Since Mum admitted that she doesn’t actually read my blog (she just skims it for sound-bites to drop into conversation when we’re on the phone), I’ve been wondering what I can do to bring my readership back to its hey-day levels. Who knows, maybe I should aim for much greater numbers: five, six or even seven readers!
Whoa! Settle down there. Don’t get too excited, Brett. Surely, the only way to build such an extensive readership is to use fancy gimmicks, like free give-aways. But how shallow would that be? It would be just like that time at school, when I found out that two-thirds of my friends were on Dad’s payroll.
All kidding aside, I was chuffed to get an email from a journalist, Chris Taylor, yesterday:
“Kudos [that's a good thing - I looked it up] I enjoy your blog! Keep up the good work!”
To top it off, Mr Taylor is not just any old journalist. He lives in New York and has written for Esquire, GQ, Fortune and The Financial Times. And he’s won journalism awards!
So who looks silly now, Mum?!
Just so you know, before writing this, I checked with Dad’s accountant (my brother) to make sure that he hasn’t been sending cheques to Mr Taylor.
When he’s not busy winning awards, Chris writes Everything Indonesia, my good-news source.
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U have one at least. me!
I read it religiously (literally - I do read it when the (religious) authorities don’t deem it offensive and block access). What I want to know is how I could have interviewed you and not extracted the hammerhead shark story (see 10 things) - if you had told me that I would have employed you on the spot - no more questions asked!
@sara: ah, but then what secrets would i have up my sleeve? it’s not like i could whip out #7 (figuratively speaking, of course)