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Tuesday 10 July 2007
Stop Blogging
I like to blog. But I’ll stop if you want to.
(yes this is a joke in response to Jakob. Please don’t always take me so seriously my darlings!)
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Posted by: Molly | 4:56 pm |
July 10th, 2007 at 5:03 pm
It’s always best to follow the Jakob, my dear.
July 10th, 2007 at 5:08 pm
Ironic that the Kult of Jakob icon tells people not to blog in from a blog.
Molly, dear friend, there is no need to listen to Jakob. We like you blogging. Please keep blogging and everything will be okay. Now click your heals.
July 10th, 2007 at 5:15 pm
Ten bucks says that “world leader” was his cat.
July 10th, 2007 at 5:16 pm
RSS came before blogging. So long as there is RSS I don’t care if you write posts or “articles”.
July 10th, 2007 at 5:16 pm
There comes a time when people who have written a few now outdated books will come to believe in their inflated status and think that every think they say and do is “law” Jakob and the cult are in such a position.
Maybe it should be “Stop Blogging and let me the Nielsen do all the writing for you” Time for someone to tap Jakob on the shoulder and tell him he has it wrong.
July 10th, 2007 at 5:29 pm
Holzschlag–
Where in the hell did this come from? And what to hell is a Jakob … more importantly, it that even worth knowing?
July 10th, 2007 at 5:45 pm
Crazy Uncle Jakob’s attempts to become a web pundit (see also his recent Web 2.0 rant) are looking progressively more out of touch, aren’t they? Christopher’s response at graphpaper is beautiful, mine less so.
When is this person and those that defer to him going to realise how desperately out of step they are with the real world? Yes, he knows usability, but he no longer knows the web.
July 10th, 2007 at 5:47 pm
Nielsen has been irrelevant for years. That “article” simply confirms it.
Please keep blogging, Molly.
July 10th, 2007 at 6:14 pm
does it count if I’ve already mostly stopped blogging anyway? [though clearly not in favor of writing /more/]
July 10th, 2007 at 6:58 pm
Just finished reading Nielsen [first time I have read the guy.]. His points may be valid for certain objectives and businesses.
Holzschlag–
I don’t think Nielsen’s article is anyway relative to you or the brand of “Molly”. Your honest humanity presented in the blog has only enhanced your credibility by demonstrating that your nose isn’t buried so deeply into the damn “bark” that you have never seen the practicality of the light of day.
That, Lady, is not a bad thing.
July 10th, 2007 at 7:08 pm
We must all immediately obey each and every diktat from the sacred lips (and hair) of St. Jakob of Nielsen, blessings be upon him.
July 10th, 2007 at 7:39 pm
pppfftt, blog.
July 10th, 2007 at 7:47 pm
Nah - blog away! Ifo ,r one, would miss you and the small contact that reading a blog can give me on the days that I can’t get out! ;-p *hugs*
July 10th, 2007 at 9:42 pm
Oh don’t stop!
Blog blog blog
July 10th, 2007 at 10:47 pm
Okay, not being in the field, not knowing who this Jakob character is, and skimming the articles linked above, the only thing I can say off the top of my pointy lil’ head is “Sheesh! Give someone a couple of regular readers and some think they sh*t gold!” If one wants to have a blog, blog! If you just want to write “articles” and think blogging’s just for someone pushing a cheap product, go for it.
A “Consultant’s consultant” and “advising a world leader”?, pah-lease!
July 10th, 2007 at 11:27 pm
You mean I have to go read Jakob’s “blog” to find out what this is all about?
And Molly don’t stop blogging, unless you join Google or Apple (they put something in the water to stop or at least reduce employees blogging)
July 10th, 2007 at 11:37 pm
You lovely people are silly. Like our Dean Edwards has pointed out in the past, I doubt I /could/ stop blogging (or at the very least shouting from some mountaintop about something). This comment is very firmly tongue in cheek.
Thing is, I’ve been around as long if not longer than Jakob. Sometimes pundits make good comedy. I mean just look at the guy . . .
