Dog Snot Dating Service
Geoffrey at Dog Snot Diaries is trying to get his single brother hitched.
Whaddaya say gals? Oh, hi Lori. I heard you were single... Go have a look.
Saturday, June 07, 2003
Lot of Work
This link management is a lot of work! At least initially. As you'll see, I've made major progress, but I still have to go through the not yet classifieds and stick them somewhere, including in at least one category that doesn't exist yet.
I forget what I'd intended "Ganymeans" to be. May have been generic.
I need a category for business/economics/accounting. If I'm lazy I might put bloggers who are highly focused on libertarian/objectivist matters in that same one.
Thoughts?
This link management is a lot of work! At least initially. As you'll see, I've made major progress, but I still have to go through the not yet classifieds and stick them somewhere, including in at least one category that doesn't exist yet.
I forget what I'd intended "Ganymeans" to be. May have been generic.
I need a category for business/economics/accounting. If I'm lazy I might put bloggers who are highly focused on libertarian/objectivist matters in that same one.
Thoughts?
Hi, I'm black
Glenn left a comment, and I paid a visit through the URL he left. I love the "contractor peon" bit. I thought there was some interesting stuff over there, so thought I'd mention it. Nice fish and monster rat pictures.
As I was saying a few posts ago, leaving comments can get you noticed.
Glenn left a comment, and I paid a visit through the URL he left. I love the "contractor peon" bit. I thought there was some interesting stuff over there, so thought I'd mention it. Nice fish and monster rat pictures.
As I was saying a few posts ago, leaving comments can get you noticed.
Interview Questions
Maripat needs interview questions! She plans to interview Lori, who is single by the way, and is at a loss for clever, Frank-like or Bill-like questions to ask. Any ideas?
Example:
"Lori, is it true you're still single because you smell funny? Or is it merely because you devour your dates alive at the end of the evening?"
You know, useful, meaningful interview questions like that.
Maripat needs interview questions! She plans to interview Lori, who is single by the way, and is at a loss for clever, Frank-like or Bill-like questions to ask. Any ideas?
Example:
"Lori, is it true you're still single because you smell funny? Or is it merely because you devour your dates alive at the end of the evening?"
You know, useful, meaningful interview questions like that.
Is That Legal
Is That Legal has fled Blogsplat. This is to remind me to update my link, as well as to publicize it.
Is That Legal has fled Blogsplat. This is to remind me to update my link, as well as to publicize it.
"Blogroll Me"
Something I forgot to mention in my thing on getting links is the usefulness of the "Blogroll Me" link. I take my own behavior to be anecdotal evidence in favor of having one. I routinely look for such a link (which should not be hidden if you have one, dammit), and will spontaneously blogroll if there is one. If not, I'll try to remember, and usually forget.
Which is why you might sometimes see things like:
Note to self: Remember to blogroll this site.
On another note, I am working on links today. I think the port to unblogrolled categorical links will be completed, but many of them will be under "not yet classified" since decisions on categories are still pending. The blogroll and an uncategorized list of links not on the blogroll will appear on their own page.
Something I forgot to mention in my thing on getting links is the usefulness of the "Blogroll Me" link. I take my own behavior to be anecdotal evidence in favor of having one. I routinely look for such a link (which should not be hidden if you have one, dammit), and will spontaneously blogroll if there is one. If not, I'll try to remember, and usually forget.
Which is why you might sometimes see things like:
Note to self: Remember to blogroll this site.
On another note, I am working on links today. I think the port to unblogrolled categorical links will be completed, but many of them will be under "not yet classified" since decisions on categories are still pending. The blogroll and an uncategorized list of links not on the blogroll will appear on their own page.
Hanker for a Hunka Cheese
Mmmm... the power of cheese. Via BusinessPundit.
Cheese is one of my absolute staples, much the way Acidman once described peanutbutter. I can have almost nothing in the house for food, but if there's cheese, I can probably whip up something I'll like. If I lack cheese, I know it's time to go shopping.
Mmmm... the power of cheese. Via BusinessPundit.
Cheese is one of my absolute staples, much the way Acidman once described peanutbutter. I can have almost nothing in the house for food, but if there's cheese, I can probably whip up something I'll like. If I lack cheese, I know it's time to go shopping.
Don't Forget to Vote!
