About
Hi!
My name is Michael Hawkins, I am a journalist living in Scandinavia. Currently I am earning my living as an online marketer and freelance journalist, and for that reason this blog will talk quite a bit about Internet marketing related topics.
Still, seeing as this is my new personal blog and all, I will write about many other topics as well – whatever I feel like. Since I have a tendency to rant a little when I get going I added the OTR – or “Off The Record” – to the blog title. It has nothing to do with secrecy, but I do intend to speak my mind in the posts to come. (By the way, if you say “off the record” to a Scandinavian journalist that doesn’t neccesarily mean squat!)
I hope you will find at least some of the things I write about interesting, informative or mildly amusing.
Nuff said, let’s boogie.
Yes, I do
Oh – a word about comments on this blog: I do appreciate your feedback and use dofollow on your comments. I use a great little dofollow plugin called Lucia’s Linky Love. What this means (the commenting rules, if you will) is the following:
- The name in your comments will be dofollowed after you have left at least three comments on the blog
- Any links placed in your actual comment (these had better be super relevant!) are followed after four total comments
- SEO phrases won’t be accepted as your name, because I’m sure your mother didn’t really name you “cashmere dog sweater” (hat tip to Lucia) or something similar. However, a lightly SEOed name is something I am prepared to tolerate. If I was commenting with a link to this blog for example, I think “Hawkins OTR” would be a perfectly acceptable name/signature.