Thanks for the updates. It seems the better road in terms of hits is to latch yourself to the Coast to Coast behemoth. We’ve gotten more hits from that than anything else. Still, it would be nice to get a mention at one of my favorite sites. How do you submit stories or links to BoingBoing? I aware that Mark P. knows David Pescovitz, who is one of their writers/ editors.

http://del.icio.us/wunderk/links2us%2Bboingboing

None of them are really UFO-related - apart, possibly, from the most recent one which is an art exhibition that pitches itself as being designed by and for aliens.

http://www.boingboing.net/2007/12/19/japans-chief-cabinet.html

Loren Coleman obviously is still getting strongly featured:

http://www.boingboing.net/2007/11/27/loren-colemans-top-c-1.html
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/11/20/cryptozoology-with-l.html

And an interview with Greg Taylor got a mention:

http://www.boingboing.net/2007/12/10/interview-with-the-d.html

That was submitted by Mark Pilkington who has been doing well getting stories mentioned:

http://www.boingboing.net/2007/12/17/occulture-music.html
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/11/26/far-out-101-strange.html

Although I have submitted stories (sometimes with a UFO angle) none of those have been picked up but then they have linked to us twice (not sure where they got the links from - possibly directly or possibly via The Anomalist):

http://www.boingboing.net/2007/12/05/people-with-backward.html
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/10/24/videos-of-ramanas-le.html

It is a mixed bag but as well as cryptozoology (or more specifically Loren Coleman - the CFZ don’t seem to make similar inroads) it is a mixed bag of magic, human oddity, fringe science, occulty themes, conspiracies and general weirdness.

Sooooo while nuts and bolts UFO stories probably aren’t cool, there are plenty of grey areas where Ufology crosses over with other Forteana that do have potential to be “cool” (or at least of interest to a broader group of people) although I haven’t found the right angle to crack it yet

You have probably nailed it. Crazes often do follow current cultural paranoias, which are in turn amplified by the people whose job it is to make money off of our fears.

Where are these chicks?

Loren’s wordsmithing puts me to shame, but UFOs could also be classified “by an iconic association with place,” although the place may be more psychological than geographic.

Right, right, and right. Perhaps reviving the altered consciousness aspects of the UFO phenomenon would also work too, provided it was packaged properly. What hipster could resist anything to do with drugs?!

Good analysis. I prefer the older UFO fans as well. They’re usually more polite.