Liam's Summer Blog Challenge ended without much hullaballo back on September 7th - or was it the 9th? This comes a few days late, but I'm grateful to Liam for presenting the challenge and to the fine folks who participated. I tried to comment at least once on each blog, though I know I missed a couple simply because the subject matter was so alien to me I didn't think I could write anything relevant or insightful. Still, I appreciated the different styles and viewpoints, as well as the increased traffic; I broke 3,000 pageviews in August (topped 3,300, actually).
At its best, the Internet gives millions and milliions of people a chance to express themselves freely, with a potential audience of everyone with an Internet connection. Even over a decade after the World Wide Web really started to bloom, that fact still astounds me. We've come a long way since the old Bulletin Board Systems that only allowed one connection at a time at 300 baud...
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Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Tuesday, August 09, 2011
In the Now's Summer Blog Challenge
Over at In the Now, Liam Johnstone has revived his annual Summer Blog Challenge, encouraging bloggers to post something meaningful on their blogs at least once a day for a month. Fortunately we, the bloggers, get to decide what "something meaningful" means to us, otherwise I'm sure I'd be disqualified pretty quickly. I'm not sure how much meaning is contained in my comic-strip mashups or random memories!
I've posted links to this year's participants over on the sidebar to the right. I encourage my readers (all two dozen of them) to follow along with me as my fellow bloggers rise to meet Liam's challenge. I'm already in love with some of the titles alone: Analog Coast, Crazy Wookie Cookies, Kick Me Out Soon and Natural Urban Mamas in particular. It makes me wonder if The Bleak House of Blahgs/My Name is Earl (J. Woods) is due for another name change. Coming up with a fitting title for a work or body of work is a challenge in itself, one that can vastly enhance or virtually destroy the chances of your story finding an audience. Something to consider once the challenge is over, perhaps.
I've posted links to this year's participants over on the sidebar to the right. I encourage my readers (all two dozen of them) to follow along with me as my fellow bloggers rise to meet Liam's challenge. I'm already in love with some of the titles alone: Analog Coast, Crazy Wookie Cookies, Kick Me Out Soon and Natural Urban Mamas in particular. It makes me wonder if The Bleak House of Blahgs/My Name is Earl (J. Woods) is due for another name change. Coming up with a fitting title for a work or body of work is a challenge in itself, one that can vastly enhance or virtually destroy the chances of your story finding an audience. Something to consider once the challenge is over, perhaps.
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