Opportunity Cost

As you by now have noticed, there has been a steep decline in the quantity and quality of blogging here at UtiliGEE. Being greatly troubled by this, I took it upon myself to get to the bottom of what caused such a dearth in the blogosphere. After many interviews and much research this is my report.

In Q1 the cost of blogging rose 68% over the previous quarter (92% YOY). This was coming just as 401K accounts were plummeting to 10 year lows. Readers were optimistic the second quarter would bring a decline in blogging cost as home prices continued to slump. However, blogging cost skyrocketed in Q2, rising 763% in just three months, 938% from the previous year. Q3 also appeared to be promising as oil prices decreased back to their May levels. Sadly, this decline still hasn't effected the UtiliGEE blogging cost.
"Previously you could use the oil and housing markets as indicators of what the blogging market would do. That theory seems to be out the window."
Analyst have tried to pinpoint what event would have triggered such a drastic change in blogging market trends without success. All indicators predicted a drop in blogging cost after finals in December. Yet, just as investors were ready for blogging to reach an all time high we reached a 2 year low.
Tommy Tom, a well respected blogging analyst, is beginning to fear what kind of damage this will do to his profession. "We are going back and rewriting our entire cost-of-blog model. It has people questioning the entire industry."
Of all the people interviewed it seems there was only one economist who has an answer to what could have caused this spike. "It appears that even with the rest of the economy in a deep recession the value of time-spent-with-Denny continues to rise at unprecedented rates. Occasional we find occurrences of people thriving during a down turn. That is what happened with McDonald's and Microsoft. Time-spent-with-Denny is the only market that is seeing the same boom as blogging cost. I am beginning to think there is a correlation between these two markets. And if my predictions are correct it could be 2010 before we see another post from UtiliGEE."
When asked if he felt that time-spent-with-Denny would soon be valued higher than Microsoft he responded, "With the decreased demand for PC's, and the limited supply of time-spent-with-Denny, I would say the question is not if it will be valued higher, but when."

Complainers

Two months ago Mark Perry posted this video on his blog. Originally, I thought it was clever thinking, "Yeah, we don't realize how nice we have it". However, that was before the video was emailed to me 4 times, shown in 2 meetings, posted on facebook, and finally played to me by my roommate. I am sick and tired of hearing this guy complain about the complainers. And so I feel it is time for me to complain about the people complaining about complainers.
Complainers always get a bad wrap. They are an easy target because, let's face it, everyone hates a complainer. That being the case, I would ask you to put aside your grudges and consider for just a moment everything we owe to the complainers. For instance, the reason we don't have those annoying rotary phones is because, someone said, "Hm, I really hate having to go all the way to a phone booth to make a call, wouldn't it be nice to call while I am in my car or as I walk through the park?" Now, there were probably nay sayers at the time who said "You spoiled brat, don't you realize how amazing the phone is!" The same person probably would have said "Why are you complaining that it takes 3 days to take a train across the country. It took the pioneers three months! You complainer." I would personally like to thank the guy on the plane complaining about not having wireless access. And the girl who had to wait a few seconds for her phone signal to reach space.
So to all of the other complainers out there...Keep on complaining!