Today

Hey guys. First of all, I'd like to welcome everyone from BloggingZoom and thank everyone who has voted for us. Don't forget to vote for us over to the right, too (the little button way down near the bottom of the sidebar) and visit often. Tell your friends, write on the bathroom walls, get tattoos - you know, the usual.

Anyway, today may be kind of slow. Britney must have re-upped because she's apparently inside - or wait, maybe that means she's just run out of meds? No, she'd definitely be out, trying to score... Anyway, Brit-Brit's quiet and the writers are still striking, so we may have a few press releases to get out to you, but other than that, it is just your average humpday, albeit chillier than most.

Days like this are important for me because they allow me to focus on the technical aspects behind the scenes and that is what I will be doing most of the afternoon, well into the night. Like I said last night, Google's mistreatment of us has led to a drop in overall numbers and I am trying to supplant that loss by doing more grassroots-type stuff, which takes away from the time I can actually blog. I apologize for the lack of content on these days, but there is usually one or two stories to pass along by day's end, so you aren't completely out of luck.

Besides, you get something out of it too: the more visitors we get, the more activity the blog generates and that leads to fun discussions and interesting input from other readers. Not to mention that the blog gets tightened-up; some of the things I am working on include streamlining the tags (for instance, we have "internet," "online," and "web" - all of which mean the same thing, so I am working to eliminate two of those to make it easier to find posts relating to the Web), better monetizing the blog (so that I receive more revenue without having to rely on sponsored posts as much), checking out other blogs in which you might be interested, editing past entries so they read better - on and on. One thing I am not doing is trying to keep up with the search engines, which change their "requirements" and TOS and shit every other day.

Anyway, everyone bundle-up and stay warm! It's a brisk and bitter 23º here!