Floozy Speak!

I think Jacob gets too much credit. The guy can post an “alert” about the proper way to chew chicklets and he’ll get a few billion hits on that. 

Jacob has recently posted an entry on the Top Ten Design Mistakes for Blogs. 

Personally to me, blogs are just that, personal.  I’d argue that they are alive as well.  Thriving things.  Emotional, crazy, unbalanced, fresh, diggity, wombastic, dynamic, see alive, almost human like.. so maybe they carry human like qualities as well. 

Jacob flashes his usability badage and says:

1. No Author Biographies.  –  I see that.  I like them, yes, we need them.  Correct.

2. No Author Photo.  –  Minior nitpick really, he lacked the material and gave us the obvious, really should be wrapped up into 1. 

3. Nondescript Posting Titles.  –  Jacob claims “Hey kids! Comics!” is a bad headline.  Basically Jacob wants you to sound like a press release engine and not a human.  I dont usually speak in press-releases, “Man Found in Alley with Toast Tongs Serves Life Sentence..” – Thats the proper headline Jacob wants.  I’d much rather say “Yo Toast, What Gives?! “ but noooooooooooooo.  Thats not good enough. 

4. Links Don’t Say Where They Go – So what?  Get over it.  “The Web isnt High School”, see now again here we see the dangerous preachy side of Jacob lash out.  What’s wrong with high school?  Communities, youth, hackers, remixing ipod generation wired teens who carve out niches and build better brands.  I say bring on the high school.  Heck we have tv shows reminding us how cool high school was.  Who doesnt want to go back to high school? 

5.  Classic Hits are Buried.  –  In research we love the classic hits, the one off wonders that define yer character and in yer blog they are lost to us unless you brag about them and repost them, link them, so do that basically.  I could see that.  So so.

6. The Calendar is the Only Navigation.  – Negative, you usually calendar, scroll bar, tags, catagories, archives, side bar items. 

7.  Irregular Publishing Frequencey  – Yes, need to post. 

8.  Mixing Topics  – My problem.  But then again i’ve always been a man of many hats.  Hats are good really.  I’ve rarely met someone that just fished and nothing but fished, odds are that fisherman also has an opinion on toat as well.  Basically if you mix the topics yer not official, yer weak and bad in Jacob’s eyes.  If you don’t mix topics yer more official, more “the rock” more stable, better for ya, but boring as well since you basically lack character. 

9.  Forgetting that You Write for Your Future Boss.  – And if that boss is you?  Do I really want to be born to be owned by a boss so easily?  I understand these typical top tens have this “thing” about them to be read and taken seriously but seriosuly, what if my future boss is me?  For a guy that cares so much about the human factor i find it hilarious how far off the mark he gets on really understanding humans.  Actually saying things like “think twice before posting..” the hell with that.  You have a brain for a reason, you choose.  So my future boss just read this entry saying how much i diss’d the idea that my future boss would care what i wrote here and is now considering that i’m not applicable to the future job that i could take, future wise.  Well how shallow!  In the future if you met me you’d know who’s boss really mattered in this world. #9 really ticks me off.  Its basically a huge threat.  Thats nice Jacob.  I’ll put you right up there with the evils of DRM with this entry. 

10.  Having a Domain Name Owned by a Weblog Service – Yes I’ll agree there.  Own it yourself, host it where you can but own it.