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The year is over, and I’m ready for a NEW SENSATION!

Lincoln Adams | December 31, 2008 @ 9:00 am

I love blogging, especially when it gives me the opportunity to read some of my old posts and have a good laugh at what a stupid moron I am. Case in point: check out my new year’s eve post from a year ago:

Still, there’s something about the coming year that makes me think I may be in for something different this time. The number 8 is said to symbolize new beginnings, and man, after this awful stretch I’ve been in since the turn of the millennium, a new beginning sounds just like what the doctor ordered.

Here’s what I hope I’ll be able to accomplish in 2008:

Clear up my health problems and get strong again (vith ripplin’ mosscles to impress de vooomen.)

Generate a stable income of at least $1250 a month via my blog.

Get out of my dead end job and find a new career, whether it’s with another agency or by becoming self employed.

Move somewhere else, either out of state, or to nowhere in particular, depending on how successful I am in earning a living off the Internet.

Meet the girl of my dreams.

:blink:

What in crap’s name was I smoking that day.

Yeah, I think it’s pretty much safe to say now that I have accomplished absolutely none of these things. In fact a month later my health got even worse, starting with my hands suddenly going numb, then my right foot, then my tongue. It was like somebody had poured Novocaine on parts of my body or something. Weirdest, most unsettling feeling ever too. Then flecks of blood would come out every time I blew my nose, and I started having weird breathing problems as well. Then I had a neck cramp, where if I turned my head slightly to the left, I would shriek like a 6 year old girl in pain, and man, that cramp stuck around for several months before it finally went away. Through it all I was always fatigued and completely without energy. It really killed whatever aspirations I had for the year, and yet for whatever reason I refused to see a doctor. I guess going through all that made me kind of give up on life in general, not to mention all the goals I had.

And then of course, the economy blew up in our faces and the Antichrist’s little mini-me won the election. Great year, huh? :hang:

So yeah, I’m very much glad that this sucky-mcducky suck-a-butt crapfest of a year is finally over. But in spite of all the major setbacks I experienced, I have the oddest feeling that 2009 is going to be the year that 2008 wasn’t. I’m finally planning to see a doctor in January to get myself tested every which way so I can find out what’s wrong with me, and force myself to get back on the path to being strong and healthy again. I also have something in the works to bring myself the traffic I need so I can finally earn money through this blog, and I’m also on an accelerated repayment plan to pay off my car loan and college loan, making me completely debt free by July. Once that happens I’ll be making plans to move as well. Maybe it won’t be out of state, but at least it will be far, far away from the awful memories of this evil town.

And then of course, there’s the event that made me truly believe that the girl of my dreams was real, and that she will be there waiting for me once I decide to stop being such a weenie.

So… 2009 will have to be the year that I man up for real. The world is after all in grave danger, and desperately needs a hero now more than ever. I for one am just studly enough for the job, ready to ride on my Black Stallion to save the day and get the girl, all to the tune of INXS, but of course. :ggrin:

:guitarna: Happy New Year!

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Can I get back to blogging now??

Lincoln Adams | May 1, 2007 @ 3:27 pm

Honestly, I don’t know how some people do it. It took me literally all day just to check out places like Digg, Reddit, MyBlogLog, and so on. Just to read the latest feeds from my newsreader sucked up so much time that before I knew it, it was 3AM and my brain was fried from fatigue and an overload of information. How do people find time not only to sift through the all the crap out there, but also blog 20 posts a day AND work a full time job on top of that? My goodness.

I mean really, go here and tell me if you don’t just feel a little overwhelmed. Not that I wasn’t finding anything worthy of interest, it was just that I was finding too MUCH. Just last night I found an article pointing me to Orb, which might be the perfect solution for streaming my music, videos and photos from my home PC.. If they ever block Launchcast at my job, I have an alternative source for streaming music to keep me from going bat crazy with boredom (unless the schmucks block Orb too). But that little detour alone kept me busy for over an hour, and there were still dozens of other noteworthy items and links that were coming in a mile a minute.

Man, I’m gonna have to find some way to streamline all this content if I want to avoid getting brain tumors from processing too much info. In the meantime, I concluded my little blogging experiment to see what submittals I made to the social networking sites out there drew the most traffic. The undisputed champion was StumbleUpon, which easily brought in over 1000 visitors to my blog in just one day. In my blogging prime, the most traffic I had ever seen on a given day was 500 visits, so you can imagine my reaction to this shocking revelation. :egads: I also noticed StumbleUpon visitors logged much higher page views than any other referring source as well (an average of two page views per visitor). Reddit was a distant second, bringing in about half the traffic StumbleUpon did with a 1:1 pageview ratio. So while people using StumbleUpon stuck around for a while, the Reddit crowd were mostly hit and run. Snobs.

Digg on the other hand brought in a whopping 15 visits. It was kinda funny to digg one of my posts here and then watch as it literally showed up on page 16 of Digg’s Upcoming/Newest Stories a mere 10 seconds later. Apparently there seems to be some competition here. It seems promotion through Digg is more rewarding for people who already have high traffic volumes (and therefore a lot of potential Digg voters) than those who don’t. But for those occasions when I experience a random moment of clarity and piece together a brilliant, stunning work of literary art such that the world has never seen before, I might try having it stumbled first and then putting up a Digg button, so StumbleUpon visitors who sat gaping in breathtaking awe of my brilliance can Digg it as well. It might be enough to create a second wind effect that could bring in even more traffic. But that’s a job and an an idea for another day.

Submitting my posts to Del.icio.us, NewsVine and a smattering of other sites resulted in zippo hits. I’ll probably still use Del.icio.us (or Ma.gnolia) for its bookmarking services, but networks like NewsVine looks waaaay too convoluted and news-oriented for my tastes. Blinklist, Meshly and maybe one or two other places actually brought in some modest traffic counts, so I may continue to use these services and see how it goes.

Perusing all these sites by the way may have been a real time sucker, but it was also a great learning experience for me. It’s given me a much better handle on how I can properly promote my blog and some of my writings, especially to a targeted audience. And now that that’s over, maybe I can finally get back to doing some actual blogging.

So… uh…. how YOU doin’?

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