This past week's been a little hampered in my Squidoo life by other stuff that's needed a catch up, but I'm getting back on track and starting to get the new lenses rolling again.
Most of you will know that my main niche on Squidoo is the YuGiOh! Trading Card Game. With the latest release for the game making its first appearance this weekend, it was a busy old time, both in the shop - there's always a special launch tournament for a new product - and on Squidoo keeping all the lenses up to date.
To explain a little of the challenge. New YuGiOh! stuff always comes out in Japan several months before the rest of the world. A couple of prominent bloggers translate all the card names and fans then, by convention, stick to these when they write. Of course, there's always different ways to translate the same words and invariably the official translations differ in many instances. The same is even more true of the card text of course, so it's a race to get the official information out fast.
I did it though - I finally scooped the world of YuGiOh! Because I get the event organiser's card checklist, I was the first person to publish the official English-language card list online, right on Squidoo. There's still plenty of work to do though, changing over from unofficial translations to official ones on all the single card lenses that lead from the main lens. The expression 'rod for my own back' does spring to mind.
Meanwhile, I'm also plugging away at new Pokemon from the forthcoming Black & White DS game. Whether I can touch the handful of very long established Pokemon sites in Google though remains to be seen. Anyway here's Janovy as an example. Happy lens building.
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