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BeamMe is there to help bloggers and web publishers to send their web content to Mobile phones by SMS. The process of sending web content to mobile phones is very easy and straightforward, just add the JavaScript code provided by BeamMe and all done. Whenever any user clicks on the “Send to Mobile” button [...]

I’m giving a speech tomorrow on setting up your own blog and the key to success. I was doing some more researching today and found these two valuable posts / resources: Mitch Joel (yes, i know, again, what can i say, he’s good!) claims that blogging is getting a second wind and that micro-niches (i like [...]

My name is Chris and I’m a 22-year-old Alcoholic and Drug Addict. At 17, I started smoking weed with my cousin and some friends. After a few weeks, I had my own pipe and began to regularly buy marijuana with money I made from delivering pizza. I was instantly addicted because I finally found something [...]

(Click here to see without logging in) Hey Everyone! The new newspaper has been released and here is whats inside: The Front Page and Page A2 - A3: Talks about how Rockhopper feels about getting his Migrator back and that he hid his key which unlocks the Caption Quarters (Click here to find were he hid the [...]

Today's tip comes from Kathy at The Junk Drawer Blog. To center video, text, pictures, etc.: Go to the Edit HTML tab. Find the item you'd like to center. Type the following code before the item: Type the following code after the item: Go to the Compose/WYSIWYG...

So i’m back to exploring how to best promote a blog, and realized that i a friend of mine owns a very prominent blog, and here’s the recipe to his success: find yourself a niche, make sure it’s not to restrictive but not too widespread, stick to it, post often and promote it. This is nothing [...]

If you are visiting YouTube and find a video you'd like to put on your own site, it's pretty straightforward and easy. Let's start by visiting YouTube and using a sample video of my choosing. I happen to like Matt Damon so we'll use this hilarious spoof of The Bourne...

In both Blogger and Typepad, when you compose or edit a post you have the choice of doing it as WYSIWYG or HTML. WYSIWYG simply acts like a word processor and is usually under the tab called "Compose Post". The "Edit HTML" tab is where you would write your post...

Cool article about optimising blog posts, certainly worth a read###"Hey, what’s more exciting than getting huge organic traffic from Google and other search engines to your blog? Every other day, you write posts. Not every post gets noticed. Not every post is picked up by Google. Not every post gets the fame it deserves.Here are some tips to optimize your blog post a bit for search engines if you’re looking for driving some traffic from Google and other crawlers. Try these, some day one of your posts will drive tens of hundreds of visitors via organic searches.Though I’m not an expert in SEO, I can give you a few tips based on what I’ve learnt in the last year of blogging. Here we go!"Optimize your Blog Post for Google - Tips that you might not have heard:

Hey Everyone, CP posted that the new update is ganna be released on 4/14/08! Everything we own will be transfered meaning nothing will happen. The Server names will stay the same and everything will be left like nothing happen. The bad news is that the servers will have to go off from 12 am (midnight) [...]

Yesterday while posting to one of my niche blogs, CheapAzz.net, I decided to get more for my effort. Researching and writing the post took a little time so why not make it count? Here’s how one blog post can help your online business and site promotion. Blog Post To Article Nothing new here. Bloggers have been doing [...]

Hey Everyone, here is what im ganna talk about: April Sneak Peak (CP Blog Post) Server Test Almost Over (CPIP Blog Post) Blog Moving News First off with the April Sneak Peak Post: Hello Penguins! March was a great month in Club Penguin and we’re not slowing down! I was able to find out a few of things [...]

Hey Everyone, Screenhog posted a list of all the tricks in the April Fools Day Party! Here it is: Click on the name of the list and see its actions: crayon Coffee Shop pixelated Night Club (And Dance Lounge) mix of Thin Ice and Astro-Barrier sketchy Gift Shop the blushing red sign in the Town blue arrow signs have spinny arrows super [...]

