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If we had a CEO he would be wishing us all a Happy Festivus or something. Or giving Melissa Gira props for being the 3rd Sexiest Geek on the Planet. But our CEO is being held hostage in a cave with Osama Bin Laden’s niece so back to business keep producing content like its 1969. Our CEO is busy building a Sex Network for the handicapped or something.

So Happy Festivus on behalf of the executive slacker team of Fine Fools. I really appreciate all your hard work you haven’t done for us this year. Seriously.

Cowboy,
Chief Goof Officer
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I’m not sure what the “Boodle” is, but Successful Blog has it and the WashingtonPost recognizes it. Congratulations to Liz for getting some well-deserved recognition.

Engadget links to ILC thanks to Darren. Traffic is growing, more sites are being added, and everyone is laughing. Those silly Fine Fools.

When I wrote about my posting schedule (mildly revised to include broader ranges) I couldn’t let the idea in my head that the sites I was writing for would simply be sites where every single entry is linking to another site. For the short term this may be the case with Movable Phone because I admit to not being as knowledgeable in that arena as I am in others, but with sites like Gardgy I figured I could offer a couple of entries with a bit more insight and it seems it has already paid off.

My mini thought piece on the video iPod and Sony has been linked on MacSurfer and they always provide you with a good surge of traffic. Hopefully I can keep up the posting and quality to keep some of the people coming back. Glad to see Yahoo picked the perfect time for their ad network to go down…

It took a little more than 48 hours, but the Fine Fools community has received its first link from one of the big dawgs. Bryan Veloso’s article Dancing Disturbances Revealed was such a good read that I thought I would submit it to Joystiq and Kotaku. Brian Ashcraft from Kotaku emailed me soon after with:

This is amazing. Will post.

Still waiting on the entry, but I thought that was cool. Then I checked the logs for Insert25 and saw a lot of hits coming from Joystiq and discovered that they wrote a bit on Bryan’s article. Very, very cool because Joystiq has recently made their stats public and they are pushing over 90,000 visitors daily.

People wonder why I place such heavy emphasis on original, quality content. I’m not saying that these sites won’t have entries offering blurbs and linkouts, but it’s these entries that bring the people back.

Well done Bryan. Now who’s next?

My buddy and inspirational source Darren Rowse has posted very thought-provoking read on model being offered by the Fine Fools Community. I’m intentionally staying out of this one because I would rather see what other people’s thoughts are without me ruining the conversation so make sure to voice your opinion.

As is the case with Darren’s latest venture, b5media, there is money to be made by everyone. How much? Hell if I know, because I can’t say I have done this on this kind of scale before, but I guarantee we will find out.

I have talked about Nick Douglas and his humorous site Blogebrity before over at the 9rules blog. Even though he probably doesn’t get the recognition he deserves (he really is all over the web and knows what’s going on) I have a great deal of respect for him so I am glad that he has offered up his opinions on the Fine Fools Community and they seem to be pretty good.

Highlights:

• It’s Useless is his favorite so far and I would probably admit to it being my favorite to write for. Something about a site where anything goes that just makes it so much fun to write for.
• I Like Cameras (wait till you see what some of the writers have in store for it) will be more useful than Gardgy due to the fact that there are enough generic gadget blogs around. However, he missed the conversation I had with my Grandmother in which I informed her of this community and she said you can’t have a blog anything without a generic gadget blog. Incidentally, I Like Cameras is the site that gets the most applications.
• Damn I’m Cute doesn’t need to exist because “Celebrity blogs aren’t crying for neighbors”. I am talking to a very smart and funny woman about this blog and I predict it will be the highest trafficked site in the initial eight after 6 months.
• Insert 25 is great because it “focuses less on the usual news and more (in the 3 posts so far) on gaming customs”. That’s the kind of stuff I like to hear. Although there will be newsbits here and there all of the writers know what is expected of them and I think you will see more original content than anything. I think this site will become either the #2 or #3 site from the initial 8 due to the anime features.

He finishes with:

All in all, a fun baby network, which we’ll watch for growth and variety. Lucky you, when these sites are all established A-listers with colorful chrome and user communities, you can recall their old-school plain-vanilla-layout days.

You never know…