A linky-love (blog review) post should accomplish several goals. It should introduce readers to the blogger, inform them about the content and nature of the blog and, of course, provide some quality links. A good linky-love post will also compel readers to visit the blog. There's no set formula beyond that, but most of us who write reviews have a routine we follow. Here's what works for me:
The About Me Page
I always start my research with the About Me page. Some are a useless waste of space while others are goldmines of information. The About Me page is where we should be able to get a feel for the blogger and a general idea of what to expect from their blog. Aahz's blog, Philaahzophy, has one of the best it's been my privilege to explore lately. He won a linky-love post in my weekly photo puzzle contest. I was not familiar with his blog and was not feeling confident that I could do justice to a review for a man who self-identifies as an anarchist. His About Me /Usage Guide (Yes! Navigation aids - what a concept!) laid my fears to rest and allowed me to approach the job with an open mind. (He's a pussy-cat and a very likable guy, despite his radical politics. Follow his link and see if you don't agree!)
Categories
Exploring the blog's category menu is my second step. If it's well-organized and lists the number of posts in each category, that's a real bonus. It allows me to point my readers to the topic(s) that the blogger writes about most frequently. Laura Williams' Musings doesn't have category post counts, but she's accomplished the same thing by placing important categories on tabs in her header. I'm one of Laura's fans and knew her linky-love post would focus on her daily listings of blog contests, so her categories made it easy to find what I needed. Are you a contest junkie? You really should subscribe to Laura!
Current posts
Make sure you read at least the last few weeks of postings before you start your review. Blogs are organic in nature and the focus may have shifted from what the categories lead you to expect. Celebrity gossip may have the most posts, but it's also important that your review should mention that the blogger has a new baby or was on the evening news for rushing into a burning building to save a rare South American parrot. Discussing what's currently going on in the blogger's life is a great way to create a sense of immediacy that will encourage your readers to click on their links.
Relevancy
Ideally, each blog you review will share some topics in common with your own blog. (This might not be the case if you use linky-love posts for contest prizes. Sometimes you'll have to dig to find a "hook" that makes a review relevant to your blog.) Chatbug Karen and I are both small-business owners, so I used her business category as a link in her review. Such direct relevancy adds value to the links and contributes to the natural flow of the reviewer's blog. Karen and her husband have many years of experience, so they're great mentors for someone like me who is still learning the ins-and-outs of business ownership. She's also fun and funny, another reason you should visit her blog.
Critique
A linky-love post is no place to be bashing a blog. Save that for link-baiting aimed at arrogant, so-called A-Listers. Your review can contain some thoughtfully-worded constructive criticism. The blogger might appreciate knowing that their categories are confusing or their About Me page isn't terribly helpful. Apply the Law of Parsimony (Keep it Simple, Stupid!) and handle it gently. The reviewer's job is to help the blogger, not destroy their confidence!
Other Stuff
The length of a linky-love post and the number of links it contains are at the discretion of the reviewer. I try to give each review enough weight and space to create good buzz for the blogger, along with information or entertainment value for my readers. When I stumble across two-line reviews with only a home page link, I always suspect that the blogger had no real interest in the site they were reviewing. They probably got themselves talked into a review they didn't really want to do, or maybe they needed an interim post. It's too bad that some bloggers don't realize that a well-written linky-love post can benefit the recipient, the reviewer and everyone who reads it. Pick a blog that's looking for love and try it yourself!
If you are anything like me you occasionally run out of month before you can accomplish everything that you wanted to get done. Since I started writing these guest posts I kept telling myself I have plenty of time to write my posts each month and stay on track. I mean, there are 28-31 days in a month I should be able to write 4 posts of various topics quickly and easily. Heck, I should even be able to write many ahead of time and schedule them to post on specific days. Yeah, Right!
I think of myself as a pretty organized person. I think that you have to be in order to consistently produce quality content for your blog and still maintain a full time job, family and whatnot. Even though I am very organized I sometimes need a little help. I purchased and read the book Getting Things Done. Man, I was energized by the ideas put forth in that book. Many of them I had already been doing in my own life. So the book was so great that I had to share it with one of my friends. He is the least organized person that I've ever known. That is not a judgment call on his personality or anything, it is just a fact based on consistency. He's a great guy who would do anything for you to help you out. He is just disorganized.
He lost it...
Within a week...
He told me he would replace it....
That was two years ago...
Then one day during a meeting I saw his organizer program projected on a screen. This is what I saw.
