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1,000 Comments Challenge

March 2, 2010

Can you leave 1,000 com­ments this month? Though the but­ton says leave me com­ments it is actu­ally myself who will be leav­ing the com­ments, 1,000 of them over the month of March.
Sign up on the blog, Har­riet and Friends.
The only down­side is keep­ing track of how many com­ments you make. If you know of a way […]

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Picons: Your Personal Icon

February 23, 2010

Picons are an old idea that can be new again. A picon is a per­sonal icon. Much like the fav­i­con cre­ated for a site or blog, the picon is for your­self. Another chance to use the pop­u­lar self brand­ing plan. Have you already got a picon which you use to rep­re­sent your­self, an avatar? If […]

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Should you Write for a Blog Network?

January 3, 2010

A blog net­work is a group of peo­ple writ­ing together to cover a set of top­ics all as part of the same larger group.

Some blog net­works are writ­ers with their own unique blogs, only con­nected through the net­work as a way of build­ing a com­mu­nity, such as 9Rules.
Another kind of net­work is more like an […]

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Skipping to a Quick Conclusion

December 27, 2009

Peo­ple sel­dom read old con­tent. So you need to think of each post you write as the only post in your blog. The oth­ers are back­ground to show you’ve been here awhile, more like a cre­den­tial than con­tent. With­out an archive you look like some­one who just started. Yet, those posts could all be about […]

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Will You be Blogging for Christmas?

December 5, 2009

Christ­mas is on my mind today. I’m watch­ing roman­tic hol­i­day movies. Right now The Lake House with Keanu Reeves. I admit I have a thing for Keanu. How could any Cana­dian woman not have a soft spot for a hockey player who can dance? It’s just fin­ish­ing up, the final scene, the last great kiss. […]

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A Comment a Day

December 3, 2009

Every­one can leave one com­ment in one blog each day. Pretty sim­ple. If you were away you can catch up by doing an extra com­ment the next day. No stress. Just one sin­cere and inter­est­ing com­ment per day. No prob­lem. Pick any blog you like. A blog you have been read­ing awhile or one you […]

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Hyperlocal, What is It?

December 2, 2009

I’ve seen the term hyper­local come up three times lately. I decided to spend some time to find out what it is exactly and how it is being used.
Of course, Wikipedia comes up first in the results I get from Google. : Hyper­local -
refers to the emer­gent ecol­ogy of data (includ­ing tex­tual con­tent), aggre­ga­tors, publication […]

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AKA Happy at Last">A Frustration of Errors AKA Happy at Last

November 23, 2009

I’ve been hav­ing trou­ble upload­ing graph­ics into my posts. It started awhile ago when I updated to another ver­sion of Word­Press. I ignored it for awhile cause I wasn’t doing a lot of draw­ing at the time. Then I tried to fix it, no suc­cess. I couldn’t even fig­ure out the prob­lem. Each time I […]

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Trends in Comment Spam

November 8, 2009

If I pub­lished all my spam com­ments right now I’d prob­a­bly be arrested for drug traf­fick­ing. Not so long ago all the spam com­ments were for casi­nos and poker sites. Before that they were adult site ads. Things have changed. I think those are the three main crim­i­nal activ­i­ties cov­ered now? Am I for­get­ting something? […]

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Are Blog Archives Too Old Fashioned?

November 6, 2009

What are rea­sons to keep an archive on your blog? We have cat­e­gories and tags. An archive may seem a bit pre­his­toric or overkill, espe­cially when they aren’t search able and just sit there all sta­tic and grow­ing old. Tony Bri­ley started this dis­cus­sion on the CMF Ads forum.
Rea­sons for keep­ing an archive on your blog:

Web […]

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Eye of Newt, Rule of Thumb and Hands of the Clock…

November 4, 2009

It’s a bit dis­ap­point­ing to go to a favourite blog and find they have no new updates at the time you expect them to be there.
What time do you make your blog posts? Even if you don’t choose (or have avail­able) sched­uled blog posts you can pick a good time for mak­ing a post go live […]

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7 WordPress Plugins I Don’t Really Need but Must Have Anyway

October 28, 2009

Word­Press plu­g­ins that I love but don’t really need. (Why limit your­self to plu­g­ins you need?)

Drop Caps Plu­gin — Add a drop cap to the first let­ter of each blog post. (Makes me think of fairy tale books of old).
Per­sonal Fav­i­con — I had wanted an icon for awhile but could not find some­thing to make it […]

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Designing Your Own 125x125 Blog Ad

October 26, 2009

You need to cre­ate a small 125 x 125 pix­els square ad for your blog if you want to use ad net­works and link exchanges like CMF Ads, Adg­i­tize, Project Won­der­ful, Tech­no­rati Engage, Yahoo Pub­lisher Net­work (US only), Google Adsense, Blog Ads, Spottt and 125 Exchange. (Pub­lisher Spot will give you reviews of ad networks […]

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Luv Your Blog Lately?

September 13, 2009

Have you vis­ited Blogs We Luv? I was inter­viewed at Blogs We Luv for my per­sonal blog, back in 2008.
Put together your own answers to the ten ques­tions and send it in for your own inter­view. Here are the ques­tions so you can get think­ing right away:

Describe your blog in five sen­tences or less.
Link us to one post […]

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CMF Ads, An Online Neighbourhood">CMF Ads, An Online Neighbourhood

September 11, 2009

One thing I like about using CMF Ads are the forums. I feel I am deal­ing with real peo­ple. Some­times they have bad days, get upset about some­thing posted to the forums or post some­thing great that has hap­pened to them. It makes the forum human. Although I have not met any of them face […]

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