Do You Remember the Ambient Orb Blog Index?
September 11th, 2008 | by Mitchell Allen |
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I used to rank number one on Google for this keyword phrase – I wonder why!
On my first blog, I kept a links post titled The Ambient Orb Blog Index.
It had a list of all my posts, color-coded and listed chronologically.
Thanks to a WordPress page template written by Guilherme Zühlke O’Connor, my current blog has a nifty category-based archive.
Gui, as he is affectionately known, also wrote a comprehensive tutorial!
Just for fun, I decided to list a dozen of my favorite posts, in the style of the original Ambient Orb Blog Index.
Legend
- Blue: Personal
- Red: Creative Writing, Challenges, Games, Silliness
- Green: News, Blogging, Technical, Indexes
- Gold: The “Zoo”
- Black: Networking
- Gray: Super Networks
- Empire of the Niche (read)
- The Closet (read)
- Hot Buttered Blogs (read)
- Adwords Poetry (read)
- The Rainmakers (read)
- What Color is Your Network (read)
- Father’s Day Introspective (read)
- Marxist Internet Propaganda (read)
- Stirring the Stockpot and Digesting Gore (read)
- The Continuum of Mutability (read)
- Twitter – Thesauritically Acclaimed (read)
- Stretching Social Media (read)
In a moment of sheer, unadulterated self-indulgence, I recreated the original Ambient Orb Blog Index.
Who knows, maybe someone from the good ol’ days will do a nostalgic Google search.
I’ve certainly stuffed the keyword ambient orb blog index often enough into the post.
Check out the Ambient Orb. It uses the old pager antenna network to receive data about weather, traffic, stocks and now, Search Engine keyword rankings!
11 Responses to “Do You Remember the Ambient Orb Blog Index?”
By Pinhole on Sep 13, 2008 | Reply
If I was this organized the cat would probably get to eat more often.
By Mitchell Allen on Sep 13, 2008 | Reply
LOL! If my family didn’t feed me, I’d starve. I never want to stop long enough to eat.
Cheers,
Mitch
By Sharon Hurley Hall on Sep 15, 2008 | Reply
Nice post and list, Mitch. I especially enjoyed the trip through memory lane as I read the titles of those old WU posts.
By Mitchell Allen on Sep 15, 2008 | Reply
Hi Sharon,
Those were the good old days!
You should do yours! Did you keep your posts? Many of them are still helpful today! I suppose we can find them on your other sites, but it sure would be cool to see them all in one place.
Cheers,
Mitch
By Sharon Hurley Hall on Sep 15, 2008 | Reply
I think I’ve got most of mine. All the writing ones went onto Get Paid To Write Online. The poetry went to a Blogger blog, which I don’t update that much. Any of the decent sponsored posts went to bimblogger.wordpress.com minus the links. The WU specific ones are in a backup file somewhere (with the original dates). I could do a list someday, but I’m not sure when.
By Michael Broadway on Oct 10, 2008 | Reply
I don’t remember those, but looking at the list reminded me of the old resistor color code that I used when I was in the USAF.
By Mitchell Allen on Oct 11, 2008 | Reply
Hi Michael!
How about that! I had a dresser drawer full of components when I was a kid. A schoolmate taught me the resistor codes and I remember how tough it was to keep those bands straight.
Thanks for stopping by and dropping a happy bit of nostalgia on me.
Cheers,
Mitch
By Twitter Designs on Feb 11, 2010 | Reply
Hi Mitch,
First Congrats for being top on google search for that keyword!
I check your Ambient Orb Blog Index and you got some nice list. I will try to check the tutorial you inlude on this post also, might help to improve mine too. 
Thanks alot!
By Mitchell Allen on Feb 12, 2010 | Reply
Hello again, Twitter Designs!
I always get a kick out of long-tail keywords, though there is not much use for this one
The credit for the tutorials go to the authors. I just linked to them.
Good luck!
Cheers,
Mitch