That high priority item had been on the organizer for about a year. I also know that he's e-mailed himself reminders to get me a copy of the book. But this e-mail is trapped within a set of e-mails that he's sent himself to remind himself of things to do. At last count the number of reminder e-mails was 75. I just had to laugh because the situation has become incredibly funny to me. For one thing, I should have known that this would happen because of his track record and the other just for the sheer irony of the content of the book what happened to it.
Around the same time I bought a small Webber grill (it cost maybe $10 no big whoop, it was on sale) for a Jimmy Buffett Concert back in 2006. Once the concert was over the grill was still hot so I asked my friend (same guy) if he could bring it home in his roommate's truck. Now, I don't really care about getting it back or not, a $10 grill isn't something that I am going to lose sleep over. How many times do you suppose that I've heard "I'm bringing your grill in on Friday"? It is nearly time for another Buffett Concert (2nd one since the grill was bought) and guess what? The grill is still in his garage, probably on top of my copy of Getting Things Done.
What does this have to do with blogging? Nothing much except for this point. Procrastination can kill your blog. If you don't keep your blog updated people will expect it to be stagnant and will stop visiting it. What do you do when you first get online? If it is not directly related to your blog you might fall into the trap of procrastination or Internet ADHD. It is so easy to get distracted by what is being said online that you may forget to speak your own mind. If you go online and start by checking Facebook, MySpace, Dropping Entrecards, Reading RSS Feeds, reading e-mail, checking out your favorite blogs, participating in forums and on an on it is so easy to be caught in distractions. If you do that each day then you may never get around to working on your own blog because you've run out of time.
I've read many bloggers who have posted their methods illustrating how they budget their time to work on their blogs. Many are very good and many are crap. The crap ones are from those blogger who set up a junk blog with no real content but then proceed to tell you how you should run your own blog. If you want to blog better read better bloggers, consistent bloggers, bloggers with their own ideas and bloggers who don't follow the crowd. Are they blogging daily? Do they maintain multiple blogs and blog daily on each of them? Those are the people who most likely have something to tell you. But read them after you've taken care of your own blog and your own blog readers.
So, what do you do to make sure that you have enough time to blog each day?
Drew writes four blogs, is an avid kayaker and a Transformers fan, he also does a mean cake plow. He recently completed taking 1170+ consecutive photos in 1170+ days. You can visit him at The BenSpark, The Wired Kayaker, Read To Me, Dad, Google is not God.
We've recently looked at spiffing up your blog to make it link-worthy and about asking for reviews. Now it's time to move on to bribing rewarding your reviewers. Linky-love can be had for free, but it's pretty rude to accept someone's lovin' and not return it. Writing a linky-love post for the person who reviewed you is one way to pay them back, but it's problematic if you do that every time. Each of you needs unique links coming in and going out, so writing reviews for each other cancels out some of the value. You will get benefits because each of your blogs is being exposed to a new audience, but in order to get the most benefit you'll need some non-reciprocal links, too. Here are a couple of suggestions that have worked well for others.
Linky-love round robins
Form a group of bloggers - at least a dozen, but more is better - all with some areas of common focus. For no-niche bloggers like myself that can span a lot of interests. A group of bloggers that I choose to share linky-love with might include some who blog about food or pets, some Hawaii bloggers and maybe some game enthusiasts, because I post frequently about each of those things. If your blog is topic-specific, stay within that topic. A review of your finance blog won't carry as much weight sandwiched between my posts about the goofy beagle and a day at the beach as it will if you align yourself with other finance and business bloggers. Each member recruited into the group will commit to writing the agreed-upon number of linky-love posts for other members of the group, selected from those who are not reviewing their own blog. You'll each get acquainted with new blogs in your own areas interest, get some links that relate to your content and avoid the reciprocal-links pitfall. You can find many pages of link chains or link trains by entering either of those terms in your favorite search engine. They're not the same thing. Theose are more like giant blogrolls of strangers whose content might not have anything in common with your own blog. There is more value in exchanging reviews of blogs that share some relevancy.
Contests and giveaways
A number of posties have shown us how to do this right. The next time you feature a contest or giveaway, award extra entries to participants who write a review of your blog or of the specific promotion. You'll get some exposure and deep links and they'll get an extra shot at your prizes, so everyone wins. Lori and Val have both done this very successfully, so take a look at the contest categories on their blogs for some fine examples of how it works.