In the New Weblog Showcase. Link the entered posts for any of the entries that tickle your fancy. The final tally is Sunday night, so do it by then and have it remain on your main page for it to count.
I'm not sure what the reason is, but it appears one (admittedly interesting but not enough for my vote, or that many) entry has multiple times the votes of the next entry down, which shows the importance of voting.
My final votes will appear sometime in the next day. There appears to be a new entry I didn't notice earlier in the week, trying to entice a vote from me.
In the New Weblog Showcase. Link the entered posts for any of the entries that tickle your fancy. The final tally is Sunday night, so do it by then and have it remain on your main page for it to count.
I'm not sure what the reason is, but it appears one (admittedly interesting but not enough for my vote, or that many) entry has multiple times the votes of the next entry down, which shows the importance of voting.
My final votes will appear sometime in the next day. There appears to be a new entry I didn't notice earlier in the week, trying to entice a vote from me.
Up and Up We Go
I notice today I gained three links and RWA gained one. My missing link still isn't back. Anyway, I think it's totally cool that I am now Sandwiched between Natalie Solent and Asparagirl.
Right We Are! is somewhere between Jay Caruso and Pejmanesque, which is also cool, and gaining rapidly on Blogs of War and Rand Simberg. It's not all that far for them to become primates!
Obviously if we do drop because the contest is over, it's not going to happen until the established momentum stops and any gratuitous links scroll off main pages.
Oh! I think I forgot to mention at the end of the race what our Technorati standings were, just for giggles. So today JSV is at 86 inbound blogs and 173 inbound links. RWA is at 88 inbound blogs and 149 inbound links. Which is kind of weird. We're almost even on inbound blogs, but I seem to have more links per blog linking to me. *Shrug*
I notice today I gained three links and RWA gained one. My missing link still isn't back. Anyway, I think it's totally cool that I am now Sandwiched between Natalie Solent and Asparagirl.
Right We Are! is somewhere between Jay Caruso and Pejmanesque, which is also cool, and gaining rapidly on Blogs of War and Rand Simberg. It's not all that far for them to become primates!
Obviously if we do drop because the contest is over, it's not going to happen until the established momentum stops and any gratuitous links scroll off main pages.
Oh! I think I forgot to mention at the end of the race what our Technorati standings were, just for giggles. So today JSV is at 86 inbound blogs and 173 inbound links. RWA is at 88 inbound blogs and 149 inbound links. Which is kind of weird. We're almost even on inbound blogs, but I seem to have more links per blog linking to me. *Shrug*
Vote
Caption contest over here is ready for voting! Lots of choices, but I am rather partial to K and O specifically...
Caption contest over here is ready for voting! Lots of choices, but I am rather partial to K and O specifically...
Getting Links
Sean Hackbarth, of the fine blog named The American Mind, which has been on my blogroll for ages with good reason, posed a question in comments over on Right We Are! in response to the race being over. How to get comments? He just reached Flappy Bird in the Ecosystem, for which congratulations are naturally in order. But how to do better?
Naturally being the sometimes chaotic critter that I am, I answered a question posed at RWA by entering a massive comment over at TAM. Why, after all, answer in the same venue where the question was posed? That might make sense and stuff.
So I talked about getting links in general, as well as some of what happened during the race. Here, verbatim, because it is post-length and of possible interest to others, is what I had to say:
You asked over on RWA how we got links. Good question! Some people have said they link to me because I'm entertaining, post regularly, etc. That was before, during, and will presumably be beyond the race. I know RWA has quality and design - if not load speed - going for them. If anything, I'm handicapped by Blogger.
Part of it's been because it's a contest, and people played along. Some went mainly linking me. Some went mainly linking them. Others were trying not to take sides but linked us both, bringing us both up.
Because it was a contest, we were openly and blatently ASKING for links, which I'd not normally do. We, or I, didn't e-mail people asking, but there were times I mentioned it in comments here and there, especially jokingly objecting to a link made to the competition.
Also, because of the contest and in the spirit of it, people not only quietly linked us, they advertised for us, mentioned the race, got others to check it out.
I think we both grabbed opportunities to generate links when we saw them. For instance, by participating in the RWN traffic drive, it added a link or two for RWA.
More generically, I would tell anyone, you want to be read, which gets you linked, then go read, but make sure they can see where you're coming from. That is, click the links to your reads on your own page to get to them, so they can see where the traffic came from.
