Start with a catchy introduction. Insert a sobering word-painting of a dark futuristic landscape. Offer no solutions and pose everything as a question. Insert strategic read more link here…

Above is the outline of a post that shoots above itself, reaching into the upper echelon of google hits so as to become newsworthy and hopefully, someday be published in Real Life documenting Something; be it The History of the Blog or The Truth Revealed—whatever. It’s basically somebody with an opinion trying to get heard above the din.

There is some good stuff out there. When I do research I check out newspaper (advertising funded blogs on cheap paper) sites, magazine (advertising funded blogs on nice paper) sites and news stations (advertising funded blogs on tv ) sites. Throw in google scholar and I’ve got some decent research going. Heck, I even check with the opinion of a few bloggers (especially when I’m shopping for suff). That still doesn’t mean that there’s loads of cr—um—ayola out there.

Let me see:

If you’ve got an opinion and know how to use the computer; create a blog. If you don’t know how to run a blog, create a myspace. If you like to have conversations and use God-Like powers to overrule the opinions of others, go the route of the forum. If you want to look official in your forum you can get your own wikipedia—then edit the heck out of other contributors with your God-Like Powers. Rise in the ranks of Amazon reviewers by offering your opinion on stuff you’ve bought. Or you can run a satire site that makes fun of it all.

Don’t have time to run any of those things? Become a Ronin-Commentor; roaming from blog to blog, never linking back to yourself but making notes, observations and occasionally drawing blood with your honed blade pen. You will be smart, and quick and devoted to no one.

If you want to be feared, (d)evolve into a Troll. Pick a topic (hopefully controversial), do a google search and comment argumentatively on every site that comes up. You can also cozy up under one site’s commenting bridge, raising a stink on any who dare pass—awesome.

Your last option is to become a professional spammer. Get paid to comment! Run into any site that remotely sounds like the product your selling (ie: if the site uses any of the letters of the alphabet it’s an invitation for your spam) then comment the heck out of it with links to [insert spamming scheme here]. After leaving the site a smoking corpse of bandwidth overages, move on to your next target.