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January 9, 2006

I guess I’ll eat worms…

Filed under: Macro Linz, My Life | Lindsay @ 5:43 pm

Pete on Mashable.com reviewed a site today called EgoSurf. It’s a popularity meter that you can enter your name or aliases and sites that you associate with and get a reading in “egopoints”.

I thought I’d give it a try…

Well, my ego is apparently very small. Fortunately, I’m an introvert so I don’t need a lot of external validation (that’s what I can tell myself, yeah).

I only got 1108 points for this new blog. I suppose that’s not too bad considering it’s only existed for 3 weeks.

I got 4095 for my old not-updated-for-more-than-a-year personal blog.

Running the alias I use just about everywhere with del.icio.us, flickr, and a few other sites as the site got me 2966 points.

I guess it’s better than my Technorati Rank: 1,063,755!

Oh well, not everyone can be popular, I guess. I have better things to do than worry about my popularity on the internet, like slinking off in my corner and singing the worm song to myself!!

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4 Responses to “I guess I’ll eat worms…”

  1. Stu Says:
    January 9th, 2006 at 8:00 pm

    When I first started really blogging a few months back, I went hardcore into the whole thing. Pushing every article on Digg/Slashdot/whatever … and while it did actually get me to a certain level of readers, it was hard to justify. That is, hard to justify doing the pimping just for the sole reason of gaining readership. I’m cool with anyone else who wants to do it, just for me … i’m not out to make the frontpage. It would be nice, but it’s a by product.

    Anyway, rambling. Kudos to you, I found your site through Tads place. Nice piccies, layout, and general tone. Keep it up!

  2. Lindsay Says:
    January 9th, 2006 at 8:59 pm

    Thanks Stu,

    I’ve been trying to approach it from the view point of doing it mainly for myself: keeping a record of the useful things I figure out so that I can remember how to do them later, but sometimes I would just like a comment or two. I guess it’s probably just a matter of keeping at it and eventually people with common interests will find my stuff.

    And yeah, I tried the Digg thing a few times now but I just feel kind of silly doing it. It’s not really the right audience for the kind of information I have to share anyway.

    Thanks for your kind words! I’ll quit whining now :) .

  3. Stu Says:
    January 10th, 2006 at 5:48 pm

    Ha ha … it’s never whining. It’s “expressing valid emotional states”!

  4. Poker man Says:
    October 10th, 2008 at 6:38 am

    I tried the Digg thing a few times now but I just feel kind of silly doing it.

    Thanks for your

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