Rumble young man rumble

I am the Charlie Brown of bloggers in my office.

Let me come clean: I understand little of the do-dads available to dress up blogs — links and tags mystify me and widgets wonkify.

My co-workers on the other hand, are the crown prince and princess of the blogging planet, online masters of the popular sites: observationsofanewsjunkie.wordpress.com and theryancokeexperience.wordpress.com.

A typical conversation between the three of us:

Observations: Wow. I received 1,000 hits on yesterday’s post.

RyanCoke, nodding sagely: That’s nothing. I scored a cool 5,000.

Me: I got two on mine and one of them was me.

This reminded me of the It’s Halloween Charlie Brown cartoon:

“I got a chocolate bar!”

“I got a quarter!”

Charlie Brown: “I got another rock.”

Once, I received 10 whole hits on a post, which only served to attract a round of nods and pity.

That’s when my canny sense started to tingle.

I researched online tips to attract more hits — one site suggested making comments on other people’s blogs and including a link attachment to your own site.

I tried this on a friend’s blog about Barack Obama:

My comment: That’s interesting. It reminds me of a fascinating article on rumbleyoungmanrumble.wordpress.com.

It lasted a whole 5 minutes — the length of time it took my blogmaster friend to hit the erase key on her keyboard — apparently it’s bad form to lie in the comment box.

She’s become my blogging Lucy.

However, I’m starting to learn the ins and outs of the blogging world — for instance I can now include photos and polls in my posts — excuse the copious number of polls over the next few weeks; it’s just so exciting.

One day I will open my proverbial halloween box and discover a Hershey bar instead of a dirty mish-mash of rocks.

This is a test.

This is only a test — I apologize to anyone who visited this blog looking for an insightful comment.

I’m trolling for blog hits

Obama criticizes McCain on economy

U.N. food shortage

Dominik Hasek retires

Paris Hilton smiles for the camera

Jessica Alba has a baby

Iraq

Cornwall releases town’s official joke book: warning: most of the punchilines are corny.