Thursday February 9th 2012

You’re the World’s Coolest Blogger If Only…

Coolest-bloggerThat is the premise of every newbie blogger’s angst. You’d be the most awesome, coolest blogger only if certain conditions are met. Let me go first. Don’t smirk now, but for me it’s Google Wave.

Of what use being the world’s new coolest blogger if you’re surfing the Net with a homemade slab of wood in lieu of Google Wave? That is so Third World. Argh.

Humbling experience

Like millions out there who salivated to get Google Wave invite I’ve been foiled many times. I plotted, ingratiated myself to important people, hung out with tech guys who think nothing of drinking from the social media fire hose, tweeted with fellows who spout verticals and conversions and other strange buzzwords. I have left comments on their high profile blogs, hoping to get in their radar.

No can do. I was ignored. Insufferable peacocks.

Enter my friend Rey Jr. I can almost hear him muttering under his breath, “LJ, act your age. What on earth do you need to surf the net with Google Wave for. Just slosh your feet over the bank of the mighty Twitter river. It’s the same.”

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