When I was at Bloggy Bootcamp, I met lots of great new bloggers and, for once, when I got home, I sat down with their business cards and got to the business of following people on the Twitter and adding their blogs to my reader.
Then, I started getting irked. Where has the damn RSS button gone? I read blogs in a reader. Yes, it happens to be Google Reader, but I like to click on the RSS button and be on my merry way. Now, it seems that I have to Google Friend Connect everything. What if I didn't have a google account? And what if I just wanted to click on the damn RSS button??? So, for most of the blogs that are on blogger, I have to make my way down to the bottom of the page and find where it has the wee link to subscribe to posts, but Chrome (my browser of choice) doesn't like that format and won't link it right to my reader. Then, my lazy ass has to either copy and paste the link into my reader or open Firefox. Exhausting. So, seriously, has the RSS button gone out of fashion? Are people not watching their stats in feedburner and using that link anymore?
But back to the real reason for this post. I think I come off as a bad blog friend sometimes. Trust me, I read every one of your posts. I don't comment a lot. In fact, I comment infrequently. Probably because I read everything after billing 9 or 10 hours and I can't come up with anything witty to say and I can't really leave a blank stare in the comment section to show you that I'm there and I appreciate you.
Over the weekend, I took my blogroll down. It was either time to invest a day into updating it or take it down. Right now, I don't have a half day. We're hosting Thanksgiving. I'm working my butt off and loving my job. Plus, I'm going to dump typepad soon (hey, typepad, wanna know why? Because the comment spam is maddening and because it is simply time to move to wp, as much as I have resisted for six years…). Once I am on WP, I will update the blogroll so that it is so magnificent, you won't believe how sexy it is. And I promise, you will be on there.
I don't respond to comments enough. Just know that I'm trying to get better about this. I read them and I love them, so keep leaving them.
Don't be offended if I don't enter your giveaways. Especially if it involves more than me leaving a comment. My stepkids aren't super young, so I leave the toddler contests for others to enter and win. If you start giving away cash or wardrobe makeovers for the obese fashionless manatee, I'll be there.
I hope you don't hate me as a blog friend. I'm out there. I'm reading. I'm lurking. I'm just doing most of it in a reader.
Now, seriously, can someone explain what Blog Frog is?
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Awww, VAGINA!
You might be a bad blog friend, but we like you anyway.:)
P.S. I am actually giving away $25 cash to a subscriber!
Is this why you never (or hardly ever — confirming never would be way too time consuming) commented on my blog?
It’s amazing to me the folks who read but don’t comment — I say amazing cause I’ll occasionally hear from someone that I had NO IDEA they read my blog. I like lurkers, nothing wrong with them. I was a lurker on Liz’s blog for a long long time and we know how THAT turned out!
My new goal with blogging is to receive as many heartfelt comments as Peter Shankman did on his post a few days ago where he talks about being scared shitless (my word not his) to do Ironman. The comments alone made me cry.
Of course to receive comments I would need to start blogging again — oh and training so I would have something to blog about.
Stef, the reason I don’t comment on your blog is because I want to say things like, You wanton hussy, and everyone else is cheering you on. I think they’ll turn against me.