What Are You Looking For
December 31, 2008
Recently, I got an email comment from a visitor to Be Awesome Instead, which read:
I stumbled onto a single image from your site (anyone can be cool but
awesome takes practice). I decided to come check out the rest of the site
and I have to say…disappointed man. Take a stroll around yonder
Intertubes. There’s a whole other level of awesome out there, I think you’d be surprised. I recommend getting a Stumbleupon account and rethinking what’s going on here at beawesomeinstead.com. Ill check back, hope to see some
awesome!
This bothered me at first, but you tend to grow some thick skin when you play online so I took some time, thought on it and replied asking the person to be a bit more specific, what they were looking for and what they expected?
No Answer.
Still it makes me wonder, what are people looking for when they visit BAI? I have all kinds of stats (articles visited, most comments, search terms, etc.) and I try to use these to gauge the content of the site. When BAI first started, it was on a whim and I had no idea what I was doing. I got the name after watching an episode of How I Met Your Mother and hearing Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) say, “When I get sad, I just stop being sad and be awesome instead. True Story.” In fact, the Awesomeness Poster is still a huge part of this site!
The content of the site has wondered at times but I try to focus on great (and awesome) shows I watch like HIMYM and Scrubs as well as other interesting/funny things I would consider awesome. De-motivational posters have been popular, as have some other quite random things I never thought people would care about. (On a side note, it’s really annoying when people hotlink to your content. I have toyed with disabling it but I will hold off for now. Just stop it. Stealing bandwidth like that is not awesome, it sucks. And if you aren’t smart enough to figure how to copy a pic to your own site and host it there and then leave a credit link then feel free to contact me and I will be happy to teach you.) Sorry for the rant, I digress.
I say all that to ask this, what are you looking for here? How I Met Your Mother show recaps? Scrubs stuff? Awesomeness? BAI has increased from it’s awesome beginnings to around 450 unique visits and over 1100 page views a day, so I assume with the growth something keeps people coming back. Sound off below, so the site can better serve you and thanks for visiting.
*note…this is NOT an attempt at a New Years Resolution…Resolutions are worthless. I resolved a long time ago to never make another and I haven’t…see the irony? Besides, if you can’t change when it’s needed waiting until New Years won’t make a difference.
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