10 Epic Pop Culture Fails is an example of a linkbait headline.
LINK BAIT IS A TERM USED BY INTERNET MARKETERS to indicate a type of writing that is used to generate interest in your subject matter. Basically, anything that you write that can get people blogging about what you’ve written, discussing it on forums, watching it on TV, buying your magazine, posting on social websites like del.icio.us — all can be categorized as “link bait”.
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If you have kids (or have friends that do), chances are that you have seen first-hand both the destruction that kids can do to practically anything of value in the home, as well as the “art” that the parents feel they need to hang on their office wall to share with their co-workers.
So today, Web Watch takes a look at these two sides of the child-rearing coin:
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Animusic – Animated Music Video
We all have those nifty MP3 audio programs, such as WINAMP or WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER that display funky animations on screen when the audio is playing.
And on our iPod / iPhone / Android devices, the music players will display the static album cover as artwork in order to give you something to look at while you’re scanning through your music library.
So why not put the two ideas together?
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Web Watch knows that our Web Watch readers have tons of embarrassing photos of themselves from when they were younger and lacked any sort of fashion sense or humility.
Didn’t everyone have that plaid pants/white belt combo? Yeah, thought so… we think it was required dress code for the under-8 set.
But think about your parents, trying to save a buck or two by doing basic haircuts at home instead of taking the kids to Supercuts or Great Clips or the local mall salon that charges you $20 just to ask the receptionist a question.
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Are you a hipster?
Do you live in some hip world full of other hip people? Constantly gazing off into the distance from your hipster pad while you listen to all that hipster post-modern music?
Do you have an ironic goatee?
Is being a hipster all it’s cracked up to be? Maybe YOU’RE AN UNHAPPY HIPSTER.
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RUNNING FROM CAMERA is a funny original blog idea.
Muggezifter, the blog creator, had a great idea for original self-portraits.
He sets the camera down on a stable surface (or has a friend/stranger hold the camera), sets the self-timer for 2 seconds, and then runs away from the camera as fast as possible.
Yup, can’t be any simpler than that.
Certainly makes those staged posed photos on your next vacation seem a bit old-fashioned, doesn’t it?
Bloggers, being the new century journalists that they are (yes, we’re thinking of you Perez!), have to walk a fine line between the low-cost of entry to the world of online publishing and the low-cost return on investment they get on what they’re writing about.
This does explain the current glut of blog-as-book deals that Web Watch has shown you over the past few months, because mama bloggers gotta eat, and blogging by itself just isn’t enough to pay the bills.
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In YET ANOTHER NOSTALGIA BLOG-TURNED-POSSIBLE-EXPLOITATIVE BOOK DEAL, Web Watch points you to GROWING UP HEROES, a photoblog of old family photos that have been submitted by the site’s readers.
In this case, the family photos are of children (and others) dressed up as their favorite superheroes.
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Detroit’s Hans Steiniger knows all about what it takes to be a true football fan.
That’s because HANS STEINIGER HAS VISITED ALL 31 NFL STADIUMS as part of a four-year quest to complete a unique journey of experiencing each stadium as a “local fan”. Yup, he attended the games as a local would – in full jersey, face-painted, bead-wearing, cheesehead-toting regalia.
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My Fault, I’m Female – it’s like FML, but for women
I am Woman
Remember F***MY LIFE (aka “FML”) that Web Watch told you about last year?
That’s the website where people bitch and complain about how their life sucks more than yours, and everyone gets to vote on their favorite F-ups?
Apparently, that site wasn’t catering directly enough to women.
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