Welcome to the big leagues

December 1, 2007 01:07 PM

So in the course of setting up Chainsaw Buffet, Chad and I have gotten pretty much nothing in the way of real hits. We have some random (regular!) reader who found Chad's sig on the AllSpark boards, which amazes me to begin with.

Last night, Chad decided to get some raw material for a series he wants to write called "Will Dylan Eat It?" (Note that I protested this since he first suggested it, but eventually gave in.) Basically, he got the idea from articles like those at DontEatThis.Net (now defunct, I think) where a bunch of guys try something nasty, take pictures, and write up a long description of how bad it was. His first experiment was a fried banana and Nutella sandwich, and his second was Marmite.

It's amazing how much more awesome you feel walking through Walmart when you're picking up supplies to write an article you're going to post on a website.

Also, Chad just posted his collection of 34 Optimus Prime toys article, so I went ahead and submitted it to Digg. It's the kind of stuff you see on there, so... might as well get some traffic.

I've been meaning to do at some point, just to build some traffic, but I've been very nervous about doing it. In fact, having just submitted it, I'm still really nervous. First, Digg allows you to submit your own articles, but I can just imagine someone griping about how this was blogspam.

Plus, Chad has lept into the realm of offensiveness, what with his article on how watching college football makes you gay or something. And worse. I imagine someone's going to see that and post something angry. Or somehow try and shut us down. Or something like that. I mean, you'd have to dig through the site to find offensive articles at this point, but...

The real truth, of course, is it's barely going to be noticed. And the internet's a much more offensive place that what I give it credit for, even the well-respected places like Digg. But try telling that to my paranoia.

And I should point out that the title of this post is sarcasm. Submitting a single article to a site doesn't instantly put you in the big leagues, but I'm part of that 90% of the internet that doesn't actually contribute much to the whole social-networking, user-created Web 2.0 thing.

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