Then leave comments. Not completely gratuitously, but if you can come up with something to say, the proprieter of the blog - and other people! - have an added opportunity to see you out there, to click the link toy your site, read, like and link it.
Publicize others. Even the lowly blogs, because some of them are going to become your peers and even superstars. Plus others plugged me, so I am doing the same. I'll keep doing dungeon tours anyway, but during the contest it had the added benefit of attracting the attention of entirely new blogs who might link me. (There are still some of those I meant to permalink and haven't; my bad.) The Showcase works for that too. If you were new and looking for links, I'd say enter the showcase. And if you're in a race and need pure, semi-gratuitous linkage, Carnival of the Vanities is a source of one. RWA picked up a link by actually agreeing to host CotV off in October.
You get links by linking others. If they know you did. Again, click the links to visit those you're linking to. More modest sites are actually better that way. Glenn's not going to notice a few referrals a day from me. Even when I e-mail him a completely foolproof reason to link to Wizbang, which might have resulted in "got this from Jay Solo" linkage to me, Glenn ignored me. I figure I won't get a link from him until I write something outstandingly cool he can't resist. But for just getting links and more modest reader increase - the kind that sticks, not a one day flood of thousands that then dry up - links from modest sites are priceless.
One trick I used in the race was to see who was linking RWA. I permalinked most of the ones I didn't already have, then clicked through in an effort to make them notice I was visiting (which comments also do). That got me some links. And found me some great blogs.
One "trick" I told Maripat to use was to go see who was still linking their old Tripod site and hadn't updated, then e-mail those people asking them to update. Special circumstances, but for anyone who's ever changed URLs recently enough, it's a way to get links that are already wanting to be there, just misguided.
If you do one really "newsworthy" thing periodically, that will generate bursts of links that stay with you. Waaaay near the beginning, my post about Bush not being stupid got readers and links big time, bringing me up a notch from then forward. A periodic gimmick can work too though.
Mostly if you write good stuff, in solid or at least predictable volume, growth and linkage will happen. Maybe it's been more so for me because I post so heavily and so eclectically; I dunno.
Anyway, if there's more to add, I can't remember it offhand. Probably lost coherence a while ago. I hope this is informative.
Sean Hackbarth, of the fine blog named The American Mind, which has been on my blogroll for ages with good reason, posed a question in comments over on Right We Are! in response to the race being over. How to get comments? He just reached Flappy Bird in the Ecosystem, for which congratulations are naturally in order. But how to do better?
Naturally being the sometimes chaotic critter that I am, I answered a question posed at RWA by entering a massive comment over at TAM. Why, after all, answer in the same venue where the question was posed? That might make sense and stuff.
So I talked about getting links in general, as well as some of what happened during the race. Here, verbatim, because it is post-length and of possible interest to others, is what I had to say:
You asked over on RWA how we got links. Good question! Some people have said they link to me because I'm entertaining, post regularly, etc. That was before, during, and will presumably be beyond the race. I know RWA has quality and design - if not load speed - going for them. If anything, I'm handicapped by Blogger.
Part of it's been because it's a contest, and people played along. Some went mainly linking me. Some went mainly linking them. Others were trying not to take sides but linked us both, bringing us both up.
Because it was a contest, we were openly and blatently ASKING for links, which I'd not normally do. We, or I, didn't e-mail people asking, but there were times I mentioned it in comments here and there, especially jokingly objecting to a link made to the competition.
Also, because of the contest and in the spirit of it, people not only quietly linked us, they advertised for us, mentioned the race, got others to check it out.
I think we both grabbed opportunities to generate links when we saw them. For instance, by participating in the RWN traffic drive, it added a link or two for RWA.
More generically, I would tell anyone, you want to be read, which gets you linked, then go read, but make sure they can see where you're coming from. That is, click the links to your reads on your own page to get to them, so they can see where the traffic came from.
Then leave comments. Not completely gratuitously, but if you can come up with something to say, the proprieter of the blog - and other people! - have an added opportunity to see you out there, to click the link toy your site, read, like and link it.
Publicize others. Even the lowly blogs, because some of them are going to become your peers and even superstars. Plus others plugged me, so I am doing the same. I'll keep doing dungeon tours anyway, but during the contest it had the added benefit of attracting the attention of entirely new blogs who might link me. (There are still some of those I meant to permalink and haven't; my bad.) The Showcase works for that too. If you were new and looking for links, I'd say enter the showcase. And if you're in a race and need pure, semi-gratuitous linkage, Carnival of the Vanities is a source of one. RWA picked up a link by actually agreeing to host CotV off in October.
