When making a list post for your website, blog or newsletter, please try to remember some of the following.
Make sure websites you reference are actually there. I don’t care if it’s a virus honey pot, since that’s almost always a better read than a GoDaddy domain parking page.
Don’t end the list telling me how much experience you have. It’s obvious you know how to make a list. Nice work.
If you are some kind of PR Wizard, create TW- words or -ista words, please refrain from making lists.
Make sure that your list post is completely covered in ads and as many social media buttons you can find. Social Media buttons are the Web 2.0 version of animated .gifs and when you have more than 50 of them on your site, your Google Page Rank increases by a factor of 10E8*34.
Make sure to post a link to your freshly minted list to Twitter every 15 minutes for 2 hours. Then, with your other 15 Twitter accounts, retweet the list at least 10 times per account.
If you could follow all of the rules I would love you forever. Thank you.
First, the MINI. Then the MINI again. Then Dad’s Jeep. And, finally, Dad’s Jeep again.
At least when I fix computers, it goes something like this.
Thanks ukpaul for the find.
And, yes, I do have sexy powers. Just ask, I will tell you.
2 posts in the queue right now that I typed up today. About email of all things. About 1/2 way into them, they start to suck outloud, so there in the queue they shall remain with about a dozen other suckalicious pieces that will, hopefully, never see the light of day.
Instead, I want to take this minute to let everyone reading know.
That’s all I got gang. 4 words, one of them naughty.
You can go back to what you were doing now.
Quite a few years ago I started this little blog. One blog, one blog only please. Ran it over at Blogger. It was a mix of silly things I found, MINI Stuff and the odd, or not so odd, rant. And, if I’m honest, it wasn’t that great.
I decided to split my words up. bought some domain names. Started playing with different blogging platforms. One of those domains was windthefrog.net. It was fun, quirky, and inspired to me to write more, and not just the odd, or not so odd, rant. And, if I can be so bold, it was good.
Fast forward 6 years.
I no longer use windthefrog.net for daily blogging chores, instead keeping it over at Tumblr, performing the work of a link blog plus a few other things. I was ready to let it go.
In comes GoDaddy. There were reminders. And more reminders. But, alas, I forgot to uncheck the ‘auto-renew’ box there.
And so, at least for the next 2 years, w(t)f lives! And, for now, as nothing more than a lowly link blog. If you want to see what I’m diggin’ on the intertubes, that’s the place to check.
I spend a fair amount of time, much like many of you, pretty close to the center of the technology bubble. I am, much like many of you, what is considered to be an early adopter. Not always running the latest and/or greatest gear, but I know it’s out there, know it’s specifications and know when you will be able to obtain it at BestBuy.
Much like many of you.
But friends, I am here to tell you today that we are living a lie! A lie I tell you!
You see friends, we are but a very small minority on this big blue ball. We care about technology. We celebrate it. We embrace it! But we are alone friends. Very. Very alone.
As knowledge workers, we are aware of this to an extent. But, it is not until one ventures out into the real world that one discovers just how truly alone one is.
For example.
G5 iMac. No iSight camera. Won’t run Leopard (and many apps). Still with iPhoto v4. Awful I know. Numerous Dell Dimensions circa ’99 – ’02. And, sadly, a Compaq (!) that was “Built for Windows ME”.
Cellphones too. The battered Palm Treos. The Motorola phones that won’t synch to a computer. And, horribly, the new iPhone owners that aren’t running Vista or Leopard.
Tragic, I know.
They are out there friends. In numbers greater than any of us could possibly imagine.
Just do us all a favor, please. Upgrade Internet Explorer already!
As always, thank you for your time.
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