Manufacturing a meme to challenge traffic-driving and a hope for an alternative kind of business, perhaps?

The tech-oriented blog for internetters, Quick Online Tips pushes a kind of antibiz biz, replete with links that don't relate to any of those that loop-link to your blog or website. I never thawt in terms of some absolute reciprocity of links, or subscribed to the idea of "driving traffic to your site" (or my blogs). Tho I do want readers, of course. But in this blog-entry, based on Mack Collier's ideas at Viral Garden, "The Revenge of the Z-Lister" (Dec12,2k6) we meet a manufactured wannabe meme, anxious to be lodged securely in someone's memory.

QOT/s uptake is entitled "The Z-List Blog Meme Challenges Technorati A-List" (Feb9,2k7), in which something else is going on. I'm just not sure about its motive and intent. Just a prefabricated meme gone wild, and much amuck?

What I found interesting was the live-link list supplied with Quick Online Tips' blog-entry; QOT seems to offer many of these links as alternative to some crass capitalist way of internetting. Is there a notion of "alternative business" operating here? Or just altruistic "link-love" as one of these sources suggests? Or what?

Dosh Dosh: Turns out this is a T-shirt supplier; you design and pay; they ship, apparently. Caveat emptor--buyer beware!

Daily Blog Tips: This one seems to do what it promises. Apr6,2k7 blog-entries include one on "How Popular is Your Site?" with a resonable check-list. Another is on punctuation with some worthwhile thawts.


Forged Euphoria: "This is basically my personal space where I will post just about whatever I feel like posting. News, Code, Rants and just about anything else I can cram in." I like the monthly
calendar; but it's on a black background, so it won't work for me ...unless.

Above Popular: This blog is about doing what's right istead of what's popular. It also discusses Africa and Mozambique and their stuggles for stability. This one confused and may not work; the original link took me to a community page of the social network My BlogLog, which supplied an easy link thru its portal to the page linked here. I hope it works.

Deepak: This is a specifically Deepak Chopra site. You know, the "meditation and alternative medicine" Guru who's learned how to make mega-bucks on easy New Agey so-called meditation and Ayuravedic medicine from ancient India. So far, the trend of these links seems quite New Age.

Gangster Sonny: "I start this blog because I’m big fan of oldtime gangsters and Italian mafia and I want to find some people who likes this too. The best movie about mafia is Godfather also I like Gotti, Casino, Godfellas, Scarface (1932) and Scarface (with Al Pacino). If you’re a big fan of mafia, gangsters, please contact me."
Sorry, Sonny, I ain't no fan of gangsters; but I do think The Godfather trilogy is a great movie series. And the link to you is a relief to the softbrain stuff of New Age origin. By this is the second MyBlogLog portal and social network.

Connected Internet: Styles itself as "The latest tech, mobile, and gaming news." A relief from the New Age trend and the MyBlogLog social network.


Blog-Op: "Posted in Paid Posts | 4 Comments » Posted by: Chris Lodge. « Previous Entries. Blog-Op is powered by WordPress and the Fluid Web Theme ..." This one's a pusher of the vaunted Z-List so it's in the loop-link classification, and its part of the MyBlogLog setup.

Mike’s Money Making Mission: "Follow Mike's Mission To Make Money Using Free Blogs" -- uses "link love" lingo. The whole thing's beginning to sound like a pyramid scheme to me. but maybe not. I'm bored at this point, so I'll stop digging up URL code the remaining links until some time when my curiosity about the Z-List may return, or not.

Time to Budget. "To gain financial freedom you must take control of your money, plan for the future and Stop Borrowing Money! This blog is about one family's journey toward financial freedom. --Blog Author: Mona Weather


Can I Make Big Money Online. "This blog reveals what I and others are doing to make money online." Affiliate Marketing seems to be the prevailing gimmick here. The writing is at the h+ school sophomore level, at its worst. Idiotic simplistic sentences, let alone the content.

Blogtrepreneur. "Welcome to Blogtrepreneur.com. I’m Adnan, a young and hopeful entrepreneur from the UK. I hope you enjoy reading my posts about entrepreneurship, business and the internet as much as I enjoy writing them!"

Flee the Cube--From Employee to Employer. Better than most on this list, but still entirely too schmaltzy for my taste.

Blogging Secret. "Blogging,Reviews,Gadgets,Tips and Make Money Online." Looks like a WordPress header, seems to be a MyBlogLog doozy. Text shows low-level literacy in English: "Yes, dear my fellow readers and friends, I'm back, this is my life log. I have pass some difficult time last week until today. What happen? Haha, unbelievable, my honey, or girl friend just break with me. The reason? She change her mind in just a second. Yes, the fact is cruel, but she not love me anymore, now with other guy that from her workplace. I allow her to work last 3 months ..."

Blogging to Fame Takes you to MyBlogLog--a special breed of social networking. "BLOGGING TO FAME! Discussions to make blogs popular by just not search engine optimization but making it more accessible, consumable, valuable to visitors. Blogging to Fame, once you're past the MyBlogLog portal. 1,403 Community Members."


Million Dollar Experiment heads Down Under. New Zealand connection to MyBlogLog. "The idea is to let a million dollars manifest itself to you, by simply declaring it andd thinking about it. Letting the universe provide it for you basically!" Sounds like New Agey-style pyramid scam to me. The most recent blog-entry headline: "The Blog Traffic Challenge--Let's Rumble!!!"

Quest to make money on the internet

Kumiko’s Cash Quest

Calico Monkey

Internet Bazaar

Shotgun Marketing Blog

BrandSizzle
bizsolutionsplus
Customers Rock!
Being Peter Kim
Pow! Right Between The Eyes!
Billions With Zero Knowledge
Working at Home on the Internet
MapleLeaf 2.0
Two Hat Marketing
darrenbarefoot.com
The Emerging Brand
The Branding Blog
CrapHammer
Drew’s Marketing Minute
Golden Practices
Viaspire
Tell Ten Friends
Flooring the Consumer
Kinetic Ideas
Unconventional Thinking
Buzzoodle
NewsPaperGrl
The Copywriting Maven
Hee-Haw Marketing
Scott Burkett’s Pothole on the Infobahn
Multi-Cult Classics
Logic + Emotion
Branding & Marketing
Popcorn n Roses
On Influence & Automation
Bullshitobserver
Servant of Chaos
converstations
eSoup
Presentation Zen
Dmitry Linkov
aialone
John Wagner
Nick Rice
CKs Blog
Design Sojourn
Frozen Puck
The Sartorialist
Small Surfaces
Africa Unchained
Perspective
gDiapers
Marketing Nirvana
Bob Sutton
¡Hola! Oi! Hi!
Shut Up and Drink the Kool-Aid!
Women, Art, Life: Weaving It All Together
Community Guy
Social Media on the fly
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A-list bloggers have always been a matter of envy and parodies. A quick look at a 100K feedburner feed counter on a top blog can make your 1K feel insignificant. Remember the John Scott $10000 Challenge for linking to Non Technorati Top 100 blogs. If you still believe in Technorati counts, find which type of blogebrity you are…

Of course, I don't have time to copy the URLs of all the above links, and embed them in my HTML code for the page, as I guess I'm supposed to do. But try clicking up the sources and try a couple of these links--oops! I'm "driving traffic" to the source-blogs. Mea culpa!