Don’t forget to turn your clocks back one hour this weekend. I know I could use the extra sleep. However, at the designated Turn Back the Clock time (2:00 am), I will most likely be driving home from Baltimore after a very long day volunteering for a marching band championship show. I don’t see sleep in my weekend forecast.
Now for something meta-related… I signed up for BlogExplosion which presents your website to other internet surfers if, while using their interface, you browse random weblogs who have also registered. I’m not sure that it’s worth it. I’ve noted a lot of new visitors here, but what’s really the point of getting random visitors? It would be nice if they come back and read often outside of the BlogExplosion system, but I bet most people browsing through BlogExplosion are only doing so to give their sites more exposure. I don’t know, I haven’t decided if it’s a waste of my time yet. It probably is, but I hope other browsers are getting something out of it if they happen to be served my site. To those people: “Hello!”
I’ve had a great experience with BlogExplosion in terms of getting feedback on what I’ve written and feeling like I have a more immediate audience for stuff. They may not all be likeminded (hell, I know they’re not), but there’s a new feature where you can list up to 25 blogs to your “Do Not View” list, so I trust that anyone I seriously offend doesn’t have to see my blog again.
I’ve also found a ton of sites to BlogMark, and I do read them again. Credits–you can buy those pretty cheap (cheaper than any other advertising I’ve ever done for my website) if you care so much about exposure. It’s the community aspect of BlogExplosion that I like.