You get links by linking others. If they know you did. Again, click the links to visit those you're linking to. More modest sites are actually better that way. Glenn's not going to notice a few referrals a day from me. Even when I e-mail him a completely foolproof reason to link to Wizbang, which might have resulted in "got this from Jay Solo" linkage to me, Glenn ignored me. I figure I won't get a link from him until I write something outstandingly cool he can't resist. But for just getting links and more modest reader increase - the kind that sticks, not a one day flood of thousands that then dry up - links from modest sites are priceless.
One trick I used in the race was to see who was linking RWA. I permalinked most of the ones I didn't already have, then clicked through in an effort to make them notice I was visiting (which comments also do). That got me some links. And found me some great blogs.
One "trick" I told Maripat to use was to go see who was still linking their old Tripod site and hadn't updated, then e-mail those people asking them to update. Special circumstances, but for anyone who's ever changed URLs recently enough, it's a way to get links that are already wanting to be there, just misguided.
If you do one really "newsworthy" thing periodically, that will generate bursts of links that stay with you. Waaaay near the beginning, my post about Bush not being stupid got readers and links big time, bringing me up a notch from then forward. A periodic gimmick can work too though.
Mostly if you write good stuff, in solid or at least predictable volume, growth and linkage will happen. Maybe it's been more so for me because I post so heavily and so eclectically; I dunno.
Anyway, if there's more to add, I can't remember it offhand. Probably lost coherence a while ago. I hope this is informative.
Great Rat Race Thoughts
I wrote this as a comment on RWA and then realized it was essentially a post. So here it is:
In retrospect, it should probably have been about number of links by a certain date as measured by the Ecosystem. The rule of getting into large mammal and staying there for 10 days made it basically inevitable that, by that measure, the first one there would win. We didn't know that though; that there'd be inevitability in moving up or staying put, and minimal chance - during the contest - of moving down.
It was an interesting study of how Ecosystem and Technorati both work, and how fellow bloggers respond to this sort of thing.
In the end, RWA is well on the way to primate, and in the course of the race - not a long time - went up by 72. That's darn near a doubling!
In addition to increasing by 69 links (no handicap applied) to 151, my traffic has increased as a result of the competition. Ironically, during the competition I felt like it was all about the race, and I was doing less quality posting than I might. I'm running around 200 site hits per day typically now, routinely enough to make it appear it'll stay that high.
Something I noted in e-mail earlier to Maripat is that the last day of the race, there was at least one known good, registered, permalinked, previously listed link to me that disappeared. Which means the figures for me are one higher than they officially were... but what else is missing? For me or for Right We Are! Very strange.
It was fun! That's the main thing. And for two relatively new blogs, it was an attention-getter.
Now I can move without threatening my standings. I expect I will still be on Blogspot for at least a week, unless I make an interim move using Blogger and FTP. Stay tuned.... Chances are, FWIW, that the domain will be elhide.com because I already own it. I may get more hosting power than I truly need and be able to invite some refugees along, but we'll see. Still haven't decided where to host and what tool to use, though I like the look of pMachine from their web site.
I wrote this as a comment on RWA and then realized it was essentially a post. So here it is:
In retrospect, it should probably have been about number of links by a certain date as measured by the Ecosystem. The rule of getting into large mammal and staying there for 10 days made it basically inevitable that, by that measure, the first one there would win. We didn't know that though; that there'd be inevitability in moving up or staying put, and minimal chance - during the contest - of moving down.
It was an interesting study of how Ecosystem and Technorati both work, and how fellow bloggers respond to this sort of thing.
In the end, RWA is well on the way to primate, and in the course of the race - not a long time - went up by 72. That's darn near a doubling!
In addition to increasing by 69 links (no handicap applied) to 151, my traffic has increased as a result of the competition. Ironically, during the competition I felt like it was all about the race, and I was doing less quality posting than I might. I'm running around 200 site hits per day typically now, routinely enough to make it appear it'll stay that high.
Something I noted in e-mail earlier to Maripat is that the last day of the race, there was at least one known good, registered, permalinked, previously listed link to me that disappeared. Which means the figures for me are one higher than they officially were... but what else is missing? For me or for Right We Are! Very strange.
