Category: How This Here Internet Thingy Works

Someone who failed to understand the policy sent me an e-mail, to which I replied:

Listen, a–hole: You don’t pay for this bandwidth, OK? It’s not HuffPo or DKos or LGF or wherever it is you customarily practice your trolling. We are under no obligation to publish *any* comments, and when someone habitually and repeatedly posts abusive, hostile or disruptive comments, my response is always the same: Get your own f–ing blog.

My general policy toward the comments has always been one of benign neglect. This isn’t one of those members-only forums where you have to sign up for permission to comment.

We’ve had something upwards of 50,000 comments and/or pingbacks in the past year, and it is a very rare thing to have to delete comments or ban IP addresses. But if you want to cheer for the destruction of TheOtherMcCain.com, you’re going to have to do it somewhere else.

My buddy Matt Keller explains to employers: When you advertise for a “Social Media [Insert Noun Here]” — options include “Coordinator,” “Specialist,” “Mystic Zombie Overlord” — don’t expect that person also to code your Web site, maintain your servers and water the ficus tree in the lobby:

They want someone with HTML, they want someone with various Programming language knowledge and Dreamweaver and Photoshop skills. They basically want to fill a job with three jobs: Social Media; Web Engineer; Graphic Designer.
Here’s the rub. Unless you’re creating your own Social Media Network the latter two jobs have little (note: I didn’t say “nothing”) to do with Social Media skills in their current evolution.

Read the whole thing. BTW, “graphic design” is a service you can contract out. Ask yourself this: What are the odds of a Web designer or an IT guy also being a Mystic Zombie Overlord of Social Media?