• http://www.freshome.com Michael M @ freshome

    One question … How to Break News ?

  • http://ashwinr.com/ Ashwin

    Ahh… cool post.

  • http://www.goal-setting-college.com Goal Setting College

    10 out of 10 for creativity!

  • Aguimar

    You got me :)

  • http://www.buildyourlifetoorder.com Mark McManus

    Got my attention anyway! Very funny John, nice and original too.

  • http://successfromthenest.com/ Tony D. Clark

    Awesome, John.

    But then again, I’m a little biased toward cartoons in blog posts ;)

  • http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/ John Wesley

    Tony, I’m honored. Actually it’s a bit embarrassing compared to your beautiful drawings. At least I have no where to go but up!

  • http://geniustypes.com Brian Lee

    I love it!

  • http://www.popjisyo.com Koreyomereya Nankaataruka

    Meta-attention!

  • http://www.thererack.com Bill of “The Rerack”

    Ssshhhhhh! Don’t tell anybody my secret! Blast!

  • http://www.pickthebrain.com John Wesley

    Haha. Now those beer pong comics are genius.

  • http://www.stateofbrain.com/ State Of Brain

    Haha, nice work.

    You got my attention.

    Posting comments on others blogs with a link your url works too. ;)

    -sob

  • @ss

    xkcd.com – the ultimate sh!tty webcomic

  • http://www.pickthebrain.com John Wesley

    Oh yes. I can only dream of brilliance like xkcd.com.

  • http://zenhabits.net Leo

    You should become a full-time comic artist. Those drawings are brilliant!

  • http://dmiracle.com Dawud Miracle

    I enjoyed this. Thanks for sharing your post work flow.

  • http://barefootcreative.co.uk/pollux/ Duncan

    Well… it got you this much attention which isn’t bad at all. Now, if you click on my link you’ll get through to a site which has nothing interesting or useful on it.

    and that’s my way of getting online attention…

  • http://www.pickthebrain.com John Wesley

    Duncan,

    After that how could I resist clicking? That page actually has some pretty good advice.

  • http://www.Toronto-SEO-company.com JP Richards

    Funny as hell!

    But where’s Digg.com button for me to tag it?

    jp

  • http://www.calicojane.blogspot.com/ cj

    Oh! Bush’s face with the kitten… my favorite. More, please. :)

  • http://www.fishbottle.com Fishbottle

    Very clever!

  • http://www.vaspersthegrate.blogspot.com vaspers the grate

    From Anna Nicole Smith, to Don Imus, to Rosie ODonnoll, even Bush dancing with savage Watusis or whatever….

    Attention is the new black, or orange.

    I go with Seth Godin’s ideology: just be Astonishing in how you solve problems for customers. That’ll do it.

    ;^)

  • http://hitthejagspot.com JaG

    Nice!

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  • http://stratoblogster.blogspot.com Stratoblogster

    Well, you have traffic now! Neatorama is running a thing on this post. That’s how I got here. Congrats!! Enjoy the traffic and keep blogging!

  • http://www.alistercameron.com Alister Cameron // Blogologist

    Tsk tsk tsk.

    Now get back to work!!

    Oh wait… that is your work?!?!

    ;)

    -Alister

  • http://prblognews.com Mark Rose/PRBlogNews

    A riot. Thanks for making my day.

  • http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/ John Wesley

    My pleasure. Thanks for making mine.

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  • http://dailydollop.blogspot.com/ Plebian

    Every once in a while, I run across something that makes me say “Gee, I wish I thought of that.” This is one of those times. Excellent work.

  • http://www.pickthebrain.com John Wesley

    Thank you, Plebian. That’s a wonderful compliment.

  • http://catymology.blogspot.com Aloysius

    I accidentally got attention by posting cute pictures of animals AND linking to the Public Radio Talent Quest web site. But a cat’s gotta do what he can to make it in this digital world.

  • http://nicolasonline.de/mai-0701/ Mai 07/01

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  • quixote

    …amd I “stumbled.upon” it. Excellent! But will it stop working now? – You have found something good => you get imitators (the sincerest form of flattery) => it becomes a cliche =>works no more

  • http://www.creativevisualizationexercise.com Janice

    Hi John

    Wonderful post. I love it.. brings a HUGE Smile to my face when I read this..

    I’m new to the Blogosphere and started blogging recently. Never knew there’s so much to learn and in this post, I’ve learnt something new from you regarding blogging

    Cheers
    Janice

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    How To Win Attention & Draw Traffic…

    From the desk of blogger John Wesley:

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  • http://ccgi.disley.plus.com/wp/ dizzley

    Dang it! I could feel the punchline coming just as I was scrolling down.
    Now my brain is working feverishly to out do you!… wish I had something ready. ;)

    Of course, you managed the ultimate here – you got all the trends in here while dissing them.

    I don’t think Scott Adams has much to worry about, but you do have that certain scrap-paper-fresh something, John.

  • http://stoco.biz John Stone

    Wish I had known it was a joke before I used it as a checklist! LOL – nice work. And if you think thats poorly drawn, you haven’t seem me put lead to paper.

    J

  • http://www.skullmachine.com Skull Machine

    I would like some attention. Perhaps posting on this article would work. Or lighting myself on fire in the street with a pile of children’s drawing (errr…”Web Cartoons”).

  • http://pinky96-lifeingeneral.blogspot.com/ pinky96

    Excellent- im less than 30 grabbed me and got me giggling, brigthened my day