(terrible me)
July 11th, 2007 at 2:25 am
There seems to be a major flaw in Nielsen’s thinking.
If by writing more posts, lesser bloggers can produce higher quality work than the leading experts then surely everyone should write more in the hope of eventually producing a hit.
I believe Nielsen’s article is a call to arms for bloggers to write about anything and everything.
July 11th, 2007 at 3:48 am
“Thing is, I’ve been around as long if not longer than Jakob. Sometimes pundits make good comedy. I mean just look at the guy . . .”
You missed a great line - “Puttin’ the ‘Pun’ in ‘Pundits’”
July 11th, 2007 at 5:13 am
Molly, as you well know, if Uncle J had his way we would all be using Mosaic and reading black text on gray pages with no imagery. When he did actually design things, almost 20 years ago now, his work was poorly designed and broke many of his own “commandments to others” on a regular basis. His irrelevance has been to know to those of us in the industry for years and is just now creeping in to traditional media and, hopefully, his own mind.
He really is that kindly old, crazy uncle who shows up at the holidays, rants a bit about the kids today and then falls asleep, snoring somewhere just outside of earshot of the actual happenings. If he would only wake up and enjoy what is going on, he might just prove helpful…but it is his call.
July 11th, 2007 at 9:49 am
Molly, Molly, Molly…
Using 11 words to answer something that took me ~900 to answer. You have so much to learn.
;)
July 11th, 2007 at 10:28 am
If Jakob is supposedly such a usability Guru and so knowledgeable on everything Web, then why doesn’t his site even validate the HTML 4.01 Loose it’s Doctyped at?
I guess Jakob lacks the balls (and the skills) to step up and meet current standards like XHTML 1.0 Strict. He’s too happy violating every HTML coding standard there is to be bothered by actually learning something like good coding practice and support for standards.
July 11th, 2007 at 11:20 am
Jacob, hear that noise. Its the bell telling you your time is up. This line from his article shows how out to lunch the guy is - Blogs are fine for websites that sell cheap products - what a joke.
How about blogs are useful if you want to interact and inform your customers. Blogs scare many web professionals because they can not bills thousands of dollars in consulting fees every few months once a customer has successfully set up a blog that actually works.
July 11th, 2007 at 12:15 pm
Check out his “high resolution images”…priceless!
Looks like Dr. Evil…and he now has about as much credibility as Dr. Evil saying, “One MILLion Dollars!”
July 11th, 2007 at 7:02 pm
Can’t. Stop. Laughing. Must… Comment.
I don’t think I have stopped laughing since I read this in a Webreference interview in 1999.
July 11th, 2007 at 7:06 pm
Obviously the smart-ass comment and smily face in my last comment were mine. Can’t attribute too much mirth to Unky Jake.
:-)
July 12th, 2007 at 2:42 pm
[…] I’m glad I did as he really is losing it but Matthew, a commenter on Molly’s post, “Stop Blogging” said it best. He really is that kindly old, crazy uncle who shows up at the holidays, rants a bit about the kids today and then falls asleep, snoring somewhere just outside of earshot of the actual happenings. If he would only wake up and enjoy what is going on, he might just prove helpful…but it is his call. […]
July 14th, 2007 at 10:47 pm
Thanks very much. Do you want cheap web hosting?
July 19th, 2007 at 8:08 am
what a twitter here
July 31st, 2007 at 3:54 pm
please dont stop!
August 4th, 2007 at 2:29 am
Don’t Stop Blogging Molly, Don’t Follow that jokes.
Souds Good Molly?
Just Another Joke….
Goonie
August 21st, 2007 at 2:56 am
stop blogging after 5 years blogging?
don’t stop, because you have a very good blog, and useful for every reader of your blog
I know you just joking….
January 23rd, 2008 at 3:07 pm
thanks
January 23rd, 2008 at 3:08 pm
good article
January 23rd, 2008 at 3:09 pm
like molly
March 30th, 2008 at 6:17 am
thanks
April 30th, 2008 at 10:46 am
thanks