As Easy As Falling Off a Blog
Occasionally, it occurs to me that I should probably promote this blog. I don't know how. Now, it is worth pointing out that I don't know how for two very specific reasons: (1) since a lot of these blogs are not particularly "showy" or written as entertainment pieces, promoting the blog would be like inviting people to come sit in my kitchen while I'm rinsing silverware; and (2) I really don't know how.
I took a brief (read: two minute) tour of the Networked Blogs discussion boards on Facebook in an effort (read: half-assed) to promote my writing. I found a series of discussion threads, filled to the brim with promoting bloggers and their pitches. Some made me laugh. So I thought I'd share:
Pitch: Please LIKE our page we will LIKE you back immediately!
Assessment: This author, who will remain nameless (though, if pressed, his name is Ted Ings), thinks of himself in the plural in order to make himself sound like a gang. Plus, he doesn't really want to find anything interesting to read, he simply wants people to click on LIKE or something and he'll do the same. Sort of like standing on the street and agreeing to shake someone's hand, but only if they shake yours, too.
Pitch: hey great blog ! take a look at mine ! 
Assessment: My theory is that this fellow was merely hopping various blogs, pasting his pitch and his URL all willy-nilly, and finally wound up in a discussion thread, where the pasted text didn't quite make sense. I also suspect the fellow noticed that his pasted text didn't quite make sense… but that he thought, 'whatever' and left it there.
Pitch: ..i love writing poems.. ..follow my blog if u like it… ..thanks… 
Assessment: This fellow seems to go the extra mile. Not only do you get a smiley face for following his blog, but you get a winky. The majority of blog promotional bits I read have a smiley. Or a winky. But a smiley AND a winky? Crazy. It nearly makes one overlook the weird use of periods, the textspeak "u" and the goofy way the whole thing reads. Nearly.
Pitch: {THE NEW BK} (NYC) REALITY! {REALMUSICREVOLUTION} COMING BEFORE SPRING! CHECK OUT THE SNIPPETS AND THE "PATH TO GREATNESS" MIXTAPE HIT SINGLE "IM A CHAMP" FOLLOW AND I WILL DEFINITELY SHOW LUV BACK,, *YA GODGUIDED R&B G*
Assessment: Someone picked up the tattered remnants of other peoples' ideas and tried to glue them together into a whole new idea. This grammatical Frankenstein should be left to die on the table.
Pitch: Follow the above blog and like my FB page - leave me a message on FB (with the name you have followed me and the links you want me to follow) - I will follow back within 24 hrs (working days) PS: This blog might be helpful to you as well - it got technical guides
Assessment: "It got technical guides." I love that – even more than the mind puzzle of "24 hrs (working days)."
As for promoting my own blog, I completely forgot about it.
