That just means I made the new blog public, but doesn't "went live" sound all professional and technosavvy? Update your bookmarks, readers, etc.!
So, basically, this new venture is about combining my four passions: food, photography, travel and books, and blogging the heck out of them. It's still me, it's still my style... With the exception that I'm toning down the profanity and sarcasm. It's meant to appeal to a wider audience, so I am, in effect, "selling out" in the sense that I'd MIGHT like some goddamn traffic on that blog as opposed to this one, which nobody can figure out. (Did you notice how I did both things in that sentence that I said I wasn't going to do in the new blog? That was so you know it's really me writing this and I haven't been kidnapped by the PC police.)
I wanted to have a post in each category up before I made an announcement, but just the two I do have were REALLY HARD, what with the staying on track and not cursing and trying to produce something meaningful to share. Still, I'm hoping to post three times a week over there: one in each category of Read, Look, and Eat with the occassional Go and Think thrown in for variety.
I've registered at a bunch of networking sites to get noticed, but that's a drop in the bucket. I'm asking you guys to pimp the new blog as much as you can/want/will-do-grudgingly. It's my goal to surpass the traffic on this blog by 100%. Since this blog only gets 20 hits a day on average, I THINK THAT'S DOABLE. This is my exercise in self-promotion, and I suck, so I'm asking you to give me a hand. If you want to wait until I have a few more posts up over there so you can see what you're advertising, that's cool. But if you're a longtime reader over here, can't you just take my word for it?? *ahem* Maybe I should sweeten the deal by offering some kind of reward for most clicks from your page...? I'll give it some thought. But don't relegate promotion to your blog/site only! Scratch the URL in the bathroom stall, or y'know, whatever the not-completely-disgusting equivalent is.
What does that mean for the ol' Penguin? Honestly, I'm not sure yet. I may return once or twice to vent my profane frustrations, or to make some bitingly sarcastic remark, but mostly I'll confine those types of things to Twitter and Facebook. I'm not above reviving this blog if for some reason traffic from the other one inspires a storm of new hits, but I'm not expecting that to happen. It's been an awesome experience here, I'm just ready for something different. I really hope you'll come along for the ride~



