This excellent animation from TrueMajority shows in
graphic detail (using Oreo cookies) how ridiculously, large
the military budget is, and how we could solve many domestic
problems with a modest 12% cut. A must-see. (watch
it now)
Almost every inquiry should
be posted to the web forum, NOT
emailed to me. I just don't have time to play Helpdesk
to the world for questions, and if you're trying to publicize
something, you get a bigger audience by posting it to the web
forum where thousands of people can see it, rather than sending
it to me where only I see it.
I will list your ride if it meets all
of the following:
Ride is weekly or monthly.
Ride is completely free, with no
registration required.
Ride is not a sports or training ride.
Ride starts inside Austin.
You have a web page for the ride, which clearly
lists the ride schedule.
If your ride meets the above criteria, then
and only then you can send
a
listing request.
Please publicize my event, survey, stolen bike, etc.
Please post it yourself in the forum.
Then it will show on the front page of the site automatically.
I see all posts made to the forum, and if I see something
that's really worthy (about 1% of the time), and I have the
time, then I'll write about it elsewhere on Bicycle Austin
too.
If you ask me to publicize something rather than following
the directions above, you have a 0% chance of having me
write about it.
I want to interview you for an article.
Interviews are available
only to real media, not students. Also, I've
been out of the local bike scene for years and am probably not
a good source for whatever information you're looking
for. Ask your question on the forum,
or contact Bike Austin
(which is not the same as this site, Bicycle Austin).
Let's trade links.
Link trading is ridiculous
and offensive. You're basically saying, "Hi,
your site sucks. If I thought it were any good I would have
linked to it already. I'm willing to link to it, not for the
purpose of sharing a good resource with my readers, but rather
because if I do so I can bribe you to link back to mine. And
of course my site is also so crappy that you wouldn't link to
it if I weren't bribing you with a return link."
Yes, I know all about (misguided) SEO. I have #1 rankings
all over Google, and I didn't get them by wasting my time
with link exchange requests, I got them by building websites
of value.
Please give me more info about something I saw on your site.
I'm sorry, I don't have it.
What you see is what you get. If I know about something, it's
on the site. If it's not on the site, I don't know about it.
I didn't spend hundreds of hours creating this incredibly
detailed website in order to share what I know, and then intentionally
withheld some of the information, so I could dole it
out on a piece by piece basis only when someone writes to me
about it.
Of course, you can tap into the collective knowledge of
the local bike community by posting your query on the web
forum.
Another site by Michael Bluejay...
Michael Bluejay explains slot machines. I know about more stuff than just bikes. My explanation about how slot machines work is probably the best you're gonna find anywhere.'