Content, content, content
Yeah, you knew I'd have to come back to this point, didn't you? If you are routinely supplying fresh, relevant content to your readers, you will get spontaneous reviews from time to time without asking. Do you need to reciprocate each time someone sends you some linky-love? No! They're paying you for the entertainment and information they found on your blog. You're even!
The final installment of this series will discuss writing blog reviews.
I recently suggested that putting more of yourself into your blog might open the door to more linky-love reviews. That's not the whole answer, though. Many who have great blogs with good readership still don't get the lovin' they need. If your blog is link-worthy, why aren't the reviews popping up often enough to suit you?
Maybe it's because you didn't ask!
Sometimes it's as simple as asking for a review. We all know that blogs need link-love, but few of us think to do them spontaneously. We do them because the needs of a specific blogger are brought to our attention. They ask!
Ask the people who know your blog
Most of your friends and regular readers will do a review if you ask them. It makes sense that if they enjoy your blog, their own readers will enjoy it, too. They'll be doing their visitors a service by pointing out another good blog for them to read. It makes solid content for the reviewer, so everyone gets some benefit out of the deal.
Ask your new readers
If a first-time visitor posts an enthusiastic comment to something you've written, ask them to share it with their own readers. "Aloha GameGal! Welcome to skeet's stuff and mahalo for your kind words. It's always great to meet another hidden object game enthusiast. Could you do me a favor and let your own readers know you've found new source for game reviews? I'd really appreciate it!" I've rarely failed to get a positive response to this approach.
Does asking make you a pest?
In the comments for my last Izea post, Drew's inquiring mind wanted to know how one can ask for linky love without being a pest. I don't think asking once is obnoxious. If the person says no, drop it. If they're regular readers, though, chances are pretty good they'll say yes. You can do it publicly, as I did with Mistipurple in that same comment string. I'll admit that was an experiment, though, and I wouldn't suggest doing it unless you're pretty certain of a positive response. An email or private message doesn't put anyone on the spot and will usually result in a review. You can also put out a general call for linky-love in a post on your blog, but I've gotten lackluster responses to that method. Making it personal by addressing someone privately has always worked better for me.
Ask outside your current readership
Ask for linky-love on message boards and public forums. Check out the Sparks forum on the Izea Message Boards. Posties are asking for love and they're getting it. Other posties are offering to give reviews. Take them up on it! Ask in the other communities you frequent, too. Ideally, you share some common interests with the members of those communities and they'll respond as enthusiastically as your postie pals.
Next up: Rewarding your reviewers. Stay tuned!
Okay, maybe not for profit, or at least that isn't the intent behind any collaborative efforts that I have done lately. I'm sure that you can make money collaborating with other bloggers, people do it all the time. I'll let some of the big money people talk about that. Me, I'm in it for the fun.
This past week one of my favorite bloggers Chica X put up a post asking for images that she could edit and post on her blog, giving credit back to the photographer and all. I submitted two of mine and told her to have at it. She rocked it of course. Then the wheels started turning in my head and I shot her an e-mail. "Why not a group on Flickr?" She agreed and we set up a group called Second Shotz on Flickr. The group is for photographers, bloggers, photoshop and picnik enthusiasts who want a shot at editing a straight out of the camera image and showing others their work.
So we set out to set up the group. I wrote up our mission: "This group has been created to let you take and edit a "Straight out of the Camera" image. Edit it as you see fit and upload it back to the group. Each week a new image will be posted by the moderators. You will have one week to do your best on the image and upload them to the group. The top three images each week will be featured in blog posts on Photo Projectz and The BenSpark. Only submit images that have been edited for Second Shots. Other images will be removed."
Once the mission was clearly defined we invited our Flickr friends. The response was very nice and we've already had the second week of images start. Week one we had nine participants and week two just started with six participants. In addition some of the participants have written blog posts about their image being picked by either myself or by Chica. Blog posts with links to our blogs.
Here are some examples of what we are seeing with this group.
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We didn't plan to get a bunch of links from other bloggers, we just worked together to set up something fun and that people would enjoy. The group is open to all so if you want to take a crack at this editing stuff please go right ahead and join Second Shotz.
What are you passionate about? Have you met another blogger online who shares that passion with you? Is there something that you can collaborate on for fun or... profit?
Drew writes four blogs, is an avid kayaker and a Transformers fan, he also does a mean cake plow. He recently completed taking 1140+ consecutive photos in 1140+ days. You can visit him at The BenSpark, The Wired Kayaker, Read To Me, Dad, Google is not God.
I'm always thinking about things I can blog about. It is a part of my brain that I can no longer turn off. So today when I was handed my lunch from the deli counter at work I got inspired.
