In case you haven't noticed, brevity doesn't come easily to me in blogging. Maybe that's why I didn't realize that my automated signature on Activerain was growing out of control:
A copyright notice, disclosure, ad for my iPhone real estate app, photo, logo, contact info a la business card, cute little link buttons, even white space...
If my posts were any shorter, the signature surely would have eaten them alive!
A re-blog is the worst, with the original author's signature AND mine under that. I had to ask myself, ""Is all this advertising on each blog post necessary?" Most of the information is already in the right sidebar...
Since Activerain added the option of automated signatures, they're like belly buttons: Everybody has one. They come in all sizes and shapes and I'm certainly not qualified to judge any but my own. And my signature was turning every blog post into a monster display ad.
Most of us would agree that consumers turn to blogs for information, without advertising, so I recently gave my blog signature another makeover. It must have been the umpteenth time since I joined Activerain in 2006. My goals, this time, were to minimize the signature and provide only concise contact information.
Thank you, Activerain, for making it so easy to change our signatures on every post with a few clicks. I'll probably update it again before long...
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