First off I get a lot of offline questions about my role here at Erati, and with BlogMedia. So let’s set the snarkiness down for just a moment and talk about what goes on inside my brain. And a little about my day to day operations. My plans for world domination, and eventual control of the universe. Oh ok, just the blogosphere. No truly its the universe. Personally I am involved with blog networks for the enjoyment in it. And to take a crash course in starting my own business. Life is full of mistakes, and lessons to be learned. One thing I learned is never go into a bar, with a crate of dynamite strapped to a camels back. It’s just not recommended. Currently I wish I could devote myself full time to just this here blogging stuff, but bills have to be paid, fun has to be had, and Girlspoke needs attention, campaigning to make sure they damn well win that bloggy. Go vote everyone. . Because I’m actually going to be at SXSW so it would be badass to help accept that award as part of the whole Spoke Empire. Here’s an average day in the life of a blog executive. Well mine anyways. I wake up after 20 minutes of sleep, and work for a few hours, sleep again for a few more. Then sleep again. I then get back to work. And sleep some more. Do you see the pattern. It’s called Polyphasic Sleep. It’s the only way to get things done. I then fire up the whole old RSS Reader, and churn around looking for good content. I also spend 10% of my day thinking of ways to create new stuff that will be better than anything anyone else in the universe is doing. I then implement about 1% of that into a massive wordpress I run on my desktop. My desktop blog is about 100,000 pages and gets about a trillion mindviews a day by me trying to remember huge ideas. This is truly the best use of a wordpress IMO. I f you need help setting up your own Desktop Wordpress check out UrbanGiraffe for help with this. Recently Dave Winer was talking about Web Servers running on your PC . Which is something I’ve been doing for awhile. It makes my life so much easier. I can blog schtuff to myself. Even have delicious links embedded on my desktop blog. I can talk all the trash I want and only I get to read it. I don’t even have to spell check. I can even use Wordpress to manage my budget. And create a portal that aggregates all the sites I enjoy reading in a way that I like and not the way anybody else wants me too. And I don’t get into trouble for site scraping. I’ve also begun experimenting with AirWRX a portable app server that rocks my world. Yes they have a blog too. And people wonder why I don’t accomplish anything during the day. To much experimenting with prototype software projects.

I have about 2100 blogs in my feed reader now, and most all of them are unrelated to anything that’s important to me. This is how I spend my day. I also watch the stock market to see if I gain or lose on that Enron stock I bought a few years ago. I’m also a Forex addict. But it gets expensive if you make mistakes. So I’m figuring out how to just be a genius. Oh, and I’m addicted to InstantDomainSearch.com . I’ve started buying a domain a day. Before long I might do something with them. Nah…. Probably not.

So back to building a blog network. Sometimes you learn by experimentation. I’ve taken a few sites on Erati down. The writers are both going through personal life issues and are too busy to update. But we have a few other mammath size projects we are working on. So I’m having a blast. And that’s truly what this is all about. I’m not into competition because at the end of the day. Blogging is like Golf. Your greatest competitor is yourself. And on any given day you can eagle. I strive day in and day out to Eagle with my people. I succeed some days and I fail others. Sometimes I find motivation easy and other days. I find it difficult. Lately it’s been harder. But tommorow it could be huge.

Remember success is more about showing up every day than about developing a plan to eagle. The doers win , the planners lose. So get out there and go eagle damnit and leave my blog alone.

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