I went to the cafeteria to get a Southern Style Brisket & Cheddar Panini. Doesn't the name sound delicious? My mouth was watering thinking about it all morning. So, you can imagine my disappointment when I was handed this.
I also had the added benefit of watching the apathy of the sandwich maker as he grabbed a tiny handful of chips and dumped them and the pickle spears on top of the sandwich. I took the container and looked at it incredulously. Now my chips were not only sparse but they were casually tossed on the sandwich, the pickle spears and pickle juice was also on top of the chips and the sandwich making them soggy. This was not right, where was the awesome sandwich I had in mind. As I contemplated this culinary travesty, in my mind I began to formulate a blog post.
Presentation. It is a large part of what makes food appealing and it is also a large part of what makes your blog appealing. The sandwich I had was so tasty, but I wasn't that thrilled about it after I saw how it was presented. Had I seen the photo above photo before I went to lunch I certainly would not have ordered this sandwich even though what was on the inside was so delicious. The presentation was so poor that it actually made me less excited to eat the sandwich.
So I took less than 30 seconds and rearranged the sandwich to look better. This is what I came up with.
Look at that! You can see the thick slices of brisket, tomatoes and the grill marks of the panini machine. The chips are nicely placed to one side and the pickles aren't leaking pickle juice all over the sandwich. It looks better doesn't it?
So, how does this relate to blogging and your blog? Well, your blog could be the funniest, most well written blog ever but if it looks like everyone else I'm not going to bother to read it to find out. Why? Because you didn't take the time and effort to present your blog in the best way possible. You didn't take the time to make your blog visually appealing to your readers and potential readers. Using a standard template from a free blogging service is like sandwich #1.
Now, you may think that you are only limited to the standard templates that a free blogging service provides you. Nope, No Way, you couldn't be further from the truth. This is a mistake I had made as well and am still making on my blog The Wired Kayaker. With a custom blog theme you can have an amazing blogspot blog that looks nothing like a blogspot blog. Using the templates provided by blogger, wordpress and typepad screams inexperience, apathy and lack of care in your blog. It screams sandwich #1, while the substance may be awesome the presentation is terrible.
Your blog and your blog theme are reflections of you as a blogger. The look of your blog is what you are presenting to the world. As bloggers we have unique perspectives on the world and our blogs should reflect that unique vision. No one will see that you are unique if your blog looks exactly like everyone else. Take a look at either buying a custom theme from a theme design company or from another blogger. There are even bloggers who can help you with a free custom theme. Make that blog of yours reflect you and you alone.
Drew writes four blogs, is an avid kayaker and a Transformers fan, he also does a mean cake plow. He recently completed taking 1140+ consecutive photos in 1140+ days. You can visit him at The BenSpark, The Wired Kayaker, Read To Me, Dad, Google is not God.
There's something about Wordpress I love: it's free! Matter of fact, many people love that, and because of that and all its powerful features, it's become one of the most popular blogging platforms (if not THE most popular) out there. For those of you who use it (and maybe even those of you who don't), you'll probably be aware that Wordpress is open source software. This means that the code that powers it all is freely available for anyone to modify and add to. One great consequence of this is that an engaged community usually forms around the product, and tons of features get built for free. Wordpress is essentially a product of the masses, formed and shaped by dozens and dozens of contributors.
But there are downsides. One of these is that there are just too many options. If any one of you has ever gone hunting for a plugin, you'll know what I mean. There is a virtual sea of plugins, all claiming to do a variation of the functionality you seek, all claiming to do it better than the others, with often very little consensus. How are you to know which plugin to get?
What's worse, sometimes things aren't as simple as you'd like them to be. Open source can often mean a good amount of tinkering, especially if you want to do something that doesn't come with a vanilla install. You're not much of a computer person, and you might have asked a friend to install Wordpress for you (or it already came installed by your host). You can do the writing... but adding a plugin, inserting the code in the appropriate place in your theme, setting the file permissions through FTP, making sure this new plugin is compatible with the other plugins, etc... all this takes a certain level of technical knowledge.
Even worse, it's sometimes necessary to upgrade Wordpress, which means access to FTP, deleting some files but not others, etc. It's not hard, but you have to know how to do it.
