extracted from an actual, individually composed comment on my blog…
Me: Why hello, it is so nice that you stopped by my blog.
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BlogSpammer: What you published made a lot of sense.
Me: Sometimes I hit the mark. Rarely.
BlogSpammer: However, what about this? what if you added a little information?
Me: More information? 3900+ posts are not enough? Man you are hungry…
BlogSpammer: I ain’t saying your content isn’t solid, however what if you added a title that makes people want more? I mean Roundabout the WordPress Hackery is kinda boring.
Me: Really? What should I do to make my titles better? It has a visual metaphor. Do I need to inlude a top 10 list? Do I need to mention iPads? I thought that was pretty darned clever myself…
BlogSpammer: You could peek at Yahoo’s home page and see how they create article titles to grab people to open the links.
Me: You mean like “The 10 Worst Movies of 2013”, “Notable Two Hundred Day Moving Average Cross – NGLS”, “SSW Makes Bullish Cross Above Critical Moving Average”, “Senate GOP leader assails Dems on defense bill”…
I totally see what you mean. It’s going to take me hours to finish our conversation, because I am learning so much from Yahoo titles.
BlogSpammer: You might try adding a video or a pic or two to grab people excited about everything’ve got to say.
Me: I am confused. Besides the opening photo of a roundabout sign that ties into my “boring” title
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there are 9 more images, plus embedded formatted code. And I close with a cute, metaphorical image of a dog (get it, cogDOGblog) chasing its tail. What do I need? Celebrity videos doing awful dance moves? Vines?
BlogSpammer: Just my opinion, it would make your website a little livelier.
Me: Righto! That is my goal!
BlogSpammer: Also visit my homepage: [craptasticlt named marking site name deleted] [url too]
Me: I am so happy you stopped by! Happy viral marketing you scum sucking waste of human DNA internet parasite.
Well, Still True Friend Alan, it was funny the way you were talking to a spam. I put a couple of this comments from Spam on my blog and wrote back to them before I said that is sure a waste of time.
But that Spam even sometimes doesn’t make any sense, either.
So I have a button on my blog that I can press called Empty Spam, and that does a good job of getting rid of it all until it comes back tomorrow.
Still, it is like having to breathe the bad air with the good. Or like when there is a static on the radio. Then I just go to #ds106rad.io where there is not any static there ever unless you put it on purpose with Audacity.
Well, bye!
Always enjoy your writings. You spoke at Yavapai a yr ago and still following your creative thinking.
Thanks much Lauren! I had a wonderful time at the Summer Institute (I was hoping to drop in on the Winter one but mangled my own schedule). I will nag Todd for an excuse to visit (but will pass on badminton)….