Every year the posts and comments flood the Internet: “BlogHer is awesome and so much fun and if you don’t have fun there it’s your fault!” “I went to BlogHer last year and it was very cliquish and I didn’t have any fun.” “There are no cliques at BlogHer! No one is cool! Everyone is…
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How to Attend BlogHer as a Dude: Updated for 2011. Now with more cargo shorts.
In the next month two weeks you will read post after post about OMG BlogHer I Can’t Wait To Go! or Damn BlogHer I Hate Those People Why Can’t They Shut Up About It? You will read tips on how to interpret apparent standoffishness as shyness, snobbery as insecurity, hilarity as drunkenness. You will read…
Why I Rid Myself of Disqus and NetworkedBlogs
I noticed a little glitch as I was sending out yesterday’s post about my mom’s visit. When I clicked on the link to my post as it appeared in NetworkedBlogs, my Disqus commenting system wouldn’t load. NetworkedBlogs keeps readers inside their own link when they read your page, instead of just sending the reader to…