A bare-faced appeal for your help
I belong to a few groups on Facebook. Obviously the "tribute to Mr Pastry" (12 members) is one. There's also the friends of the Guardian Media Podcast and the friends of the Word Podcast.
Every time I clock in I notice the relative number of members of these two groups. When we began the Word one the Guardian already had hundreds. Because I'm a competitive sort I've watched theirs grow while ours has grown *slightly more*.
As of this morning they have 916 members and we have 910. Just reflect. They're a massive newspaper group and we're a mere minnow by comparison. But I feel that today could be the day when we make up the ground, draw level and - who knows? - overhaul them. You know what this means, don't you? If you haven't already joined, do it now and play your part in levelling the digital playing field.
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Incentivise, Hepworth! Incentivise!
What's the point? I joined a couple of weeks ago and, apart from an e-mail notifying me about a podcast I'd listened to two days earlier, I'm not sure what is supposed to happen now.
I can see it makes sense for people who don't check into the website very often or participate in the daily bloggery, but for those who do it seems to me to be a much slower, clunkier way of "networking" (if that's the right word) than this is.
Where are the jolly japes and ribald banter? And most important of all, where's the Friday Afternoon Disco?
This /\/\/\
as the kids are saying these days.
If you could design a facebook application that would allow me to watch, sorry, communicate with all those ex-girlfriends that aren't on facebook, I may reconsider rejoining...
Incentivise? *Incentivise?"*
You make me and Matt Hall happy, that's all the incentive anyone should need! Tell me how else you could be certain of achieving that anywhere else today? Huh?
Reasons to be cheerful
1. Valerie Singleton isn't a lesbian. It's official!
2. Celine Dion is responsible for the worst cover version ever. It's official!
3. Bob "Laughing Boy" Dylan failed to sell out the Zaragoza Expo launch bash - despite subsidised tickets at only 24 euros a pop. Es oficial!
The world is chock-a-block with good news. Just go with the flow and par-tay!
Celine - go figure.
I've always thought that the 'DC would greatly benefit from some wonk-faced shrillionista randomly inserting the word 'sugarmoma' into their works...
"Wonk faced Shrillionista"
Fabulous!
Its a bit like watching the
Its a bit like watching the vicar's wife and her questionable friend after one too many dry sherries.
Duckwalk in stilettos
What a concept. And don't miss the guitar solo at 2:18 - it's total Tufnel, man!
Re: 3. ...
... Good set list though:
http://www.boblinks.com/062308s.html
Why not try a
flanking move on the T'old Guardian and move on to twitter (which is the next big thing apparently).
Never got into Facebook so hardly check my account got fed up with being bombarded with crap corporate quizes from american firms and what's your favourite films polls that had nothing I've watched on them. And don't get me started on being a pirate etc if your mate did that in the pub it would be funny for 2 minutes via email it barely raises a smile.
And after Twitter,
Jaiku. And then Tumblr. Then Pownce. Then Plurk.
God...
You're sooo last week
I've forgotten the password for my password manager
Buggr.
It's 911 now
so someone's been incentivised. Guardian swingometers poised.
Defection?
And the Guardian Media Podcast group says it has one fewer members...