Showcased!

Today was a great day for my lenses! When they refreshed I had 4 in the top 1000, and one in the top 100!! Yesterday only 1 of these was in the top 1000, and 2 of them in the top 2000. Though going to see whether others were reporting such a shakeup of rankings on squidu, I found most people reporting slides the other way. Gil jumped in the thread to state - “…in the middle of some optimizations to minimize the effect that lensrank recalculation has on site performance every morning. It looks like there are a few minor bugs and I’m working to sort them out now.” So we expect things to return to normality tomorrow. Though it wasn’t surprising to see so many people up in arms about their lensrank falling, I guess people are just in the habit of chasing lensrank!

Then I got a real nice comment on my,  currently, top lens about Green Computing, informing me that it was the featured lens over at the Giant Squidoo Community Showcase! My first ever award or acknowledgement for any of my lenses! I was over the moon about it!

Now I’m a Giant Squid!

I’ve just been made a Giant Squid on Squidoo!

Since July 2007 I’ve created over 100 lenses (squid talk for webpages) on a huge variety of subjects, some good, some still work in progress and possibly a few abandoned ones that I’m unlikely to go back to having lost interest in the subject!

I hadn’t quite expected to be made a Giant Squid yet as this moniker is reserved for people who have created at least 50 high quality lenses and I wasn’t sure I was upto that level yet. So I was quite surprised to find I had an email notifying me that I had been made a Giant Squid. The thing I’m going to enjoy most about this is the ability to set up a lens template so that I can quickly create lenses from scratch without the constant adding of modules! I don’t know why they don;t make this facility available to all, but I’m glad I’ve got it now!

The first thing I need to do though is create a Lensography so that all my lenses are collated in one place. As I’ve left this for so long now it’s going to be one helluva a job! Also, I’m going to start blogging about my lenses as advised by MrLewisSmile on his Squidcool Blog.

If you want to check out my Lensmaster Page, feel free to do so, and I’ll update here when the lensography is complete, probably with a link in the side panel.