I don’t care if you read this

was posted on 17 May 08 at 8:42pm.

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Web 2.0, Social Media, The Blogsphere, whatever you attribute it to, getting your voice published online is easier than it has ever been. Getting your voice heard and getting a response from your audience is the tricky part.

Noise

The problem with getting an engaging, responsive audience when you’re blogging for fun is the shear volume of blogs and other user generated content fighting for attention online. If we look at Technorati’s data the are currently about 112.8 million blogs online, and over 250 million items of tagged media.

Dig a bit further into this data and it’s revealed that there are over 175,000 new blogs every day with over 1.6 million posts per day (over 18 posts every second).

There is a lot of noise out there. Chances are that there are a lot people out there saying similar things to you.

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writing

i like to write about stuff, thats what this place is for. here are some of the things that i talk about, organized into categories. i have more categories than this though, you can find them in the categories section. even more of my posts are over in the archives.

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  • Fall Out Boy (218 plays)
  • Nine Inch Nails (197 plays)
  • System of a Down (137 plays)
  • Arctic Monkeys (117 plays)
  • Ray LaMontagne (112 plays)

metal&gin?

metal & gin is the personal blog of craig t mackenzie, a scary boy with delusions of grandeur, and a panache for geek-chic. craig lives in the UK and writes code for avenue a | razorfish. you can find out more about him in the about section.

this blog mostly focuses on matters of geekery as well as any random musing that pops into craig's head. this is also a place for meta-data about craig to be collated.

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