What Does a Pink Limousine Have to do With Blogging? (It’s the Week in Review!)

December 18, 2009 By 15 Comments

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It’s time for another one of those darned Week in Review blog posts. Sure, the bottom half is all boiler plate links from the previous week. But this top half is free form, I write about anything. Which is what makes it hard. Which is what makes it fun!

By the way, Website In A Weekend is really, really close to having its first 1000 comments. Be comment #1000, win a $15 gift certificate from Amazon.com.

I’m sure you can find something to say. How would you spend an evening in a pink limo? What’s your blogging equation? Are you on Foursquare already? Why or why not?

Be commenter #1000, I’ll add your name and a link to your site right here as well as sending you an Amazon gift certificate.

Lisis from Quest for Balance has comment #1000.

Odds

I don’t do so well collecting up odds and ends. Extreme John does though. Check out 13 of the Best WordPress Blogging Tips of the Week. Extreme John finds Website In A Weekend among the best he can find, and he finds a lot. Thanks, John!

pink_h2By the way, if you’re in the Tampa Bay area, be sure to check out John’s fleet of exotic limos. Now, I’ll be at Sea of Dreams this New Years Eve (Bassnectar is spinning), but if I were in Tampa Bay, I can’t think of anything more fun than cruising around in a pink Hummer H2 limo. Call me remarkably… superficial… but I know fun when I see it!

Foursquare

foursquareRemember that snarky footnote I left a few weeks ago about the cool new social media application as yet unspoiled by the likes of internet marketers? No? No big deal. I was reading along at In Over Your Head and it turns out Julien Smith is a fan of Four Square for the same reason I am: simple game mechanics get me out of the house trying new stuff.

Now here’s the interesting thing: more men seem to be using Four Square than women. Now I may be totally biased, but I have as many women friends on Four Square as men friends. It could be that they set their checkins as private, totally understandable.

(iTunes Buzzoutroom channel just kicked in with Pitch Black “Ape to Angel.” Sweet! We live amazing lives.)

Here’s something else really cool: Most of the men tend to orbit pretty tightly around the same spots, day in and day out. But the ladies are all over the map. I mean this literally, Four Square is location-based so when I say “all over the map” that’s exactly what I mean.

Sods

Picking up the thread from last week on quid pro quo, let’s take a look at a Confident Writing’s Blogging Equation:

Quality content + regular posting + engaging style + social media engagement = increase in readers

This is all well and good… but it doesn’t scale!

Once your blog finds real success, your time becomes too limited to continue doing those things that garnered the success. A conundrum to be sure.

The author, Joanna Young, takes another crack at the problem with Solving Tricky Blog Equations. She proposes a range of solutions from reducing posting frequency to shortening responses to simply eliminating comments.

These two articles are really good, and the community at Confident Writing is different than my community of regular readers (you know who you are). I left a couple of comments over there myself, and will be following along in my RSS feed. Check it out and let me know what you think.

New articles

Here’s what went down this week:

The Week In Review Series

Last WIAW Week in Review
Watering Holes and Quid Pro Quo – WIAW Week in Review. Great breakdown on writing a killer weekly review post, and some notes on how to deal with implicit quid pro quo (how many comments do you owe?).

Next WIAW Week in Review

Stay tuned…

Near as I can figure, pink limos don’t have squat to do with blogging. But if you read this far, you gotta admit, it was killer headline. And every blog post deserves a killer headline!

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Comments

  1. Gabe | freebloghelp.com says:
    December 18, 2009 at 5:57 am

    I guess for a ‘girls night out’ the pink Hummer might be OK but I can’t imagine ever going in one myself. Hummers are over-the-top to begin with. Hummer limos go a little more overboard so by the time you add the pink… wow, it’s so Paris Hilton.
    .-= Gabe | freebloghelp.com´s last blog ..3 darn good reasons to buy a domain today =-.

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  2. Joanna Young says:
    December 18, 2009 at 9:30 am

    Thanks for mentioning those two posts, and – more significantly – the CW community. They are quite something, and I’m glad you found it easy enough to jump in – without the remotest hint of an Amazon voucher in sight! (Here’s hoping I’m #1000)

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  3. Deacon says:
    December 18, 2009 at 11:43 am

    I totally use Foursquare like a man. I check in to the same 5 places over and over. It is nice to be the mayor of Chinatown gate though, and I’m working on kicking out the mayor of the Bow and Arrow sculpture on the Embarcadero.
    .-= Deacon´s last blog ..Christmas Comes Early =-.

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    • Dr Wordpress! says:
      December 18, 2009 at 11:49 am

      I get the feeling that men respond really well to this “Mayor” notion. And that women don’t care as much.

      So far, the females don’t tend to check in multiple times at the same place.

      This is going to be so cool when they release the data. There’s going to be multiple PhD dissertations written… which conclude that – left to their own devices – men and women behave stereotypically as, well, men and women.
      .-= Dr WordPress!´s last blog ..Watering Holes and Quid Pro Quo – WIAW Week in Review =-.

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  4. Extreme John says:
    December 19, 2009 at 9:34 am

    Wow Dave this was a nice surprise, THANK YOU!!

    I always knew that you had your head on straight, very few men see the true benefits of a pink limo. Yet it seems so basic. haha.
    .-= Extreme John´s last blog ..Do Follow Google PR 4 Accepting Guest Posts =-.

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    • Dr Wordpress! says:
      December 19, 2009 at 9:56 am

      John – I *totally* get it… In fact, I’m just _green_ with envy.

      If you ever get that beast out here to San Fran, my buddies Deacon, “5am” and I will pack that thing full of hotties faster than sh*t through a goose. Like shooting fish in a barrel. No chodes allowed.

      Everyone else: I’m not just sucking up to Extreme John here to get that pink H2 out here to The Citay By The Bay. There’s so little truly unique content on the web, this was a no-brainer.

      Here’s the deal: if *you* have unique, unusual content which tells a compelling story, I’ll write it up. Finding good stories is hard. John has several more stories begging for the telling. Do you?

      .-= Dr WordPress!´s last blog ..DIY WordPress: your “gateway” drug into programming =-.

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  5. Aniruddh|Orlando Limo says:
    January 6, 2010 at 9:55 pm

    Giving your girlfriend a ride in a pink limo would definitely make your life simpler. She would think you to be considerate enough for taking care of her preferences;-)

    regards
    Limo

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  6. limos for sale says:
    October 14, 2010 at 4:14 am

    A pink limo is just the height of decadence! What a fabulously over-the-top treat that would be.

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