December 28, 2006 at 10:21 pm (Internet, On The Web)
Unreality TV has been going great guns for the last 6 months. SEOmoz (a huge Search Optimisation company in the US of A) recently published their monthly stats and I was overjoyed to discover we were whomping them month on month!
I love the SEOmoz blog, by the way. 
Anyway, we’ve been toying with other blogging ideas and the most likely at this juncture are blogs on music and regular telly. So let me introduce you to two of our works in progress:
- Unreality Music - Soon to be a place of music reviews of current tunes and past classics. I’ll be taking the lead on the music blog, and I want it to feature not only established acts, but unsigned acts a la MySpace. We’ll also be accepting guest reviews and contribution, particularly of recent gigs.
- Unreality Primetime - Lisa’s going to be taking the lead on this new blog, looking at other popular TV shows like The OC, Desperate Housewives, all that stuff. It’ll be a much bigger blog than the reality TV one, but it’s good to watch alternative shows too!
You can conclude from this that Lisa has definitely got square eyes. As do most of our readers! But we love them all and they love us back!
There will be boards on the Unreality Forum to support all of the new areas we’re covering.
We’re excited about how the Unreality blogs are unfolding. We’re going along to press conferences, working with production companies, getting 300,000+ eyeballs on our blog each month, not to mention the thousands of comments people have been compelled to leave for us and even for reality show contestants. These additional blogs will hopefully complement what we already have while creating a spot for people to discuss different types of music and television.
If you want to become a contributor to Unreality, please do get in touch with me.
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July 14, 2006 at 10:00 am (Internet, WordPress)
Late last August, totally on a whim, Lisa and I threw together a reality tv blog called Unreality TV. I did a quick WordPress theme and some cartoon-type illustrations and we were live within a couple of days.
From September onward, Lisa spent her evenings blogging about the 2005 series of X-Factor. I approached the site as an experiment in Search Engine Optimisation, dividing up categories and giving pointers on how to make best uses of keywords in each post.
From these inauspicious beginnings, we continued to put on new posts diligently and keep the site up-to-date.
Now, almost a year later, it’s high season for reality tv shows in the UK: Big Brother is in full swing and Love Island has just started. Unreality TV has taken something in the region of 114,000 hits in June and at this mid-point in July, we’ve had 64,000 visitors. Traffic has been building month upon month and we’ve just opened the doors on our long-awaited reality tv forum.
We’re interested in taking Unreality TV to greater heights. Two things we want in the immediate future:
- Sponsors/Advertisers: We’d like the site to be earning a decent living so that we can concentrate on creating better content and forging better links with the reality tv industry. To that end, we may have to kill Google AdSense in favour of direct advertising.
- More visitors: We’ll be focussing on getting Unreality TV more visible and encouraging participation. The forum is in it’s early stages right now, but I’ve already started using it to point out other great reality TV writing on the web.
This part of things is definitely outside of the old comfort zone: getting this amount of hits so far has been amazing, but pushing it further is new territory for us. It’ll be exciting to see how things progress!
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June 7, 2006 at 11:47 pm (Internet)
I think I’m starting to get bitten by the Squidoo bug. I’ve created a couple of lenses for different things I’m into like Reality Television, Northern Ireland and Web Design.
Interesting to be able to pull together content from across the web and have it display on one wee portal page. Seth describes it as a starting point for your topic - people get the real information by following through the links from your lens.
Anyway, cool idea.
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February 28, 2006 at 1:46 am (Internet)
Bozpages aren’t unique. A webpage that displays a list of recent posts in RSS feeds? Why not use Netvibes? Or the Google Personalised Homepage?
Well, the Google IG page is as ugly as hell, for a start! Personally, I swear by Netvibes, because it gives me my Flickr galleries, my del.icio.us bookmarks and my gmail as well as the ability to add RSS feeds.
So, why use Bozpages?
There’s no reason at all, really. Technorati have just launched their favourites service which does pretty much the same thing - a river of posts syphoned off your favourite blogs. (Mine’s here)
Having said that, I love the design of Bozpages. Good whitespace. The page isn’t too cramped, and the title elements use some fresh colours.
I’ve been using it for a couple of days as a portal for some of my own blogs and sites I look after. It’s definitely a nice interface, although it needs some work on the usability front, as it’s severely lacking in on-screen documentation! You need to visit the Bozpages Wiki for more information. My Bozpage is here.
technorati tags: RSS, bozpage, Web2.0, Technorati, Netvibes
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