bigger boost than twitter.  It is becoming fairly apparent that the crowd that is using Twitter is mostly venting.  There is very little in the way of good content, or content that you WANT to know ... http://www.jonburgess.com/?p=64 I put three posts up yesterday.  My posts for the day, the California Welcome Center, Inland Empire, zero hits. My post about "parting like the 1920's", zero hits.  And finally, I gave away my "CLIENT ONLY" newsletter to the world, what a deal, zero hits.  I did garner one hit to my InlandEmpire.US site, ... http://www.jonburgess.com/?p=61