I’d like to participate in , I really would. But right now it’s nearly midnight on May 19th, and the next update is May 21st. There’s no way I can get a postcard to the UK in time…or if I did, it would cost me quite a bit of real cash to do so. While it would be a nice part of the experiment to do that – perhaps deserving of a Procrastinatr follow-up site – I simply don’t have the cash.
Such is the problem with Dawdlr. Six months is just too long for people to wait. I think three months is probably a good number. You have to have some kind of SEO involved here – what on earth is going to prompt people to come back six months from now? If Dawdlr had buddies at any of the major tech blogs, it’d come to prominence every six months. (I heard about it on Popgadget, actually, in from late March.) But even the people who have dutifully sent in a card are going to forget six months from now. I don’t think it can achieve true viral nature with a twice-a-year update; it’s got to come more often than that, and I think three months is a good number.
Then again, maybe it’s just what I want to put on there. See, I’m starting a new thing that I haven’t blogged about yet, and I want to put that on a postcard and send it to Dawdlr. So maybe it’s my own fault that I don’t see the point in sending…just that it wouldn’t get published anytime soon. This is where the type services come in…