Comments on: Web Writing As Fishing http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/16/web-writing-as-fishing/ public domain playground. friendly entities welcome. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:57:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Steve Mills http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/16/web-writing-as-fishing/comment-page-1/#comment-106048 Steve Mills Mon, 19 May 2008 06:00:16 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/16/web-writing-as-fishing/#comment-106048 Just the fact that you are rewarded for the "long tail" of your content Tim is reason enough to consider yourself a fisher of the intertubez. You lay the bait and the "net" of google helps ensnare new prey to click on your tasty links, and feed you with adsense flesh. Its a good strategy. And there another fishing aspect of it too, you write something and then you wait. Sometimes you have cast the line right and they bite, sometimes not a nibble. Sometimes the waters are teeming but no one wants to hook on the line. Ahh the metaphors you could use.. I like the analogy anyway, its cool. Just the fact that you are rewarded for the “long tail” of your content Tim is reason enough to consider yourself a fisher of the intertubez.

You lay the bait and the “net” of google helps ensnare new prey to click on your tasty links, and feed you with adsense flesh.

Its a good strategy.

And there another fishing aspect of it too, you write something and then you wait. Sometimes you have cast the line right and they bite, sometimes not a nibble. Sometimes the waters are teeming but no one wants to hook on the line. Ahh the metaphors you could use.. I like the analogy anyway, its cool.

]]> By: Ian http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/16/web-writing-as-fishing/comment-page-1/#comment-106046 Ian Mon, 19 May 2008 04:34:53 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/16/web-writing-as-fishing/#comment-106046 Although I do like the idea that we are all demi-gods. This is what I meant when I said early that maybe the internet is training wheels for the self. It is teaching <em>us</em> how to be these intelligences. No need for a puppy if we can do it all ourselves. Although I do like the idea that we are all demi-gods. This is what I meant when I said early that maybe the internet is training wheels for the self. It is teaching us how to be these intelligences. No need for a puppy if we can do it all ourselves.

]]> By: Ian http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/16/web-writing-as-fishing/comment-page-1/#comment-106045 Ian Mon, 19 May 2008 04:32:38 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/16/web-writing-as-fishing/#comment-106045 Personally, I am offended at being considered an artificial intelligence system. Ain't nothing intelligent about me. =) And if there is some kind of larger shared identity thing going on here, I don't necessarily think anyone needs to be a ringmaster. Or we all are. Or, I don't know, maybe Julia's right: coocookachew! Personally, I am offended at being considered an artificial intelligence system. Ain’t nothing intelligent about me. =)

And if there is some kind of larger shared identity thing going on here, I don’t necessarily think anyone needs to be a ringmaster. Or we all are. Or, I don’t know, maybe Julia’s right: coocookachew!

]]> By: Big Elk http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/16/web-writing-as-fishing/comment-page-1/#comment-105984 Big Elk Sat, 17 May 2008 19:40:36 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/16/web-writing-as-fishing/#comment-105984 What puppy are you talking about? <blockquote>But the only reason I am here is to figure out your thinking.</blockquote> Good luck! I gave up on that myself a while ago. What puppy are you talking about?

But the only reason I am here is to figure out your thinking.

Good luck! I gave up on that myself a while ago.

]]> By: Julia http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/16/web-writing-as-fishing/comment-page-1/#comment-105983 Julia Sat, 17 May 2008 18:56:39 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/16/web-writing-as-fishing/#comment-105983 <blockquote>The puppy is an extension of you. </blockquote> I am the puppy, you are the puppy, they are the puppy, coo coo ka chew.

The puppy is an extension of you.

I am the puppy, you are the puppy, they are the puppy, coo coo ka chew.

]]> By: Ted Heistman http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/16/web-writing-as-fishing/comment-page-1/#comment-105981 Ted Heistman Sat, 17 May 2008 18:23:37 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/16/web-writing-as-fishing/#comment-105981 AI can be a lot of things. AI can be a lot of things.

