Hi! I have a blog you know. Wait before your eyes glaze over I just want to tell you it’s all about nothing and everything that matters to me. Really!

I’ve never really assigned a theme or a niche for this blog. Even the tag line I use sometimes, “the space between Gay and Straight, Stupid and Smart” reeks of ambiguity. For over 5 years I’ve been online confessing, sharing, OVER-sharing and observing for you people. Do I get media recognition? Fuck no. Links, sure but no real celebrity traffic.

SharkBoy.ca gets 14 days of excellent blog content and what happens? His stats are nearly triple mine. He’s been approached by media outlets for interviews and syndication.

Syndi-fucking-cation.

Best I got was a drunken street hollar: “Hey you’re that fucking goof Dead Robot?”

I digress. SharkBoy has turned all of them down (“WHAT!?”) to stay low, under the radar. He’s riding high on Blogebrity and is turning his back on it like Greta Garbo.

As far as blog success, this only goes to show you that when you specialize your blog, people come flocking for as long as you can keep that golden content mana flowing. Like Twittering about what you ate for lunch, nobody is going to spend their time reading the detritus of your life in long winded posts. No, you have to give them something shocking, something new, or something in a clear tone that keeps them coming back. It helps SharkBoy that every day there is some dick who needs to get into his face to express their offset opinions and supplies him with fresh blog content.

Syndi-fucking-cation people. Not that I’m bitter.

Seriously I’m really proud of his output in the last couple weeks. His voice is fun and angry at the same time, like a Quebecois Lewis Black on some incredulous rant. It’s one of the reasons why I married him.

So starting next week, DeadRobot.com is going to only post funny toenail drawing cartoons.