After all, the greatest mystery in blogging is, "Why do 361 people comment about a link to a silly piece about 'X-Files," but no one comments on my 4,700-word reflection on the the Council of Chalcedon and the hypostatic union?"
2 Other Options for Corporate Blogs When it comes to corporate blogs, many people think of just the standard blogging format and they are afraid to break out of the box. However, there are quite a few options that will help bring your blog to life and may even make it easier to get your message...
Why I Blog Inspired by a post from PaidTwice, I thought I might share my motivations for blogging. Most of this information is also available on my About page, but in a more abbreviated format. In November of last year (2006), my family and I were impacted by a earth shattering personal...
April is Financial Literacy Month Photo Credit: Jekkyl I just found out April is Financial Literacy Month. I decided to make a contribution by checking on the state of affairs of our future. The Washington Post had an article about the lack of basic knowledge U.S. high-schoolers had in personal finances. "In light of...
Boost your Business Blog with Video Blogging As a result of video sharing websites such as YouTube, the popularity of hosting videos on the internet has really gone right through the roof in recent years. More and more people online are preferring the idea of watching a short video in place of reading a great deal of...
Kurt Vonnegut “I do believe evolution is being controlled by some sort of divine engineer. I can’t help thinking that.. and this engineer knows exactly what he or she is doing and why and where evolution is headed and thats why we’ve got Giraffe’s and Hippopotami and the clap.”- Kurt Vonnegut...
Geisha by Liza Dalby In the mid-1970s, an American graduate student in anthropology joined the ranks of white-powdered geisha in Kyoto, Japan. Liza Dalby took the name Ichigiku and apprenticed in the famed Pontocho district, trailing behind "older sisters" bemused by this long-legged Westerner intent on learning their arts and customs. Some time ago...
Francis Scott Fitzgerald Writers aren't exactly people, they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person.- F. Scott Fitzgerald The outstanding dominations on F. Scott Fitzgerald were ambition, literature, Princeton, Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, and alcohol. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Sept. 24, 1896. During 1911-1913...
Geisha: The Life, the Voices by Jodi Cobb Amazing Gift Book! “Geisha: The Life, the Voices” is an icon of Japanese culture and custom- the geisha in her role as human work of art and perfect woman. A hundred years ago geisha numbered eighty thousand; today there is a thousand at most. Luckily, Jodi Cobb can show us-...
Secrets of Angels, Demons & Masons Dan Brown’s most recent success, The Da Vinci Code, has garnered widespread attention. Before Brown's better known book found success, another novel of his, Angels and Demons, laid out the pattern of things to come. Both stories follow the exploits of the character Robert Langdon, who is a Professor of...
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Fitzgerald was aiming to show the American dream, with all of its grandness and all of its faults, through the life of Nick and Gatsby. After all the extravagant parties, Nick explains how“an extra gardener toiled all day…repairing the ravages of the night before.” Nick also points out that “five...
20 Secret Cancer Warning Signs Most People Don't Notice Here are 20 deadly cancer warning signs you can catch early if you know what to look for.
Qvisory - What is 2009 Going to Look Like? I love Qvisory more and more these days. New readers take note, Qvisory is a non-profit start-up that caters to my generation (18-30 somethings). I liken the idea to what AARP does for seniors. I hope they take off and can really do some good for our generation. Their blog...
Sponzai - IZEA Launches a Sponsored Guest Post Service IZEA the fantastic company that brought bloggers PayPerPost, SocialSpark, SponsoredTweets has a new service called Sponzai that just launched. This service brings "guest sponsors" to bloggers and works in the same way PayPerPost Version 4 works. You register your blog (no waiting for approvals, any blog can be entered...
Colin McDougall Kicks Off Internet Marketing Super Conference 9 Carl Galletti's Internet Marketing Super Conference 9 got underway this morning in Vegas. Colin McDougall kicked things off with a talk on "Visitor Enhanced Optimization" - a term he coined as the different approach to SEO (search engine optimization). McDougall is the author of the VEO Report which details how...
The All Request Radio Scam This is not a cheat-you-out-of-your-hard-earned-money scam by any means, but it's a scam nonetheless... "All Request" radio promotions are totally bogus, through and through. They are signs that a program director is either out of clever promotional ideas or is downright lazy. As an example, let's use our local rock...
