Once a Month?

Hell, I would be too embarrassed to even attempt to drive traffic to this site. If I can't post one to three times a day, I can't grow or sustain a web site like this. More thought is required.

Based on previous action, I guess I'll be back to chat about this again some time in April.

We'll see.

I Think I May Move This Blog...

I've been told by people far hipper than myself that Tumblr is the blog site I should be on. How could they be wrong? After all there is no letter E between the L and the R. It MUST be cool.

And I've continued to plumb the depths of this social networking thing as best I can. It's a little difficult for me to do. I don't have much to say these days and, historically speaking, what I've said over the years on the subject has been, well, wrong. (I wrote a delightful piece about 12 years ago, for instance, that hailed email as a software miracle leading us toward a new literate society. You can see how that turned out!)

Still, I'm playing songs on blip.fm and a few people listen and seem to like it. I now have well over 10 friends on FaceBook. I know that wouldn't be a lot for most people, but for me? I would have bet the under on 5. I tweet on Twitter and I've just started a particularly goofy one called Plinky that asks you dumb questions.

It's fun.

I'm going to be looking at tumblr this weekend I guess... after I paint the bathroom. Unless I get 20 or 30 posts demanding I stay here on Blogger, I may just pick up stakes and go.

FriendFeed, Twitter, Facebook, et al

I'm sitting staring blankly at the FriendFeed "badge" here on my blog. It cheerily invites all who see it to sign up to a feed from my Facebook page and Twitter and my Picasa page. Stranger, it also offers people a glimpse at my Netflix queue, my Amazon wishlist, and what I'm guessing is an RSS feed of this blog. Don't get me wrong. It's not that I mind. I'm not overly worried about my privacy (if I was, this wouldn't be the sort of stuff that would concern me). Besides, nobody reads this blog anyway. The fact is, I'm the one who put the badge on here in the first place. I just don't see why anyone, other than a lover or a stalker, would want to know that much trivial stuff about somebody else.

I'm supposed to be working right now but there's something weirdly fascinating to me about a blog that sits unread. So I look at it a couple times a day, checking for responses and then trying to figure out what the lack of comments say about me. (I actually did get a comment once. It was quite a good one but I didn't read it until weeks after it was left so that was the end of that.)

Ah well, back to the job. Follow me on Twitter! Or become my blip.fm listener!

Hello, Loyal Fans!

Yes, I'm aware that nobody looks at this blog. And not just because I haven't posted anything here in well over a year. Even when I was posting stuff, nobody came. How could they? Nobody knew it was here and I had no idea how to draw them here.

Still, I will try again. This time I will look into what is necessary to get viewers. Advertising, I guess. Constantly beat my own drum and blow my own horn on Twitter? I really don't know.

So this is going to be a relaunch. Not today, but soon. Let's see how it goes!

You're pla,
Charlie