Things look a little different on this page today.
That’s because there might come a time when there isn’t a Diaryland. Diaryland is currently a free site, which is way cool because that means you can try out this online journaling thing and not have to deal with using FTP or knowing PURL or having a server taking up space in your bedroom. You don’t need to know what your IP address is or worry about bandwidth. Andrew sucks all of that up himself. Honestly, I don’t often wonder if he’s not going for the first Canadian nominated for sainthood, because I’m pretty sure that Diaryland has changed lives. Every day, it’s out there inspiring people, making people talk, making them listen. Making them think. Making them read and write and laugh and making people learn how to do some basic html, even if it is so that they know how to write a link like the ones above.
If Diaryland hadn’t been free and easy, I can guarantee you that you wouldn’t know me. You wouldn’t know Esteban or my goofycat or have to read my occasional introspective entries. My uterus would never have said a word. A world without a Diaryland is a sad place. That would mean no Uncle Bob, no Perceptions, no fun little buddy lists and lovely cool comments section talking about the grade of beef used at Taco Bell.
So this is to anyone who has a diary on Diaryland. Think about how much coolness Diaryland has given you in your life and think about this: could you have gotten this much fun out of anything else that was absolutely free? If so, isn’t it worth being a Gold member or if you’re a gold member, becoming a Supergold member? Gold members pay about $31 for an entire year of fun stuff like stats and pictures and the random entry thingy. And if you go Supergold, you can host even more images and get a comments section.
If you’re not sure, try it out for three months. It’s way cheap. And it will be an easy way to give back to the community that you’re enjoying right now. Besides, pictures! Statistics! How else are you going to find out that someone found your page by searching Google for ‘Haley Joel Underpants’
I think the world just shuddered.
So that’s my pitch today, because I want to make sure that there’s a Diaryland around for a long time. And you know me’ hippy kids can never resist turning into an activist. So if you sign up for a Gold or SuperGold, write to me and I’ll put a link to your site on the page, so that you can try out your sparkly new statistics. And Cruel-Irony has even graciously agreed to buy one person a year’s gold membership, so really there are no excuses. So go. Sign up. Or if you don’t have a Diaryland site, you can donate to the cause here. And then I’ll bring back the Chubby Tink and the older pages and the back and the forth and the rest of the entries.
Don’t make me bring out Jerry Lewis. Because you know I’ll do it.
