Interesting, but I’m not of the same mind on that one.
I may be biased, but I’m sure my bias is well founded in facts.

Take it easy man! I’m not the one who was making personal attacks, and I really don’t have interest in SEO or other “asinine or superficial behavior”… like cursing people out or editing comments in an attempt to cover it up. I already told you I didn’t mean anything personal by what I wrote, I already said “no worries” on HHR, and I’d forgotten about the whole thing until I learned you’d gone back and altered the comments on your blog. I had thought everything was cool, and hadn’t realized you’d gone ape-sh#t on my dislike of anti-Japanese prejudice, either. Just chill out! In my mind that whole SEO thing was ages ago. If you’re ever in town, I’ll buy you a beer of your choice as a peace offering.

As for my headline, I agree with you completely, Lonnie. I specifically chose that headline to illustrate what I don’t like about self-promotion. I said so in the original post, too:

The title of this post was completely unfair, but it caught your attention. And that’s what promotion is all about.

It was intended as a self-referential jab. Peace.

No one has commented on the abusive and inaccurate Enquirer style headline he used to begin this debate that has brought him several back-links and unique visitors…

Range,
I am not sure a Rodney King type answer is called for here….The guy doesn’t add much to the blogsphere…

His asinine and TRULY superficial behavior probably doesn’t deserve a retort, but…

What you said just now was exactly what I was hinting at when I asked the question “Does your voice have value?” Is it something that someone would actually pay for?

In 99% of the cases, I’d say the answer is no. But yeah, Steve Pavlina is definitely one of the exceptions.

Chinesepod is creating amazing value for their users. And I hope they get every bit as rich off it as they deserve.

Either way, you have to provide something. The only ways of getting wealth are to take it from others, or to create it.

I enjoy writing stuff here, and I learn a lot in the process – and that’s enough for me.

Get to meet lots of cool people too.

Brainstorming is always great, and wouldn’t we all want to quit our day jobs and blog/write full time?

Currently, I am no longer sure of this, since my day job has gotten a lot more interesting since I moved to Taiwan, but still, back when I was a financial adviser in Montreal, Canada, it was a dream.

You’re definitely right, there’s no need to get worked over something like this.

Different opinions lead to different ideas, which might lead to different neato ways of doing things.

That is how I started blogging.
A lot of bloggers would like to do nothing but blogging.

Using SEO and the tools for monetizing a blog is necessary.

Some bloggers do very well, others try to find their niche market.

There was a point where I was really trying hard to monetize my blog. But since I moved to Taiwan, I am taking another approach.

Part of it is moving my blog to a hosted service, which I did in February.

Seriously, everybody should take a step back and relax a bit.

There is no need for getting all upset about the matter.

We all have our own opinions, and most of the time they are different.