Welcome Mike to Blog Interrogation. Generating something out of nothing is your area of expertise so let s see what you can do with 5 questions.



Our site is called Generator Land and I think the best illustration of our site, and perhaps, our mild psychosis, is "The Froo Froo Menu Generator" which creates random and largely inedible menu items like "Pan-Fried Musk Ox with a Pneumatic Risotto."

Good question. We've only been around for about a month and we've been doing fairly well, but I think our biggest mistake was not involving a designer from the beginning. Joe's a programmer and I'm a writer and marketer. If anything on the site looks attractive, it's purely by accident.

Mike neglected to answer this. Sorry if it was too upsetting :)

We have one writer, me, and I pay myself mostly in pints. Although I sometimes spring for buffalo wings. Basically, our programmer and me go out, drink, kick around ideas, forget to write them down, and then start over the next day with whatever we remember. It's not a great system, but it seems to be working so far.

I guess Wired.com for the exposure and the fact that after all these years I still find them essential reading.

Ed extracts the bones from the blog interrogation

Thanks, Mike, for being the first to answer 4 out of 5!!!!

I think it is accurate to say that programers tend not to design well, and writers can't program or design, but somehow you guys have developed a theme that seems to work. Or does it look good because I haven't got IE7?

Congratulations on your name generators, they are priceless and I am way too sober right now to even attempt to match some of your psychotically funny terms.

You also have a perfect modus operandi for brain storming which should take you to the top of your chosen tree. I wish you every success with Generator Land and don't change your creative routine in any way, because I have just bought shares in chicken and Coors.

By the way, folks, Mike is a real dynamo and is designing a logo to go in the ad box stage left on The Pisstakers site. It could well end up inside out and back to front, but it will fit.

So, who is next up? Witty guy, Mr Larry Hnetka, went mad and has provided enough material to keep you informed and grinning for at least 48 seconds.

Please don't think your blog is too serious or too trivial to provide the answers to these questions. Everyone has a story to tell and the interrogation is a good measure of your understanding of your blog. You get backlinks amidst real content for good measure too.