Know Your Oats Oats are a healthy addition to just about any diet because they provide fiber, satiety, and help lower cholesterol. Oats come in various forms, so sometimes confusion results when trying to determine which kind to use! So, without further ado... Let's take a look at the the different kinds of...
LG LB40 Phone Update LG pulled the plug on the leaked video of the LG LB40, claiming that it violated its copyright. Well, yesterday LG actually released the official trailer of the LG LB40. The trailer video looks impressive with all the bells and whistles. Enough with the legal front, here are the...
Macau International Music Festival. 9 Oct - 8 Nov 09 The Cultural Affairs Bureau of the Macau SAR Government presents the 23rd Macau International Music Festival (MIMF) from October 9th to November 8th, 2009. Each year the Macau International Music Festival brings internationally renowned artists from all over the world to Macau. Over the course of its decades-long history, it...
What is an RSS Feed and Why Syndicate Your Blog? Blog feeds or RSS feeds allow for feed readers to access a site that automatically looks for new content from all of their favorite blogs. By syndicating your blog through an RSS feed you can allow your readership to access all of your new blog posts without requiring them to...
Driving Traffic to Your Blog Many blog owners spend a good portion of their time trying to figure out how to generate traffic to their blog. This is especially true when it comes to a brand new blog that is not yet really rich in meaningful and effective content. Generating visitor traffic to your blog...
Boost Your Income with Blog Secrets If you have a blog, then you are already on the right track to boosting the income of your business. Blogs are incredibly useful for people who are looking to make money online, either as self employed individuals, business owners, or anyone who is just looking to make cash online....
What You Can Gain From Using Feedburner If you are publishing a corporate blog that has an RSS feed, and you should be, it is important to use a service that will allow you to enhance that feed and learn from it. One of the best services out there for this is Feedburner, and it can make...
Blog Plug-Ins to Get More Readers Wordpress specifically has a number of plug-ins for blogging that will allow you to attract more readers to your blog. Some of the best blog plug-ins for increasing traffic to come in three main categories: Social networking and bookmarking Posting across many different platforms RSS feed helpers BTE Related Websites:...
Lose Weight, Look Good and Feel Great! It is the goal of many people to lose weight, look good and feel the best they can. The problem is that this goal is hindered by distorted interpretations of what is good. Every one knows what good body shape is, and there are countless diets, exercise machines, and other...
Cash advances: Stray not into temptation! Photo by: catatronic The following is a guest post by Jonathan from Master Your Card, a blog about credit cards and mastering them before they master you. If you like this post, consider subscribing to his RSS feed. There you are, broke and in need of cash. Your bank...
Keep Track of Your Linkbacks with Google Alerts Ok, if you are the type of person who likes to check your Linkbacks daily, then this is a service you should be using. Setup a Google Alerts account and add your blogsearch criteria as alerts. Or just do your blogsearch and then scroll to bottom and turn it into...
4 Ways to Keep People at Your Blog The longer you keep someone at your blog, the more they read, the more they see your message. If you're selling something on your blog, your readers are more likely to purchase if they stay and read more. They're also more likely to simply keep coming back if they were...
10 Blog Marketing Tips Guest Article by Yaro Starak--- Editor's Note: Yaro's Blog Mastermind is a great blueprint for how to make a blog earn it's keep. The biggest question we get at ASC after the traffic starts rolling in and the search engine rankings climb higher and higher is "How do you...
Blogging Is It Good for your Health ? Is Blogging good for your health my thoughts Well based upon my own experiences of blogging, I would say that most of my experiences have been good as far as blogging is concerned. The reason for writing this post is I came across a article on Discoveries website which speaks... Driving Traffic to Your Blog Many blog owners spend a good portion of their time trying to figure out how to generate traffic to their blog. This is especially true when it comes to a brand new blog that is not yet really rich in meaningful and effective content. Generating visitor traffic to your blog...
AMERICAN EXPRESS ADDRESSES RFID PEOPLE TRACKING PLANS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - March 9, 2007 AMERICAN EXPRESS ADDRESSES RFID PEOPLE TRACKING PLANS Promises Full Patent Review, Tracking Notice, and Chip-Free Option The top brass at American Express, chagrined at the discovery of its people tracking plans, met with CASPIAN (Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering) last week...
