Posts Tagged ‘whimsical’
I got a rock!
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.
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