Friday, March 21, 2014

Things have calmed down at Mizozo and will likely stay that way for some time

With over 5 years under our belt, Mizozo has gone through many stages in its evolution. In the beginning we naively tried revolutionizing the media industry, without any media backers, and were quickly taught that we were incapable of accomplishing such a feat with no seed money or good names backing our cause.

Over time we morphed and changed trying to find a niche. The only thing that has stayed true from the beginning is our transparent nature. While we are still trying to keep the company transparent, our method of execution is once again in turmoil. With Google's recent manual action against us, we have had to once again change how we register publishers, more specifically who we register. We now also have to be much more attentive about the content hitting our pages, something that requires time and effort.

Unfortunately, almost everyone that has been helping me keep Mizozo a flowing content site has been tiring of all the work with no reward, and I don't blame them. With no more prizes to hand out, most see this as a thankless task that is overly time consuming. While everyone promises to occasionally post articles, it seems that Mizozo's regularity will no longer be there.

Mizozo isn't going anywhere, and intends to be the worlds first truly transparent company. I will keep this site going as long as I possibly can, and will begin to personally contribute articles as often as I can. I have to rethink how to do some things, especially on how to attract publishers, but since the site is more or less self sustaining, I am in no rush.

As things progress, I will keep everyone informed, but for some time Mizozo will be going into a much more passive mode. I will no longer be providing the monthly reports, not because I want to keep it private but more because it is time consuming and doesn't seem to attract much attention given its required effort. If enough requests are made, I will gladly restart those reports.

Stay tuned for more updates on Mizozo's progress. I would love to keep developing the WordPress migration, but unfortunately that, too, is incredibly time consuming, and will likely be put off once more.