Posts from ‘Quit Your Day Job’
Yes I know.
I’m an awful blogger, I never write, I never podcast, I leave you all hanging for days on end.
I get that.
I’d apologise but we both have been here before.
But there are reasons, not excuses, but reasons!
Number one reason is the television show Lost.
I promised Lost fan after Lost fan that I would indeed watch their treasured Lost but would do so on my terms and not at the hands of some drug crazed one eyed fighting monkey television programmer. I even bought the first season on DVD ages ago with the promise of watching it ad free and one after an other.
So with the final season upon us and Twitter so full of spoilers that they should change the name of the microblog to “Super terrific we spoil your tv shows and movies that you want to watch internet thingie” (in all fairness though I doubt that name would catch on) we have embarked on the Lost journey, sacrificing gaming, cleaning and sleep to watch episode after episode.
We’re coming up to the end of season 4 and only have had two or three major spoilers thrown our way (if I unfollow you on Super terrific we spoil your tv shows and movies that you want to watch internet thingie don’t feel too bad, I’ll follow you again after we catch up).
But it must be said that apart from taking time away from the aforementioned sleep etc it does cut heavily into my blogging time which brings me to my next reasons.
No time for blogging!?!?!
I know.
So I have a new blog called Mashing Buttons that I’ve started with fellow casual gamer Greg and yeah sure the Midnight Movie Club is still going strong (we even made it to some screen on iTunes which was very exciting to be considered new).
But you know I love you though don’t you?
Quit Your Day Job is still the one, I won’t say those other blogs don’t mean anything to me, they’re just different.
Maybe you should start following them too?
Come on don’t be like that, you know you want to.
- Mashing Buttons
- Midnight Movie Club
- Super terrific we spoil your tv shows and movies that you want to watch internet thingie
The reason why I first changed the comment system over to Disqus a while back was to try and foster a bit of community around the comments and the posts and over on Twitter and Facebook etc.
Now some of you have disliked the comment system and for valid reasons, fortunately you’ve generally stuck with it and I really appreciate that. Others quite like the system which is the party that I include myself. So for the first group I apologise if you thought for a second that I’d seen the light and was uninstalling, I haven’t, I won’t be for the time being.
I do like Disqus and I find it a really easy system to work with but there is another feature that I knew about but didn’t really think about until last night when I clicked Arjan’s name by accident and discovered that Arjan will forever be known as that Dutch guy who liked TMNT 2:
I don’t know if I would claim those comments either.
I’m kidding of course because as we all know (well as some of us might) Arjan is quite proud of his TMNT2 loving status.
So how do I get more comments out of you guys?
Quite a while back now I installed the Disqus comment management system in an attempt to build upon the community that was already forming on Quit Your Day Job and hopefully encourage everyone to chat amongst yourselves and really grow some conversation.
At first there was some trepidation from a few of you who really didn’t like the system, and I totally got that, but the system worked really well for me especially managing the comments and you know, it’s my house so whatever makes my life easier then cool.
But I did say that I would revisit the experiment down the track and see how it was faring. Well, we’re down the track and I’m curious about what everyone still thinks about it.
See I know that I’m still getting the traffic come through the site but that my comments have been dropping. This of course could be for any number of reasons:
Obviously there are a couple there that I don’t subscribe to but I’m generally open to it all.
You see one of the big things I always wanted out of Quit Your Day Job was to invite you guys* to join a community around here, to come over to my place and hang out (virtually), talk stuff, encourage each other to do that stuff in our lives that make the daily grind worthwhile.
One of the biggest components I see as part of that community is the comments. By the way this is not in any way shape or form a criticism of any of you. I don’t want anyone to feel they have to comment, the fact is I need to make it so you want to comment. The best way I can see of going about this is getting your input, I’m not going to do anything that i don’t want to but I’m also open to accommodating what’s needed to get everyone talking. This isn’t going to be an overnight process but I want to get things rolling.
So first thing’s first:
If you do feel strongly enough to chose to keep it or get rid of it then please expand on why you feel that way in the comments (which would kind of be ironic for some feedback at least) or by my contact form, or if you know it you can always just email me.
Actually if you do have any suggestions, I’m opening myself up to them and you should feel free to drop me a line. Of course personal attacks and purely unhelpful stuff really isn’t welcome.
Thanks a lot everyone!!
* I do want to mention when I say guys I don’t mean it in a gender term, I mean all you people, just clarifying.