Comments on: A Very Serious American Hero: The Fridge

By: peteg

peteg — Fri, 15 May 2009 18:17:01 +0000

PS-- I think it's clear from some the new commenters that Facebook is a very effective way to promote this site, much more effective than RSS.

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By: peteg

peteg — Fri, 15 May 2009 18:11:45 +0000

Look into some of the facebook integration for Wordpress that's out there. It allows a FB user to login at a WP site, and have thier comments appear both on their FB wall and on the WP site. It's cool. I played around with it in January for a another site that I run, and it was kinda buggy at that point, but I am sure it has improved greatly in the past 5 months. There are several options, but there is a actual Facebook engineer that made a plugin for WP; that's the plugin you want.

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By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 15 May 2009 02:35:03 +0000

But I regret getting in the middle of the lovers quarrel you two are having.

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By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 15 May 2009 02:33:41 +0000

Ok sounds cool Phil. Until then I will just do what I normally do: Answer questions as comments in facebook attached to his facebook posts rather than answer them here.

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By: phil

phil — Fri, 15 May 2009 01:53:54 +0000

To be clear, Joe, I agree with you and am glad you commented cause it gives us the chance to talk about it. I'm against facebook-flooding (multiple posts a day) and I figured it might annoy people. Joe's comment makes me think I was right. But if we want to increase traffic here, and don't want to flood facebook, we need another route. I don't want to be Mr. "No No No". The ways that I want to promote this website are much more crass and distasteful to the point where they would make facebook-flooding look like a funeral procession, believe me. For example I figured we could randomly insert porn star's names into all the URL's for search engine purposes. The message board is broken right now, when I fix it we can discuss this stuff there.

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By: phil

phil — Thu, 14 May 2009 23:01:19 +0000

I feel you and don't feel you simultaneously Joe. Just like Jesus invented RSS feeds, his father, the holy spirit, invented ignore options, to tune out all the noise you get tired of. If you hear about it 3x then you are 3x Jake's friend, some people are only 2x Jake's friend and think how horrible that must be. Promotion of veryserious.org is really tricky. I am really shy about pushing it too hard. I hate getting 100 emails from someone about some project I don't care about and don't want to be that guy. On the other hand I put work into vs.org and certainly don't want to keep it a secret (I did put a 'share this on facebook' button up after all). I think veryserious.org would be more fun if we had more readers, cause that would mean more comments. Also it's a further step towards me making tens of dollars off of google ads, keeping them all for myself and moving to Mexico. Does anyone else have an opinion about how hard it is acceptable to push? Rick Ross said to push it to the limit, but where is the limit?

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By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 14 May 2009 22:21:58 +0000

Sorry dude, I am anti-shart. Jesus invented rss readers already, the manual version should only be used in the exceptional case, like if you find something especially sweet preferably that you didn't make yourself. That is just my opinion natch but using the internet is an exercise in finding some signal amongst all of the noise. Blasting the effbook and twitard for posts moves it from the signal pole toward the noise pole more with each blast. How much more would car alarms be effective if they only went off when the car was broken into?

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By: jake

jake — Thu, 14 May 2009 21:45:41 +0000

I wish I had more supportive friends, but you don't hear me complaining.

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By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 14 May 2009 20:58:47 +0000

I wish I did not receive a tweet, a facebook share and an email about this post. It would make me want to listen to it more.

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By: phil

phil — Thu, 14 May 2009 20:48:10 +0000

I like when Pete says "GI Joe diagesis". I have no interest in GI Joe, but I like the thought you guys put into this.

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