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§ February 18th, 2011 § Filed under blogging about blogging is a sin, sir-links-a-lot § 2 Comments

So I’ve become involved in more online funny business…some of my fellow Bureau Chiefs (the gang responsible for the still-ongoing Fake AP Stylebook and the forthcoming book Write More Good) have started a new project: specifically, Matt Wilson and Ken Lowery have created The Content Farm, a parody of those “how-to” instructional sites that pollute all your attempted Google searches. There is also a related Twitter feed with links to the Tumblr site, as well as original short gags. Anyway, I’ve been contributing to the shenanigans, with my first full-length piece “How to Make A Peanut Butter Sandwich” making it to the main site a couple of days ago. Ken wrote this piece, “How to Tell If You Are Bleeding from The Scalp,” which is my personal favorite and the entry I always cite when trying to explain this site.

We have lots more planned, so please keep visiting The Content Farm for more helpful hints and life strategies.

In other news involving me:

• Dr. Polite Scott revisits that terrible, terrible Superman drawing I posted on this very site a few days ago, examining it from an anatomical point of view.
• The almighty Neilalien posted his annual list of top-referring websites to his own site and I’m proud to be the top personal site sending traffic his way for the third year in a row. I first made it into his yearly top lists back in 2005, and then for three years I was beaten out by Dave’s Long Box…until I was forced to destroy him.

  I think very highly of Neilalien and his fine comics weblogging, and I am happy to send as much traffic as I am able to his uniquely wonderful site. Excelsior, Neil!

• So that eBay auction for original Superman/Pac-Man art that I linked to the other day? Reader Dave found the auction because of my post, and bought that art! Too bad I don’t work on commission!
• And as a reminder, I’m still doing Estate 4.1, the Tumblr website that’s nobody’s sweetheart.