Roy Huggins Says Stuff

I just got an email from MoveOn, like I do.

The gist of the message is a request for members to support a bill currently sitting in front of Congress that would make it a federal crime to price gouge for gasoline. The punishment would be up to 10 years in prison. Hmm…

I know gas is expensive. I know it effects all Americans heavily when gas costs a lot. I know that oil interests are utilizing the current political climate to price gouge. But come on. Make that specific thing a federal crime with significant prison time? That’s going too far and is certainly a slippery slope issue.

I like MoveOn. But sometimes it isn’t the best idea to support something just because it’s a chance to stick it to the Republicans.

Personally, I like to think systemically about this one. Maybe if gas does top $4 then that’s one more price point in the direction of convincing even the most grossly consumerist, SUV-driving Americans that maybe it’d be a good idea to work towards more sustainable energy practices.

It is my observation that insects in general, and flies in particular, find no problems in the fact that they are icky.

This is why they must be stopped.

So I just installed Wordpress here, replacing my old professional website with a good ol’ basic blog.

For you few non-Webbies who may be reading this, what I mean to say is “Techy-tech-tech talk”.

For the rest of you: Wordpress has a neat feature in its Dashboard admin page that gives you a direct feed of all your site’s incoming links as recorded by Technorati. When I opened it up for the first time, I found to my delighted surprise that a bunch of different people have been linking to this site for as long as 400 days or more. That’s right, 400 whole days!

Turns out they’ve all got one of my old Blog Your Own Adventure promotional quiz memes still sitting in their archives. And guess what, they all liked it! I really should have been looking at Technorati a year ago. I might have spent more time working to improve BYOA.

So it got me thinking… maybe if I can build up BYOA, I can be bought out by Google! Google has yet to acquire a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure-style collaborative storytelling system, right? Wouldn’t they want one that even works with the “Blogosphere”!? I know I would if I were Google. I’d be on that like porn on YouTube. Or trolls on Daily Kos. Or something else on some other site that it’d be useful to associate myself with.

But no big, important company is going to initiate a buyout of someone who doesn’t look serious. And what do you need to look serious? A business plan, of course.

So here I am officially posting my business plan for the Blog Your Own Adventure Web 2.0 Enterprise Blogosphere Synergy Project:

1. Build BYOA
2. Wait Around
3. Get Bought by Google!

It’s a twist on the old Web 1.0 business plan template. And that template is proven to work. Therefore, my business plan has a solid, empirical basis. It can’t go wrong.

Right, Google? Yep, I thought so.