Come to the dark side, Luke!" K said, channeling James Earl Jones."Don't listen to him, Luke!" I urged.Organizing his own entertainment for the morning commute, The Mayor assigned the role of Darth Vader to K and the role of Red Darth Vader to me.[You haven't heard of Red Darth Vader? Me neither.]Black Darth Vader urged Luke (a.k.a. The Mayor) to become evil while Red Darth Vader encouraged him to resist and remain true to the Jedi."It's much harder to be good," Red Darth Vader reminded Luke.The Mayor weighed his options and PLAYED the two adult Vaders.[Who were, perhaps, a little too into the game. What's that about?!!]While K and I play-debated the virtues of good vs. evil, The Rooster quietly ate dry breakfast cereal in her car seat.Just as we were dropping K at the commuter rail stat

Hey Everyone! Before starting, Click here to see the post of the new newspaper. The 1st one is at the CP Blog and the Post title is: Migrator Construction Hello Penguins, Check out the Migrator at the Beach! A big development occurred today! There has sure been a lot of progress made on the ship in the [...]

Hey Everyone! Im ganna move my blog tonight, i will soon then post the new link to my blog! All the pictures and photo’s and more will stay! I will still keep this blog and i wont give it away! Sorry Guys! Now here are the 2 Blog Post’s: Yearbook added to Book Room! Hello Penguins! I [...]

If you have a photo or product blog, then you may want to try out this plugin. It puts a 5 star rating system inside each blog post. Users don’t have to register, it rates at the click of a button. It tracks by unique I.P in the database, to help protect against [...]

Hey Everyone, in this post, i have lots to talk about. Here is what i will talk about in this post: The New Game (Book) The CP Improvement Project Released Check Out The Book Room!! (CP Blog Post) I will start with the New Game (Nook) Hey Everyone, the 2 new games are released? And if you dont know [...]

2004 photo of Brandon Boyd concert in Manila. from the blog of Brutal Grace I know everyone is excited like me for tomorrow's big event, Incubus band will have a press con tonight at 7pm at Bar One, and I just received the information so late via reading the forum at enjoyincubus.com the people and fans in there are doing a great homework just to meet and greet the band members of Incubus. I'm

We've been having a friendly debate on the IZEA message boards about how long a blog post should be. Some interesting studies have been referenced and The Elements of Style (the definitive guide to writing) has been cited. While some good points have been made, some of them just aren't relevant to what we do. Many bloggers focus tightly on conveying topic-specific information in each post. Their posts tend to be concise. Some bloggers are more interested in weaving a story or making a connection with their readers. They may need more words to accommodate their style. Neither style has to be wrong for the other to be right. Blog posting is not "one size fits all." Other than satisfying the minimum word requirement for our sponsored opportunities I think it's okay for us to relax a

Hey Everyone! The CP Team posted something in their blog and here is what they said: Hello Penguins! There is a brand new Clothing Catalog and some brand new Wigs! I think the bunny is pretty funny. As always, let us know which ones you like and even what you don’t like! In other news: [...]

Four Hundred Things1. I like funky socks. You know, stripy ones, fuzzy ones, ones with nifty patterns and the kind that fit your foot like a glove.2. I don’t like the ones with pom-poms.3. Or the ones with treads on the bottom to stop you from slipping (seriously messes me up when I’m bustin’ a move and such like).4. I hate tomatoes but I adore marinara sauces.5. I am a superbly picky eater.6. But I’m getting better.7. The thought of traveling used to frighten me because I was sure I’d starve to death if I visited a foreign country. The whole not liking rice until I was twenty-three thing had a lot to do with that.8. Now? I can’t wait to see the world.9. I’ve never left North America.10. Well. I’m pretty sure Vancouver Island doesn’t count. It doesn’t, does it?11.

 Hey Everyone! Club Penguin posted something in their blog, here is what they said: Hello Penguins! I wanted to let you know about a couple cool things happening early this week. Be sure to check out Fun Stuff on the website tomorrow for a new wallpaper. I won’t spoil the surprise of what it is, but I [...]

Hey Everyone! I have 2 things to talk about in this post today: Pin Rules (CP Blog Post) Some Discovery’s in 2/29/08 Sports Catalog Lets start with the Pin Rules. Here is what CP said: Hi everyone. It’s me, Screenhog. Are you a pin collector? Then this blog post is for you, because I’m going to tell you the rules [...]

