What’s It About?
Comments: 11
A moment of dialogue that occured more than once last night:
—So, do you have a blog?
—Yes, antipixel.com.
—Oh. What’s it about?
—Um….
Not a question that had ever really occured to me before. Must think up some snappy answer for this (“It’s about me” doesn’t seem to cut it).
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Posted to MetaStuff • 2003.01.18 (Sat) • 14:15
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Posted by natalie 2003.01.18, 14:27
I reply to that questions with “everything, you would have to read it to understand”
seems to work.
Posted by Erik J. Barzeski 2003.01.18, 15:04
Next time just say “sex” in as flat a tone as you can muster. Sit back and enjoy the results. :-)
Posted by Brent Simmons 2003.01.18, 15:55
I tell people “prosciutto,” when they ask.
Posted by Adriaan 2003.01.18, 19:04
“That’s what I’m trying to figure out”, is what I would have said…
Posted by 8bitjoystick.com 2003.01.19, 05:58
Well when I am asked that I say. Video games and nerd stuff.
Posted by Pedro 2003.01.19, 06:28
Well, at least they know what a blog is. That’s a step up from my version of the conversation.
Posted by Mary Beth 2003.01.19, 06:50
If I’ve learned anything from the Mac Genii at work, it’s the power of the totally blank stare, accompanied by silence.
I suppose a more polite response would be to hand them a card with the URL and say “check it out and let me know.”
Posted by Chris 2003.01.19, 12:33
Mary Beth: you have cards with your blog address on? My god, I must be living in the dark ages spelling my address out to people and reminding them it isn’t a .com
People ask me this quite often. I don’t think there is a right answer, but there are definitely answers that are more trouble than they are worth. It gets metaphysical pretty quickly.
Posted by Panzo 2003.01.19, 13:03
To, “What’s it about?”, I either answer, “You.”, or, “About a page and a half.”
Posted by Mary Beth 2003.01.20, 03:16
Well Chris, I do have cards with my URL, but oftentimes it’s enough to say “Quilter dot com, that’s QUILTR without an ‘e’.” for them to remember. I have another .org domain and wish in a way I’d gotten the .com as well rather than having to explain it all the time.
I’m thinking that the “you” reply is a guaranteed traffic builder and may have to adopt that myself.
Posted by Mie 2003.01.20, 10:49
Hi Jeremy,
First wanted to say that it was good meeting you the other night. Hope to see you at the future blog meeting! I’m still figuring out what a blog ‘is’ let along what mine is about. I get a kick out of the links though - thanks for mentioning my name : ) Mie
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