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Your Daily D-zone

dzone.com is helluva well done. In my book it's got the critical mass already to rapidly become the top developer site on the internet.

I confess i've been submitting my own blogs to dzone.com - at least the ones i think are the most likely to get some votes - for whatever reason ;)

And as a matter of course voting for any and every java.net weblogger posting i see there, oops, that finger keeps slipping ;) Obviously i'm gonna vote with my heart (Java) and for my community colleagues (java.net)

What do you reckon is "good" behaviour in this new Web2.0 world? Where do you draw the lines between Commendable, Ok, Shaky and Dodgy?!

Comments

• Isn't that kind of "faux-pas" to submit your own blog entries? If they are good, somebody will do it for you, and if they are not, well...

  Posted by: kirillcool on November 01, 2006 at 09:13 AM

• Thanks for the kind words Evan. To answer Kirill's reply in a word: no. If you think your stuff is good, go ahead and post it. Provided that the content is useful to developers, then it just helps the community. Granted, some people might disagree, but then we never said everyone had to like the same things :)

  Posted by: mpschmid on November 01, 2006 at 11:21 AM

• Evan, thank you so much for your kind words about dzone.com, and thank you even more for your participation in helping to build dzone into a useful resource for all developers. It has been a thrill to work on the site, and we are delighted that dzone has helped bring attention to your blog and to thousands of other developer links.

  Warm regards,
  Rick Ross

  PS - We consider it to be entirely appropriate to submit links to your own blog at dzone. You took the time to write your thoughts, and you are certainly entitled to share them as widely as you can. We count on the community to select which links it will promote, and which will get buried.

  Posted by: rickross on November 01, 2006 at 11:27 AM

• I agree completely Evan, I love to get my daily dzone too. Much more relevant stuff to me there than digg.(though I also get my daily digg... afterward)

  Posted by: cajo on November 01, 2006 at 12:38 PM

• 
  Wow, comments from the men themselves, Matt and Rick :) I wasn't trying to be kind, i was trying to be honest - i digg dzone! :)

  Kirill, thanks, that was exactly my question and worry - is it a faux pas to punt, urm i mean post, your own articles? It does feel a bit pretentious at first - but you get over that quickly enough! ;)

  I think i've submitted three of my articles, and two have been submitted by others. The first coupla i did after a few days, veinly (and vainly) hoping someone else would. Cos let's face it, when you getting your Daily Dose of Dzone, and you see one of your own articles posted up there, goddamn, it's a nice suprpise :)

  After that happened once, and didn't happen again to subsequent articles, i thought, "What's wrong, these new articles are way more interesting than that other one - where is that guy and why is he not posting these new ones already? Darn it, he must have gone on vacation."

  So i posted an article myself because i thought it was a goodie, and i wanted to share it, otherwise why else write it?!
  As i said, i certainly did have a fleeting feeling of possibly committing a faux pas. This was new territory. On digg i always got my friends to post my articles ;)

  But when my article was voted for and got promoted, it was a nice warm fuzzy feeling, and i was pleased i had posted it.
  I think what i'm gonna do is, when i write an article i think is interesting, i'm gonna wait for a day or so, and if no one else posts it, and i still think it's worth sharing as widely as possible, i'll post it myself.

  Which also goes to your good point Kirill, "if it's good shouldn't someone do it for you." But that does beg the question, why should you leave it to someone else - if you think it's dzone quality, isn't that a bit pretentious in a different way? I mean if you really want to share it as widely as possible - put it up and let the people decide with their votes, as Rick Ross says :)

  PS. I confess, i did ask my friend to post one of my first articles to digg - that "My Desktop OS: Windows XP" one. Also because he does actually digg stories on digg, I mean he's a registered digger. So i told him, "Read my article and digg it, fool!" (We always talk crazy like that to each other.) What happened is that someone else had posted it already - true story. And i asked him to post my latest linux one. Dunno if he did - he's even lazier than i am! Guess I'm gonna go post it to digg right now myself! :)

  
  

  Posted by: evanx on November 01, 2006 at 02:13 PM

• 
  i posted my latest linux tale to digg here.
  And it got dugg by someone faster than it's possible to read it - how does that work?! ;)

  Posted by: evanx on November 01, 2006 at 02:57 PM

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