Smiley and emoticon is a graphical figure, usually a face, that we can use to express a feeling or something else we want to convey on our Web site. Guys , i put up this trick so that we can share our feeling to each other It is so simple just we have to add the code............. click here to get the code

As a blogger who is wishing to make money online,your most powerful tool in achieving to your goal is writing a world class blog post.What do you mean by a world class blog post?That means it is a post that will entice people from all around the world and giving you the recognition.But saying is easy.How do you actually do it? Here are 5 tips which I would love to share in writing a world

Interesting post over at Steve Pavlina’s which takes up the question that How Much Is a Blog Post Worth? In the post Steve decides that posts on his blog are worth $2400 calculated over a 10 year life span. He calculates this by taking the total earnings of his site and dividing it by the post numbers and then multiplying it by the lifespan of the post. It’s actually an interesting formula and one that I used on my own blogs for the first year or so. The only problem is that after 18-24 months of my own blogging the increase in my own earnings began to slow each month and the post numbers continued to rise at a similar rate. I’m about to run out the door for the morning but I’ll make a few further brief comments on it (note - Steve and I agree on these things and he says

If you have a blogspot /blogger blog and want to add Google adsense anywhere in your post body you have come to right place !In post body you can add google adsense at1) Top of the post , below the title of the post. ( 468 x 60 or 336 x 280 google adsense unit)2) A 200 x 200 google adsense unit at right or left hand top corner of the post.3) At bottom / footer of the post above comments . ( 468 x 60 or 336 x 280 google adsense unit)Please note that you have to add the google adsense code ( procedure given below) only once in HTML code of your blog template and the google ads will appear in three latest posts as only 3 such units are allowed by Google Adsense. So from fourth post you may observe a blank space in your post.To add the Google adsense in your blog post following is the step

I wanted to spell out how to create and market a blog post. There are, of course, several different ways to market your latest blog post. Below I have outlined a step-by-step strategy for marketing your latest blog post.1. Your ping list has to be in order. Check out the recommended ping list if you don't have a ping list you are happy using. The first part of marketing your post starts with your ping list. Plain and simple.2. You must tag your post. Ultimate Tag Warrior is a required plugin for Wordpress blogs. It will allow you to categorize content based on a tagging engine. Without a doubt, Ultimate Tag Warrior is one of the most powerful Wordpress plugins. Each time you make a post add your keywords as tags at the bottom of your post.3. Tag Technorati throughout your post. For example

In my earlier post , I have discussed about adding and optimizing pictures on blog post . Today we will discuss adding video to blog post.This article is for blogger / blogspot blogs only. Adding video to blog post makes it more interesting and attractive.You can add video from three main sources.1) Video stored on your computer harddisk. You might have shoot it using your cell phone and then downloaded to your PC.2) Video from youtube.com3) Video from video.yahoo.comNow we will discuss how to add video from this three sources1) For adding video from your PC , please go to create new post then in the post toolbar you will find a 'Add video' button or icon , at second last position from right hand side as shown below.Then you have to select file from your PC by clicking on Browse , then give title and click upload video. But please remember that your video file format should be AVI, MPEG, QuickTime, Real, and Windows Media. And maximum file size of 100MB . If you have saved your video

I know, I'm really supposed to be working on the complaining, but yesterday was a tough day here. I spent all morning in the doctor's office. I have a lump in my throat that seems to get better with a steroid shot, only to come right back within a day. The doc can't see anything, but ran a WBC and Thyroid test, gave me another shot, and sent me home with antibiotics (which make my stomach feel lovely) and orders for rest. With a toddler. *smirk*Yesterday afternoon was spent in the vet's office with our male cat. He started drooling really bad Monday night. I called Tuesday and they told me to wait it out and see if it got better. It didn't. The vet couldn't tell me much, but Big Kitty got a shot and some antibiotics, so he and I were a sorry pair yesterday. I am happy to report that Big Kitty is looking much better this morning after camping out with me on the couch last night. E.B. spent the night with my parents and he is spending the day with my grandmother. It's t