It was fun! That's the main thing. And for two relatively new blogs, it was an attention-getter.
Now I can move without threatening my standings. I expect I will still be on Blogspot for at least a week, unless I make an interim move using Blogger and FTP. Stay tuned.... Chances are, FWIW, that the domain will be elhide.com because I already own it. I may get more hosting power than I truly need and be able to invite some refugees along, but we'll see. Still haven't decided where to host and what tool to use, though I like the look of pMachine from their web site.
The Great Rat Race
Well, I am all ready to declare Maripat and Lori of Right We Are! the wieners, even if Maripat was ready to call it a draw (which it's close to being). However, Maripat has not been responding to e-mail or AIM to discuss it. I'm not sure if she's too busy porting to pMachine (woohoo!), or if themonsterskids are out of hand, or if I insulted her with one of my entries to this great caption contest. Hey, she did dare me to do it, after all.
So stay tuned for it officially, but it looks like Right We Are! wins by a whisker. Woohoo! Now I can link to them again. They keep posting good stuff and it was a pain not to be able to link over there.
Well, I am all ready to declare Maripat and Lori of Right We Are! the wieners, even if Maripat was ready to call it a draw (which it's close to being). However, Maripat has not been responding to e-mail or AIM to discuss it. I'm not sure if she's too busy porting to pMachine (woohoo!), or if the
So stay tuned for it officially, but it looks like Right We Are! wins by a whisker. Woohoo! Now I can link to them again. They keep posting good stuff and it was a pain not to be able to link over there.
Friday, June 06, 2003
New Blogger Release
This is not your savior folks. In a tiny experiment with the new blogger via FTP, I have found it creates posts that do not reliably display in my browser, and have to be reposted to make them display. Maybe. And editing again might cause the disappearing text problem to come back.
I have found that you can edit and rebublish a post, but the changes don't publish.
Not cool. Not cool at all. Not that I expected to be able to use Blogger, even via FTP, in anything but the most introductory timeframe from what I have in mind. Oh well.
This is not your savior folks. In a tiny experiment with the new blogger via FTP, I have found it creates posts that do not reliably display in my browser, and have to be reposted to make them display. Maybe. And editing again might cause the disappearing text problem to come back.
I have found that you can edit and rebublish a post, but the changes don't publish.
Not cool. Not cool at all. Not that I expected to be able to use Blogger, even via FTP, in anything but the most introductory timeframe from what I have in mind. Oh well.
Finding Nemo
It's excellent! You have to stay through the credits, of course, but everyone knows that by now. It is, after all, Pixar. That's why of a mostly full theater, about eight of us stayed to watch the antics at the end.
Ellen Degeneres makes the character she voices; is the character, and goes a long way toward making to movie as a result.
Definitely well worth seeing. Perhaps a bit scary for the really young, as others have noted. But beautifully done.
It's excellent! You have to stay through the credits, of course, but everyone knows that by now. It is, after all, Pixar. That's why of a mostly full theater, about eight of us stayed to watch the antics at the end.
Ellen Degeneres makes the character she voices; is the character, and goes a long way toward making to movie as a result.
Definitely well worth seeing. Perhaps a bit scary for the really young, as others have noted. But beautifully done.
Lychees?
What the heck are "Tropical Lychees"?!
Never heard of 'em before. Whatever they are, they are on sale at Market Basket from Sunday through Saturday for $1.99 a pound.
At least I know what bananas and stem cluster tomatoes are, and they are 29¢ and $1.49 respectively.
When I was boycotting both Victory and Shaws, I started going to Market Basket in Raynham sometimes, even though it's a little out of the way. A flier appears in the office mail periodically, as happened today.
Lychees? Then again, kiwi fruit started much the same way, introduced when most of us had never heard of it.
What the heck are "Tropical Lychees"?!
Never heard of 'em before. Whatever they are, they are on sale at Market Basket from Sunday through Saturday for $1.99 a pound.
At least I know what bananas and stem cluster tomatoes are, and they are 29¢ and $1.49 respectively.
When I was boycotting both Victory and Shaws, I started going to Market Basket in Raynham sometimes, even though it's a little out of the way. A flier appears in the office mail periodically, as happened today.
Lychees? Then again, kiwi fruit started much the same way, introduced when most of us had never heard of it.
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