Fark'd up
It turns out that the internet loves my stuff. And who can blame it?
My first article got Digg'd pretty hard. For those not in the internet-know, Digg is a site where people say whether they like something or not. The more people like it the higher it rises in the list, and more people can decide if they like it and so on. It's a nice demonstration that even average internet users can act like they have taste and intelligence if you hook enough of them up in parallel. It's also a well-known barometer of popularity and upgraded me from "some guy who did a thing" to "Hey, when can we have your next hilarious article, mate?" in the eyes of the editors of Cracked. Which is nice.
That next hilarious article just got linked on Fark (a popular site for people who want to waste time online without the tedious effort of having to choose what to look at themselves):
Actually they linked a midget-sized hacked into incomprehensibility version produced by Jointblog.com. Writing for a blog is pretty easy, it seems - you slash someone else's stuff into tiny pieces, jam some wikipedia'd facts onto the front and call it your own work! Hurrah! Fark highlighting this page instead of the original Cracked.com piece is like Roger Ebert writing reviews of people he overheard talking about movies, but when even obliterated fragments of my work get mainlisted on headline hubs like this it's a damn good sign. A sign that I rock.
Being popular online isn't hard; even the worst writer in the entire universe has a forum full of fans, so another factor is needed to decide what is truly good. I have decided that this extra factor is being popular online for something I'm getting paid for, pay which I shall convert entirely into cocktails and shiny objects.
My first article got Digg'd pretty hard. For those not in the internet-know, Digg is a site where people say whether they like something or not. The more people like it the higher it rises in the list, and more people can decide if they like it and so on. It's a nice demonstration that even average internet users can act like they have taste and intelligence if you hook enough of them up in parallel. It's also a well-known barometer of popularity and upgraded me from "some guy who did a thing" to "Hey, when can we have your next hilarious article, mate?" in the eyes of the editors of Cracked. Which is nice.
That next hilarious article just got linked on Fark (a popular site for people who want to waste time online without the tedious effort of having to choose what to look at themselves):
Actually they linked a midget-sized hacked into incomprehensibility version produced by Jointblog.com. Writing for a blog is pretty easy, it seems - you slash someone else's stuff into tiny pieces, jam some wikipedia'd facts onto the front and call it your own work! Hurrah! Fark highlighting this page instead of the original Cracked.com piece is like Roger Ebert writing reviews of people he overheard talking about movies, but when even obliterated fragments of my work get mainlisted on headline hubs like this it's a damn good sign. A sign that I rock.
Being popular online isn't hard; even the worst writer in the entire universe has a forum full of fans, so another factor is needed to decide what is truly good. I have decided that this extra factor is being popular online for something I'm getting paid for, pay which I shall convert entirely into cocktails and shiny objects.