My Squidoo Pages
So once again I am taking a me day. 3 in one week, a new record, (by like 2 days.) And tomorrow I have art group so again will be away. (I’m aflutter with anticipation as Connie is bringing all my handpaper pages to me. They had to dry thoroughly before they could be handled, so they have been decorating her basement for awhile.)
I have been noticeably absent from blogging lately, mostly due to the creation of some Squidoo lenses. For those of you unfamiliar it is kinda like wikipedia but a whole lot more commercialized.
I’m not so much interested in the commercialization stuff (and frankly was a little disappointed in some of my search results coming up with pretty much pages full of ads with no “real” content) but I am interested in expanding my web prescence and as I said previously I wanted to keep the blog posts that are of an informational or tutorial nature within easy access. (see sidebar)
Surprisingly, despite the fact the most everything has already been written in a blog post, it still seems to take 1-3 hours to create a lens. (A lens means the same thing as a page. Why do they call them lenses? According to Squidoo, “to be difficult.”)
Looking around some people have like 500 lenses and have only been a part of Squidoo for a year or two. (Maybe that’s why there are so many advertisment pages posing as content.) I should say I’ve only done a couple of searches, you know like oil pastel artist, animal artist and horse artist. But for those topics, not much out there. Hey maybe that’s why I’m there now. To fill the need.
At any rate, I did sketch out another critter to be done on the handmade paper. And no, it’s not a cow or a horse. Maybe if all the stars align correctly in the heavens I will go in and work on it on Sunday and post a picture or two then.
Ooh, I look forward to seeing your new critter painting!
About the advertising - you find the same sort of thing with blogs because basically it’s free webspace. I’ve seen “blogs” that just advertise a company or particular product. It’s so cheap.
I agree about it being on the cheap side. I understand the desire to make passive income through monetization, but at least offer some actual content. I’d rather fail with honor than succeed through fraud. (Got that from Star Wars)
I’ve tried Squidoo and made one or two lenses, but I got lost in it fast. It does take a long time to post anything and it’s very ad-heavy.
I like real blogs like yours, so if your lenses are mirroring the blog I’ll stick to reading the updates and enjoying them!
Looking forward to your next mystery critter! Of course being me, I hope you do another big cat! Or a little cat. Or a very young cat of any species or breed. I’m a serious cat nut.
Robert
I am pretty sure that I will always post the content first on the blog and then make a lens of it. I can’t really imagine a reason to do it the other way ’round.
Sorry Robert, no cats this time. I’ve been wanting to do my chicken for a while now. I do also want to do some domestic cats sometime soon. So many painting ideas, so little time.