If you want to depend on others, the agencies are your friends.
I no longer believe they are run by corrupt people. To my surprise, I've been converted. The agencies are your friends. They are run by humans, which by an amazing coincidence, contributors are too. Reactive panicky little creatures addicted to charts, handshakes, and getting ahead. That, and women with headsets.
Meanwhile, the idea behind Symbiostock:
Leave this post right now. Go step on an ant hill. Turn over a rock, and watch the ants scurry in panic.
It looks like panic, but its not. Its highly motivated and targeted response, based on perfect instincts. They are moving fast, productive, and responding in a quickened orderly manner to the random variable you've just introduced. Unless of course you have fire ants in your backyard, in which case the panic will be yours.
Ants have instincts from everything to flood control to fungus control. Humans cause the issues ants instinctively control by instinct.
Humans... we give ourselves way too much credit. I swear this human race has a "drunk" gene which gets in the way of reason, chronically. MSG is a great place to see this in action. No offense Leaf. Your a great guy. Meanwhile, nature holds all the secrets but we're too impressed with iphones to really care (which I've recently read is yet another competitor to you???).
The burdock plant, for instance, is to be credited to Symbiostock's highly adaptive networking growth. Its the reason why one day your site will pop up in the search results of another site 17 jumps away without bringing the network to its knees from query overload.
Another highly unrelated story...you can take it for what it is:
There's a plant that grows here in Hawaii. Its one of the most abundant here in the populated areas. Its fruit is actually one of the best I've ever tasted. I show it to locals and non-locals alike here and they have no idea what it is. Only a few know what it is, and they are the kinds that make a humble living and need to know how to adapt. I accidentally leave it on my desk, and I discover an ant colony of, easily, 20,000 existed under my desk that I never knew about. Yet, amazingly, they were not interested the many other sugar-laden things I'd left on my desk. But they knew this was gold, for some reason, and their whole population took advantage of it as one mind. People here, though, have no idea what it is. But spam is the best selling meat product out here.
I say it again: The agencies are your friends.
Symbiostock was supposed to be an ant colony. But people want an agency. They want something to make them independent, but that safe zone of blame when something goes wrong.
Symbiostock is very, very cruel. It gives you a free chance to see where you stand. Like nature, it does not flatter you. How sad. Its the mirror that tells you what other people see. The agencies are not like that. They are your friends.
I'm dropping this thing for a year at minimum. Yes, I'll be putting my premium plugin out there. And I'll do a little work after the fact. But sadly I see that the problem is not agencies.
And I fully expect Symbiostock to become a network of no less than 200 sites by the time I get interested again. Why? Because Symbiostock was not made to be controlled. It was made to spread like seeds, and be self-prolific. Nature's design, not mine.
If you want to sell stuff on the internet, adapt. Make images people tweet about and give up this idea that perfect SEO is somehow going to sell outdated and sadly unmotivated ideas. Take some reality photos or something.
And please, drop your charts, speculations, and headsets. Look at reality:
NATURE'S DESIGN: Product is produced, product is consumed.
STOCK PHOTO'S DESIGN: Product is produced, duplicated, never consumed.
Um...so why the oversupply?
Do me a favor - Make Symbiostock. I'm tired. The fact is is there's always some unexplored area in the giant internet cosmos of panicked little creatures chasing trends and social climbing. And when you get bored, just tune in to Sean Lock and Yuri. Its always fun to hold them under a magnifying glass. Just don't do it when the sun is shining. Its not humane.
July 02, 2009, 23:48
