Natespost

   For those that have been with me from the beginning, I said early on that while I will be doing research to help you all, we would still be learning together. In most of my reading which I do on other blogs…one piece of advice that seems to be prevalent is that you should always be positive. Another is to write posts in advance. Writing in advance helps you in two ways. For one, it helps you to create a flow and ensure that you have new content for your readers each day. For another, it gives you time to look over your posts and change anything that you think would make it better. It is amazing what time will do for your perspective on what you have written.

   If I had followed the latter advice, I wouldn’t have disregarded the former. After talking to Mr. Pratt and Anca, I realized how negative I was yesterday. There was no reason to be so critical of entrecard. While I was annoyed by the card droppers who spent 0 time on my blog, it was not a reason to lash out at entrecard. Like I said in yesterday’s post, they have a brilliant idea, and they are people like you and I….trying to provide something useful for as many bloggers as possible. I won’t discourage anyone from using their service….it is free after-all, and like several readers mentioned to me yesterday, you get out what you put into it. So what if some people drop cards without reading your blog…..ignore them and build on the contacts you have made otherwise.

   Although it definitely generated a good amount of discussion, in the future I would like to generate discussion by being positive. I will also strive to remember that there are people behind blogs, not just ones and zeros. If I offended anyone with my negativity, including the people behind entrecard, please accept my most sincere apologies.

   As you could probably tell, for a guy with no job.. I was pretty busy today. With everything but the blog. It was already one of those days you wish you could just rewind, and then it happened.

   Before I tell you what happened, let me inform you that I was born, raised, and live in the South. I am 100% Southern. I have actually spoken the words “Hold my beer and watch this!” I live for college football. I can eat my weight in cornbread. Feel free to insert your own “cousin” jokes here, but I have lived to the age of 35 without doing the one thing that apparently every other Southerner has done. 1/2 mile from home I hit a deer. Driving a car for nearly 20 years down here without hitting a deer would be akin to being a member of Congress for 20 years and not picking up a single hooker. So I guess I’ve been lucky so far, but I feel horrible tonight.