Purl3agony Interviews Theframjak
Insights from a methodical Hubber with a love of sports
Your Hubs cover a variety of interesting and popular subjects (sports, music, health, travel). What made you start writing on HubPages?
I had never heard of HubPages a year ago, but an article in Kiplinger magazine mentioned it as an avenue to make money on the internet by writing articles. I thought I would check it out and the rest is history.
A number of your Hubs are evaluations of changes you've made to your lifestyle (changing types of gas to improve your mileage, changing your diet to improve your health). For other Hubbers, can you describe how you design and evaluate the changes you've made?
First, I try to examine things that I have wondered about such as how tire pressure affects gas mileage. Then, to begin an experiment or evaluation, I mark my starting point or baseline. For the tire pressure experiment, I determined the gas mileage I was getting with typically inflated tires. Then I made a change and looked at what that did. For the tire pressure experiment, I increased the tire pressure a specific amount and monitored how it changed my mileage. I enjoy running these little experiments, but they take time and a lot of good record keeping.
A lot of your other Hubs are about fantasy sports. How do you research and choose your fantasy picks?
Most of my research is done by watching plenty of games (much to my wife’s dismay) and trying to look for trends in players and teams. The goal is to draft a player right before he has his best season, so with baseball I follow the arc of players’ careers and try to anticipate when a breakout season will occur. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t, but I enjoy it and that’s what matters most.
Aren't you worried about sharing all your fantasy picks online?
I don’t think the other members of my fantasy leagues know of my Hubbing, so I’m safe for now.
You seem knowledgeable about a number of subjects and write interesting Hubs about all of them. What advice do you have for other Hubbers?
Keep writing Hubs because you never know when you will write one that catches fire on the internet. My highest traffic Hubs are ones that I never would have guessed would succeed. Eventually, you’ll write one that takes off and then you’ll be hooked.
So, most important, who do you think is going to win the Super Bowl?
Well, I would like to see my beloved Cleveland Browns win it, but that’s obviously not going to happen this season. I think the Patriots have the best chance this season.
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