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Six Reasons I Like Having a Microblog in my Sidebar

August 18, 2010

Why I like having a micro/miniblog in my sidebar… There are always little things I find online and want to stick into my blog. I don’t want to turn every little thing into a full blown post when it can stand on it’s own with just a linkback to the source. It gives readers something [...]

What do to with an Unused Web Domain

August 4, 2010

I’m not a domain seller, I’ve bought a few and find that I just can’t spread myself thin enough to make use of all of them as I’d wanted to. So, next stop is to make a decision about them. To use them in some way or to sell them. As it turns out, the [...]

Blog Ethics: Writing a Disclosure

August 2, 2010

Do you need to write a disclosure for your blog? I’m not running a disclosure on my blog. I decided not to but changed my mind. I am only running one paid ad in my sidebar. I don’t have a personal connection to the company the ad is from or the agency who pays me [...]

Geotagging Your Blog

July 18, 2010

You don’t need to add a geotag to your site or blog. At the moment it is an interesting sidenote more than something practical. However, I can see it evolving and growing as we begin to use the Internet for more than just online socializing. There is offline socializing too, after all. People have been [...]

Email Bankruptcy

July 7, 2010

Amanda at BloggerBuster declared email bankruptcy in May this year. She is trying to bring her site back to life after taking a break for several months. It is a chore to catch up and revamp and find out what you didn’t keep up with while you were ignoring your blog awhile. She decided not [...]

Professional Forum Moderators

June 28, 2010

I’ve moderated a lot of forums and chats. I never feel personally responsible for maintaining freedom of speech. If I delete, I delete without looking back or being obligated to give a lengthy explanation. I like the word moderator for the people who run a forum (or chat, etc.). Moderation is what it is all [...]

WordPress Plugins for Web Comics

June 27, 2010

These are not in any real order and they are not reviewed by me. I’m just posting the results of my research into how to make a gallery of my own web comics through this blog on WordPress. None are just what I am looking for, so far. But, my list may be useful to [...]

Is HTML 5 Real?

June 13, 2010

I found a link to HTML5 demos through Twitter. I lost track of the original link to whoever posted it on Twitter. The post says: So you’ve heard all rumors about HTML5 would take over Adobe Flash. While most web community argues that it’s possible or not, you must be wandering what makes HTML5 so [...]

Add a Blog Review to your Email Signature

May 28, 2010

Another reason to get someone to give your blog a fabulous review: promotion of your blog in your email or web forum signature. Email signatures are very underused. Even my own just has the bare essentials with links to this site and thatgrrl.ca which is part landing page and part shop of curiousities for me. [...]

No More Newsletters, Please!

May 20, 2010

I’ve been trying to clean newsletters out of my email inbox. There are far more than I can ever even want to read. I don’t want to try reading any of them at this point. The sad thing is that a few of them I used to read all the time and would still enjoy [...]

Worried About Privacy on Facebook?

May 17, 2010

Use Reclaim Privacy.org to check your Facebook settings. I tried it and found my settings were good but could use some extra tweaking.

A Post is Not a Blog!

May 9, 2010

I don’t like what seems to be a new trend, to call a blog post a blog in itself. Maybe it seems like a cute short form to some people. It is not. It is just incorrect, misleading and silly. If you refer to your last blog I assume you are talking about some other [...]

Reasons for a Writer to Keep a Blog

April 27, 2010

Jane at Writers Digest writes about the purpose in starting a blog before you have a book or your own writing of another kind, to promote. What do you put on your site or blog when you have no book? Here’s a starter list of ideas. Keep in mind you don’t have to blog. A [...]

Using an Author Box to Reduce Sidebar Clutter

April 8, 2010

Today I came up with another idea to get rid of sidebar clutter, an author resource box. Usually, an author resource box is used in blogs written by multiple writers, or by authors who routinely write for article directories which syndicate their articles out to everyone and anyone. An author resource box is the only [...]

What Does 9Rules Need?

March 1, 2010

What does 9Rules need? Have a look at the network and give your feedback to the blog. A few years ago 9Rules was an active, vital network of blogs. People applied to join. People made embittered posts on their blogs if they were not accepted. People put that leaf graphic on their blog in a [...]

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- Post photos of your favourite Second Hand Bookstore to this Flickr group. I'm in between second hand bookstores in town. But my favourite is still a half hour drive away in another town.
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- "There's an inner logic when somebody can't speak any more, they sing and when they're too filled with emotion they move onto dance."
  
  - Kelly Robinson, choreographer and stage director.
  
  I was watching some old movies last night. In between they talk about the movies, in particular the director. Mostly it was a lot of back patting. Then the topic of making musicals came up and I copied down this quote.
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