I get paid to have ideas - and illuminate the world with my natural beauty. Sometimes ideas don’t work but beauty always does, so if this idea falls flat, know that however hard you laugh - I am still beautiful.
Recently I’ve been cross-posting between my blogs, i.e. letting readers of one blog know what’s going on at my other blogs by posting links between them. It’s obvious and it works, more people seem to be reading everything.
So why don’t we all do it?
Once a week a few sex(y) bloggers could post a list of links to noteworthy posts on friendly blogs, letting readers know what’s worth seeing and turning our respective audiences onto each other. It’s what a lot of blogs specialize in, but doing it this way means a community promotes a community instead of a big blog promoting just pushing a bunch of smaller ones.
If you run a sex(y) blog and want to give this a try, post a permalink to your best post from the past week in the comments section before the end of Thursday. Add a short description (20 words or so) and I’ll put together a list of the posts and publish them here on Saturday.
Every blogger on the list will then post the links to their blog sometime before the end of the weekend. (Those who don’t risk a massive denial of service attack launched from the military spec, ex-KGB Cray mainframe I picked up on eBay last weekend.)
If it works we should swap readers, build links between our blogs and, by the end of Tuesday - rule the world as benign blogging dictators. (I might have got a bit carried away with that last bit. World rule by Thursday’s way more likely.)
(NB: Links to huge ads or anything else that truly sucks will be ignored. Bloggers who don’t cross-post will be blackballed - by Lexington Steele. Anally and lube-free).
Email Sam to submit a post for the latest bloggasm
Sorry don’t have a blog (or hopefully? I don’t want to meet Lexington…), but once you organize a bit, here is a nudge in a more dictatorial solution :
http://www.gmpg.org/xfn/
(found on http://microformats.org/)
Cheers!
Brilliant again, Sam. I’m actually quite proud of my post for today:
http://www.lumpesse.com/2005/09/there-is-no-better-time-to-be-library. html
Wherein I advocate the reading of lascivious historically banned books in celebration of Banned Books Week for the sake of freedom and arousal.
The reason we don’t all do this regularly is that it’s hella effort, after awhile. I do something like what you propose with my weekly Sex Blog Roundup feature for Fleshbot. Even though posting a blog post a day is easy, finding six or eight VHQ (very high quality)additional posts elsewhere in the blogosphere takes at least half a day’s “work”. (Quotes because reading sex blogs is only “work” for very broad definitions of the word.)
Jamal, thanks - I’ll check it out.
Ellie - thanks for the tip.
Bacchus,
You could be right. I think the difference in this idea is that:
1) The posts are self-nominated, not sought out.
2) The blogs reference join in the promotion of all the other blogs on the list
3) The nature and type of post highlighted is decided by the blogger submitting the post, not me.
I really enjoy your round-ups but see this idea as more about being commercial in a friendly way, than the kind of true ‘best-of’ that you offer (and which is way harder to do). This idea would work with 50 links or just 5.
However it might not spark much interest and, if so, next idea!
Not a silly idea at all. I like the community promting aspect of it -lemme think about a bit. The lovely Figleaf at http://www.realadultsex.com/ does this sometimes in an informal way and different way, gathering up a few posts of interest and spinning a post of his in response to the ideas, I’m kind of grateful for the approach and always end up visiting blogs I may not have found.
Your method sounds reasonably straightforward. Can a self nominated “best post of the week” be a photograph?
Cheers,
Ell
I have a QuickLinks (http://www.mymoneyblog.net/category/weekly-quicklinks/) section on my blog. Every Friday a post appears with links to articles and items which I read during the past week and would like to share them with my readers.
Sam, you was already linked.
Now my link: http://www.mymoneyblog.net/porn-ads-in-adsense/
Porn ads in AdSense
Article about spoting porn ads in AdSense.
Ell - linking to a picture is fine. The nature of the posts is entirely open - anything sex/porn related or sexy should work.
Thanks Miha and I appreciate the linkage.
I love this idea. When I don’t have time to write a post I like to linkdump- it’s good karma and if I find something interesting, someone else probably would too. A mutual, community-oriented, intentional thing would be very cool though.
Definitely count me in. Here’s mine:
http://talkingdirty.blogspot.com/2005/09/random-fetish-attack.html
One of the weirder aspects of being a phone sex worker: acquiring random fetishes.
Very cool Katie. Thanks for the link and we’ll get this rolling this weekend.
Here’s mine…better late than never, right? It’s about learning how to masturbate.
Thanks.
Oh my Gosh! Am I too late?
I couldn’t decide:
http://shayssexcolumn.blogspot.com/2005/09/take-matters-into-your-own- hands.html
or
http://shayssexcolumn.blogspot.com/2005/10/i-was-human-dessert.html
Arighty - I am just not all here today!
The first link I put is to something I wrote about the health benefits of masturbation
and the second is my review of a tea that changes how you smell “down there”.
I know I’m late, but this sounds like such a fun idea. My blog, My Bottom Smarts, discusses erotic spanking in the context of a loving relationship. The story I linked is a fun Halloween spanking account. I hope you enjoy it.
Well, I’m in… late, of course. But I’ll be ready next week!
I’m assuming if we don’t have anything worth posting in the Blogasm, then we just don’t post any comments that week?
(What a good weekly reminder that I need to post hot stuff in the blog, though!)
Ang,
Just email me or post a response to the weekly ‘Bloggasm post request’ notification. If you miss a week - no bother.
I think is an awesome idea…
At the beginning of the week I answered a Craig’s List ad from a guy who liked to watch. It was a hot session and writing about it got me crazy horny all over again.
http://boyblogspot.blogspot.com/2005/10/i-need-2-watch.html