High Score
Predator Press
[LOBO]
"What are you doing?" asks Screechy, my fascinated six year old.
As the pale bule light flickers over my face, I don't even look at him. "I'm clicking on a few Entrecard sites in the faint hope I can score a few million readers tonight."
After a beat, I lean over and whisper "It might mean the difference between Harvard and Brown for you."
He grimaces at the monitor. "You get points by clicking on those little yellow boxes?"
"Yes son. Every one of those little yellow boxes is the blog of an infinitely important and interesting individual human being."
"It looks like a game. Can I play?"
I pause, thinking.
"Only if you play to win."
[LOBO]
"What are you doing?" asks Screechy, my fascinated six year old.
As the pale bule light flickers over my face, I don't even look at him. "I'm clicking on a few Entrecard sites in the faint hope I can score a few million readers tonight."
After a beat, I lean over and whisper "It might mean the difference between Harvard and Brown for you."
He grimaces at the monitor. "You get points by clicking on those little yellow boxes?"
"Yes son. Every one of those little yellow boxes is the blog of an infinitely important and interesting individual human being."
"It looks like a game. Can I play?"
I pause, thinking.
"Only if you play to win."
Comments
...oh, have I told you lately that....
you're a FREAK....? Well, I am now and you ar, but in a good way. :)
Love you, babes. (Would "love" you more on HB.com, but only allowed to click on one post per day...take it up with Diesel ;)
I shall investigate.
In the meantime, I shall cast my squiggly line in with the lot.
Cheers!
UR: Yeah (about the HB thing) ... I'm really having to exercise some restraint here. I've got a few more posts in the chamber but I'm stalling on because of this new rule.
-But then again, why let HB pace me? Maybe I'll just post 'em anyway. The only drawback is that I won't get any super high scoring posts anymore ... and they were kinda rare anyway ...
Anne: On the face it appears to be largely wasting time, but the fact is I've found some cool blogs and picked up a few readers here and there. It is true that the gained reader ratio is pretty low overall: Humor-Blogs and Humor-Bloggers are geared specifically for humorous blogs -I think a better rate of success versus time could be found there.
But, that being said, I'm picking up a lot of links from non-humorous blogs lately.
This is a pretty vast and unexplored market for us ...
Jeff: I can't make a case for it's practicality ... But I'm willing to work pretty hard to get another reader or two.
The Rev: Love your site ... I went there a few days ago.
It you're looking for Entrecard, it's here.
I prefer not to drop and run; if I can find a comment to make, I try to do so. Figure it's only fair.