Now that my blog is chilling on my server and I can actually install plugins, I’m starting to add some of the ones I’ve used for other projects, such as my brother’s blog about the superhero novel. My favorite plugin, which also has my favorite name, is What Would Seth Godin Do?.
Answer: he would cookie everyone who came to the blog, so that you could show different views of it to people who had been following for years and people who just arrived fresh off a Google search for software marketing tips and don’t have any idea who the heck I am.
In keeping with my general preference for unobtrusiveness, I’ve put the links in a nice, subtle box beneath posts. Most people would opt for above the post for maximum visibility, but I don’t need the distraction for the (several thousand people) who get here for some variant of I want to pay someone money to make bingo cards please tell me oh great Google where I can do this.
Thanks to my new expense tracking feature on the BCC website and the magic of TaxAct (the only online filing place I’ve found that supports the vast, vast number of American uISVs with day jobs subject to the Foreign Earned Incom Exclusion), for literally the first time in my life I have my taxes done well ahead of schedule. Whee!
In response to my recent article about OSS vs. proprietary software, which stressed the need to perform handholding of non-technical users, some comments said something to the effect that they don’t want idiots using their software anyway. I think it is important that we treat non-technical users with humility and respect, because just because they are not experts at our field that does not mean we can afford to ignore them. (Plus, their money is as green as anyone else’s.) In the spirit of promoting humility, I’m going to share a humiliating experience with you: I failed this Sunday at buying socks.