$AVE THE BLOGO$PHERE
Like many of you I've been really trying to ignore the slick production and zillions of comments on the WORLD'S 50 MOST POWERFUL BLOGS !
Let's face it, those are not really Blogs anymore, they are Businesses.
The Corporations are trying to ruin Blogging by discouraging people who don't get a couple thousand hits an hour or carry their ADs.
If I wanted to read a magazine I would.
This reminds me of WATCH THIS Johnny Quest selling out and hawking Runners back in the 60s.
There I hope that you appreciate the fact that I eschewed the opportunity to pull a little RICKROLLING on you. RickRolling is the hilarious 'Internet phenomenon' sweeping the globe, in which some twat will post a blind link to a page allegedly relevant to the post's topic, but it will prove to be a prank and link you to Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" on YouTube. HA-HA-HA What Fun!
My blog is a commodity. I am poised to make over $400 this year through online ads on my blog and videoblogs. It has changed how I write, I'll admit: I write and produce better posts and videos, and I take more time to edit for clarity and grammar. Advertisements have made my videoblog better.
ReplyDeleteThat sounded like an ad, Michael.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the Rick Astley image -- haven't had that image in my mind for, well, decades. The most badly-matched voice/body ever. So much so that it's impossible to look away.
I'm selling my used panties on my blog.
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Buy now!!!
Hahaha!
ReplyDeleteI can't tell you how many millions of UK Pounds I have been offered. From...
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Bexleyheath Tourist Board.
The Victorian Restaurant, Bexleyheath.
The Friends Of William Morris Fountain, Bexleyheath.
I'm literally inundated with offers day after day. My email inbox is overflowing, but do I capitulate?
NO!
Geoff, you make it sound like you've got a gun to your head. I hardly think drowning in your inbox is life threatening, nor that your plight is difficult.
ReplyDeleteHey, why are you ragging on Rick Astley? He was a musical genius who brought British super-group rock to the forefront of the 1970's music scene . . . oh, that was Rick Wakeman.
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oookay! thats not a monkey! thats a chimpanzoo...or a bonobo!
ReplyDeleteamerican advertisers suck!
MJ,
ReplyDeleteWas that used panties or currently in-use panties?
Sincerely,
Eliot Spitzer
you know, ill put you number 1 in the most influential blogger if they let me to. u r d best.
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ReplyDeleteDo you really think it was in good taste to have Jonny flash 'COMING!' to Race?
I stand to make NO money on my blog this year, or next year, or whatever years that follow. But that is fine. Did anyone really start blogging for money? I did it for fun and for myself and that is all that makes a difference to me.
ReplyDeleteIf someone offers money to me for blogging professional then why would I turn that down? But if someone does this to to try and make a living then stand in line with the other wannabe writers that grace the world wide web for your page may never be seen.
Go ahead!! Don't read my blog. I dare ya'.
The hwole blogging for money thing makes me uncomfortable. When I read a post and realize part way thorugh it''s actually an ad, I feel rooked. I typically don't visit blogs (more than once) that do pay-per-post type things.
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never sell out!
However........ $ a million may raise my eyebrows some!
Is this a sly promo for your forthcoming book "Homo Escutcheons and the Great Escape"?
ReplyDeleterickrolling --- who comes up with these things and better yet, names them?
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