More Bang for your Blog.
Mar 7, 2008 Computers and Internet
In the same vein as my earlier post about patting each other on the back and exchanging blog links, I stumbled upon an amazing article on the The University Kid’s blog. Seems they’re back with a bang and they want to bring everyone along with them! Holy crap, what a list of prizes, give aways, exposure chances and fantastic all around chance to get your blog out there!
You can read how to enter the contest over here: We’re Back With A Bang - The Ultimate Blog Contest, and in case you’re thinking it’s not worth it to look into, a list of some of the prizes being offered is behind the journal cut.
Coffee Pot Confessions of the terminally geeky.
Mar 7, 2008 Humor
Our coffee pot is a Mr. Coffee, ten cup, thermos carafe, self-cleaning, set the damn thing to make a pot of coffee if we want to–coffee machine.
Or, y’know, this model.
Anyway, the carafe part of it is metal instead of glass, and the bottom plate is also metal (though there isn’t a heating coil in it, as that’d be entirely pointless with the metal carafe). This morning, as I am bleary eyed from working all night on 2phatgeeks and startled by a new revelation or two, I stumbled in a drunken zombie shuffle toward the pot in hopes there were dredges of sweet, sweet caffeine left.
Lo’ and behold, there was!
As I reached down and pulled the coffee pot out, it made that incredible metal on metal sound you think you’d only ‘hear’ in comic books or really bad fantasy movies–the sound of a sword slowly, as well as in a manner deadly–being taken out of a sheath. Also known was: Sssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhing!
I processed this with the carafe in one hand and paused like a gazelle before parked jeep’s headlights. Once I understood what had just happened, I put the coffee pot back and removed several times, to reproduce that specific Sssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhing!
I then giggled uncontrollably at myself for several moments, poured my coffee, nuked it in the microwave and promptly returned to blog about it. Are you not lucky?
What have you done recently that seemed utterly insane or silly, just because it did something that entirely amused you?
Spring blogs; diving in.
Mar 7, 2008 Computers and Internet
Spring is coming. With spring comes a sense of renewal most of us that aren’t too bitter or jaded can’t deny. There are flowers peeking up through damp earth revealed by melting snow, little yellow/green buds at the end of once bare trees that promise us with the glory of summer leaves–and there are blogs out there, like ours, who are fresh, new and just starting out.
I’m filled with the sense of hope for this blog. I wonder how many of you had the same when you started yours, when those first few posts were sent with the faint tingle of excitement that maybe, some one, some where, will relate to you and all that you’ve written about your life and hobby?
But one mistake that bloggers occasionally make is that they underestimate how much work actually goes in to building up a readership. How much effort you have to put into pushing your blog out there and getting through to a few loyal handfuls of readers. There are a lot of sites out there for sharing your blog, your RSS feed and your links–but they don’t always guarantee comments or links back to you.
I’m so happy to note that I’ve already had a reciprocal link and first RSS subscriber in a wonderful, talented lady who shares my love for role play, geek-things and art, Eve. Eve’s blog is a wonderful thing, filled with the ups and downs of mother hood, dealing with both the joys and disappointments of the internet and all around silliness of LOL cats in addition to show casing some beautiful photography. So, say hello to her over at Life in the Garden of Eden.
And that’s one small step toward building my blog, isn’t it? Getting your first subscriber, your first commenter, your first link. That got me thinking, how can I help YOU?
The answer is pretty simple! I want to link to you. I want to read your fellow geek blogs, I want to read your reviews on movies or books, or favorite construction paper. I would like to subscribe and comment to your blogs that you, like me, have been building over the past few months in the hopes of connecting to people that are like minded.
If you’re just starting a blog, be it self-hosted WordPress, Live Journal, Typepad, Blogger, Xanga–show me what you’ve got! Link me to your blogs, I want to read all about you and your hobbies, comment on your words and share. Let’s spring into this together!
