Worth following
"I feel like I dozed off in the Lifeskills 101 class, and now I have to crib other people's notes," writes Strumpet22, my favorite of Nerve's new promo bloggers.
The mature-but-literate audiences-only site is trying a unique approach to boosting traffic and funds to its personals section. The site is hiring bloggers to date solely through the section and then report the results online. Strumpet22 and five others are the first bunch. Every two months, viewers are going to vote someone off the island.
Nerve editors, of course, plan then to replace the dismissed with new bloggers. Why? They don't explain. I imagine it's because they've got a great promo idea and they know it.
None of the first crew's work has yet lived up to Nerve's no-limits essence, but maybe that's what happens when you have to post your picture and face the accountability of an archive. Is that disappointing? I don't think so. Your coked-up exploits with the '99 Atlanta Falcons (or their cheerleaders) may have been fabulous — but do you have a sister who's, you know, normal?
Not normal normal. More like working at normal but falling short every day and being kind of happy you only got as far as you did. As my new fave described her blog getting started: "This reminds me of the time I arrived at Jenny Lucio's birthday party an hour early, and then sat around wearing a Smurfs party hat and a dour expression while the Lucios blew up the Moonwalk."
"My blog," she adds, "needs a Moonwalk."
August 13th, 2010 at 6:46 AM
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