Help - and Sanity - is Currently Unavailable

I love the first week of blogging where no one is really aware of you yet and you say whatever the hell you want. Can I say hell? Well, it’s not as if I’m on the front page of Lockergnome (yet), so I’ll say whatever the hell I want.

But first, the news.

So I was looking at an update to this big list of SEM blogs I found, and in the process of separating out the possible viral ones from the okay and totally lame, I came across a very Microsofty blog for their adCenter.

Permalinks. Check. Trackback that’s inherent to the system? Check, even though the link is weird.

Comments? No. You have “send a message to the author”. How many times do I have to say it? Crack is NOT good for you!

See, as a prolific blogger who sometimes has influence in small circles, I am looking, first and foremost, for the viral bloggers to make friends with.

Not informative. I can find info myself.

Not the talented writer. I’m already a talented writer, and easily threatened, LOL.

Not the one by the biggest company or the one with the biggest audience.

No, I want the blog that is growing in all directions the fastest. I’ll either want

• to be a part of helping that growth happen,
• to be where the action is,
• to learn from a great or the greats in their audience (It’s not that a viral blog is the sign of a sane mind. It’s that smart people are often in the vicinity of viral things),
• or to hope that, in exchange for my help, the group of people who are more influential than me will help me grow one day at a crucial moment when I most need it.

Then I spend the rest of my time deserviing that boost - i.e. marketing myself so that any favor I could ever provide would be worth it.

Microsoft’s adCenter blog is not viral. And sadly, the post I saw was an annoucement that “Help is Currently Unavailable.” Plus karma for being smart enough to blog about it. Minus karma for not turning on your blog comments, at least in the interim, to alleviate some of the pain for your clients.

I also bet Lee will pick up my trackback but adCenter won’t. Any takers?
[tags]Lee Odden, adCenter, Microsoft, Microsoft adCenter[/tags]