state of the site
13 March 2006
Some things to go over, now that the new look site is, um, seventeen days old.
1) If you haven’t already, please sign up for the email list (on the right). I don’t mean to harp on this, but the email post, "Ten Dudes I’d Do", will be sent out sometime next week. And if you don’t get it via email, you won’t get it at all – it’s not going to be archived on here. Ever. So sign up.
The response to the email list has been damn near overwhelming. When we first thought of the idea, Site Guy Brendan and I came up with a realistic number of sign-ups to expect by the time the first email was released in a month’s time. We surpassed this number in the first twenty-four hours. And we’re still adding lots more every day. When he hit a watershed number, we’ll let you know, because otherwise it doesn’t work (meaning, it doesn’t sound cool to say "Join over 523 people and sign up!" or "Don’t be gay – sign up like 7298 others have!").
So sign up. Everyone else has. Don’t be gay.
(And for more info, go here.)
(And the point of the email list is to get more people interested in the site, hence more interested in me, hence more interested in having a threesome with me. So when you get the email, if you like it, I encourage you pass it on. But we’ll go over that at a later time.)
(And Site Guy Brendan, as Keeper of the List, has asked me to gently remind you to use a non-work email if your work email has curse-word blockers. Because, as I said before, I’m going to curse like a mother fucker in these emails.)
2) In the near future, we’re going to make even improvements to this site. I have left Site Guy Brendan alone recently, since we spent a lot of time getting this bad boy ready for release in mid-February. However, it is time to start bothering him again, especially since I’m going to Boston this Thursday for my annual St. Patty’s Day weekend trip, so we’ll have a lot of time together. Like, more than he would like. But whatever.
There will be little things here and there, but one thing we’re going to work on is making this blog more picture-friendly. (And I don’t mean more baby pictures. Please stop emailing about these. You’ll get more, but not for a long, long time.)
I mean more pictures of now. I don’t know in what capacity, whether they will be pictures of my neighborhood and New York City, or tasteful shots of me wearing a shirt in the shower, or pictures of me putting out lit cigarettes on my roommate Brian’s ass while he’s passed out. I can’t really say for sure, since I believe art should be spontaneous.
But at any rate, expect more pictures. The fundamental wordiness of the blog will not change, but if I can put up some pictures once a week or once a month, I don’t see how that would be a bad thing.
(Also, I’ve noticed a major up-tick in boobies pictures sent to me since I opened a MySpace page a few month’s back. So I guess you have to post pictures to get pictures. God, I’m a genius.)
3) Over the next few week’s and months, the "Click Here for More Blogs and Stuff I Like" page will undergo a major transformation. What we’re aiming for in this page is more akin to "Other Incredible Ways to Waste Time", which will have links to blogs, music, videos, and just about anything else that will help you steal money from your employer by not doing any of your real, actual work. This page will be driven by you, the reader, as you send in any stuff that you find interesting. Brendan and I will probably set up a separate email address for you to submit stuff and may even hire an intern to help us in this. But we’re still far away from this.
(And if you’re reading this post back in the archives and it’s November 10, 2007 and we still haven’t set up this page – honestly, did you really think we’d get around to doing this? I go months without putting up a "Choice Cut" and return about one in twenty emails weeks late, yet you really thought that I’d hire an intern and set up a reader-driven page? Shame on you, reader. Shame on you.)
4) Remember, any technical problems should be directed to Site Guy Brendan at brendan[at]jasonmulgrew.com. Do not email me telling me that the RSS feed is broken. I do not even know what an RSS feed is, so I am not going to be able to fix it for you. Talk to Brendan.
(And Brendan and I are apt to go for month-long stretches of time without talking to each other, so I’m not always going to be able to forward these emails on to him.)
5) Not site-related per se, but thank you for the abundance of emails I’ve gotten over the past few weeks containing jazz suggestions, ways to get out of jury duty, and vegetarian tips. I know this is old news now, but seriously, I appreciate the emails. I can’t write back to them all, since that would take a lot of time, but I do read them all and am very grateful for the help. Translation: If I see you in person, I will totally kiss you on the mouth. Thank you.
(I don’t really have a parenthetical conclusion to this email, but each of the other points did, so I’m just throwing this on here.)
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I think that’s about it. Thank you again for the support, continue to pass on the site if you enjoy it, sign up for the email list, and we’ll talk some more tomorrow. Happy Monday.