Give your blog post a different look Searching through the blogosphear is my habit. It helps me a lot in developing my blog.Last day, while searching through some blog posts for latest information, I found an interesting tip for bloggers. It gives blog post a different look. This can be utilize in some occasions. pullquote is useful in some occasion to draw attention of a reader

Legal experts say anonymous post on political site is likely protected under free speech lawsDecember 05, 2007 (Computerworld) -- A Wisconsin high school teacher was arrested last week after a blog post that included support for student killers like those involved in the 1999 Columbine, Colo., High School massacre.James Buss was arrested Nov. 29 and charged with disorderly conduct and unlawful use of computerized communications systems, according to a spokeswoman from the West Bend, Wis., police department. Buss, a teacher from a high school in Milwaukee, admitted to making an anonymous blog post on the political blog Boots and Sabers on Nov. 16, the spokeswoman said.In the post, Buss said teacher salaries in West Bend "made me sick; $60,000 for a part-time job where you 'work' maybe five hours per day and sit in the teachers' lounge and smoke the rest of the time. But whining here doesn't stop the problem. We've got to get in back of the kids who have had enough of lazy, no-good

A question you might be asking and a question which has been debated by bloggers is how longer should a blog post be?An important factor when deciding how long your posts should be is to consider the actual attention span of web readers. This has been the subject of many studies and it has been found that the attention span for a web reader is about 96 seconds for a blog or a website page. Using this wisdom as a guide – you should keep your content limited to short articles which can be read quickly in the limited amount of time that a web reader will actually spend on your site.SEO experts say that either very short or very long articles do not get as high a ranking in the search engines as articles of a reasonable length. An article of reasonable length would be about 250 words. Th

Hey Everyone, the Club Penguin Team posted something in their blog, here is what they said: Hello Penguins! The votes were counted, and it turns out you all wanted to see the Western Party one more time!!  A lot has changed in Club Penguin since the last Western Party, so our team worked hard to add a few more rooms and a few new features like the bonfire and the tumbleweeds.  As always, we’d love to hear what part you like the best so we can all keep making Club Penguin even better! In other news:  We’ve got some really cool stuff coming up later this month and next so be sure to keep checking in because you won’t want to miss it! Until then… Waddle on! - Club Penguin Team Im ganna send the Club Penguin Team a big email of what they should do in the Western Party. Also, i think i know whats the cool thing they said. I think on 11/30/07, their ganna post a new puffle catalog with the Yellow Puffle! Thats all for now. Hope you enjoy my website

Hey all, I’ve been really busy this week gearing up for PubCon Vegas, launching a client’s Ebay store, launching another client’s e-commerce site, managing two other e-commerce sites (SEO, SEM, Products, etc), and pursuing development on another web project. I promise you’ll see some new, interesting content here early next week! Share This

 By: Bob Sommers When you write a blog post, there are a number of things that can be done to make it stand out and catch the attention of your readers. A well-written blog post is the first thing on that list almost every time. However, there are a dozen or more other things that can take very little time and multiply not only your exposure but the quality of readership on your blog. The number one thing on that list is the addition of graphics and photos to each and every post you write. It may seem like a small addition, but without a visual addition, many blogs look stale and overly wordy. The last thing you want is for your visitors to think your blog looks wordy. (more…) blogger, Blogging, Google Blogger, graphics, images, photos for blog, photos for Bloggerblogger, Blogging, Google Blogger, graphics, images, photos for blog, photos for Blogger

Rockhopper Is Back: Here is what the Club Penguin Team Said : Hello Penguins! This weekend marks the return of Captain Rockhopper after being gone for a while. He’s been spotted hanging around on his ship, at the beach, in the plaza, and a few other places. I hope everyone gets the chance to meet him because it’s a lot of fun! In other news: Construction is going well in the Plaza and I think it’s going to be really cool when it’s done. Also, don’t forget to keep voting for your favorite party, it’s going to be a blast!! Until then… Waddle on! - Club Penguin Team Check back!

