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Do You Ever Do Any Real Work?

Submitted by Michaelfidler from Google Reader

2 days ago

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That's a question I used to get all of the time in the early days of this blog. I don't get it so much anymore. Because slowly but surely people are wising up to the fact that blogging is work and its a very valuable use of my time

Take yesterday for example. I wrote a longish blog post on the Union Square Ventures blog about our most recent investment, Boxee. That post got picked up on techmeme where it ran for most of the day yesterday. I don't yet know how many people visited that post yesterday but I am sure it was thousands of readers

About 75 of them left comments on the post asking for an invite to Boxee's invite only alpha. I got a bunch more invite requests on this blog where I had linked to the USV blog post yesterday.

So this morning I spent an hour, between 5am and 6am, going through all of those comments, harvesting the email addresses from disqus, and inviting everyone to try out the boxee alpha.

That's about 100 trials. Not that many when you think about it in the context of the 50,000 registered users of boxee.

But the time and energy I've put into

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Comments (7)

Desormeaux,

2 days ago

Yes.
Blooging can be a real job at times. Heck we are giving our feedback and our time for such information we supply. Now, as for my actual job.....nah I barely do any work. LOL

Thomaspower,

2 days ago

hmmmm ...

Hutch,

2 days ago

"That's a question I used to get all of the time in the early days of this blog. I don't get it so much anymore. Because slowly but surely people are wising up to the fact that blogging is work and its a very valuable use of my time."

Billso,

2 days ago

I do plenty of real work, but sometimes I have to unplug from the 'net to GTD.

Viralbee,

1 day ago

I've been waiting for my invite to boxee 4ever..what's the deal?

Joannedevault,

9 hours ago

i never work. i only comment all day.

Jasongoldberg,

Nov 22, 2008

@joannedevault @viralbee @billso @hutch @thomaspower @Desormeaux how can I possibly get any work done when there's so much to clip and comment on on socialmedian? OH WAIT, that is work! :-)