Agony Aunt? Give me a break

OK, so I wrote a blog recently about Tutorials and how they can help to get a following for your blog, it was inspired by an article I read (cant remember the link, but there are plenty out there) and the fact that I had just got a commission to provide a finance and investing tutorial for another site. Then, whilst idly surfing through www.doshdosh.com, I came upon an article on increasing returning viewers by offering an advice column. Good Grief. Now a tutorial is a useful and sound idea because of two things, firstly, the person writing it probably would have a good knowledge base for his subject, and secondly, the information would be on a tangible and check-able subject (you would only have to do a little more surfing to validate the content of your chosen tutorial blog/article.) On the other hand an Advice Column, unless it was highly specific (and if it was highly specific it would probably be a tutorial anyway), is about as much use as a chocolate fire guard, (and to me, as welcome as a fart in a spacesuit.) The idea of going to your blog-site of choice for advice on ‘matters of the heart’ or ‘will he/won’t he’ dilemmas fills me with a feeling of pervasive dread. Then i took to thinking about it a bit more and decided that in the interests of exploring the power and pull of the blog as a social tool, I should give it a go. Doing some research, mainly to see how a good Agony Aunt responds and what type of problems people tend to go to them with I visited my favorite Tabloid Newspaper’s site (www.thesun.co.uk) and their resident Agony Aunt, Dear Deidre, and I beg you to go to the site and take a look at the section they have, it is genius in the extreme, with a video casebook, sex problems and teen problems, it is comedy gold. Inspired by this, and in the interests of developing my Blog, I am offering an Agony Aunt service here on BlueVerse, in the stytle of Deidre, I will solve your problems in future blogs, please email me your problems at tims1976@live.co.uk, I will choose a peachy one and give my responce in the style of a tabloid agony aunt. Should be good for a laugh at any rate, and of course your true identities will be protected.

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