Just a cold, gloomy Monday morning, so here's some audio hot cocoa...An ambient artist that I have become quite the fan of in the last few months is Mr. Jonas Munk, aka Manual, from Denmark. He's got a bunch of releases out, and this one, called Until Tomorrow is on the Morr Music label, which these days is certainly a stamp of quality if you're into the relaxed side of things. And who doesn't like to relax? The terrorists, that's who. They should just put this music on and maybe they won't be wanting to blow shit up all the time... Manual - It'll Be Fine (ysi)... see what I mean? I have no desire to strap on a vest of dynamite right this second. Thanks, Manual!

Today I have thought to write a short post here. This is completely an interactive post. I am inviting all of my blogger friends to come and post their comments here on the most popular post of their... Potpourri -A blog on various hot trends over the internet such as art, science, business ideas, make money online, fashion, entertainment, movies, music, fun, comics,travel, health, technology, news, sports, cute babies, career, earn from home,education,love & internet marketing.

Ok so I thought for my “save the environment” post I’d give out some easy tips on what you can do at home and at work to play you’re part in conserving energy and the environment as a whole. With all the load shedding we’re experiencing here in South Africa the need to conserve electrical energy has become apparent (to say the very least). I think that just being aware of the problem can go a long way to affect change. You really don’t need every light in the house blazing at once or your TV, radio and computer on at the same time do you? They also say turning your geyser off in the morning and back on at night can save loads of energy – you’d probably save quite a bit of cash too (just don’t forget to turn it back on otherwise you may get a bit of a shocking wakeup call). On a side note take heed of the little save electricity messages that come on TV in the evenings – you know the one that says turn off all essential applia

The chocolate chip cookie is truly an American classic and a staple in just about any food or baking blog. For most recipes I usually look for similar recipes on other blogs, but for this recipe, what’s the point? One of my favorite geology professors, Gerry Weber, liked to say, “All food is good, some is better”. He was also once overheard saying, “Don’t ever give cookies to stoners. They don’t appreciate them, they just eat ‘em.” Are all cookies good? To the contrary: when you think of all the home made chocolate chip cookies you have had in your life, you realize that some people can really screw them up. In the last 30 years of making cookies I have probably made this recipe more than any other cookie, but I actually believe that the chocolate chip cookie is one of the more challenging cookies I have on my site. For years I made this with a Sunbeam Mixmaster with no issues. Then, 12 years ago, my wife bought me my dream machine: a lim

Having a blog is not important, maintaining and managing your blog, and getting good traffic creates matter. If you use blogger like I do, you should update your Meta tags once in a month. I know sometimes we feel lazy and just let it as it is... I agree that a search engine does not consider Meta keywords tag in ranking calculations and it’s never seen by visitors, but don’t forgot the Meta description tag is visible beneath listings in SERPs.Your title tags plays a vital role when it comes to Search Engine Results Page (SERPs) so insert some targeted keyword in title tags. It is true that Google does rank dynamic urls as long as you don’t have too many parameters and your parameters don’t look like session variables.Keyword specific domains and sub domains rank high in search engine algorithm. Search engines look for keywords because of this the keyword in the url suggests that the site contents are related to the keyword. Even visitors like to click the link that contains re

I didn't have any time today for blogging, but I've read the Romania in one post - The thoughts of an IT professional and it really troubled me and made me unhappy. I couldn't find who is the guy writing this blog, no about page - it's like he is hiding from Google but reading in between posts I found out he left Romania 15 years ago. I've read somewhere that Romanians are the nation that hurts itself most from all the other nations in the world by the bad publicity made by it's own people. It seems this is the case here as well. NOTE: if you are reading further this post, I don't have anything personal against the named blog and owner. Ok, so the reason it got me so discontent and ready to put work aside to answer his story is that while what he is saying might be true, I couldn't find a single good word about Romania. And I need to make things right by commenting on some of his ideas and bring some more new ones. So from the long list of complains about Romania I will st

