Using Google Blog search with the time set to Last Hour, I thought I’d see what people were writing about on Christmas Morning.Britney Spears-124 people have new blog posts about Britney Spears on this fine Christmas Morning.Pairs Hilton-53 new posts in the last hour.Christmas-4, 366 new posts in the last hour. Well, that is to be expected isn’t it? But it is nice to see that Christmas beat out Britney Spears and Paris Hilton.Happy Holidays-199 new posts.Kwanzaa-16 new posts, not too bad for a holiday that was whipped up out the nowhere and into the here.Festivus-14 new posts, George must…
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Entrecard This and Entrecard That
EntreCard-could they have come up with a worse name? How do you pronounce EntreCard? I guess since EntreCard is a blog toy it doesn’t really matter, no one is likely to be talking about it in the real world anyway. EntreCard-I’m reminded of the movie That Thing You Do where the band was named the Oneneders-Wonders. Having just started on EntreCard a couple of days ago, I don’t have a ton of stats yet. But I do have enough stats to say that I have already gotten more hits from EntreCard in the first 24 hours than I got from…
The End of My BlogRush Experiment
After getting a whooping 38 hits from Blogrush over the past 4 months I have decided to retire the Blogrush widget. It’s promise of targeted traffic to your blog did not work so well for me. It was a good mix of topics that got clicked, from book reviews to nude celebrities, but they just never added up to much. My impressions were almost always under a thousand, which might say more about the Blogrush Network than it does about my posts. The one standout on the impressions front was Pushing Daisies Looks Like Tim Burton, which got 15,293 impressions,…
Don’t Blog about Blogging, oops
We have all experienced bad service, and will continue to experience bad service for the foreseeable future. Blogs are no exception. We are a nation of Entitled Individuals, we all know that we are owed certain things. Like good writing on a blog, for example. We like to get good service, but are not so fond of giving it. We all tend to believe our parents when they tell us we are important and that our opinions matters. Hence the love of blogging. But they never tell you that it no longer matters once you take a job and work…
Do You Make Money With Your Blog?
There’s an interesting Poll on ProBlogger this month. The question was In October, How Much Did You Earn from Blogging? There was a wide range of options for this poll from I don’t make money blogging (780 or 28% of all votes) to Over $15000 (176 or 6% of all votes). My own humble efforts land me near the top of the list, without all that much money coming in. At this writing 2831 people answered the poll and I am a bit surprised at how many people are making thousands of dollars a month. My personal goals are to…
Meryl Streep Says Blogging is a Waste of Time, Well Duh
Ok, I think she said something along the lines of just blogging to your friends is not enough. People get mad about something, like The War, and then they blog about it and vent for a bit and think they have done something. This then stops them from doing something in the real world. Like Meryl Streep-maybe we should all go on high profile morning news shows like Good Morning America. Hmm, it has been a while since I was on any major TV Networks-oh, that’s right, I’ve NEVER been on a major television network. So maybe blogging might just…
Fark Them if They can’t Take a Joke
Ok, to me Fark is just one more social network, albeit a big one that I get a bit of traffic from. I found Fark because it is one of those little buttons at the bottom of so many posts. Digg was featured in USA Today and several social networks were mentioned. I’ll have to check and see if Fark was one of them. Anyway, Fark is fun in that it has all these little headings you can put on a story. Silly, Asinine, Interesting, Amusing, and so on and so forth. Fark is the place to look for the…
What makes a Successful Blog?
My old blog was a success. I had ten faithful readers who commented on my every post, just as I commented on their every post. We would write things that were inspired by each other. We told jokes to each other and wished each other well on our various adventures. We were, in short, friends. It was a rare day when this blog had more than a dozen visitors. But I would get the occasional odd passerby that would pause before hitting the Next Blog button again. I didn’t get more than a handful of comments on any post, but…
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Out of the Nowhere
One of my heroes is a curmudgeonly fellow named Harlan Ellison. He is famous for ranting and raving and occasionally writing some pretty damned good sci fi, or SF as he might prefer it to be called. Once upon a time he was on about Video Games. He called them time sinks, said they were a waste of time, that you could be doing something, anything, better than playing video games. There is that feeling about blogs as well.And yet.Nothing pains the writer so much as never being published. As never seeing a byline or buying up all the copies…