It has come to my attention that some of our audience is even more casual than I previously believed. This is understandable. I like to think we offer something for everyone, just not every day, and especially not on days when neither of us posts. Also, this green thing isn't working for me, so why should anyone else tolerate it? (Anybody know someone with taste who can design a no-frills web site? I have disliked frills ever since I had to collect 12 of them from Murloc slave traders in WoW.)
We cover a lot of ground here, incrementally. If you're turning in once a week for my long-promised rant about the sad state of pornography, only to find another two-man Battlestar Galactica pile-on (now that would be something to write about: Doc Cottle getting some action), you might be wondering what else you could do with your eight-hour workday. Or perhaps you only care to read what Mr. Bile has to say about the merits of different types of dice. Or maybe you only check in for links to hot chicks with MySpace pages.
Again, understandable. Not everyone is into book reviews, movie criticism, over-analysis of television shows, porn, videogames, eclectic music recommendations, and reads blogs. The number of weird people out there clearly outnumber us mundanes.
So I had an idea. To the best of my knowledge, our readership at the moment is small and manageable. I was thinking of creating e-mail lists divided into various categories: movies, comics, board games, scooters, vacation, fall, etc. Those readers who don't care to browse through all the topics we cover would get a notice when, "Hey, someone finally wrote about football realism!"
Of course, this sort of thing won't be necessary for anyone reading this post, but I wanted to get some feedback on it. My long-term goal for the site is to gain contributors and readership, and I think this might be a good step towards increasing casual traffic. Let me know what you think, or if you have anything to say about the Burning Crusade, because I just don't feel like I'm running a real site without WoW:BC updates.
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Exactly what does "A Call For Contributors" mean?
Incidentally, I have an idea for what could be a regular feature. Which you may have absolutely no interest in, but I figure I will mention anyway.
A attempt by those visiting the site to define something which, while frightfully mundane still manages to be illusive.
Example: "Emo is music that is trying to be goth, but is really just pop."
I need another example. At the moment, comprehension of your suggestion eludes me.
A call for contributors means just that. In this particular case, I was specifically asking for anyone willing to write a post or two about the WoW expansion. But in the broadest sense, I was just making the first announcement that we are interested in adding to stable of content providers. A more elaborate notice will be posted the next time I pick a new template. And I'll start picking on a few individuals I know personally later in the year.
I realize there might be a lot of people who just say, "Fuck you, I can write my own blog!" And that's fine, but I don't read sites that only have one blogger. That's why I didn't create one. I'm not that interesting by myself, and unless you are Gaius Baltar, neither are you. Also, I get the impression that bloggers who work alone tend to take month-long vacations several times a year.
I do like sites with multiple contributors (or multiple blogs). There's a sense of security in a group effort that the writers won't just get lazy or bored and quit after a few months. That's what kept me going back to Old Man Murray months after its creators gave up. They had to pressure each other to write another article, right?
I should note that if anyone is interested in contributing, they would be welcome to set their own schedule. Mr. Bile and I are supposed to publish three times a week, but if someone wanted to write a post biweekly or once a month, that would be cool enough for us. All we want is to provide as much content as possible for people bored at work or who just like reading things that scroll down.
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