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06/16/2012 6 Comments
So I have been tasked with figuring out what I can do to grow my blog’s community. This makes me think about what I have learned so far, what has worked to create readership so far. So, I will be looking a bit at my stats, and thinking through what the NunesMagician has said.
DBCOX Stats for June 9, the busiest day for the blog so far.
06/10/2012 Leave a comment
After 75 years of searching, have we finally found the lost Amelia Earhart? So says The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) at this year’s Earhart Search 75 conference. What a way to lead off the conference! New evidence has been found – a jar of period anti-freckle cream – that places the crash on Nikumaroro Island in the southwestern Pacific.
We here at dbcox have been watching the evidence for years, and it seems the radio transmissions that some attributed to Earhart likely were her… but by the time help was near Nikumaroro Island, her now-famous Lockheed Electra may have been swept away by the tides. With no aircraft to see from the skies, the island would have been easy to overlook. And as an unpopulated island, there would have been no help to find – which we would expect today, as Earhart was never found.
And now, what better way to commemorate the 75th anniversary than the TIGHAR expedition to try and find evidence of the sunken Electra?
Check out the original breaking story at Discovery News! And don’t forget to let us know what you think down below in the comments!
(Disclaimer: This is part of an assignment about building content for a blog, this post in particular about breaking a news story in a blog. The blog and its author make no actual claims about being a blog dedicated to Amelia Earhart, this was instead part of the assignment. The original breaking news can be found at CNN. Best of luck to the TIGHAR expedition!)
06/08/2012 Leave a comment
This week we are looking at what sorts of content blogs regularly post. Which means this is also prep for building our own content.
So three approaches:
I was thinking about “writing” as my topic, but my initial look shows that directly blogging fiction is somewhat rare, and will take some deeper digging on my part. Sadly, the people who have so far found this blog seem to have found it from the writing angle as well (liking what I have seen so far at The Literary Man). But I just don’t feel like the subject matter expert there yet.
However, I was just at the Art of Video Games exhibit at the Smithsonian, and I think I could create some good content around video games. So expect to see these posts coming up here in the next couple of days!
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