Erik’s Blog: Board Shorts and Business Suits

Here are some links to keep you busy this weekend and a sweet video of someone who is a little crazy.

For those of you who are bar goers this link will hit home and amuse the crap out of you. It’s from a site called Modern Drunkard Magazine and list 86 Rules of Boozing. My favorite on the list is number 30 Never complain about the quality or brand of a free drink.

For those of you getting into the wide world of ajax you should really check out this site, Miniajax.com. It has tons of great little gadgets to make your site wonderfully interactive.

Probably the best color scheme generator on the web, better than colorschemer online due to it’s layout. Check it out over at the well-styled color scheme generator. You can drag your mouse over the color wheel and see the outcome in the mock website setup.

And now on to the flying squirrel!

I’ve been told personally by several prominent bloggers, as well as read countless times that the easiest way to launch another blog or website is to have an audience. Of course this is quite obvious, and of course I didn’t follow the advice.

Launching Blogtown Press would have been much easier had I really focused on building the traffic to this blog first. Instead, I decided to spread myself thin write on 5-10 blogs at a time and get mediocre traffic to all of them, then launch the blog network, then get minimal traffic to all blogs in the network.

Since then I’ve revamped my thought process and along the way built several of the blogs in the network to good traffic. I’ve followed good SEO technique to rank higher in the search engines, hired bloggers to increase content generation and allow me to spend time on promotion, and I’ve slowed down on launching new blogs.

Next launch I’ll have an audience!

The proper way to launch a website can be seen from the video I have embedded below. It’s a clip from some tech show, The Screen Savers, that Kevin Rose, founder of digg.com co-hosted (or have a spot on or something).

In this short little clip you’ll see Kevin Rose use his current position at this TV show to weave into the show a little segment about social news and bookmarking websites out there at the time (2004 the video says) and their shortcomings. He then goes on to talk about this new social bookmarking site that solves some of these shortcomings.

The website he mentions just happens to be digg.com which he leaves out the part that he founded. Now whether or not that was semi-shady to use his position of what looks like all knowing geek power or not. It’s a pretty slick move and no doubt helped him get the word out. Pretty sweet move Kevin

Now, I’m not a Cubs fan at all although I think their stadium and following are pretty cool (GO BREWERS!), I finally was able to find some Will Ferrell Harry Caray impersonations from when he was on SNL. I have been looking for them for the longest time on Google Video and YouTube.com but was unable to find them. I then did some fancy Google work (or just stopped being lazy and searched) and found them at myspace video.

For those who don’t know Harry Caray was the beloved Cubs announcer that seemed a little off his rocker at times. He announced games straight until his passing and was a blast to listen to. He was a regular on ESPN Sports Center and if you follow baseball you might have heard his rendition of “Take me out to the Ball Game.”

Will Ferrell did some pretty funny impersonations of him that you’ve gotta see. Take a look at my newest featured video (to the right if you didn’t notice it. It will play in the current window and doesn’t have any pop ups to annoy you.

Enjoy