Tim Worstall [thank you, Tim!] recommended PooterGeek in his article about ‘Blogging today in the Times. This would be wonderful news except for my continuing lack of Internet access at home, the absence of any kind of post on PooterGeek today, and my having allowed my “Best Of” section to become months out of date. I didn’t even know about my new-found fame until a couple of hours ago [thank you, Eric!], because my email account has been playing up today. Gah!
Welcome to any late-coming newcomers brought here by the MSM. Excuse the recent profusion of in-jokes and absence of topical Web-references on PooterGeek, but, as I explained above, I’m a bit out-of-it at the moment, having just moved from Cambridge to Brighton and not yet re-acquired broadband access—or even a telephone. Even as you read this I am updating the PooterGeek compilation album in a dingy Internet caff. Make yourselves at home.
Second link down is broken, Damian…
In short:
“Dammit I’ve been spotted! Better do some work.”
I wouldn’t worry Pooter – over time I’ve noticed that a link on the webpage of the Guardian or The Times hardly brings in any traffic compared with a link on a popular blog.
I’m sure lots of people read the articles online but for some reason they don’t click on links in the same way they do when reading blogs.
Of course it does all add to your increasing fame – I give it six months before you are invited onto a reality tv show or at least some ‘home makeover’ programme.
What do you mean by dingy IC? 😉
He has the right trousers for this if the call comes.
Mr Worstall’s piece has got me here (and I am, by accident of birthplace, a Crystal Palace fan). But what’s this blogging malarkey about?
Commiserations on your continuing Internet woes. I’m amazed to find that BT is worse than South Africa’s Telkom. It’s going to take just three weeks to get my broadband signed, sealed and delivered. They charge a hefty renta; for the DSL line though — and continue to milk you for phone line rental.
Bloggers4Labour typed:
Thank you (for the excruciating experience of having to fix that via my Palm Pilot’s unbelievably crap Web browser).
Harry typed:
That’s easy for you to say, Mr Ten-Thousand-Hits-A-Day.
Six months ago that actually happened. I didn’t ‘Blog it, but a TV producer who had been reading mine and my father’s exchanges on PooterGeek asked me if I would be interested in participating in a reality TV programme about my relationship with my parents. I think you can guess how we reacted.
Tomas typed:
Er, I am an Internet auteur, painting richly-coloured pictures with only the power of my words. You must make allowance for my poetic choice of vocabulary. Or something like that.
Brian Hughes typed:
Watch this space!
Dave F typed:
Thank you.
It’s worse than that: it’s NT-bloody-L.
“I wouldn’t worry Pooter – over time I’ve noticed that a link on the webpage of the Guardian or The Times hardly brings in any traffic compared with a link on a popular blog.”
I agree – the other thing is, if you post up inane and completely irreverent drivel on the Guardian site they kick you off for being an Islamophobe, whereas here you can say what you like, get loads of hits and all from basking in Damien’s reflected glory.
But you see, that’s the mark of the man – he’s just A R-E-A-L-L-Y N-I-C-E G-U-Y. Not like those tossers at the Grauniad!
Love on ya
Roberta
oh, vote for my ankles here BTW:
http://rswipe.blogspot.com/2005/11/vote-vote-vote-for-bobby-swipe.html
TA