I’m starting a new feature – #owies – that’s Obvious Web Insights Explained Sarcastically. Just my little bit of opinionated observations that really should be apparent to everyone already. But since I had a little snafu with my company’s year-end scheduled post/email blast, here’s one for free:”If your service allows scheduling posts, any sharing capabilities MUST also allow scheduling; why the hell would I want to promote my posts and emails on social media BEFORE my posts have gone live?”
Posts
General posts about the site
#140RVW
New feature starting today: 140 char. movie reviews. Hopefully will get me writing more regularly. Has added benefit of limiting me. #140RVW
Sláinte
With this blog, I’m going to try to limit my focus to my areas of interest: music, movies, software.
With music and movies, it’ll probably just boil down to my opinion of what’s great and what isn’t; nothing you aren’t stuck listening to if you personally know me.
With software and platforms, though, I really want to look at all this stuff that makes our lives more fun and more frustrating and point out how it could be improved by following my simple and pompous design principle:
Sláinte, which I’m appropriating to stand for “so long as it’s now totally effortless”. Kinda clunky, but it really should all come down to that – everything we choose to add to the increasingly jumbled flea markets that we call our lives should ultimately achieve the same goal: make my life easier.
So every product, platform, service or experience really should meet this criteria. I think that most of the time, my life and others are best served by me being understanding and flexible. But I have become gradually aware that there are times in my life where I think it’s my job to NOT be understanding and that the best attitude is a dismissive “so long as it’s no trouble”.
A Strange Man Who Can’t Be Taken Seriously
Everyone must have a blog, yes?
Despite all of the advice I read about the benefits of creating content and cultivating an online presence, blah, blah, blah…there’s something so inherently pompous about a blog. The idea that my inner thoughts are somehow of interest to people to such a degree that I’d better record them. You really have to have a high opinion of yourself to throw your mental garbage out of the car window and believe that your web-litter is really gold.
No problem there, then…
So instead of having a professional blog to highlight my skills learned from 15 years of working at a first class property management company, I’ve decided to play to my strengths and just have a snarky blog where I point out how everything would be so much better if people only took the extra step of consulting me before their every move.