If there were more of your literary ethics in the outside world today, perhaps we might be just a bit less close to trashing the planet and killing ourselves off.

I’m new to all this stuff. But my goal is to design something positive that promotes not only products and personal wealth, but a great user experience as well. Something the customer wants to come back to even when they DON’T feel like buying.

I’ll be checking out your blog, Lisa. Thanks for the tips.

David: I totally agree about the personality thing. Your personality is what makes you interesting and it’s what going to engage people. I was really lucky both at Bruce Clay and at We Build Pages to be able to blog without too many restrictions. I’ve worked for great bosses who encouraged me to be genuine and myself, and I think that’s paid off for everyone. It’s made my blogging more real. Or at least that’s how I feel. I hope others share a similar sentiment.

Barry: Oh, I’ve made /plenty/ of mistakes in my time. Most due to responding emotionally or taking things too personally. But of course, there was that whole Threadwatch scandal, too. I’ve definitely had my share of blog screw ups. And I’m sure there are plenty more to come. That’s how you learn, right?

Anyway, value adding content is what people want to read and I guess if you can aggregate or create value-adding content then you can get over the hurdle of such things…maybe this is neutral industry news / research / reviews…can it be neutral/trusted though? I guess that depends on a whole host of other factors relating to the trust around the brand! It spans far further than just the blog content certainly.

Thanks for the post – provides plenty of food for thought!

[heads over to lisabarone.com]

I’m back, nice pair of widgets you have there.