Comments on: It’s Just Another Pointless Blog http://www.martinkoss.com/blogging/its-just-another-pointless-blog/ I don't mean to be so opinionated and argumentative, it's just me... Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:46:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Martin Koss http://www.martinkoss.com/blogging/its-just-another-pointless-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-183 Martin Koss Fri, 09 Jul 2010 12:54:49 +0000 http://www.martinkoss.com/?p=1299#comment-183 You carry on pacing, muttering and throwing darts at your post-it notes Janet. At the end of it all you come up with interesting and funny things to - which is the outcome many should try now and then instead of regurgitating the same old same old thoughtless, valueless crap that clutters our bandwidth.<br><br>Pass the lipstick - maybe I can tart things up around here with a slight hint of warm pinky gloss. You carry on pacing, muttering and throwing darts at your post-it notes Janet. At the end of it all you come up with interesting and funny things to – which is the outcome many should try now and then instead of regurgitating the same old same old thoughtless, valueless crap that clutters our bandwidth.

Pass the lipstick – maybe I can tart things up around here with a slight hint of warm pinky gloss.

]]> By: Martin Koss http://www.martinkoss.com/blogging/its-just-another-pointless-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-182 Martin Koss Fri, 09 Jul 2010 12:45:42 +0000 http://www.martinkoss.com/?p=1299#comment-182 Excellent comparison Vicki, and you are so right. It became 'easy' to buy the tools to create wonderful leaflets and business cards etc., It all looked so amazing with all the demos of wonderful templates and vibrant colours etc., but those templates suddenly seem very bland when viewed in the DTP app without any content.<br><br>How many people bought the most amazing DTP app and realised it wasn't about the "tools" at all? If you don't know what to say, no DTP app would make the task any easier, and that applies to all the wonderful blogging platforms and tools we have at our disposal today.<br><br>The tool box may be full of all the latest and greatest apps, plugins and 'skins' but if the "ideas" box is empty - no amount of spending on everything bright and shiny will help.<br><br>Oh crap - you mean my leaflet won't look that good unless I actually "think" about what to put on it? Excellent comparison Vicki, and you are so right. It became 'easy' to buy the tools to create wonderful leaflets and business cards etc., It all looked so amazing with all the demos of wonderful templates and vibrant colours etc., but those templates suddenly seem very bland when viewed in the DTP app without any content.

How many people bought the most amazing DTP app and realised it wasn't about the “tools” at all? If you don't know what to say, no DTP app would make the task any easier, and that applies to all the wonderful blogging platforms and tools we have at our disposal today.

The tool box may be full of all the latest and greatest apps, plugins and 'skins' but if the “ideas” box is empty – no amount of spending on everything bright and shiny will help.

Oh crap – you mean my leaflet won't look that good unless I actually “think” about what to put on it?

]]> By: vegemitevix http://www.martinkoss.com/blogging/its-just-another-pointless-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-181 vegemitevix Fri, 09 Jul 2010 12:01:39 +0000 http://www.martinkoss.com/?p=1299#comment-181 Couldn't agree more. It reminds me of when desktop publishing programmes became popular in the work place in the late eighties. Hey presto everyone was a designer! Just because it is so easy to publish a blog with the genius that is WordPress and others, doesn't mean you can magically become a blogger. Content is the point surely? The rest is marketing. Vx Couldn't agree more. It reminds me of when desktop publishing programmes became popular in the work place in the late eighties. Hey presto everyone was a designer! Just because it is so easy to publish a blog with the genius that is WordPress and others, doesn't mean you can magically become a blogger. Content is the point surely? The rest is marketing. Vx

]]> By: Eureka Janet http://www.martinkoss.com/blogging/its-just-another-pointless-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-180 Eureka Janet Fri, 09 Jul 2010 11:12:40 +0000 http://www.martinkoss.com/?p=1299#comment-180 Martin...have you spying on me again? watching me pace my studio, muttering about fonts and headers? throwing darts at a board covered in tiny scraps of paper with the names of the latest/greatest widgets on them? discussing the advantages of certain apps with my dog?<br><br>Stop that. Stop that now. <br><br>I'm trying to work here...no more prying. Now...what were you talking about?<br><br>Oh, right. Content. <br><br>Damn. Are you sure I can't just put on a new lipstick...and be the most popular girl in the room? Please.<br><br>and thank you....*wink~! Martin…have you spying on me again? watching me pace my studio, muttering about fonts and headers? throwing darts at a board covered in tiny scraps of paper with the names of the latest/greatest widgets on them? discussing the advantages of certain apps with my dog?

Stop that. Stop that now.

I'm trying to work here…no more prying. Now…what were you talking about?

Oh, right. Content.

Damn. Are you sure I can't just put on a new lipstick…and be the most popular girl in the room? Please.

and thank you….*wink~!

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