30 Seconds of Fame
I received an unexpected phone call from my husband yesterday morning. He was calling to report that someone had seen me on the local nightly news. No, I wasn’t pulled over for an overdue inspection sticker or for writing poetry while driving. It seems that WDBJ-7 was doing a news report on regional blogs and mine was included in the report, or at least, as my husband retells it, my blog title and photo flashed on the TV screen, proving once again that blog connections work in the most mysterious ways.
I tried to find out more about the story at the WDBJ website and wasn’t able to. But my search led me to the Roanoke Times “Columnists” page. Here I discovered my photo on a sidebar with a caption that read “Featured Blog.” Wow, did I win something? Nobody told me.
I knew that my blog was included in the Roanoke Time’s “Blogging in Southwest Virginia” list, along with my fellow Floyd bloggers, Fred First and Doug Thompson, and handful of others from Roanoke and Blacksburg. But to be featured on another page was a total surprise. I figure The Roanoke Times blog list is where the TV station got the lowdown on Loose Leaf.
How cool is that? And hey, how come those news people haven’t left me any comments?
3:00 P.M. Post note: I just figured out what I won; a spot on Roanoke Time’s online front page. If you scroll down to the bottom of the page, it says: Blog: Home alone, with weary head screwed on right By Colleen Redman, in reference to recent posts.
May 5th, 2005 1:00 pm
Can I have your autograph? ;0)
May 6th, 2005 10:08 am
Kewl! I don’t how folks from California and Michigan are finding the Roanoke Times bloggers list, but I am getting visits from all over from that page. Go figure. I’m sure especially with being ‘featured’ you’re hearing from folks who find this page at RT. Enjoy the 15 minutes, Colleen!
May 6th, 2005 10:18 am
I checked out the Columnists link. There you are! That is pretty cool.
Have your stats gone up substantially now that more people can easily find you?
May 6th, 2005 12:11 pm
I haven’t really noticed more traffic via the Roanoke Times list…but I think I can “feel” people reading. Karen, maybe you can enlighten me on checking my blog “stats.” The only thing I know about thus far is Technorati (and those links seem to expire after a while).