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Not Taking My Own Advice

Well, it was but a few days ago that I opined on this very blog that frequency of posts is critical to maintaining readership. And yet, here I have gone several days without posting a damn thing. Not that I didn't mean to post -- you missed out, for instance, on my insight into what MBA's at Berkeley consider a "technology company" and why I think they might be wrong (hint: is Yahoo! really a "technology company"?) -- that just never saw the light of day. Now, I have an excuse. It's not a good one, but it's not that I've been sitting around twiddling my thumbs. No, you see, now that I'm a student I am getting quickly reacquainted with something called "homework" -- and this time around I am actually doing most of it, which I must say is, quite simply, incredibly time consuming. No wonder I tended to blow off my class reading in college -- I would have never had all that time to do whatever else it was I was doing. It doesn't help that for the first semester we are really on half-semesters (known in most parts of the world as "quarters"), so I have mid-terms starting this week(!).

A couple people mentioned that it really wouldn't matter how often I posted if I would just get with the 21st century and have an RSS feed. Of course, those people are right, and it's just plain embarrassing that I don't have RSS for this blog given how blog savvy I like to think I am and how little effort it would actually take me to personally make it happen. On the other hand, when I asked a few months ago how many of my readers use RSS the general response was "what is RSS?" -- it hasn't quite hit the mainstream yet, folks.

On a separate note, the power of blogs to do things "traditional media" could never do was once again made clear to me when I was reconnected this week to someone I have not seen for many years, and, frankly, may very well have never connected with again if not for the fact that he happened across this blog and started making comments. And the best part is that this isn't the first time something like that has happened to me.

Anyway, off to prepare for tomorrow's case in micro........