White Trash Showdown in the MMO Blogging Niche
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You might have noticed my lack of posting lately but I assure you that I haven’t been goofing off but rather I have been doing some freelance writing for Blogtrepreneur and for XFEP which partially explains why I have not updated at all this week.
I plan to fix that this weekend as I have been having some decent success with my BANS site as of late and I am going to put up a few more of them and share some things with you on that topic. I really need to get back to my niche sites as they have been neglected too.
In case you aren’t aware I have agreed to write a regular Featured column on Fridays from now on for David Peralty on XFEP. My latest post is about a subject near and dear to my heart and that is MMO blogging niche.The post I wrote today happens to be about the slew of recent sales of MMO blogs and whether these are sustainable or not.
Check out “Is The MMO Blogging Bubble About to Burst” and let me know what you think.
White Trash Showdown
I was getting caught up on my feed reader today and holy cow, it looks like a white trash showdown at the trailer park for the MMO blogging niche. Jerry Springer has nothing on these guys. The MMO blog world is on fire with hate posts.
I have tried my best to follow it all and put it for you chronologically but I might have mixed it up slightly. Sue me. Here’s a little white trash link love for anyone who really loves to watch a good train wreck.
Let’s Get It On
No surprise here but it appears that Vic from Blogger Unleashed got the whole thing started with Welcome to Blogging where he talks about the recent sale of OneMansGoal. NSFW trust me.
Vic’s article apparently twisted the Cow’s udders and he laid the hoof down on Vic.
Garry Conn apparently felt a little lonely and declared a Jihad with MMO Bloggers are Jerks.
Somewhere in this mix, the already forgotten Bryan Clark defends himself against Vic with I am not a scammer.
Blog Entrepreneur (at XFEP) recalls some of his pain with the the stock market crash of the 90s and wonders aloud Is the Bubble Bursting? Oblivious to the carnage ensuing around him.
Cow came absolutely “UnMooed” over this post and replied with Screw Your Bubble I’m moving to Australia Mate so put another shrimp on the barbie.
In the meantime John Chow, oblivious to it all, shares another one of those fascinating (not) posts about horrible food that he pretends to like because it looks like money garbage. We all know he really just wants a Quarter Pounder instead.
That’s it for the white trash showdown, the winner has yet to be declared so stay tuned as these bloggers are bound to fire off another volley at each other. White Trash doesn’t go down easy.
Before we go, let me add at least some value to this post with a good deed for the day and point you to Mark at 45n5. If you check him out today he just might save you from wasting 30 bucks. You may be shocked to find out that ebooks just might be a scam.
Check him out today during the White Trash commercial breaks.
Conclusion
So much for the cabin fever theory I guess. I would expect this in January but not April. I swear that if they were all in the same room then someone would have ripped their clothes off by now as they charged the stage shouting Jerry, Jerry, Jerry!
I am off to the Japanese Steak House, where I won’t be taking any pictures of my food and I won’t be buying any ebooks. I need to celebrate, because I just inherited 4 million dollars from a long lost Uncle in Nigeria.
Now that I am loaded, I won’t have to worry about the wrath of the White Trash Mafia.
Have a great weekend.
hi i enjoyed the read
I’m white trash because I warned my readers about a possible scam?
Read the post and comments, there were many people including industry veterans that didn’t realize the scam.
While it may not have been news to you it apparently was to others, and it certainly shouldn’t earn me the title of white trash because of it.
That’s goofy and not sure why I was included in all of that.
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Good recap. Actually, I do feel like a Quarter Pounder right now.
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LOL…Ok, so – with all those millions….Can you buy me some season tickets to an actual Red Sox game?
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@Mark – Lol…..I was just baiting you into visiting me again. You haven’t commented in a while and I missed you. I don’t know why I included you either, it doesn’t fit but I was reading articles in my feed reader while I was writing.
I can edit it if you think it will hurt your reputation.
@John – Who doesn’t feel like a good Quarter Pounder. It’s way better than that other snob faux grois stuff that you always post.
