When I was growing up, my family would occasionally take what we called “Penny Walks.” We lived in western Colorado, where the towns were mostly laid out on a North-South, East-West grid. A penny walk involved taking a walk, penny in hand, and every time you got to a corner, you flipped the coin. Heads you go right. Tails you go left. You never knew where you were going to go, but you knew you weren’t going to get caught in a familiar routine. With penny walks, you ran into different people or different things. You had variety. Penny walks don’t work as well in Massachusetts, where I live now, because the streets are laid out in the rough equivalent of a meandering cow.
My random walks these days are as likely to occur on the World Wide Web, as they are to occur in my town. Did I mention we have almost no sidewalks? So here on the internet, thanks to a link from Jason Rakowski, I was lead on a random walk through his blog, to another blog by someone named Dejra to a service called Pingomatic. The service helps writers/bloggers raise the visibility of their sites by updating search engines. I’m trying it out today. I’ll let you know how it goes.
Given Dejra’s focus on affiliate marketing, I’m wondering if she knows my brother, Ken?
Dejra? Ken?