lioness in japan

After dealing with a sleepless night, I staggered out of my futon like a bear with a sore head. I think it was the umeshu (plum liquor) I had last night at dinner and I was maybe feeling a little stressed about getting things done, so I watched several episodes of Brothers & Sisters till 4am.

But at midday, as I went through my RSS reader, I clicked on ProBlogger.net, blogging evangelist Darren Rowse’s blog about blogging tips, and saw that Lioness in Japan was featured on his post today, Reflections on 48 Hours of Inviting Readers to Comment ‘Spam’ My Blog.

Okay that title doesn’t sound very positive so let me give you some background to this story. Over the weekend, Darren put up a post to call his readers to pitch their blog in 140 words or less (very much in the vein of Twitter). He did that to create something for bloggers who want to publicise their blogs in his space because he constantly gets requests to give links to other bloggers, to which he almost always turns down. Fair enough, in my opinion. If it’s not related to the content, sorry it can’t happen.

So to round up that little exercise, he blogged about his thoughts on the overwhelming response he got and that this was an amazing case of an effortless post that went viral in ballistic proportions. Then he also included 10 of his favourite blog pitches, amongst which my pitch was mentioned. The kangaroo mused it had to do with the Aussie kangaroo connection since Darren is from Melbourne.

Here’s my pitch:

About a lioness travelling with a big kangaroo round the world. Right now, we are feeding at a watering hole called Tokyo - Lioness in Japan

Should I change my present blurb to that instead?

As I mentioned before, I have a personal policy of leaving a valuable comment if I read through an entire post. Not only do I get a link back to any one of my blogs, it’s also my way of trying to be part of that blog’s community. It is a long and arduous process, like any kind of relationship building, but it definitely has its pay-offs.

It may be a tiny victory in the big scheme of things but I can tell you that I have a pep in my step today because it feels like I’m making some significant headway.

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