Some Speed Linkage…
Posted by Stephen on
March 4, 2007
I’d like to thank Saman for the inspiration for this post. He speed linked me on one of his posts, so I thought I’d continue on by speedlinking a few more blogs that I drop by. Speedlinking seems like a great way to spread a little bit of link love and to let people know that you like their stuff. Here are five posts that I’ve randomly chosen. If I didn’t link you today, it doesn’t mean I don’t like you 
- Leo talks about his day on the set of the CTV drama “Whistler”. Our favourite over featured extra from the Battlestar Galactica dishes out the dirt on other extras that seem to think they are better than everyone else. It’s quite funny.
- Tyler is showing off some Dot Com Mogul style! He helped out a fellow blogger with a problem that was plaguing his blog. The blogger, by the name of Paul, was so grateful, he dedicated a whole post to him. Way to go Tyler!
- Clay gets ranty on David Suzuki for using a diesel bus for his Thinking Green tour and takes a poke at Al Gore for living in a house that uses twenty times more power than the average US home.
- MyNewChoice has a great post on approaching the subject of money with children. This is a great one to read for anyone who has rug rats that are starting ask for allowance.
- And Finally…Dan at The Wrong Advices shares his thought on information overload on the web. I’m sure this is something that all of us have run into with the plethora of sites that are available to visit these days. His taskbar looks like mine!
Outstanding work fellow bloggers! Keep it moving! 
Hey, You’re Welcome!
Now, all of the sites that have been linked to here owe me some money!
:raze:
Stephen if your taskbar looks like mine I feel for you
I’ll let you in on a secret too. I actually closed a few windows before I saved that picture so it wouldn’t show that it had overflowed onto a second taskbar. I’m sure you’ve experienced that
What no groups windows? No tabs? or do you display tabs separately?
That’s what I wad thinking - why are there so many Firefox windows open?!
And if I read your blog post before I comments.. I’d known you’d have tabs open within those windows! Double Crazy!
Sorry!
I actually use both FF and IE. It loads up pretty quick. When I run out of tabs, I just open another session, and open more tabs. Repeat.
Wait… when you RUN OUT of tabs? I didn’t even realize that Firefox had a limit. I try to keep myself at a point where I don’t have to rely on that scroll through the tabs function in FF2.
I don’t like my tabs NOT in plain view, so I often just open up a new session, and start new tabs.
That is way to many tabs!! How many different sites do you surf at once?!?!?
I’ll usually go about 15-20 tabs before I spawn a new window. One browser is usually kept open with my standard tools, such as my WP admin interface, webmail, couple of forums, hittail, google reader, etc.
Then I’ll use another window for reading other sites or doing research or whatever.
As soon as I can’t make out what the title of the tab is, I need a new browser.
Come on guys! How can you be involved in that many sites at once? I typically have one or two past the window frame before I say to myself “OK, why the hell are all of these tabs open for?”
Well what happens is I see something I want to read, open a tab, and then continue browsing with the intention of going back to read what I tabbed later.
The problem is by the time I go back to read everything I’ve got multiple tabs/windows open
I do the same thing. While reading one site, I will usually launch any interesting links in a new tab for reading once I am done with the current site. Some sites link out to a good amount of interesting information and that results in a bunch of tabs.
I try to keep my number of tabs below 10. Anything more than that and I realize I have to finish whatever I’m doing in the current tabs first.
I don’t like groups in windows. That’s one of the first things I turn off when I do a fresh install. But that was before I started having these problems
Um…. It might be time to turn Groups back on! It wont remove the info overload, but it will organize it!
Same here dan1el, it’s perhaps the most horrible feature of Windows - you easily lose all the overview.
I must say it’s a smart way to link to people (aka. ask for links back) this way, I’m pretty sure a lot of people will return the favor sooner or later
Link bait-age. Spread the love and get some back.
dooooods…tell me how your doing this speed linkage…I want it!!!
I posted this on my site as a reply to your original question and in the interest of getting the info to you, I’ll post it again (sorry Stephen):
Paul, Speed Linking is not something you “get”, it’s something you do! All I did was find content that I enjoyed and passed it on!
The benefits are win/win for both linkee and linker: For the linkee, they get a free linkback (because they didn’t do anything for the link) and they also get some exposure from visitors outside of their regular reader base! As the linker, I got some visits from the linkee and their regular visitor.
And now I may get some more linkbacks as well!
Stephen, thanks for sharing the link love and linking to one of my posts. It’s always nice to see other people that enjoy a post enough to link to it.
Saman, I’ll have to thank you here for now as well because your site appears to be down right now. I’m getting a 500 error.
Thanks, I know - I’m actually on the phone with my host right now!!!
It was down yesterday too - every time I called, the techs told be there was no problem with the server and it must be my code! Today, they’re saying it’s their server and my site should be up in an hour….
Thanks for the looking out for me!
You’ve got to love the WordPress community!
Thanks Stephen for the speed linkage! As my blog grows I look forward to supporting other buddy’s sites too. Right now I’m pretty much just linking to you a lot, lol.
I noticed that traffic jumped dramatically after I wrote my Speed Link article - maybe that’s your ticket Leo!
Yeah, I was planning on writing a blog on speed linking myself. I should probably get off my ass and just do it.
I noticed your post about the increase in traffic and you are obviously doing something right, good job. I’ll have to watch and see if my own speed linking posts increase traffic.
On a completely unrelated note, has anyone noticed that Nick is quite a ways away from being top comment whore this month?
Don’t count him out! He’s still on the board, and remember what happened last time
Maybe he is just showing us some mercy this month. Or he is sitting back and waiting to pounce later in the month.
HA!
Did you notice who happens to be on top?
The month isn’t over yet, don’t get too excited.
Have you noticed who the top commentator is on most of the site in our little community?
*Saman=Angle*
Damn it! That should read: Angel
Lol, it’s not hard to get top spot on my site right now but I certainly appreciate all of the comments.
No worries, you place your fair share of comments on my site too!
Saman just may be the new comment whore king, because he has over 200 comments on John Chow’s blog already this month… in five days (including a weekend)
Argh you guys are spamming the Top Commentor Whore List on the right side of Stephen’s site! I need to space it out a bit and throw my name in I think
Your space at the bottom is just fine!
I just checked my email then and found like 30 emails telling me there were new posts on here. Damn you whores!
Who me?
*Bats eyes*
Wait - I’m a d00d!
*Thrusts Hips*
That’s better!
A d00d surrounded by a lot of other dudes = thrusting hips still not all that appropriate
That’s man-whore thank you very much!
You’re welcome Mr. Shirtless-Man-Whore!
I’m an attention whore too. I get a lot more attention when I’m shirtless.
Wow, just checked my email. Spent the night at the GF’s and came home to a mailbox full of these comment notifications.
And 75% of them are from Saman. :))
HAAHAHA!!!
Yeah, It’s been a slow day so I’ve kept myself busy!
I’m falling behind as legitimate post whore because I’ve been spending the weekend with friends and my GF. I think Monday is looking pretty open for me