I couldn’t sleep, so I wrote a fairy tale. I woke up, and apparently I was living one, although I am fortunate it was not one by The Brother’s Grimm. It would absolutely suck to be stuck in the woods for days a la Outward Bound until I found a house made of candy with a cannibalistic witch included in the deal.
The first thing that happened this morning is that I checked my email and read a very nice review of my blog written by Ah Pek, who is a man with the most unique writing style I have ever read in my entire life, which makes for an interesting blog. And yes, that is the very first thing I did when I woke up. Before coffee. Before brushing my teeth. Somehow, I’ll bet I’m not the only one.
The email also held trackbacks and comments from Problogger and John Chow, who both dedicated entire posts to The Three Little Blogs. At this point, I decided that being on the Internet too much must be causing me to completely lose touch with reality, so I went to the pool and forgot to put on sunscreen. (Although I did remember to brush my teeth before leaving.) Three hours later, as pink as my header, I returned and saw 30 comments waiting to be approved along with some linklove from Dosh Dosh and Copyblogger.
Mind you, in my geeky little world, this is the equivalent of my son discovering that Rage Against the Machine and System of a Down decided to give him a shout-out on their latest CDs. Well, if they ever release any other CDs. Anyway, it was fun and exciting. And flattering. And thrilling. And I’ll shut up now because I sound just a little too happy, not unlike when a girl gets a guy’s phone number and then tells all of her friends that this totally hot guy gave her his number, and isn’t he sooo fine and then, not putting a check on herself, calls him up when she is drunk and giggling.
Now, if I take the advice of these guys, which I generally try to do, I need to capitalize on the wildly increased amount of visitors (about 3,000 more than usual at this point if you’re wondering) and write fantastic content so that you will return. Um, talk about pressure. Perhaps I need another sleepless night where I stare at the wall and think those strange hypnagogic thoughts?
At any rate, while we’re waiting for the drunken insomnia fairy to strike again, do enter my Cow Patty Bingo Contest and take a shot at winning $50.
Yes. You certainly are getting popular fairly quickly. Must be the John Chow Effect.
Writing great content to have return visitors???? Now that’s an advice!
How come nobody thought of that before.
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“And yes, that is the very first thing I did when I woke up. Before coffee. Before brushing my teeth. Somehow, I’ll bet I’m not the only one.”
Guilty as charged.
Drunk blogging can be rewarding. Hell, drunk anything can be rewarding. I’m sure John Lennon had a few sangrias inside him when he wrote Imagine.
I have seen your comments on other educational blogs and came across The Three Little Blogs this weekend from Copyblogger. Looks like you must be doing something right. Congratulations.
Hey! looks like our blogs are relative have the same number of posts.. but, you are lucky to get the extra exposure from top bogs.. happy for you.. at least it is proven that you can get popular in relative short time of period by consistently post good quality content. That’s what I’m doing on my blog now.. will definite visit you again.. see you around..
“calls him up when she is drunk and giggling”
It is when she is drunk and not giggling that you have to worry.
Hum… Keep on doing what you do because you like doing it and you will get the rewards for it and be happy doing it. Don’t do it because you think it will sell or you will lose yourself!!!!! Men and their advices sometimes!!!!
I think they’re called Audioslave now ;-). Love your blog!