New Blogs, Begging, and a Short Quiz
on Sep 06 in General by DanFor the past six months or so I’ve had an idea kicking around my head that I just haven’t been able to shake. And now, with the walk and the summer holidays over with I think the time is ripe for it to bust it’s way out and make itself a reality.
I’m launching a new blog. Yes, another one.
There are plenty of pop culture blogs out there, and plenty of parenting blogs. But there are are hardly any blogs about pop culture aimed at kids. Which is fortunate really as that’s what I’ve currently got a hankering to write about. Hurrah!
KidsTelly.com will take an informal, critical, and independent look at kids media from both the past and present. It’s going to be fun and lighthearted, but hopefully intelligent and insightful too.
It won’t just cover TV. There’ll be reviews of movies, books, music, and kids websites too. And it doesn’t stop at reviews. I’m planning features, retrospectives, interviews, and plain old rabid rants too. It’s going to be a lot of fun and I’m rather excited about it all.
Now, here comes the begging.
Because KidsTelly.com is a new blog it ranks very low on Google. Which is a shame as I’m hoping that a large proportion of it’s audience will come from google searches.
So if you have a blog or a website I would be eternally grateful if you’d add it to your blogroll. The more links I get the higher the site will go in the rankings and the more likely that someone may stumble across my highly intelligent and articulate critique of Wizards of Waverly Place. Obviously this is a rather cheeky thing to ask, and if you’d rather not then that’s completely cool. But I just thought I’d have ask on the off chance.
Also I’d obviously love it if you’d add KidsTelly.com to your feedreader as well (but you were going to do that anyway right?).
So now that bit of unpleasantness is out of the way how do you fancy a bit of a quiz?
One of the most enjoyable bits of starting new blogs is tinkering with the layout and templates. There’s nothing makes you feel more alive than mashing your head on your keyboard in frustration because it Just. Doesn’t. Work.
One of the cool bits of KidsTelly.com is that I’ve got a rotating header. Every time you load the page it randomly picks what image it’s going to use from a predetermined list. These are the images I’m currently using. The first person to identify all five shows that they come from wins one of my coveted No-Prizes.
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I ran across this, didn’t I? Will certainly do so when I remember to!
You did. As I say, it’s been floating around for a while now :)
I once used to be in contact with the artist who drew the Frankensteins Cat series, if I can find the link to his blog I’ll send you it.
Anyway, your quiz, is it deliberately age-ist, have I got a claim against you because you didn’t thrown in any images from a random Gerry Anderson puppet with real strings programme ?
I may well pester you at some point in the future for a post on Kids shows from the “olden days” :)
There you are, he’s a Warrington supporter but we all have our crosses to bear…
http://badablingthing.blogspot.com/
Cheers for that Gary, he looks like an interesting chap.
I’ve obviously lost touch with up to date KidsTelly…
I recognise Spongebob, but none of the others.
I look forward to reading (and possibly contributing to) reviews of Powerpuff Girls, He-Man, Thundercats, Muppet Babies, GummiBears (bouncing here and there and everywhere…), Mysterious Cities of Gold, The Three Muskehounds, Dungeons and Dragons, Blue Peter, Number 73, Going Live, Alive and Kicking, SMTV, Animaniacs, Crackajack, Jackanory, Chocabloc… and a great many more!
Magic and mystery are part of their history
along with the secret of gummiberry juice.
Dashing and daring; courageous and caring
Bouncing along as their song fills the AIR!
I’ll be doing something similar from our era next week:)
Woot!
I miss cartoons!
Yes, my teen geek has deprived me of animation :P
There are plenty of geeky cartoons to watch surely??
How could you even think of putting Chowder THIRD on any list :)
You must feature the creepy new Scooby Doo… where Velma (sp?) has abandoned all her feminist principles and does nothing but moon over Shaggy. It’s very weird…
I’d argue that the show at number 1 deserves to be there surely!?
Yeah – but it’s a close run thing – I do love Chowder. Wait til you see Total Drama Word Tour – tis genius!
I know them all apart from No 4 – waiting on my son getting home from school bwahahaha!
I’m sure that’s cheating.
Nah – he’s useless – he hasn’t a clue. He tells me it has a big pink friend and a wee purple friend and they fix stuff with screwdrivers. It’s driving us all nuts trying to remember – have to wait for the 13yo to get home now!
YAY!
1. Phineas & Ferb
2. Spongebob
3. Chowder
4. Wow Wow Wubbzy!
5. Fairly Odd Parents
Cheers Andrew :D
Well done. You win the coveted No-Prize. Congratulations. Even if you did cheat.
Phineas and Ferb
Spongebob Squarepants
Chowder?
Something else.
Fairly Odd-Parents
I found your new blog already, even without Google. But then I’m a stalker.
I think it’s a great idea, and I look forward to reading it and stealing the content regularly.
I identified 3 out of 5, does that count for anything?
Considering you don’t have kids it’s very impressive indeed!
Dan you have way too much time on your hands!
I have put you on my bloggy list although dont rely on my meagre 8 followers to fling you into Googledom.
and I too had all but No. 4 and was also waiting for little dude to come back in so I could ask him what it was. Bugger. I never win anything!
The new site isn’t going to take up all that much time I hope. Plus I’ve cut back here a bit too. It’s all about maintaining my interest – I like having a number of plates spinning.
I think my previous comment here got slammed by your spam filter or something. Anyway, good site you’ve got going over there. I’ve added it to my reader, and I’ll be pimping it on my blog, if I ever get round to writing the post I have planned to write that talks about a lot of things and does justice to none of them.
I’m not sure why it was eaten by my spam filter – perhaps because it was a list. I dunno.
Thanks for the add Jeff. I may well be tapping you up for a guest ost at some point too if that’s ok with you. I’m all about the exploitation of online friends :)
Yep, I’m up for it. Exploitation makes me feel all warm and fuzzy.
Link added.
In return I request a hommage to all things Oliver Postgate.
Ooh, like the new blog! I’ll be dropping by.
Honestly I like you new blog (kidstelly). The theme is simple, easy to read and the content is for children and teenager. I believe your blog will become famous one day because for the niche children movie there are only few websites available for kids if you compare other niche
Cool idea. What would be a rather excellent feature would be some kind of old-school retro kids telly section. We could go and reminisce about watching Battle Of The Planets, Thundercats, and Space Sentinels. I wasn’t the only one who watched those as a kid right?
a friend of mine is providing me/and has provided me with a lot of toons from the 80s.
If ányone can point me to full seasons of Ringraiders…
I don’t watch enough tv to know most of the current toons. I know spongebob, I’ve seen the toon for the first banner (can’t remember the name), same goes for the last one. Oh and I’ve finished 3 seasons of Avatar in 2 weeks…thanks for that.