In the end, having a Wordpress blog is great... but it requires maintenance. Like a car. And here's where I'd like to plug the services of Joel, the BlogTech Guy. Just like you should take your car to the mechanic every time it requires servicing (although many people don't, and just fix it themselves), you should consider taking your blog to Joel Williams if you don't know how to maintain and service it yourself. No, he's not free. But I've used his services extensively on OhGizmo.com, and can assure you he's extremely competent. He'll do pretty much anything you need him to do, from hunting down plugins, to making sure your theme won't look all funny once you upgrade. His prices are reasonable, and his work ethic impeccable.
Yeah, I know. Paying for this stuff kind of defeats the point of Wordpress being free in the first place. I agree. But once you've spent six straight hours looking for a solution to your problem (and asked the Wordpress community for help dozens of times, only to be ignored), you realize something: your own time is worth something. Isn't it? Your sanity has a price. Joel helps you keep it.
Nah, I'm not prying into your romantic liaisons. I'm more interested in your link love. Has anyone done a great review of your blog lately? Have you had any reviews at all? Do you wake up most mornings to find a slew of new links have come in overnight? If you have a niche blog you may be answering "yes to all." What about you personal bloggers, though? Are you attracting the links that you need to promote your blog and keep readership growing? If not, have you thought about why?
I do link love posts pretty often on my blog, but every now and then someone asks me to do one and I have to turn them down. Not surprisingly, some of these same people are seen from time to time on the Izea Message Boards asking why it's so hard to get links. They usually get polite answers that don't really give them the information they need. It's difficult to be blunt, but someone has be the bad guy. Here I am.
Is your blog something I can be proud to talk about on my blog? Do you feature original content that invites your readers' interest? Having a personal blog is a good way to chronicle your daily life for family and friends. Your mother wants to know how the weather looks outside your window and what you're wearing to work today. Most of the rest of us don't and won't become regular visitors if that's as good as your content gets. If you want to build your readership (and get some linky lovin') you have to give your readers a bit more of yourself. How many blogs have you seen that look something like this:
Day one:
Day two:
and so on, ad infinitum, ad nauseam.
I was also once asked to review a blog that contained nothing but daily memes. On Monday list five things you don't like for breakfast; on Tuesday quote the first line of your favorite poem; on Wednesday post a wordless photo, etc.
Most of the blogs I like the most and visit regularly are personal blogs wherein the bloggers share their daily lives. Many of us do memes from time to time. or even weekly. The problem comes when your posting is formulaic, with no personality coming through. You're meeting the bare minimum to qualify for sponsored posting, but giving nothing of yourself to the blog or your reading audience. How comprehensive can a review be when all we know is that you have lousy weather but the baby is feeling better? Why would anyone want to put more effort into reviewing a blog than the author puts into writing it? Aren't there other interesting things going on around you that you can share?
If you want quality link love posts, give us something to say about you. Flesh out your bare-bones posts and let us get to know you. We want to know about the restaurant where you ate the sexiest chocolate dessert ever. Review it! Some of us are reading the same books and watching the same TV shows that you're fanatical about. Start the conversation and we'll join in. Share your hobbies and leisure-time interests - you may know more about them than the rest of us and have some special insights to share. Heighten our interest with photos and images and links to great sites you've found. Give us something of yourself and we'll blog about it. It's what we do! When you've got your blog pumped up and pimped out, go back to the Marketing & Promotions Forum on the Izea Message Boards and let us know you're ready for some linky love. Posties will be there for you, eager to review your blog, and they'll be proud to have you review their blogs, too.
The image is a Wordle I created for this post, titled "What do you blog about?" Fun site, major timesuck and a nifty way to create customized images you can use for all kinds of applications. Enjoy!
I'm in the San Francisco airport right now and my flight was supposed to leave 2 minutes ago. Well, now it is not leaving for another two hours. That puts me in my own bed after a 5 hour flight sometime after 2:30am. I'm so not looking forward to getting home that early in the morning. I'm also not looking forward to 5 hours jammed in a middle seat in the back of the plane with people who have been delayed already for a couple of hours.
I travel a lot. I unfortunately do not travel on the same airline a lot. This means that my status is non existent on some airlines and I end up in the least appealing seats. Not that any seat outside 1st class is that appealing. Well, there is always "poor man's" 1st class which is the exit row. But that aside I'm stuck in the airport. So I thought of the things I do to kill time when this happens to me. It has happened often in 7 years of travel. And up until a couple of months ago I wasn't getting reimbursed for internet access so these are things to do when you are stranded at the airport and 'unwired'. I'm cheap, what can I say. Plus, I am not a Web 2.0 Entrepreneur and don't have those essentials.
