No sooner did I go to the trouble of setting up an Outhouse (and having it pointed out that I may as well have used my already-existing Posterous page), we appear to be taking steps to bring the big daddy site back from the dead. NickMB.co.uk may return soon, hopefully prettier than ever before. Certainly, it will be powered by WordPress, as I grew a little bored of the B2 Evolution blog engine. (Even if it was a nice talking point to be using a package that no-one had heard of.)
Anyway, that is not my biggest internet news. I have begun my webcomic, Behatted, a story of small hats, adventure and… yet more small hats. It’s somewhat amateurishly drawn (that’s putting it mildly), but I’m very proud of it; I think I’ve hit upon something good. The first episode went up this morning, and it will continue to appear even Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
So, yeah. Tell all your friends, recommend it on your favourite strange social bookmarking site, etcetera etcetera.
To try and get people to actually look at my hard work, I’ve been delving into the odd world of Digg, StumbleUpon, etc. It’s an odd service, much-abused by people like me who desperately want to promote themselves, but maybe they don’t care, as people abusing them keeps their hit counts going up.
What bemuses me, actually, is that I always hear people talking about using these sites to promote their own work, but I hear very little about anyone actually going onto them to find things to look at. Where do the people who look at my site come from?
(Having said that, I had a very gratifying moment today when someone I know went on a “Stumble” and actually “Stumbled Upon” the Behatted site. That was very cool.)
Enough for now. But yes, I am now doing webcomics and internet promotion, and it is strange. I think that was my point.