]]> By: Ted Heistman http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/16/web-writing-as-fishing/comment-page-1/#comment-105980 Ted Heistman Sat, 17 May 2008 18:11:07 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/16/web-writing-as-fishing/#comment-105980 You mentioned before that you like to employ people in the comment section to bring you info. In a way the commenters are like the puppy. Maybe you don't like the puppy analogy, though. Its kind of taken on a life of its own. But anyway, I comment here a lot. How do I know if I "add+ value"? Julia said she would let me know if I don't. I am conscious of the fact that I sometimes dominate conversations. I try to be considerate. But anyway, I like to assume people are wrong. That they are on the wrong track. I am the anti-puppy. But I often get people to bring their ideas out better. This is a natural tendency I have. But it only goes so far. I think it accidentally works in helping me learn things. But really what would be better is to be more systematic about it. To adopt a philosophical position of "emperical skepticism" So I am in the net, I am part of the puppy. But the only reason I am here is to figure out your thinking. I am attracted to novelty. I can't prove you wrong until I figure out where you are coming from. My sense is that you have tapped into some things that are leading edge, truly unique. But I could be wrong. Are you the ringmaster? The Master of Cerimonies? Where do you fit into the carnival? Are you the organizing principle? The Center? The puppy is an extension of you. You mentioned before that you like to employ people in the comment section to bring you info.

In a way the commenters are like the puppy. Maybe you don’t like the puppy analogy, though. Its kind of taken on a life of its own.

But anyway, I comment here a lot. How do I know if I “add+ value”? Julia said she would let me know if I don’t. I am conscious of the fact that I sometimes dominate conversations. I try to be considerate. But anyway, I like to assume people are wrong. That they are on the wrong track. I am the anti-puppy. But I often get people to bring their ideas out better.

This is a natural tendency I have. But it only goes so far. I think it accidentally works in helping me learn things. But really what would be better is to be more systematic about it. To adopt a philosophical position of “emperical skepticism”

So I am in the net, I am part of the puppy. But the only reason I am here is to figure out your thinking. I am attracted to novelty. I can’t prove you wrong until I figure out where you are coming from. My sense is that you have tapped into some things that are leading edge, truly unique.

But I could be wrong. Are you the ringmaster? The Master of Cerimonies? Where do you fit into the carnival? Are you the organizing principle? The Center?

The puppy is an extension of you.

]]> By: Ian http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/16/web-writing-as-fishing/comment-page-1/#comment-105954 Ian Sat, 17 May 2008 02:21:21 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/16/web-writing-as-fishing/#comment-105954 So, a fisher of gods then, or spirits, at least. Careful you don't catch the Logos. Tony there is apparently a google advertising professional. Unless these artifical intelligences are making websites too? So, a fisher of gods then, or spirits, at least. Careful you don’t catch the Logos.

Tony there is apparently a google advertising professional. Unless these artifical intelligences are making websites too?

]]> By: Big Elk http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/16/web-writing-as-fishing/comment-page-1/#comment-105941 Big Elk Fri, 16 May 2008 22:59:02 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/16/web-writing-as-fishing/#comment-105941 http://youcanfish.info/wp/2008/05/16/web-writing-as-fishing/ <em>Web Writing As Fishing by @ 3:49 pm. Filed under Uncategorized tony@bichant.bizland.com wrote an interesting post today on Here’s a quick excerpt Blogging for me has become kind of like fishing or trapping. You throw some bait into the water and wait to see if anybody swims by and takes it. I guess you could look at all different kinds of metrics to gauge your success: visitors … Read the rest of this great post here [link] Leave a Reply</em> http://youcanfish.info/wp/2008/05/16/web-writing-as-fishing/

Web Writing As Fishing
by @ 3:49 pm. Filed under Uncategorized

tony@bichant.bizland.com wrote an interesting post today on
Here’s a quick excerpt
Blogging for me has become kind of like fishing or trapping. You throw some bait into the water and wait to see if anybody swims by and takes it. I guess you could look at all different kinds of metrics to gauge your success: visitors …

Read the rest of this great post here
[link]
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]]> By: Big Elk http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/16/web-writing-as-fishing/comment-page-1/#comment-105940 Big Elk Fri, 16 May 2008 22:22:07 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/16/web-writing-as-fishing/#comment-105940 I'm fishing for Artificial Intelligences from the Future. I’m fishing for Artificial Intelligences from the Future.

]]> By: Ian http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/16/web-writing-as-fishing/comment-page-1/#comment-105938 Ian Fri, 16 May 2008 21:38:04 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/16/web-writing-as-fishing/#comment-105938 So, would that make you a fisher of men, or a fisher king? =) So, would that make you a fisher of men, or a fisher king? =)

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