So you wanna make the rec list do ya? You wanna have your name up in lights at the top right corner of the screen. You wanna have so many comments that your comments have comments, and your comment's comments have comments, and you comment's comment's comments have comments and your...well, I think you get the picture.
Well buddy, today's your lucky day. Cuz I've been there my friend. I've been to the top and have smelt the sweet success of temporarily rec list stardom. I've been there twice my friend. Twice! That's so many times I have to use both hands. So if anybody knows the secret, its me.
More after the fold...
Now listen close, cuz I'm only going to say this one time. This blog has thousands of writers, spanning every conceivable vocation and avocation. We have doctors and lawyers, politicians and writers, smart people, dumb people, the rich and the poor. So you've got to be able to make yourself stand out in the crowd. Here are a few tips.
- Be ridiculously funny. Everybody likes a good laugh, especially us liberals.
- Be able to predict the future, and don't ever compromise in doing so. Maybe you could even be a good enough soothsayer to start your own successful soothsayer site. (Did you like the alliteration? ;)
- Be smart and funny, and never compromise. Even when what you have to say isn't popular, we'll still respect you for it.
- Commit yourself to knowing a particular topic inside and out, and educate the hell out of all of us about it.
- If you can tell us the story, show us the story.
- Make people get off their asses and do something.
- Tackle the big problems in a way the lay person can understand.
- Make us smile.
- Or make us cry.
- Or you could just start your own blog and do whatever the hell you wanted.
Or you could just do what I did and sit around all day looking at all of the news sites and waiting for something interesting to pop up and try to beat everyone else to the punch. But I think there's something to be said for talent.