Yes, but one that I don’t really stand a chance of getting anywhere in. Interesting though, to find out how many click throughs you get on a link, and that’s what I’m looking at atm.
I’m using Bo.lt. It takes a snapshot of a page when you go to share it, and then you can share the link via a number of methods. They are running a competition to promote themselves, and ppl who get to 10,000 views by 15 September win an iPad2. I’d quite like an iPad2, but the closing date is tomorrow, so I’m not going to hold my breath.
I’m not 100% sold on bo.lt either. If it isn’t sending the traffic through to the original site it means that you aren’t, for example, going to stay up to date with a blogpost and its comments. Though if it were a post that you thought someone might take down for example, like in the recent to and fro-ing on Radio 6 thingy I read about, it could be useful for that.
I’ve seen ppl using it for image pages, that would work well enough. Sharing a yfrog or some such I suppose, or a pinterest. Interested to hear what you all think about it anyway. And please feel free to share and click – multiple clicks are pointless though, they don’t count for the competition. I assume separate clicks by one person on a number of different bo.lts get counted, but tbh, I’m not even sure of that. [ETA I explored a bit further. If you end up on a bo.lt page, look at the little icons down on the left, and you can click through to the original page 🙂 ]
It’s been an odd sort of day. I got up before anyone else woke up and managed a run before 9am. Signed book arrived in the post and Big snaffled it, so she’s ensconced on the sofa in her pjs, buried in A Year without Autumn. Wah – I wanted to read it first! Oh well, at least this way I’ll get it given to me rather than reading it then having it disappear without trace into her room…
Downloaded an ebook for her too. Paid with a tweet which I thought was an interesting idea. The overall website Sustainably Creative looks interesting, though the idea of getting ppl to pay for your newsletter explaining how your plans to make money on the internet are working out seems a bit, I dunno, circular. Not something everyone could do anyway.
Also, I’ve sold out. There you go. This blog is no longer commercial free, I will be carrying ads. I’ve struggled with a number of different ideas for working from home around the children and the home education, and I’m still hoping that I can get somewhere with some of them, but right at the moment, carrying ads is easy, and it will pay me regularly. Sorry and all that. Do say goodbye if you’re never going to read again. Oh, and I’ve already spent the first load of ad money on a room for the Mad Blog Award ceremony. Not that I’m up for an award (heaven forbid I should ever achieve that!) but I won a ticket to the ceremony, and it’s a chance to catch up with lots of my blogging friends.
So there you go. Funny old day so far.
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