Design Blog Improvement When it comes to blog improvement, one of the considerations that you might want to make relates to the design of your blog, as changing up the design of your blog can also have an impact of the quality of your blog and the functionality of your blog as well....
New Series: The Frugal Five I'm sure that a lot of you have frugal tips or money-saving tips that work for you and are really cool. So, I'm starting up a series ... ... The Frugal Five! Send me a frugal tip, and when I get five of them, I'll post them -- along with... Lose Weight, Look Good and Feel Great! It is the goal of many people to lose weight, look good and feel the best they can. The problem is that this goal is hindered by distorted interpretations of what is good. Every one knows what good body shape is, and there are countless diets, exercise machines, and other...
a brief foray into political what-ifs Imagine, for a minute, that you don't have to worry about saving for retirement. Imagine that you don't have to worry about health care costs bankrupting your family, or losing benefits when you lose your job. How would that affect your life? Bubelah and I like to gripe that... Microchip-Induced Tumors in Laboratory Rodents and Dogs FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 19, 20007 CASPIAN RELEASES MICROCHIP CANCER REPORT Sets record straight after misleading claims by HomeAgain and VeriChip implant manufacturers A new paper titled "Microchip-Induced Tumors in Laboratory Rodents and Dogs: A Review of the Literature 1990-2006" has been released today by CASPIAN. The full, 48-page paper...
Community Property States & What It Means You know those common misconceptions people have about money that are just obscure enough to escape further investigation? In other words, things you hear that you probably will never encounter and so you never look into to find out the truth? The concept of community property was one of those...
Blond pig gets punk slapped by Judge Judy for scamming on Ebay It amazes me that the Ebay scammer in this video from Judge Judy seems to see nothing wrong with her Ebay sale. If your ad says you're selling "only a photo of a cellphone" and someone buys it think their getting a full cell phone, it doesn't mean you're ethically...
At long last, I drag my spouse kicking and screaming into the blogosphere. And she likes it that way.
Laptop Confessions is a blog for the guilty conscience in us all. The first post is all trash talk and it gets tawdier from there. I'd tell you more, but it's late and she's dimming the lights...Eva Schweitzer sagte eben am Telefon zu mir:
(…) Mir entstehen keine Kosten, das trägt sich durch die Kosten, die den Abgemahnten entstehen. Mir geht es hauptsächlich um Zeitungen. Ich bezahle nichtmal was für den Service von TextGuard. Die machen das, und so finanziert sich das. Ich bekomme dann hoffentlich Geld. Letzten Endes finanziert sich das pro Fund (von Urheberrechtsverletzungen, Anm. Boie). Ich bekomme das nochmal zu sehen, dann geht das von TextGuard direkt an den Anwalt, da kümmern die sich drum.
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Die Geschichte entwickelt sich so langsam zu einem Running Gag. Nicht nur, dass es die wahre Fratze des Journalismus der taz offenbart - man achte dort auch einmal auf die Kollegen, die ihrer Kollegin beiseite springen, auch gibt er mittlerweile einen kleinen Einblick in die deutsche Abmahnmaschinerie...
Boost Your Business Blog with Video Blogging As a result of video sharing websites such as YouTube, the popularity of hosting videos on the internet has really gone right through the roof in recent years. More and more people online are preferring the idea of watching a short video in place of reading a great deal of... Boost your Business Blog with Video Blogging As a result of video sharing websites such as YouTube, the popularity of hosting videos on the internet has really gone right through the roof in recent years. More and more people online are preferring the idea of watching a short video in place of reading a great deal of...
Creating a Blog Video Online About two years ago, blogging hit a surge that allowed its way into the mainstream, and now everybody is blogging for a wide variety of different reasons. Blogs resemble web-based public diaries of sorts, where the creator can record their thoughts, their opinions, questions and answers and essentially anything else...
10 Ways to Support Charity Through Social Media. This post is a collaboration between Mashable's Summer of Social Good charitable fundraiser and Max Gladwell's "10 Ways" series. The post is being simultaneously published across more than 100 blogs. Social media is about connecting people and providing the tools necessary to have a conversation. That global conversation is an...