The latest storm to brew out of the Ministry of Education’s tea cup is about one Otto Fong, a teacher in one of Singapore’s top schools, Raffles Institution, who has written a ‘coming out of the closet’ blog post. I didn’t have time to properly read it this morning, but it was a long, personal, heartfelt post about being gay and his indignation about the treatment given to gays by the government and them seemingly going back on their words about being more open to gays. It seems that he’s been called up by the principal of the school (according to The Online Citizen’s sources), and what do you know …. the blog post has been taken down. Not sure whether it was done voluntarily or was Otto Fong pressured into removing it. [As seen on Tomorrow.sg] Update: Copies of the letter from his post have been reproduced here and here.

Thanks to Lancaster UAFAfter an astonishing five-month hiatus that illustrated pretty much everything that he thought of communication with the membership, Nick Griffin has finally updated his Chairman's Blog, earning himself the 2007 Pinnochio Award for most lies told in a single blog post. The first lie, although maybe it's a pig-farmer's idea of a joke which I just didn't get, is where he explains the reasons for not posting on his blog since Methusaleh was at kindergarten, where he states that 'I enjoy writing the blog too much...I am very wary of making it too regular'. You can stop worrying, Nick. One post after a five-month gap is not too regular, no matter how you try to spin it.Griffin immediately goes on the attack against those around the recent leadership challenge. Obviously furious that anyone would dare to stand against him, you can almost hear the spluttering and see his face redden as the blood pressure rises.'The challenge was not a genuinely legitimate one fro

I am glad that some of my blogging buddies including me are not as upset now as we see that troubled times are also times of immense growth. What problem I am facing now that could be excellent opportunity for growth ? The lack of sponsored posts ? Well, take this opportunity to improve on the Google PR for all my blogs. Imagine if my blogs hit PR 5..eek eek eek... I believe the advertisers

Now a days traffic to the Blog is very important thing from where ever you are taking that .Social Bookmarks are one of the best source of the traffic to your blog.But many of us doesnt know How to add Social Bookmarking to our blogNow here is the trick or say hack to "Add Social Bookmarking link after each blog post"1.log in to your Blogger account (This is Most IMP step ;) )2.Then Go to Blogger Template>Edit Html3.Make sure that you are using Blogger Beta template4.Backup your template Code5.Then see for <head>and replace it with<head><script src='http://home.planet.nl/~hansoosting/downloads/beautifulbeta.js' type='text/javascript'/>Now search the following code <p/>and replace it with the code from this text fileand save the template. Now if everything is properly done then you can see the Bookmarking icons after each post that will help you for getting better traffic

Now a days traffic to the Blog is very important thing from where ever you are taking that .Social Bookmarks are one of the best source of the traffic to your blog.But many of us doesnt know How to add Social Bookmarking to our blogNow here is the trick or say hack to "Add Social Bookmarking link after each blog post"1.log in to your Blogger account (This is Most IMP step ;) )2.Then Go to Blogger Template>Edit Html3.Make sure that you are using Blogger Beta template4.Backup your template Code5.Then see for <head>and replace it with<head><script src='http://home.planet.nl/~hansoosting/downloads/beautifulbeta.js' type='text/javascript'/>Now search the following code <p/>and replace it with the code from this text fileand save the template. Now if everything is properly done then you can see the Bookmarking icons after each post that will help you for getting better traffic

PMA Rating: C+ - B Head over to courtnetlove.com, and listen to the new demo “Car Crash”. It’s actually not half bad, could use a better keyboard, though, but its a demo — a promising one. Now have some laughs and chuckles as Courtney Love’s new Myspace blog post. Its exactly what to you would expect from her. i put up z demo of demo iof demo of carcrash we habve about 4 other songs too, and id like to get opinions on them sopme of them. i need to write another dylanney one rexcept i just found otu my fat fighters mafrtin got stolen on the chunneltrain and thats why i got that new gibson for my bday but i need it nd its nowehr eint hehosue the only guitar is kurts ild one with strings i havent changed in teh 12 years sinc ehes passsed, and its hrd to play too.  and unlessyou have a boot of the roxy shosw the lyrics are all wrong, i wrote the proper lyrics on the site i lik ehpow pleasant yall re but its so much easier to answer you indivually at my site

