Obscure Mania

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The sound is a little screwed up because I was trying to cut the file size down. If it’s an issue, let me know.

V. Grumpy over at A Courtesy Flush wrote about my attempts to take over the blogging world. Just because my blogs are everywhere and I’m always trying to recruit drivers (or anyone) to write at Life on the Road (it pays! why wouldn’t you want to write there!) and I want to make sure if I’m mentioned anywhere on the net that it’s somewhat accurate doesn’t necessarily mean I’m taking over the trucking blog world (or does it?). There doesn’t seem to be that many truckers online and even fewer that want to intelligently write about trucking.

My so-called empire has about 70 websites and growing and only three are about trucking. Adventures in Trucking has even started to be diverted into other subjects. And most of the other sites are “set and forget”, they’re setup and a few are almost to the “forget” stage only needing a few tweaks here and there, because I barely have enough time to write about trucking on the blogs I’m supposed to be writing on let alone on a huge trucking blog empire. But if other drivers want to write on AIT, or Life on the Road or want help setting up their own blog, I’m pretty sure everyone knows how to find me.

If you read Grumpy’s post, there are a few obvious facts that are wrong, I’m sure they’re wrong on purpose so he can deny that the post is really about me and protect himself from any repercussions. And yes I did mention long ago that he needed to break up his posts into paragraphs to make it a little easier to read.

Go over and check it out for a good laugh (or is it really true?) and since he doesn’t allow comments on his blog, feel free to leave any comments for him here. Like most intelligent truckers, I’m pretty sure he reads Adventures in Trucking.

It’s a  little addicting with all of the application possibilities. I’m not sure how much gets back to the people that have listed me as a friend, but all the updates and changes will settle down soon.

You can add all of your other social networks to Facebook. I can add this blog so updates will show on my Facebook page. Updates on our Flickr pictures and Youtube videos. I can even add Del.icio.us and Stumble bookmarks and many more. That’s a lot of stuff being shared and it fills up your page with everything your doing. That might be a little too much information. Moderation is probably best in this case.

If you want to follow Adventures in Trucking, you follow the blog. If you want to check my new pictures on Flickr, you follow me on Flickr. If you want to see my bookmarks I’m adding, you can follow my Del.icio.us and Stumbles. Facebook has a Twitter like interface too so you can tell everyone what you’re having for lunch. You can also share your Google Reader shareable feeds, our Youtube videos, last.fm (which I don’t have yet, but it looks interesting) and many more. I may put a few things on there, but it won’t be information overload about my day.

I’ve spent a lot of time searching for an option I wanted to update or looking for an application and being unable to find it. I suppose I’ll learn where stuff is eventually, but will stop updating so much soon and I’ll just log on, see what everyone else is doing, check out any new pictures, then go on with my day. Or I can just check all of the email updates.

I’m a little late in joining “social networks”, but since I’m preparing on getting a real job someday and employers Google everyone’s name nowadays, I need to make sure my name is me. I just created WayneWeisser.com and have started checking MySpace, FaceBook and Linked In for any discrepancies or anything that has my name, but isn’t me. I tried to get weisser.com just so I could have the email address of wayne@weisser.com, but weisser.com is already a German car dealership. Click on any of the links or go to wayneweisser.com and my network is on the sidebar.

There are several MySpace copycats just for truckers, but I never got into those. I don’t have anything against truckers, I’m just not the social butterfly and sometimes I just don’t want to talk about trucking. Now, I have to work on my social skills if I’m going to be back into the corporate office environment.

If you’re on Facebook or any other network, add me as a friend. If you’re on a network, I’m not on, tell me about it. I just searched for “myspace for truckers” and apparently there is a program you can buy to build a Myspace lookalike, so there are a ton of MySpace clones.

I was actually invited to test one of the early trucker myspace networks (it was owned by Siricomm which also provided WIFI at truck stops and is now out of business) and when I talked to the developers about my concerns in that I already have a blog, videos on youtube, pictures on flickr, why move all of that stuff or only use their service? They assured me that their goal was to bring in all those services to your home page. After a couple of years, still the same. They really frown on links outside of their domain, they really don’t want people leaving their site for any reason whatsoever.