Paul Bunyan: Biggest B’logger’
In a blog dedicated to commenting on other blogs, mention must be made of the greatest blogger that ever lived.
‘Tis an old-fashioned tale, for old-fashioned times, ’bout an old-fashioned fella, but that’s the way he woulda’ wanted it:
Naturally, just getting Paul Bunyan online was already no mean feat. There was no broadband available in the remote areas of the woods where they’d been working, so the first thing he had to do was string optical cable from the nearest T1 line, which was clear down in St. Paul. For anybody but Paul Bunyan, that would have been near impossible, but ol’ Paul just ordered a couple flatbeds of the finest glass windows Minnesota had to offer, chewed’em all up in a single mouthful, and drew’em out between his teeth to spin three hundred miles of perfect fiber optics. Then he just coiled it all up in a loop, and walked all the way into town, stringing that cable all the way. So getting online wasn’t a real problem.
No, the real problem was using a computer built to the scale of a normal man! To Paul, the biggest font available was like microfiche, and he’d never been fond of reading much but lumber futures, anyway. And the largest screen they could find was no better than an old Nokia mobile phone for Paul.
For the whole story, check it out here.
Another excerpt, that could be helpful to any blogger looking for fame and glory in the blogging world:
People read blogs because blogs tell them what they are in the process of thinking. Blogging is a two-way street; the activity of blogging, like other community communication (forums and the like), is to evolve concepts and ideas — even though they may well be trivial. So Paul had been going about the business all wrong! Instead of telling people what he thought they wanted to hear, he had to understand what they wanted to hear first, and then say that.
…To achieve the goal he’d set himself, he effectively had to get out ahead of the whole human race, think what they were going to be thinking in a day or an hour or even in five minutes, and nudge himself in the right direction…
So, thats what I have to do in order to get webfamous! Evolve concepts. Say what people are thinking BEFORE they are thinking it! Hmm… Get to work on that.
