Just a quick word for a blog I started up months ago but never gave the time it deserved. Up until now, I’ve been posting glitched up stuff on the Illarterate blog, but I’ve decided to give Autoglitcher another chance, at least for a while. I’ll look to retrospectively post some of my glitch art excursions from the past few months if I can get round to it this weekend.

As the title suggests, this site’s all about interesting glitches in television, video games and general media. The idea of autoglitching relates to those glitches you seemingly stumble across or have little input in, especially those created completely by accident.

A must for all fans of glitch art, even if I do say so myself.

I’ve been doing a little bit of guest blogging for Wigan Athletic media site [Thas] Not a Patch On Harry Lyon, which recently unveiled its new user blogs.

It coincides with the launch of my new football blog, Jesus Was a Wiganer, which you may remember I mentioned a week or two ago on this very blog.

Not sure if there’ll be much difference between the types of posts featured on each blog, but I plan to share them out somewhat, with the longer, more detailed stuff mostly reserved for the NAPO blog.

Expect my activity on those blogs to fluctuate through the course of the season as and when I find stuff to write about or feel the urge to blog and, of course, when I have the time.

Incidentally, that picture is one of mine. There is a possibility you may recognise it as it has been syndicated around the internet:

• Exhibit A
• Exhibit B

It’s on my Flickr account in its highest quality, so feel free to use it for your own devices – a plug might be nice, though .

I find that, if a post is too long, people get bored and leave your site. I won’t give a specific word count, but bear in mind that web surfers have short attention spans:

The average visitor stays on any one website for 30 seconds.

It’s your job to suck them in, enticing them to stay longer than that average.

• Write a snappy opening paragraph. Try and sum up the content of the whole post in the first few sentences without giving away too much. If you’re struggling with this, try copying a broadsheet newspaper opinion column.

By their very nature they are geared towards the casual surfer as well as the regular subscriber. By this token, try to make use of the following techniques:

• Bullet point ‘em, emboldening a word or two.
• Do top ten lists. People are attracted to these for some reason.
• Make use of Bold and italics to emphasise points, but be careful not to overdo things. Don’t forget the old cheeky strikethrough, too! (<s>Strikethough text</s>)
• Use short paragraphs and images. This breaks up the text so it doesn’t overface the reader.