Seth’s blog:How to get traffic for your blog

Wow, the list is good. 56 of them but I’m picking some for here.

1. Use lists.
2. Be topical… write posts that need to be read right now.
3. Learn enough to become the expert in your field.
5. Be timeless… write posts that will be readable in a year.
6. Be among the first with a great blog on your topic, then encourage others to blog on the same topic.
7. Share your expertise generously so people recognize it and depend on you.
9. Write short, pithy posts.
19. Do email interviews with the well-known.
24. Post your photos on flickr.
28. Assume that every day is the beginning, because you always have new readers.
37. Keep tweaking your template to make it include every conceivable bell or whistle.
38. Write about blogging.
39. Digest the good ideas of other people, all day, every day.
40. Invent a whole new kind of art or interaction.
45. Dress your blog (fonts and design) as well as you would dress yourself for a meeting with a stranger.
46. Edit yourself. Ruthlessly.
48. Be patient.
49. Give credit to those that inspired, it makes your writing more useful.
51. Write about only one thing, in ever-deepening detail, so you become definitive.
56. Write stuff that people want to read and share.

I made an interesting discovery tonight that there are a number of well-known, both fictional and non-fictional, characters that were orphaned. I find this personal because I was also an orphan myself before I was adopted by Deaf parents that I couldn’t imagine not having them as my parents.

My favorite comic character is Batman. In fact, I’m wearing a Batman t-shirt right now, heh. He’s my favorite because first, he doesn’t possess any superhuman powers. He’s a mortal human being just like you and me. Instead, he relies on his intellect, physical prowess, mental toughness, knowledge of science and technology, and build gadgets to enable him to do the job he needed to do. The last part is especially important because I make use of technology to bypass communication barriers as a deaf person. If it wasn’t for technology we have today, well, I couldn’t imagine, we’d probably be as dumb as next dog.

Anyway, I found this interesting article that discusses people who were an orphan.

1) Batman. His parents died when he was a young kid.
2) Superman. His home planet got exploded and the Kents family found him on a farm.
3) Spider-Man. Raised by his uncle and aunt.
4) Harry Potter. His parents were killed by the evil sorcerer Voldemort when he was a baby.
5) The Great Moses. His mother left him in a basket on the Nile river. Pharaoh’s daughter adopted him.
6) Romulus and Remus. Taken care by a she-wolf. Went on to found the city of Rome.
7) King Arthur. Pulled the sword out of the stone and ultimately became a king. I loved the animation version made by Walt Disney.
8. Cinderella. Every girl’s favorite fairy tale.
9) Dorothy in the “Wizard of Oz.”
10) Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.
11) Dickens’ Oliver Twist and Pip from The Great Expectations.
12) Anakin Skywalker, Luke and Leia Skywalker.
13) Frodo Baggins from Lord of the Rings. His parents, Drogo Baggins and Primula Brandybuck “went out boating on the Brandywine River; and [they] were drowned, and poor Mr. Frodo only a child and all.”
14) Alexander Hamilton. An illegitimate, largely self-taught orphan from the Caribbean, George Washington’s most trusted aide, co-author of The Federalist Papers, the country’s first Treasury secretary and of course, the face of the ten-dollar bill.
15) Dave Thomas - adopted as a baby, never met his birth parents. Went to become the founder of Wendy’s fast food restaurant.
16) Leo Tolstoy - lost his mother when he was two, and his father when he was nine. Often regarded as one of the greatest of all novelists ever.
17) Faith Hill - adopted as an infant. The only female artist to have three consecutive albums debut at Number One on the Billboard albums chart.
18) Edgar Allan Poe. His father left the family and his mother died from tuberculosis. One of the America’s most well-known writers.

Ha, saw this list from Alvin Woon. Thought I’d borrow the list.

1. the hippie
2. the Alabama girl
3. the funny one
4. the goddess of sex (well, I wouldn’t call her a goddess but she was a freak.)
5. the devoted kind
6. the teary angel
7. the confused bisexual
8. the honest and humble
9. the suicidal depressive (I hope I’ll never get to date such a girl.)
10. the hot but doesnt know she is hot type(or pretend to be) (yeah, she was sizzling hot but a rich spoiled bitch anyway.)
11. the heartbreaker (ha, I’ll never forget her. Invited me as her prom date and later that night, she went out with another guy and made out with him in some friend’s house while I slept in the backseat of a friend’s car. Yes, I was a pathetic big-time loser back then. Our friendship was royally damaged and never recovered. Made me wish I never had gone, not because of what happened but our friendship was lost.)
12. the novelist (she would even circle my grammar-prone in our letter exchanges.)
13. the Rachel Mcadams look alike (I don’t even know what a Rachel Mcadam is supposed to look like.)
14. the shy girl
15. the sweet one
16. the romantic
17. the rich bitch (and she was really a bitch.)
18. the drum-playing girl
19. the gothical tomboy (she was kinda the half of that, wore a pair of black Doc Martens boots all the time, neurotic and couldn’t run a mile.)
20. the disc-spinning VJ
21. the environmentalist
22. the geek girl. (we were same majors but man, it was boring.)
23. the innocent apple-faced type (boy, was she really innocent…)
24. the mommy girl> (well not really but she was very studious, carried a 4.0 gpa throughout college and would be only student I know and (dated) who received the highest award possible, the Outstanding Undergraduate Scholarship Award. Not to mention, she knew more beers than I did and the difference between ales and lagers. She was probably overmatched for me.
25. the next door girl