I was going through my vast amount of email when I hit a Google Alert for Duane Lester. Now, I set up two brand specific Google Alerts a few months back in order to keep tabs on when two specific terms were used: “Duane Lester” and “All American Blogger.”
If you are a blogger and you are not doing this, you should seriously consider doing it. Here’s how and why.
So, usually the Google Alert links to a post I wrote or a tweet I sent, but this time it was very different. This time someone was writing about me.
The first hit was from American Power, Donald Douglas’ blog. He wrote about my welcome of the now dead blog, Neoconstant to our now near dead blogroll:
As Duane Lester points out at his post, “New to the Blogroll: Neoconstant“:
A great writer and Newsvine friend of mine, E.D. Kain, has a blog that I have added to our blogroll. If you get a chance, check out Neoconstant.
Here’s a sample of what you can find there:
I am overwhelmed by the excitement emanating from the Right on this. Not just social conservatives either! Secular cons and moderates are happy as can be, regardless of Palin’s stance on abortion. I think many people realize that its more of a symbolic stance these days than anything. This isn’t to say she doesn’t stand by her pro-Life positions. I just personally think it is and should be a non-issue. I’m more interested in about a million other things like the economy and our defense, two things Palin has shown wisdom on.
Women, especially, regardless of lefty-pundits claims to the contrary, are extremely happy about this choice.
Now, as a man, I have to say, I don’t blame them! I’m already in love with her whole family.
Gee, it certainly sounds like Governor Palin’s ready for the national spotlight after all. And not just that, the ladies love her!
Now, since we don’t have a link to NeoConstant (the blog being deleted, conveniently, it turns out), perhaps E.D. Kain can verify for us whether this discussion is accurate. WOULDN’T WANT TO SLANDER ANYONE, YOU KNOW!! That’s right, perhaps another writer at NeoConstant showed such concern for the Oprah Winfrey demographic! Of course, Duane’s using the passage as an example of E.D.’s “great” writing.
Wow! That’s fairly intense.
Sounds like one heck of a blog war.
It was just a couple days later that my name popped up on another blog, The Blog of Walker:
Donald,
… (I skipped a lot. Click the link to read the whole letter.)
But I also think that this bad blood needs to end. You can’t keep this up. Like I said, I’ve maintained good relationships with many of the writers from Neoconstant despite our disagreement on the issues. (Walker, Beaman, Courtney, etc. etc.) I still consider them my friends as far as internet friends go. I’d still defend them even despite our disagreements. I’m still on good terms with Duane Lester at All American Blogger – again, despite our disagreements. Duane’s a good guy.
You got that right!
I don’t pretend to know enough about this situation to take sides, so I won’t. I did, however, want to provide a good illustration why it’s important to monitor your brand on the Intertoobs.
If you don’t, you might miss a boatload of drama.
Here’s to this blog war being over so everyone can focus on Charles Johnson and Andrew Sullivan.
