Murmurs

For the last week or so, I had a caption competition here on the blog. The 5 winners received 2GB USB keyrings compliments of Littlequiz.com

It was a fun picture taken of me working outside in a large pool that had formed due to the heavy rains in Cork recently.

I discovered 3 new things from running the competition:

1. A fun caption competition can bring a lot of traffic to a website
2. Facebook can bring in lots of this traffic, I thought Twitter was the king at this
3. One of my Wellies has a couple of tiny holes (which I have since rectified with some super glue)

On the graph there’s a clear hike from my usual number of visitors per day. Google and Twitter brought in the first wave of visitors.

Facebook on its own brought in the rest on the second blip on the graph, peaking just over 300 visitors on that day.

A couple of people put the image up on their facebook pages which is where this traffic came from. Thats a nice amount of traffic to my young blog. It would probably have been more or have a longer tail if it wasn’t on a Friday and Saturday.

So a fun caption competition happens to be a good source of traffic mixed with Twitter and Facebook too. I recommend trying it.

Check out some fairly regular caption competitions on Littlequiz.com

Trying to work in this weather..

Thanks to the Monkeys at Littlequiz.com, theres a free 2GB USB stick for the 5 best captions for this picture.

Update: I’ll close the competition this Friday the 27th and ask some friends and family to pick the best ones. Thanks for all the entries so far..!

Logo #2 : Junior beta testers at Murrion HQ testing the new Murrion Netbook

I love the new logo for Murrion Software, developed by Gary McGinty of Ion Ltd in Dublin.

Just for fun I wanted to play around with the logo. I have plenty of ideas so I’m planning to have a new Friday Logo Fun ( and even a hash tag! #flf ) each friday for the next few weeks, as long as I can keep coming up with ideas that is.

Logo #1 : Murrion seen in the Wild

The cow on the left was branded too but refused to pose for the photo.

A friend at Apple told me about this the other night, you can change the language on your Facebook  profile to Pirate!

To change to Pirate, click on the current language down on the bottom left.

“What’s on your mind?” is now “What be troublin’ ye?” and “Log Out” is “Abandon Ship”. There are plenty more, try it out!