Publicity II

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   As part of my continuing publicity for 30 in 30 III, I'm going to endeavour to give the first ever play by play of the highlights of 30 in 30 I & then II.
Days 1 - 3
   30 in 30 I opened up with eight participants on June 1st 2004, with two more jumping in the next day. These valiant bloggists, were stephenl, apoplecticfittz, lerani, shekb, incomple, jdryznar, feuders, mrkevincostner, fragglerocker84, and oystercracker.
   Day 1: mrkevincostner was actually first out of the blocks at 10:20am, followed by stephenl who at 12:56 posted the official call to action. apoplecticfittz began with a new version of his recent Frasky Awards; lerani started with an amusing story about a retarded lawyer that managed to exponentially exacerbate her own ethics violation; fragglerocker84 started out strong with a well composed entry apparently about people on her vollyball team (its very well done for its subject matter, but the subject isn't the most interesting to random bloggers); and feuders also vows for the course of 30 in 30 to drink no beer (except for a number of frequent exceptions), eat no fast food, and run five miles every day*. Additionally, jdryznar declares he's going to make 30 posts in 30 days about politics, while incomple also just posts half baked ravings against conservatives (at least for the first five I checked today).
   Day 2: Day two bring a lul in the lulz, possibly because they blew the good joke they'd been saving on Day 1 and haven't started coming up with things for 30 in 30 yet. Everyone posts, but not much stood out to me on this inspection. stephenl is already making a delirious phone post, vowing to "blog at any cost" despite a lack of internet access; and apoplecticfittz declares he's going to grow a Hitler / Rob Roy mustache (Lesson 1: even a simple entry can become quality 30 in 30 material if accompanied by a well-suited picture).
   Day 3: shekb declares the pulitzer prize "tapped out." I didn't think the entry was that funny but comments from other participants seem to laud it as blogging gold. lerani posted about Dennis Quaid & the Sharks, and how you can get him to touch your enemies. stephenl decides that “The fact is, girls can't keep their pants on when they encounter a guy who's big into anime,” which reminds me that I wanted to try to trick shid into participating in 30 in 30 III. Also, bloglarious as usual, apoplecticfittz posts a must-see entry about gummy bear porn - I swear its tasteful ::caugh::.


   And holy crap next time I'm biting off a smaller chunk of entries to summarize at once.

*I think this kind of highlights a thought I had the other day. 30 in 30 is like blog-lent; during lent one makes a commitment to give up a bad habit to become a better person, during 30 in 30 one makes a commitment to better blogging. There is the blogthodox observance wherein we try to update every day, but that doesn't rule out other activities within the same spirit. Though usually 30 in 30 entails much more updating than we're accustomed to, one participant last year took it as an exercise in updating ONLY once per day as opposed to her usual 5+ (and thank-god -- I hate it when people do that); and trembyle turned off comments, which at first seemed very against the spirit of 30 in 30, but it was explained that he was trying to prove to himself he wasn't just commentwhoring.
   Though Lent, unlike feuders vows above, actually resulted in more an better beer: since monks couldn't eat all day but were actually allowed to drink beer, they ended up founding many famous breweries and developing good thick black beer (which really, is the only beer worth drinking).

Comments

Not sure if this was the best way to publicize

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I had a comment written out but decided it was too mean and deleted it. I will let you guess what it might've said. Use your psycho psychic powers.

OMGWTFYAYITSPICNICDAY!!!!!!!!!!!1111111

Re: Not sure if this was the best way to publicize

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)= don't hate.

Yeah probably no one is going to read this entry, but I did all that work putting it together so I'd rather have it sit there like this than have nothing to show for it at all.

PS: I'm eating hot pocketies and then I'll come scurrying over, I pomise.

V Not drinking the haterade

[basicallyasap.livejournal.com]

Yeah you did put in too much a lot of time on this, I'll give you that.

I thought for a second that your comment said scurvy instead of scurrying. Gar.

P.S. I like the pink bow on the helicopter, too bad it's not polka-dotted!