I think a lot of time we can all feel like we are working in a vacuum doing this movie blogging stuff. I know I do at times. I actually work pretty hard collecting information and images and then editing all that stuff into a post that I hope will be readable to a few people. I have also had a lot of technical issues with my site that almost made me give up but I stuck it out and now and reasonable happy with the look and content though I want to get better at what I am doing. I am happy with my traffic but would like to double it someday. I have to admit that seeing higher numbers in Google Analytics or searching a topic and then seeing my own site appear on the first page of Google is a boost and has helped me to stay the movie blog course. But I wanted to say something about the LAMBs (the Large Association of Movie Blogs) and if you have a movie site you want to promote it is good place to start and to find others as well with similar tastes and interests. The LAMBs is a project headed by Fletch (or Dylan) and his site is Blog Cabins if you want to have a peek. At last look the total number of LAMBs was up to 215, with Kimberly’s most excellent Cinebeats blog being the last entry. There are lots of cool sites to be honest and I will refrain from naming the ones I like the most or naming some people that have been special and extra supportive to me and the Café here. That is because I might forget someone because I am spacey  and then they will get hurt feelings, turn paranoid and stalk me and try to hack me to pieces in an attic with a meat cleaver and I just don’t need that kind of trouble right now.

A recent survey showed that 75% of LAMBs are homeowners.

Seriously though, there are some great and supportive people there and while I do not join in with the cool reindeer games like some of the people do (I have been tagged twice on the alphabet MEME, okay, time to do something with that, sorry) there are actually activities and challenges of different kinds if you like at that stuff. I sort of live it all vicariously and read the stats, but I think I am going to try to do a few more things there to show my appreciation and this little post is my first step. I know some of the people who drop by here have movie blogs and I encourage you if you are not a LAMB then get on with it. It does not hurt and it is free. You can link to the LAMB Homepage here or find my link on the sidebar. I have a sort of freaky lamb from the sheep-zombie film Black Sheep, but do not let that mislead you. The sites there are varied, from Horror to Fred Astaire to Spaghetti Westerns to general culture blogs. By no means is it a horror or obscure film site.

There are other blog communities out there and I encourage you to join them as well but the LAMB is the first one I joined at number 85 or something like that and I made some blog friends right away. It seems a little more easygoing and not very impersonal like some of the big communities. I need to get back to welcoming newbies and spreading the LAMB message a little more. I have recruited a few good LAMBs and I feel proud of that, but there are still billions of unconverted and I cannot do it alone. And with that I will get that Alphabet MEME going and maybe even submit my first post to the Lamb Chops thing. And if I do not get around to it soon I will eventually and I just want to say thanks to the LAMBers out there and hope this post recruits at least ten more.

Bill

The last person I asked to join the LAMBs and refused found out that LAMBs are

not the type of bloggers to mess around with.

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