“Live Blog” or “The Closest Thing to Twitter I Can Do Since Work Blocks Twitter”
Since it’s launch day, I thought I would live blog my thoughts and actions for this historic day (insert snickering here).
5:40 am (yes am) – My alarm goes off and the first thing through my head is “Damn, it’s early. I hate waking up this early.” The second thought is “Launch day! I need to check my stats.”
5:57 am – Showered and dressed, I open my macbook to check the site and my e-mail. Got a message from my best friend growing up – he says he likes it and has no idea what’s going on (in the story). He e-mailed me at 1:00 am – nice!
6:43 am – I’m in at work and I e-mail the architect to see if he can give me some google stats on the page – fatcow’s stats are very un-informative, and I can’t make sense of them.
7:22 am – I IM a colleague/friend in London to tell him about the site. He gives me major props (nothing like an ego boost that early in the morning) and says he’ll pass it on to his UK and Trinidadian friends (go Trinidad!). We’re going global.
7:50 am – Architect sends me a pdf of our stats. I’m stoked because one page says we’ve had nearly 300 site views today. And we had 8 people from South Korea check us out (we’ve got Seoul!).
8:13 am – He explains to me that we only had 90 unique visits yesterday – not 300. Waa waa… Well, that’s not bad considering that the site wasn’t even launched.
8:18 – Turns out today’s visitors have only been 40 people so far. I’ll take that as a win! Because I’m childishly optimistic today – and it’s early. Most people haven’t even put pants on yet, let alone checked the net.
8:42 – We find out that we have our FIRST registered Forum user. Don’t know who he/she is – and they haven’t posted anything (yet) – but we have one!!! Welcome “Lancebreaker.”
9:54 – Another user! Yes! We’ve doubled in size already.
9:55 – I ran out of funny things to day early on – if you’re reading this, you might as well stop while you’re ahead. Skip down to the Midnight Nation review or something cooler.
10:15 am – My wife calls to tell me that there’s a typo on the “About” tab on our site. I guess it goes to show you – no matter how hard you work – you’re still an idiot and a complete waste of space. You were never good enough and you smell bad. Why can’t you be more like your brothe– er, wait a minute, what’s going on? I lost track of what we were talking about. Oh well, remember kids, don’t stick parts of yourself to a flagpole in the winter. Not a good idea. Girls, this goes for you too.
12:19 – About to get new stats from the Architect. And eat lunch. What goes well with the “first-day jitters?” I’m thinking squash.
12:48 – Went with an apple instead ’cause increased Acid always helps the stomach on days likkkkkk…… sorry, passed out from the ulcer – I’m back! Okay, so yeah, stats are looking better all the time. People are even reading (checking for porn) this blog. A few more hours and I can go home and start facebooking the crap out of people…
2:22 – I’ve got nothing more to report until later tonight. Basically, I’ve come to the realization that this has been probably pretty boring for you to read. Next time I’ll spice things up with some Adult Language, Graphic Sexuality, Pervasive Gore, and Thematic Elements (my favorite ratings reason).
6:01 pm – I’m home now and checking the blog, site, facebook, stats, twitter, myspace, thesuperficial, my pants, the mail, and every other place I look for things and am excited to get final stats for the night. I’ll let you know when I get them…
12:31 am – So, technically it’s no longer today, it’s tomorrow – BUT – I got final stats for the day. Wa-hoo! Almost 300 people in our first day! We were shooting for 500-1000 our first week, so we’re well on our way (and I really wouldn’t be too hurt if we did more than that – so spread the word).
Thanks to everyone who looked! Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou! And don’t stop – we’re just getting started – we’ve got plenty of places to go.
The dark has begun.
–the creator