We all know I am a pretty big fan of Mr. Mann. This is a very good reason why.
Most Days (2009-01-22) from Merlin Mann on Vimeo.
Click thru for the links (one of the songs is really, REALLY good) and follow along, if you dare, at Mostdays.org
If you are one that either has a blog or is thinking about starting one, might I highly recommend you take an hour of your time to watch this.
It’s stuff that I’ve been doing (or trying to do) for a while now, but Merlin has a way of boiling things down to the simplest parts so that it makes sense.
The short version is right there and it all makes sense if you think about it. If you want more details however, you will need to follow the link.
I would be interested in reading in comments you might have about this. You know what to do.
No, not the archives here at w(t)f, but from the archives de Josh.
Specifically this post made back when the good lad actually spent a few months here with me.
Enjoy!
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Gatorade Girl is the cute girl working at the Vaquero Mini-Mart (â€Home to the same Mexican old cowboy every day since 1984″) that sells me Gatorade when I bike down the mountain. I oughtta learn her name or something…
Josh: Hmm… Instead of doing walk-ins, i might pick up both Riverside county newspapers from the Circle K and do some callin’ today.
Josh: Or maybe i’ll go to the Vaquero Mini-Mart, and buy newspapers from Gatorade Girl
DB: LOL
DB: Yo, that might work better.
Josh: Hehe… How else am I going to establish reparte with her?
DB: “Oh, hey? Tthis is the local paper, right? What do you think about it?â€
Josh: Hehe
Josh: “So, do you like farm boys? ‘Cuz i’m a farm boy, and, umm… Wanna go out?â€
DB: LOL
DB: You can take her for a ride on your bike…
DB: How romantic.
Josh: LOL
Josh: Shuttup.
DB: Have her ridin’ up on the bars or sumptin’.
DB: LOL
Josh: She’ll ride the bars and I’ll sing her some Gregory Isaacs and we’ll ride off into the sunset…
Josh: And it’ll be all like awww yeeeah…
Josh: Hibbity dibbity and such.
Good times, good times. Josh even worked at the local DQ for a spell.
Oh, and the number in parens above? We will call that a count down to post number 1K here at w(t)f. Maybe happen before I pack up for MTTS. We’ll see.
I’ve been posting over here for a few years now. Not promoting it so much, or linking a whole lot across the ‘net. My thoughts have always been “if they find it, great. If not, that’s ok too” when it comes to traffic here at w(t)f.
It started off with a bunch of spammers and this guy. Then a few more readers came along. The long way too, usually following the link to donburnside.com that adorns the bottom of many pages I create. This brought the readership total up to about 7.
Then I started the show. about another 10 of you took the trouble to find this. Thanks!
Then I did the theme change. Including links to all of my sites on all of my sites. Recipe posts at flickr brought in some n00bs too. And the videos at Viddler.
After all of this, you, the wtf reader, are now about 1200 strong! Yes, holy crap indeed.
Now, in comparison, you are only about 1/2 as many as the MINI site. But that site cheats. It gets mentioned in the show. It’s linked up at MF among other places. It gets better search refs too, and has a higher google ranking. For the most part, it’s been fairly organic.
Now, to do the same with w(t)f.
You might see a few minor changes around the site. I’ve added tags (since all the kids are doing it). And, I’m going to be a keyword whore. But only for the next month. But I’m not going to do any overt promotion short of the occassional link on twitter. But only if I think it’s an awesome post. Remember, I hate spam worse than you do.
Right now you are on track to be 1500 strong this month. I want to see if my tweaks and whatnot can increase that by at least 500 for the month of June. While I’m not going to ask for your help, if you do come across a post that you think is worthy of sharing, please feel free to do so. Time to bring w(t)f out of the closet and into prime time.
Here we go!
From Arstecnica:
Today, HD DVD was dealt a couple of big body blows: Netflix announced that it would stop renting movies in the HD DVD format and Best Buy has decided to exclusively recommend Blu-ray players to consumers.
NetFlix and BestBuy?
As much as I still wish HD will dig out of what it’s in, I’m afraid that, at least for entertainment purposes, this battle is just about over. Not much left except the sad singin’ and deep diggin’ for HD-DVD I’m a afraid.
Could thing I skipped this bandwagon. Would have hated to get stuck with the 21st century version of a BetaMax or VideoDisc player.
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