The Web doesn’t separate the Exceptional from the Average, it supercharges the CONNECTED.

Jimi Hendrix: "Are you experienced?"

@hg47: "Are you connected?"

Go read Kevin Kelly's NEW RULES FOR THE NEW ECONOMY for "10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World." Copyright 1998 and still State-of-the-Art in 2013, IMHO, on the issue of CONNECTION.

http://www.amazon.com/New-Rules-Econo...

On the Internet: Quantity Of Networking Kicks Ass And Takes Names While Quality Of Product Lies Bruised & Bleeding.

If you are a blogger, you're not writing for people anymore; you are writing for search engines.

It's not just favstar starback buddies and Facebook likeback buddies and blogger linkback buddies or eBook author reviewback buddies. It's the 90% promotion versus 10% actually-create-art ratio that bugs me about 2013's superhero artists. Actually, it's much worse, because today's Artist Superheroes create art only if it is positioned as a marketing device; if the marketing isn't built into the art, why bother?

My "internet presence" is a train wreck, an SEO's nightmare of unsearchable and unfathomable [insert expletive with alliteration]. For http://a47.info/ I had to dedicate a mirror site http://hg47.blogspot.com/ just to activate the ability of readers to make comments on my posts.

Blogspot is all about the stats. One winning strategy on the Internet is to chase the statistics: if something you spew gets an avalanche of hits, specialize Baby! Do a hundred different riffs on that theme! Of course, a year later, you will be someone else, your thoughts will be those the SEO marketplace directed you to think. You will have adapted. The world will own you. You will be just another tool.

Internet writers don't use words, they use keywords. Case in point. My top Blogspot post is nearly two order of magnitudes greater in hits than my average post. It is just a throw-away drunken-rant as I imagined Amazon plunging into social media.

Post Title:
WHEN AMAZON ADDS THE FOLLOW FEATURE (Watch Out, Facebook!)

Post Text:
WHEN AMAZON ADDS THE FOLLOW FEATURE

Discussions. Threads. A ready database of eBook authors & readers. Not to mention everyone who has an Amazon account & buys stuff.

What will happen when Amazon adds a “Follow” or “Friend” button to Discussions & Threads so that the reader can find the interesting (to that reader) writers posting to Amazon discussions, and have all posts by that person & other interesting persons compiled together for easy viewing?

I sense a new social network here.

And if I were Amazon I wouldn’t call it Following or Friending.

When I clicked on the link, it would say: AMAZED.

@hg47

If I analyze the words in the above post and the above title, I find keyword heaven.

But I'm getting seriously off-topic here. While it may be possible to "connect" with search engines in your writing, that's not the type of connection I really mean.

[insert quotation from Mario Puzo's THE GODFATHER on Friendship]

@hg47