1) If you haven’t already, please sign up for the email list (on the right). I don’t mean to harp on this, but the email post, "Ten Dudes I’d Do", will be sent out sometime next week. And if you don’t get it via email, you won’t get it at all – it’s not going to be archived on here. Ever. So sign up.
The response to the email list has been damn near overwhelming. When we first thought of the idea, Site Guy Brendan and I came up with a realistic number of sign-ups to expect by the time the first email was released in a month’s time. We surpassed this number in the first twenty-four hours. And we’re still adding lots more every day. When he hit a watershed number, we’ll let you know, because otherwise it doesn’t work (meaning, it doesn’t sound cool to say "Join over 523 people and sign up!" or "Don’t be gay – sign up like 7298 others have!").
So sign up. Everyone else has. Don’t be gay.
(And for more info, go here.)
(And the point of the email list is to get more people interested in the site, hence more interested in me, hence more interested in having a threesome with me. So when you get the email, if you like it, I encourage you pass it on. But we’ll go over that at a later time.)
(And Site Guy Brendan, as Keeper of the List, has asked me to gently remind you to use a non-work email if your work email has curse-word blockers. Because, as I said before, I’m going to curse like a mother fucker in these emails.)
2) In the near future, we’re going to make even improvements to this site. I have left Site Guy Brendan alone recently, since we spent a lot of time getting this bad boy ready for release in mid-February. However, it is time to start bothering him again, especially since I’m going to Boston this Thursday for my annual St. Patty’s Day weekend trip, so we’ll have a lot of time together. Like, more than he would like. But whatever.
There will be little things here and there, but one thing we’re going to work on is making this blog more picture-friendly. (And I don’t mean more baby pictures. Please stop emailing about these. You’ll get more, but not for a long, long time.)
I mean more pictures of now. I don’t know in what capacity, whether they will be pictures of my neighborhood and New York City, or tasteful shots of me wearing a shirt in the shower, or pictures of me putting out lit cigarettes on my roommate Brian’s ass while he’s passed out. I can’t really say for sure, since I believe art should be spontaneous.
But at any rate, expect more pictures. The fundamental wordiness of the blog will not change, but if I can put up some pictures once a week or once a month, I don’t see how that would be a bad thing.
(Also, I’ve noticed a major up-tick in boobies pictures sent to me since I opened a MySpace page a few month’s back. So I guess you have to post pictures to get pictures. God, I’m a genius.)
3) Over the next few week’s and months, the "Click Here for More Blogs and Stuff I Like" page will undergo a major transformation. What we’re aiming for in this page is more akin to "Other Incredible Ways to Waste Time", which will have links to blogs, music, videos, and just about anything else that will help you steal money from your employer by not doing any of your real, actual work. This page will be driven by you, the reader, as you send in any stuff that you find interesting. Brendan and I will probably set up a separate email address for you to submit stuff and may even hire an intern to help us in this. But we’re still far away from this.
(And if you’re reading this post back in the archives and it’s November 10, 2007 and we still haven’t set up this page – honestly, did you really think we’d get around to doing this? I go months without putting up a "Choice Cut" and return about one in twenty emails weeks late, yet you really thought that I’d hire an intern and set up a reader-driven page? Shame on you, reader. Shame on you.)
4) Remember, any technical problems should be directed to Site Guy Brendan at brendan[at]jasonmulgrew.com. Do not email me telling me that the RSS feed is broken. I do not even know what an RSS feed is, so I am not going to be able to fix it for you. Talk to Brendan.
(And Brendan and I are apt to go for month-long stretches of time without talking to each other, so I’m not always going to be able to forward these emails on to him.)
5) Not site-related per se, but thank you for the abundance of emails I’ve gotten over the past few weeks containing jazz suggestions, ways to get out of jury duty, and vegetarian tips. I know this is old news now, but seriously, I appreciate the emails. I can’t write back to them all, since that would take a lot of time, but I do read them all and am very grateful for the help. Translation: If I see you in person, I will totally kiss you on the mouth. Thank you.
(I don’t really have a parenthetical conclusion to this email, but each of the other points did, so I’m just throwing this on here.)
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I think that’s about it. Thank you again for the support, continue to pass on the site if you enjoy it, sign up for the email list, and we’ll talk some more tomorrow. Happy Monday.
