The largest conversation in world had begun. Blogs have changed way academics do research, journalists write, families connect and politicians fundraise. It was only a matter of time before businesses woke up and realized power of blogging for marketing online. Blogging provides a way for companies and customers to meet on common ground to talk about what excites them and makes them tick. It also allows them to closely track where and under what circumstances their products are being talked about online. Today, blogging continues to grow at a swift pace with more than 400,000 posts added per day and 12,000 new blogs being created every day. Millions of people look to blogs for a good laugh, a great idea, a fantastic tip or an instant analysis. The blogosphere doubles in size every 5 months, allowing anyone, anywhere, in any language, to make their mark in world to share their ideas, passion and products.

‘Blog’ was word of year for 2004 according to Merriam-Webster, famous dictionary publisher. The year 2004 marked a turning point for blogs as a sought after media format. Now it was seen as a venue for gathering large audiences of devoted readers who used blogs to supplement, compliment and fact-check their nightly news.

My favorite milestone for blogging was when 'Blogs' appeared as a category on Jeopardy game show. I'll take blogging for one thousand, Alex!

THE MONEY IS IN THE LIST

(I could go off on a tangent about ebook authors who hired copywriters to provide wonderful sales copy for horrible ebooks that I have bought, but that is a rant for a different day.)

Back to this rant.

If you want privilege of feeding ads to my RSS reader or dropping them in my email box, please have decency to feed my addiction – I get real cranky if you make me go into withdrawal.

Wrap your ad in some decent content!

Consider this – if you have no list, you’ll have no money.

Do you wonder why your ezine has such a low response?

Is it even being read?

Here’s another info junkie confession –

A lot of us are lazy! (I know … that is an earth- shattering fact you never thought of … LOL)

It is much easier to click on “delete” than it is to search fine print for unsubscribe instructions. Lots of us have those cool email clients like Thunderbird that let us click a “Junk” icon and never be bothered by your spammy ads again.

It is sad.

A world full of info junkies that like to buy good stuff from ‘net and a world full of Internet marketers that want to sell stuff – it looks like a match made in heaven.

You blew it. You and twelve of your colleagues.

You lost your focus. You forgot that info junkies of world provide your Internet income. We are your customers. Without us, where would you be?

Just give us our fix. Put some content in your ezines and we’ll stay on your list buying more than we can rationally afford forever.