Wow, the site got a major influx of traffic from a link at Stumbleupon. Many thanks to whoever submitted me. Now if I could only find the link myself.

I find myself in an odd situation where I am almost starting from scratch again in relearning the web comics landscape. Along with old friends fallen by the wayside and new online comics to take up the banners, I also find myself faced with a myriad of new online social networking and reader driven news sites. I remember Slashdot, but Stumbleupon and Digg are all new to me. Heck, I'm lucky I even know just those two at this point. Now I am faced with "guerilla marketing" all over again in unfamiliar territory.

Take the "Vote" buttons on the right there. In the past, a traffic mainstay of webcomics across the Internet. Remember Big Panda? ... anyone? But it seems there are very few "top" sites of note lately and the future of getting the word out is visibility on these newfangled social netmaworking thing-a-ma-bobs.

I guess ultimately it is a better system in that your visibility is directly tied to the quality of the work as well as what the subject matter is. I'm sure I won't be featured on any manga-ish serialized drama long form comic communities. But if there is a place were thinning haired, slightly paunchy, scraggly facial haired geek's who like tech humor hang out, then that's where I'll find my audience.

Oh wait, that would be the INTERNET.

Hmm, perhaps I better add in a scantily clad manga babe to the cast, just to cover my bases.

One of these uppity new technologies I am enjoying however is podcasting. Boy do I love to cast a good pod. I'll tell you, there's nothing like casting that pod out there and just watching it ... tele ... macomunicate ... broadband ... uh.

Yea, I don't really know exactly how they work except someone calls me on Skype and lets me babble about myself for an hour and then posts it. Upon which I can then immediately listen to myself babble about myself back to myself and count the times I say "um" and "like, you know". *shudder*

In any case, if you want to hear me babble, I have recently been added as a regular on the weekly Llama Public Radio podcast, The Llama Report.

You can hear me talk about myself, and zombies, and myself, and comic books, and myself, and April Fool's day jokes, and myself, and stuff about me. Oh, and I let Chris, Brian and Nick talk about some stuff too. For some reason they stray off my suggested weekly show notes (featuring me!) to talk about other stuff.

But in all seriousness, Brian runs a great weekly show and it's a great deal of fun for a group of like minded nerds to just shoot the shit about the weekly geekly. I'm glad they invited me aboard.

Now if I can just figure out this Digg thing, I'll RULE THE WORLD!

Or at least this page of it.

[edit 4-8-08 10:03am] Ahh, Vaughn was kind enough to point out my Stumbleupon link to me: http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/www.inktank.com/ Heh, I guess it was still getting reviews when it was just a little ol' blog.

OH! and I forgot to mention that I added a "Best of..." section in the archives that highlights some of the storylines that have taken place in my comics through out the years.