"Update your blog to include info about the Pollis." I think I've heard this a couple times in the past couple months. Have I done it? Not yet. I've been focusing on hammering out lines of code while I'm sitting in front of my computer at home. Where am I on Pollis? Much farther than the "professional" programmers from India that we E-Lanced out. That was a waste. I've done more functionality programming using a keyboard that is missing the w i o p ] ' . and 0 keys. If you know anything about programming, there's a lot of quotations and closed brackets, especially when doing Boolean logic. Regardless I'm not going to say much about what I've done and what I have yet to do. Let's just say I'm at the point now where I'm fine tuning everything and making sure it works from both user and blogger ends. Once we agree on final layouts and I receive the code it's time for beta testing.
This is where it starts to get fun for my readers since you'll have an exclusive chance to help out finding flaws/anomalies in the site via email feedback to us(me? [I'm hoping we get a 2nd and 3rd programmer shortly after launch, my eyes are burning]) And no, we're not going to slave you away to click on a near empty site for the first couple days. To the best of my knowledge we're going to be hooking up our friends and family that help get this thing off the ground with some free advertising to keep your blog at the top of the pool of bloggers on the site. That being said, if you are trying to reach a broader audience for whatever reason, I'm hoping this is the chance for you to gain some traction as the site grows. I also just though of an idea for something like "The First 100" archive that can be used to see how certain blogs that started early grew with The Pollis. Just remember, the catalog is yours, readers and bloggers and we want that content to be driven by the blogosphere. Spots within the catalog are not for sale, you have to earn it through readership and activity on the site.
Thanks for those who sign up and volunteer for beta testing. If you would like to sign up, send me your name, email address and your blog URL to justin.fox@pollis.com.
-Justin
