Technically Speaking

Rex Dixon may be out of this, but I still think that this was a great event. Oh, did I mention that I did a nice temporary(?) heel turn? Can you say, “Ohhhhh Yeaaaahhhhhh… ” Check out my nice run in, as well as the results that bring this down to the elite 4.

Rex is done after Round #2 of BloggerMania I. Congrats to the winners, and it was a pleasure to have been selected for the event in the first place.

Technically Speaking, at least I knocked off the #1 seed in my group in Round #1!

It was just announced moments ago. Rex Dixon upsets the #1 seed Pete Cashmore and moves on to Round #2 of BloggerMania I. Nice. Here is the quote about the grouping I’m in from the article linked above:

Moving on to Round 2 are: Rex, Cameron, Liz and Markus

Select highlights from the matches: Cameron and Neil went to a tiebreaker round of finger wrestling whereby Cameron won with a sneak attack. Liz wins when Om comes back after his loss and hands her an ergonomic web worker daily approved chair. Markus beats Joel by using a better design. Rex, acting like Rocky in Rocky 4 against Ivan Drago (Pete) takes out the number one seed by using a MySQL reverse attack.

Technically Speaking, the matches are going to be rough all the way through. I mean, these are the elite bloggers of the entire blogosphere!

Pete Cashmore vs. Rex Dixon  - I get to take on the #1 seed in my group. Now the highlight match for my group is actually - Cameron Olthuis vs. Neil Patel

Here is their white board on this.

Technically Speaking — I need YOU the reader to give me a hand so I can pull a Rocky Balboa Rocky II win!

Then I have wasted the past quarter of this year trying to build up my blog readers. I have wasted my time trying to build an audience. IF social media is dead, then why are there over 55 million blogs (according to Technorati at least)? IF social media is dead, how come John Edwards and his campaign team asked bloggers to join them on the road? Do you think John Edwards would have wasted his time by inviting Robert Scoble to join his team on the road IF social media is dead?

I believe that social media is growing, and will continue to do so. I also believe that being tagged in the first round for my opinion of the 2007 crystal ball show proves that I haven’t wasted my time. I also believe that being selected as one of the 32 bloggers to be included in BloggerMania I, even though a bit funny when I first saw it, proves that I haven’t been wasting my time.

Truthfully, the first time I blogged (and that blog is still around) was back in 2003. It’s my personal blog that I don’t advertise outside of friends and family. IF social media is dead, then how come other bloggers have come along since I launched my blog in 2003 and smoked right past me? They took the flame and ran with it. I thought at the time, “Okay, blogs are cool, but what can come of it; I’m looking for an IT gig?”

I was wrong back then, and I will have to say - social media is alive and well at the end of 2006. It will be just as strong and growing in 2007. Technically Speaking, I think the original article was written so that we social media types would have something to write about today and over the long holiday weekend.