SyFriday: Living Life Out In The Open

One of the neat things to read over at Battlestar Wiki is Joe's blog. Normally, I don't talk about what other sites -- especially those that some might consider competition -- is doing, but this was something I found interesting. Earlier this week, Joe shared a very detailed story about how Wikia offered him $2,500 to sell his site to them.

Go ahead and take a minute to read Joe's post. It will open in a new window, so you can always come back here. Of course, if you're business-minded like me, you might be thinking, "Sheesh, that's an awful lot of information to be sharing ... maybe it's too much?"

That's exactly what I felt when I first read it, because I'm not sure if I would've publicized offers being made for my site (and by the way, good job Joe in turning down $2,500 ... I wouldn't even accept that as a deposit for buying this site). I even talked to a fellow Webmaster about it, and I said, "I like Joe a lot, but wow, is that a discussion that should've been made public?"

Well, this fellow Webmaster apparently knew me a bit better than I knew myself. He said, "Mike, don't be so dumb." And he's right, I was being dumb, and I was raising an eyebrow about something that I do, and do a lot.

I would like to think that you come to SyFy Portal because you love the stories, you love our staff, or you simply like the pretty colors on the screen. But a lot of you have stuck around for years and years because I do talk about things that I shouldn't talk about. Whether it be good things like us heading off to cool press junkets, or bad things like internal battles that nearly shut the site down ... I share it all. And that's what separates us from other sites that are just giving you content, but not really adding any zest, or something to humanize it.

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