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Post #500: How to Create and Maintain an Award-Winning Blog

If you’ve been around these parts long, you’ll know that I love lists. If you’ve known me long then you’ll know that I’m all about helping others reach their full potential. If you actually know me, then you’ll know that there is absolutely no evidence that points to the previous sentence being true… until now. [...]

new year, new bloglooks

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Depending on when you jumped on the proverbial party bus that is online diary for the masses, it may have looked a number of different ways. Some of you, upon your first visit to these parts, were greeted by [...]

notable “came from’s” 2.0

In August 2008, I posted a piece about the various ways Internet users arrive at my blog. A year later, most of the means by which people land here aren’t big surprises: rss feeds, friends’ blogs, the occasional stranger’s blog. (Stranger: I am so, so thankful that you decided to link me in your blog’s [...]

“I generally don’t think girls are funny, but…”

Several weeks ago I met my dear friend Stroupid for coffee and some much-needed catch up time. At one point our topic of conversation turned to a girl in his community who is allegedly very funny. In order to ensure that I fully understood how funny this girl was, Stroupid said, “In the words of [...]

blogs I won’t read

I subscribe to 130 blogs. Most of those belong to people I know personally, the rest contain wonderful information on things like photography, graphic/web design, or things I deem funny.
Lately, since I don’t have Internet access at Sandia, I open up my Google Reader at local coffee shops to find an unattainable number of new [...]

notable “came from’s”

Being that I’m so shamelessly obsessed with my own blog, it should come as little surprise to anybody that I’m also on the up and up when it comes to how many (or few) people are visiting odfm, and where those people are coming from.
Most of the folks who come to these parts get here [...]

on blogging…

“Blog”.
That’s got to be one of this day’s most well-known words that didn’t exist a decade ago. Everybody and their dog has a blog these days. If you find yourself in a group of Internet-savvy people and you asked them if they either have a blog, or read blogs, I bet the great majority of [...]

happy birthday odfm!

It’s really remarkable how quickly they grow up isn’t it? It seems like just yesterday, inspired by Joshua Langston’s late blog, I set up an account with blogger to keep my friends and family up-to-date with my Oriental travels. When prompted to come up with a name for my new creation, I chose one I [...]

welcome to derrickoliver.com!

Greetings to all. I’m happy that you made it here. As you can see, this is the hippest and classiest online diary for the masses has ever looked. Well don’t worry, because the quality of content that odfm will offer at this new (and permanent) address will certainly continue being less than hip and far [...]

I can take a hint

I have no doubt that I could go ahead and leave this post a simply a picture (as I did when I redefined beauty), but I feel that both a bit of commentary and an inquiry are in order.
First I’d like to point out that both of the highest trafficked days for odfm were days [...]