Chris Hooley’s -ThinkBait-

OK folks, here’s your chance to cast your votes! The voting closes after the first 250 responses (or until the committee gets bored!) so choose your winners now! The SEO Superlatives Polls are officially open!

EDIT- we hit 250 responses in about an hour, so it’s opened up to 1000 responses. There’s STILL TIME to cast YOUR votes!

Please note- this page requires Firefox. Other browsers are really gonna hose this page.

The SEO Superlatives committee has been established, and we’re already hard at work. Much thanks to those who’ve put their time and effort into helping me with this so far. For those who want to nominate your choice for any of the categories, you know who to bug now!

And without further ado (sp?), here’s your committee!

Chris Hooley - Wannabe Class President - AKA Captain T.C.
Lisa Barone - Secretary of Pure Awesome, from Bruce Clay’s Search Engine Optimization Blog
Melanie Nathan - Can’t think of a title, but she works at this Edmonton Design Firm
Michael VanDeMar - Secretary of SMACKDOWN
David Temple - Gentleman and SEM Scholar
Taylor Pratt - Mustache Advocate from Gonzo SEO, who’s obsessed with this for some reason
Zak Nicola - Content Writer (bwaaahahahaa!)
David Harry - Staff Hat Salesman

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Still awaiting confirmation from a couple other peeps. I’ll add them as they confirm. But for the most part, we’re set… to judge you… in public! LOVIN’ IT!

Looking in my old yearbook, I found it fascinating who was chosen “Most likely to succeed”, “Best Couple”, or “Class Clown” (BTW- that was me in Jr. High) . Seems a lot of it was pretty much right on. The only thing I didn’t like about it is that on clique had editorial control on these lists. Ever since then, I’ve wanted to be the guy who makes the list.

Well, I just decided today that I AM gonna be that guy.

In the next few days, I’ll be developing the SEO Superlatives list. Yearbook style, with a male and female winner in each non-couple, non-group category.

I’ll open up nominations a day or so after all the categories are chosen. I need *your* help to generate the categories *you* would find the most interesting / entertaining / stupid, whatever. I think this will be pretty fun!

So far I have the following categories earmarked:

• SEO Most Likely to Succeed
• SEO Conference Clown
• SEO Couple
• SEO Party Animal
• SEO Flirt
• Smartest SEO
• Most Athletic SEO
• SEO Social Media Addict
• Best SEO Blogger
• Best Smile
• Best SEO Conference

Newly added superlatives! (from awesome commenters)

• Best SEO Conference Speaker
• Best SEO You’ve Never Heard Of
• Most Creative SEO
• Most Likely To Be Banned
• V1@gr.A Salesman Of The Year
• Cutt’s Pet
• Biggest Google Fanboy
• Least likely to date Hooley (ha haha)
• Best technical SEO
• Top Linkbaiter
• SEO with the biggest PageRank
• Best Dressed SEO
• Best SEO Hair
• Biggest SEO Nerd
• Best SEO Nickname/Handle
• Most fiery SEO
• SEO most likely to become president
• Most Likely To Get Kicked Out Of The Bar
• Most Likely To Close The Bar
• The SEO You’d Be Most Afraid To Bring Home to Mom
• Best Up and Coming SEO
• Most Feared SEO
• Mr / Ms Congeniality?
• Most Likely to Start an Argument
• Most Likely to Win an Argument (even if they’re wrong!)
• Best Fence Sitter
• Best Tweeter
• Nosiest SEO
• Snarkiest SEO
• Most Traveled SEO
• Best Ranter SEO
• Most Networked SEO
• Best SEO Hater
• Most Sharing/Giving SEO

Please add any other superlatives you would like to see on this list in a comment below so I can get this thing rocking! Nominees will obviously get those clean links and stuff, and winners get a lil mo’

Hook it up, add your ideas below!

I must admit, I’m a bit nostalgic about the says when the internet was a little underground. I got joke emails and actually WANTED to receive them. Only a select few in my circle saw all the same viral stuff I did. It felt kind of exclusive.

But on the other hand, it is amazing to see this same creativity at the forefront of pop culture. Watching the web grow into what it has become was something only my generation witnessed. We watched history being made daily, and we still are watching. The web is still in it’s infancy, but it’s already now as mainstream as it gets.

Insert Weezer. Their new video is a compilation of viral video stars, which has literally changed my opinion of them as a band. I never disliked them, but I was never a big Weezer guy. Now, from one stinkin’ video, they have converted me into a huge fan. Those of you who are as web geeeky as I am will absolutely love this video. And without further ado, and a few weeks behind the curve, I present to you my new favorite video of all time. Weezer’s Pork and Beans. Enjoy!

Wow, my fragile male ego took a double hit. A contest for the best looking SEO dude is the reason for my newfound insecurity. Either I got hit pretty hard with the Ugly Stick, or people forgot about me. I’m not sure which is worse, feeling ugly, or feeling like a nobody.

Oh well, at least my beautiful girlfriend still thinks I am the best looking man in SEO!

The new version of NextStudent.com is live!  This is the first version of the site that I didn’t either design and launch, or code and launch, in 5 years!  (and subsequently, the best looking most bug free launch to date but I digress…)

What do you think about the new design?  Got any feedback? Need a private student loan? (lol)

* Phrase stolen from Snoop Bloggy Blog’s Plurk Page.

Ok, I know I was just posting some BS about Twitter, and how you all need to follow me there.  But today the flavor of the day is PLURK.   It’s another micro-blogging social media platform, like Twitter and Pownce.  But this one is SIIICK.  So far no slow down (we’ll see how long that lasts) and the features are cool.  Super crazy ajaxy coolness.

Everybody, I changed my mind.  Follow me on PLURK instead.   Or at least until I change my mind again.  Or at least try it out for a bit to see if you like it, since there’s too much to explain about it and my attention span is shortening by the sec…