I really don't want to be that blogger

I guess like everyone else, I’m devoting a lot of time at the moment to my plans and objectives for next year. But after some, er, “interesting” experiences over the last few days, I keep coming back to what I don’t want to happen to me! So I thought I’d get it off my chest in a post, in the hope I can get back to the positive.

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Please, please, oh please, don’t let me ever become:

A blogger who builds a wall around himself, making it impossible to contact him without first having to get past a tenacious gatekeeper

A blogger who rarely comments on his own blog, and never comments on other people’s

A blogger who keeps telling me the same story over and over again about his first class travels around the world, his property purchases and his general wealth

A blogger who never, ever replies to anyone who engages him on Twitter, unless it’s another “A lister”

A blogger who treats having 25 times more followers than he follows on Twitter as a badge of his influence

A blogger who contacts me 27 times in two weeks when he’s launching a product and from whom I never hear otherwise

A blogger who doesn’t use email anymore, but despite that, keeps sending me email updates

A blogger who “moderates out” any comments that don’t completely agree or praise him

A blogger that won’t be reading this post, “‘cause who the hell is Mike CJ anyway?”

Is there a kind of blogger you don’t want to be?

And now for something completely different:

1/ Bring a great post back to life

2/ Denial, excuses, the truth and a lesson

3/ Eight ways to get more page views

PS: Did you really think I’d managed to write a whole post without mentioning Beyond Blogging this close to launch? You were wrong! :)