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• Metaphors ! = good writing.
• There’s nothing more extraordinary than the ordinary.
• Ceiling cat is watching you masturbate

Did anyone else get asked ‘as a member of the blogging community’ to write about a certain social aggregator (and post their demo) by some PR company. All in return for ‘a link to your site’?

I guess today it’s my time to say I’m not yer hoor.

I’m in no way influential here - and I’m never quite as ticked off as Tom can get - but our Whedonesque.com gets quite a bit of traffic and press. That’s why and where I received the e-mail. I guess our address got on to some kind of list.

So not only do they ask people to shill for them, they ask the wrong people. Fabulous.

Feedreaders have killed blogrolls, haven’t they? Well, I’ve brought them back to this site. There’s a small, sort of old school blogroll in the right hand column now which contains some fixed staples in my blog diet, some going back to cabal pre-blog days. And I’ve revived my blo.gs and blogrolling lists. They have become a bit long over the years and haven’t been updated in a long time, so I’ve put them on separate pages, using MT4’s new ‘page’ feature. I’m not sure that’s the best way to deal with them, but it will have to do for now.

• Blo.gs
• Blogrolling

Andre Torrez writes:

“I remember when blogs had to be described to people and they would laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and now they have their own blogs.”

Heh. Actually, a lot of them do, but they don’t stick to it. Very few last longer than a couple of months, tops. I reckon I’ll be doing this till it’s desperately old fashioned. For some, it already is.

We (I’m talking we as in work, not we as in ‘the u2log team’ or, ‘the whedonesque.com team’, or ‘me, myself and my royal I’) launched a new version of one of our most succesful sites yesterday and held a press conference for (mostly) technology magazines and sites.

Much of this morning was spent passing on URLs, reading the articles and in some cases sending in corrections to the journalist in question.

The one article that stuck out for me, because it captured our product, did not need corrections, contained all the relevant information, written clearly and unambiguously, was the one written by the guy who - back in the day - made his name as (one of) the country’s first / best weblogger(s).

How’s this for a bold statement: ‘webloggers make good journalists’.

 
My blog is worth $16,371.66.
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The tool uses the Technorati’s API using the same link to dollar ratio as the AOL-Weblogs Inc deal. Just to compare, whedonesque.com, is worth $311,626.08. Engadget.com is worth $7,708,229.16.



Would I sell whedonesque.com for $311,626.08? Hell yes.