I got a nice little troll comment from “bob” a bit ago. “bob” is under the impression that because I’m picked up by a particular aggregator, that I should never post about anything other than that aggregator’s subject.
Just to clarify to “bob” and anyone else, this is my personal blog, with a tech focus. Technology means I cover everything from Gadgets to web services to Flex and ColdFusion development. Personal means that I (seldomly) cover something that’s non-tech related.
“bob”, I have a couple suggestions. If you really think that I’m specifically posting things in order to take up valuable space in your reader, don’t flatter yourself. I’m going to bet there are readers or plugins for readers that let you filter out specific blogs so you can filter mine out and stop pestering me. Or, if you think that technology posts shouldn’t be on a technology blog, feel free to complain to the aggregator in question. If anything, you should have complained about the Red Roof Inn posts.
I welcome everyone to offer constructive criticism on my posts, but flat-out complaining about the content on my blog won’t be tolerated. And next time, “bob”, leave your real email address so I can address you directly instead of wasting everyone else’s time with a post like this.
if i were bob, i’d kick my own ass
There will always be critics man, always.
DW
Critics are welcome. Hecklers will be shot.
Actually, I kind of agree with Bob. My blog is aggregated by 4 ColdFusion aggregators, but I gave the aggregators my ColdFusion subject RSS. I don’t think the rest of the CF world cares about my Microsoft rants, or my religious posts, or my cats, etc. so I don’t put the "ColdFusion" tag on those posts, and they don’t end up in the aggregators.
Ah-hah, someone with an intelligent comment!
I’ll look into getting my RSS feed updated on various sites.
I don’t agree with "bob". I think that blogs serve multiple purposes. Yes it’s a great source of information sharing for the technology we all love (ColdFusion), but it’s also an important part of the CF community building. I think it binds us more together if some small personal info leaps through every now and again. Now if you had a blog that was 90% personal stuff and 10% CF/tech - then I would agree with "bob", but for a blog like yours and most of the fellow CF’ers blogs I say it’s all good.