1. Get some exercise.
You might be looking at me and thinking, he doesn't do that one too often. Well, you would be right. But if you have a long delay you have time to take a walk through the airport. This is great in airports like O'Hare because that place is huge. It is not so great in the Fresno airport as it is much too tiny. You can do wind sprints but I'm sure you'd get questioned by security.
2. Rank your iTunes music library.
I can't honestly think of wasting time doing this unless it is an absolute last resort. If you'd rather be a little more productive with iTunes you can create great playlists with that time you have now been "given" from the airlines.
3. Work on your blog.
But Drew, you said that we were unwired, how can we work on our blogs? Well, if you have your laptop but no internet access you can work on some custom graphics that you've been putting off. You can sketch out a new theme that you'd love to work on. Even if you don't know how to create themes you might have some ideas on how your blog should look and there are many bloggers who are very skilled with theme making. And many love to help.
4. Write some blog posts that you've been putting off.
I find that when I am unplugged I am more focused on the task at hand so I tend to write a more thorough blog post when I'm not checking twitterfox, gmail, feed readers and the like. I can hunker down and focus my energy on the task before me. Plus if I type it out on a word processor program I can cut and paste it to my blog very quickly when I am back online.
5. Read a book.
Every airport has a bookstore with the latest books and many have a previously read section. Pick up a cheap one from the bookstore and get lost in an adventure, a thriller or a love story. Reading helps with writing which in turn helps with blogging. If you can't afford a book, look for one lying around. No seriously, there is something called Book Crossing where people leave previously read books out and about for other people to find. And when you find one you can go to the website and input the book information and see where this book has been. When you are done with it release it back into the wild. I released Post Mortem by Patricia Cornwell into the wild on May 26, 2007. It hasn't been heard from since. On my next trip I plan to release a few more. Maybe those will get caught by someone.
6. People Watch.
Watching people scurry around the airport can be fun. Making up stories about were they are going can help expand your imagination and improve your writing style. I like to keep snippets of conversations I overhear to make into stories that someday I will blog. Because sometimes when you hear a snippet of a story your mind just begins to wander.
7. Make money.
Take a page out of Tom Hanks' book from The Terminal and return those Smarte Cartes to their corral. You get a quarter for each you return. Just grab them when no one is looking and put them back. Make sure you take people's stuff off them 1st. Bags tend to get jammed in the corral if you don't remove them. You won't make John Chow money but if you return a few you can go buy a book and do #5
8. Learn a new language.
If you get stranded as much as I do you can spend hours at the Rosetta Stone kiosk. Just keep asking questions of the person manning it. Ask to see the software and try some out. I'm nearly fluent in 14 languages now. Okay, maybe not fluent. I can understand the phrase "Get the heck out of here" in 14 languages.
9. Hit the bar.
You never know who you are going to meet there and you could network with some pretty interesting people. Just don't hit the bar too hard because if you meet someone who runs "drunkenairportbarflies.com" you are going to end up on the front page of that blog and you probably won't get any linky love.
10. Ride the train.
If a large airport has a train like the Dallas airport does you can ride that for hours and look out at all the flights that are getting out on time. If the airport does not have a train then rent a smarte carte. And then ask people to push you on it. Better yet, save the $3.00 and wait for someone else to rent one and ask for a ride. Or you can rent the carte yourself and charge people and push their bags for them.
As you can tell I'm getting a bit stir crazy in the airport and coming up with some wacky ideas. And I'm stuck on the smart carte because my home base is right by the machine. You'd be surprised, or maybe you wouldn't by how many people have no clue how to work that thing.
What do you do in the airport when you are stranded?
Drew writes four blogs, is an avid kayaker and a Transformers fan, he also does a mean cake plow. He recently completed taking 1140+ consecutive photos in 1140+ days. You can visit him at The BenSpark, The Wired Kayaker, Read To Me, Dad, Google is not God.
"Another PostieCard to add to our soon-to-be "PostieCard" Wall."
I read Ashley's latest postcard entry and I like the way that started, so I copied it over. This one comes all the way from Malaysia! It's a very cool postcard that shows part of a city in the early 1900's and then in 2003- neat!
Check it out for yourself, many thanks to Postie Fiona:
The back reads "Hey Guys, Just wanted to drop you a line from Malaysia. You guys are doing a great job!" Why thank you, Fiona! I hope to visit Malaysia one day, but for now, I'll just keep staring at this post card.
Send us your PostieCard! 150 N. Orange Ave, Suite 412, Orlando, FL 32801.
