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[INTERACTION] WEBLOG ON DIGG/ REDDIT/ ETC.
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tstrel
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For being in the right Catagory, Odd Stuff

PostPosted: Sun Dec 28, 2008 7:26 pm
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chrismenning
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 		For the record: I dugg the blog, and shouted it to all my friends on Digg for the sake of participating.
And I realize the PMs check the forums from time to time, but they'll notice a spike in traffic on their own server a lot quicker than blogs that they can't get any direct traffic info from.
Again, we can continue to submit every site out there that mentions TIMM, but I would assume an orchestrated effort to drive traffic directly to thisismymilwaukee.com would be more effective.

PostPosted: Sun Dec 28, 2008 9:07 pm
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SubGothius
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 		Whither Reddit?
BlessedBlogger, saw your recent comment on the original Reddit submission there -- nice work! Cool

Sadly however, it's well-nigh impossible to drum up interest in a stale link submission there; you'll notice the front page is full of stuff that's mere hours old. As a regular on Reddit, I can attest that original link to the first video gained a fair amount of interest there at the time (that's how I found this crazy thing in the first place!), so I reckon a lot of folx who saw the first vid but didn't actually dive down the rabbithole may still be curious to find out just where it's led to by now.

Redditors are a fairly savvy and BS-resistant bunch (and I don't mean BlackStar Wink ), so we won't really gain much goodwill by just reposting a link to the video again, nor to a new blog page that's just pimping the original video -- they'll just dub it "blogspam" and downvote it mercilessly in a heartbeat, leaving only a bad aftertaste regarding TIMM in their brains. However, many of them will still remember the first video and wonder whatever happened with that, so we'll need a fresh, real development worth posting about, something intrinsically interesting in itself.

I'd say if New Year's brings any fresh puzzles to chew on as we expect, I can try posting that to Reddit to bring them up to speed and draw them into the puzzle -- and there's a lot of sizzling-hot brainpower to be found there. If anyone else has more Reddit karma than me (5 for posting and 2400 for commenting), you're more than welcome to take on this role, as I think karma carries some weight with their post-ranking system. For a Reddit post to succeed, timing and broad but concentrated participation is fairly critical, as front-page status seems to depend on how "hot" something is in terms of at-the-moment active interest, upvotes and commentary.

Everyone: If you don't have a Reddit login yet, register for one right now (go on, I'll wait until you get back), so you can upvote our next submission there and post comments when the time comes.

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BlessedBlogger
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 		For what it's worth, I posted to my own website about this as well. http://www.blessedblogger.com/blog. Doubt that will help much but I did succeed in sucking in a few more people....er I uh mean.... enlightening a few people as to the joys of ARGing so we may have some new faces soon.
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 4:41 pm
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SubGothius
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BlessedBlogger wrote:
For what it's worth, I posted to my own website about this as well. http://www.blessedblogger.com/blog. Doubt that will help much but I did succeed in sucking in a few more people....er I uh mean.... enlightening a few people as to the joys of ARGing so we may have some new faces soon.

Oo, an established, "legit" personal blog like yours could come in quite handy to avoid tripping anyone's blogspam detectors. Maybe once we have a major new plot development with wide-open unanswered questions as a point of genuine, fresh interest, you could post something about that to your blog (including links to here and other TIMM resources, natch), and then we could legitimately submit that blog entry to Reddit.

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