How To Make Money Online Series Making Money Online With Blogging Series Article 4 Blogging in essence is just a way for you to express yourself or your opinions and with any amount of luck, your blog can make you money with advertising as well. You can create and host your own blog with WordPress then...
Bring Your Weblog to Life with Video Blogs Perhaps you have not noticed that there has been a tremendous explosion in the way of online media, especially throughout the past couple of years. Now that hosting and bandwidth are becoming significantly less expensive, and because publishing tools are becoming better, simpler and cheaper, it has never been easier...
What to Look for in Your Blogging Software There are so many choices for blogging software on the market, that it can be very difficult to choose the right one. Every software choice has its advantages and disadvantages which means that you will have to make some decisions on your needs. This will help you to determine which...
10 Keyboard Techniques To Create Cool Symbols [ad#ad-2] All of us use the keyboard to create symbols daily. Look at the thumbnail. That’s a simple symbol created with just four keys. Symbols existed even before the alphabets. Over the years they have been part of folklore, myths and legends. Some have stayed on as indelible marks. Some,...
A blogger's three month dilemma: burnout or refuel? Several weeks ago, I asked you a tough question: Are you in the top 10% of bloggers who can survive six months? However, one question I didn't ask was whether you're even going to make it through the three month milestone! Based on what I've seen just from my blogging...
Riding the waves of recession to enlightenment The supreme good is like water, which nourishes all things without trying to. It is content with the low places that people disdain. Thus it is like the Tao. In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In...![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=09460789-9392-45ed-8f7d-e2dcbcc72a82 "Reblog this post [with Zemanta]")
Google DashBoard we are excited to announce the launch of Google Dashboard. Have you ever wondered what data is stored with your Google Account? The Google Dashboard offers a simple view into the data associated with your account — easily and concisely in one location. Over the past 11 years, Google has...
Guest Post: Building Your Excursion in Life This is a guest post by David@Life Excursion Materialism. Clutter. Debt. Laziness.Procrastination. How many of these are holding you back in life? Are you unable to live your dreams because of these manageable, yet intrusive characteristics you have allowed into your life? Well, today is the day you eliminate...
Gmail Themes Go Live The Official Gmail Blog announced the release of themes for Gmail yesterday. It seemed they were not immediately available after they made the announcement, as it took several hours before I saw it appear in my settings. Perhaps because they did not want other blogs to steal their thunder. I...
The Credit Ratings Credit Card Companies Prefer You Did Not Know We are all too familiar with our credit score (or FICO score) which is the number from 300 to 850 which determines our overall credit risk. But, did you know that you are scored on far more things that just this number? And, not only that, you are profiled in...
List Building for Webmasters What is the hardest part of email marketing? Not sure? Here is the answer to that question in 2 words...List Building. Simply put, without a list there is no email marketing. Building a list of subscribers is the hardest part of email marketing and always will be. Getting people to...
HowTo: Work with iMovie How To Make a Movie Video editing used to be a tedious process involving hours spent with the remote control, transferring from the camera to a VHS recorder. You could, if you were really serious, pay for an editing desk but that was out of reach for the ordinary...
Paris Hilton and Victoria Beckham are fans of my son! No, I didn't get it the other way around. I do mean to say that both these ladies, Paris and Posh are indeed fans of my little boy. Don't believe me? Just look at these pictures. Paris Hilton showing off my boy's debut nursery rhymes album. Victoria or Posh showing...
SiteBuildIt Customer Reviews SiteBuildIt or SBI offer something rather unique for those looking to build profitable websites and the features of the service are comprehensive. Not your traditional web hosting plan, rather a "business in a box" like approach. Read A Full Site Build It Review here and see the video at...
This is a nice tutorial from Mashable explaining how to take advantage of the many features offered by the Posterous platform.
A very good explanation of what Posterous is all about, as well as some great how to use it information.
A great post from Brandon Cox at We Blog Better. All that follows is his post.
English is all I know. I tried Spanish 101 in college – crawled out with a “C”. I do know some Greek, but it’s Koine Greek, which nobody speaks anymore. So I’m stuck blogging in English, which is challenging. Why? Well… I didn’t write any of what follows – came to me in one of those infinitely forwarded emails, credit to whomever spammed it out first – kudos…Consider these challenges…The bandage was wound around the wound.
