“I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and doggone it, people like me.”
August 28, 2008 – 7:09 pm | by nerd's eye viewWelcome to Nerd's Eye View. If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Want to know more about this site? See the Meet the Nerd page. And thanks for reading!
I’ve been nominated for a “!Love This Site” award, go figure. The nomination appears on Diviine Caroline, a site I post to four times a month - and apparently, they nominated me themselves. There are a bunch of other blogs in my category - travel - but nominations are open. You could nominate yourself or your favorite blog, but hey, why not vote for me? Because you want the fabulous prize? Of course you do. It’s a 250USD Visa gift card. That’s a nice starter chunk towards a ticket to Santiago, Chile, don’t you think?
If you wanted to stand between me and Santiago, you can nominate yourself here. If you think there’s nothing you’d rather do than read Nerd’s Eye View dispatches from Santiago, Chile (or whatever place catches my fancy, should I win) then you could vote for me here. (Did I mention I’m coming to stay with you, Santiago reader? Don’t worry, I don’t smoke, steal stuff, and I’m a pretty good cook.)
I realize these things are more about popularity than quality, so when the prize goes to someone else, I will make snarky remarks about how, yeah, they sure knew how to get votes. Unless I win, in which case, I will say things about how popularity is all fine and well, but without stellar quality, you can never be popular and isn’t it nice that all my hard work is paying off? I will say either or both of those things with such grace and style that you will not know what I am talking about, and I will say glowing things about the winner, too. You’ll be confused. That’s why I’m telling you what I mean right now. It’s this kind of candor that makes Nerd’s Eye View so popular.
Whatever you decide to do, you could also take a few minutes to check out Divine Caroline. It’s a very pretty magazine style site focused primarily, but not exclusively, on writing for and by women. The ads on the my sidebar come through their network. I’m a “featured writer” which means that sometimes my stories show up on their home page. For the record, I haven’t seen a big spike in traffic since joining their network and I earn very little money off the ads, but I stay with them because I like the way the site looks.
And because they like me.
In case you don’t know the reference, here’s Stuart Smalley on Wikipedia.
6 Responses to ““I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and doggone it, people like me.””
By Mary Jo on Aug 28, 2008 | Reply
Love ya, voted for ya!
By eileen on Aug 28, 2008 | Reply
Hey! I’m that reader in Santiago (I think!). I happen to have a couch that’s long enough for most people to sleep on. After you see my upcoming blog post about the size of my kitchen, you might not want to think too much about cooking here, but perhaps you like a challenge.
So… when are you coming?
By laradunston on Aug 28, 2008 | Reply
Congrats on the nomination!
I’m not a fan of the site though - for the very fact that they exploit writers by not paying for their content. Those guys are rich - they’re doing extremely well, making big $ and yet won’t pay for content… they’re on my black list unfortunately.
By nerd's eye view on Aug 29, 2008 | Reply
@eileen: You’ve seen right through me. And there, I thought I was being so subtle. Oops.
@Lara: I was on the fence about joining and decided to do a trial run to see if I made any money at all from the ad network. Ask me at the end of the year if I’ll renew. I average about five bucks a post now in revenue. Which, no, is not enough.
By UptakeInOH on Sep 1, 2008 | Reply
Congrats on the nomination! But interesting commentary on their treatment of writers. I suppose if you are a fast writer it could be worth it. But I’m slow, so I agree that $5 per post isn’t that great. Some people can whip up content in a flash, though, so perhaps for others it’s not a bad gig.
By Shaula on Sep 10, 2008 | Reply
I’d never heard of Divine Caroline before. Thank you for the heads up, and best wishes on the blog award!