@ Simple – Done. As soon as I get the first installment.
BooooYeah! That will be my FIRST baseball game ever!
I could SO go for a quarter pounder right now…….lol
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lol – I’m still a reader, i’m always a poor commenter. Leave it be, just making sure you didn’t think of me as white trash (or some guy that’s into naked gay bathtub parties like the one pictured above)
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@SM – I’ve been to Fenway a few times back when I lived in NH. I live in Augusta now. I’ve been to several parks around the league and while ALL of them were “nicer” than Fenway…..it’s still Fenway.
@Mark – No worries. I modified it a skooch so it made slightly more sense. Writing and Reading at the same time is not my strong point so somehow I flowed you into the post despite it making no sense.
I need to put a disclaimer page up there that I reserve the right to make absolutely no sense from time to time.
Mmmmm Quarter Pounder. Nice.
That is cool! I have never been. Heck, I never even went to any baseball game! lol.
Hmmmm, that was a gay male bathtub party? I missed that…..lol
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Hi Bill,
I stumbled upon your blog the other day and was impressed with your total make up here. One thing I’d like to point out is that your blog loads really slow and I mean REALLY. You might want to look into this.
Thanks for a refreshing and hilarious commercial on all the slagging that goes on right now. Who said they need TV anyway. Just tune into one of the yehaa blogs and you are on your way. Just don’t forget to order pizza and beer before it starts as it can be riveting to see the mudfight continue.
Great post, I haven’t laughed that hard all week.
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@Monika – It’s funny you mention the slow loading, it started a few days ago and I am not sure what is doing it. I wasn’t sure whether it was my internet connection or my site loading slow for everyone.
I really appreciate that you confirmed that so now I can dig into it and find out why.
Thanks for the nice comments, I appreciate it.
Great roundup Bill, and in all honesty, it just saddens me sometimes when people have to go on the attack all the time, all guns blazing…just because they have a blog and have the “right” to do so.
Many bloggers think that controversy is a sure way to get noticed (I mean come on, John Chow did it…), but take a look at the REALLY big blogs out there. For me, Leo from ZenHabits has managed to do an amazing job by just being his normal, kind self and let his peaceful content do the talking. Collis and the gang from FreelanceSwitch and others have also done something similar.
I feel a blog post brewing, but sometimes, this MMO blogosphere just frustrates me.
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This gave me a much needed laugh – thanks for the recap – it was great! I need to come here more often.
And I second the post about Leo & his Zen Habits blog – sounds like some in the MMO blogosphere may want to check it out for tips on being constructive, productive, and playing well with others. He may even have some lessons on how to have a civil discourse.
Thanks again for putting a humorous spin on this brouhaha. I can’t stop laughing…..
Handbags at 20 paces.
Btw, very strange page loading going on (as noted above). Firebug tells me I’m downloading over 6mb per page – possibly hanging on the js files that can’t be found?
@Simon – Sent you an email. I would be forever grateful to anyone that can help me solve my slow page load issue.
I don’t know what I did to my site but I must have done something because my host says everything is working fine. The tracer tests look normal.
What Java script is it looking for?
My page load is working fine. I am using Firefox. I also tested it in IE and that worked fine as well.
I would check and see what the browsers are of the slow page loads and also what version too.
If I would – I would blame it on a plug in or a JS. That’s what usually gets mine. But, Like I said – tested with both and no page load problems.
Simple Mindz’s last blog post..Goodbye Jacq – my special feathered friend
Everything looks to be back to normal now also. There was something very strange going on with these single article pages, but it seems you were able to correct it.
@SM and Simon – thanks to both of you for the feedback. I am stumbling my way through Firebug and finding issues one by one. The culprit was some javascript files that should have been commented out.
That improved it dramatically but it’s still a skooch slow. I am fixing a few things here and there and eliminating useless plugins etc.
Hopefully it will be an Indy car before too long.
Good read! Very fun and entertaining.
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