I am confused. This won’t come as a shock to some of you who know me and have watched the increased addling of my brain through sleep deprevation caused by fatherhood. Just at the moment, though, I feel wide awake and a little bit peeved (yet still confused) by Jakob Nielsen’s latest offering “Write Articles, Not Blog Postings“. As you might imagine, I was intrigued by the title, so I started to read. The summary of Nielsen’s article states: “To demonstrate world-class expertise, avoid quickly written, shallow postings. Instead, invest your time in thorough value added content that attracts paying customers.” So far so good. I agree totally - this is the basis of a good focused business blogging strategy, particularly for consultants, topic experts and professional services companies such as accountants and lawyers. Value added content is the perfect way to develop and enhance your reputation as well as encourage the spread the word about your expertise - in t

My friend Hernan asked if he could translate my Abridged Ethnography of the Blogosphere into Spanish - to which I of course said YES!!! So here is the Breve etnografia de la Blogosfera. Maybe I can get it translated into other languages in time as well, which would be super cool. I am going to start working on a French translation post haste. :)

In two weeks this blog will turn a year old. It has been fun and interesting to chronicle the world of drinks and this entry marks my 500th since starting the blog.In my first entry I outlined a purpose for this blog and have tried to stay true to that direction:"The great thing about writing about beer, wine and spirits is that interesting stories can be found no matter where you travel. You can visit Trappist monasteries in Belgium where the monks brew beer. You can tour a number of wineries in California that are owned by actors and directors. You can enjoy a $1,000 mint julep at Churchill Downs during the running of the Kentucky Derby. Or you can just pour your favorite beverage in a glass and spend part of a Saturday evening on your deck with family and friends.That's what this blog is going to be about. My goal is to further the discussion of great libations, talk about some of the issues facing beverage companies and drinkers, plus share a few fun stories. Thanks for coming alo

IN THE NEWS: According to World Magazine, In Mich., people watched in horror as a 21 year-old wheelchair-bound man was softly struck by a slow-moving 18-wheeler. But instead of being knocked over, the chair became lodged in the grill of the truck. The driver had no idea that happened and had continued to navigate through town for almost 2 miles. People called 911 and the driver eventually stopped. The wheelchair-bound man was fine and called it, "quite a ride."Usually my blog posts are lame. But this one is going to be EXTRA lame. Why??1) My daughter has just planted 2 Webkinz stuffed animals on my computer desk, hinting she's ready to play Webkinz on my computer.2) My mother is down, visiting, and I don't want to ignore her for too long. (Although she is talking to me as I blog this.) 3) I have no idea what I have planned for this weekend, thus no information to blog about.4)I don't have time to visit my favorite blogs this morning, thus giving me no information to blog about.5)

The following post on tips for writing a blog was submitted by Lyndon from Flockblog who in his email to me with it described it as a simple ‘back to basics’ kind of post. Thanks Lyndon.Here are ten tips that help me with my blog writing. 1. Make your opinion known 2. Link like crazy 3. Write less 4. 250 Words is enough 5. Make Headlines snappy 6. Write with passion 7. Include Bullet point lists 8. Edit your post 9. Make your posts easy to scan 10. Be consistent with your style 11. Litter the post with keywords1. Make your opinion knownPeople like blogs, they like blogs because they are written by people and not corporations. People want to know what people think, crazy as it sounds they want to know what you think. Tell them exactly what you think using the least amount of words possible.2. Link like crazy.Support your post with links to other web pages that are contextual to your post.3. Write LessGive the maximum amount of information with the least amount of

    A few days ago we announced support for MetaWeblog, which is a protocol that allows you to edit your blog entries offline, using an editor, and publish them to your blog whenever you want.       A few days ago Microsoft announced the Beta 2 version of Windows Live Writer, and we are happy to announce that Sampa is the first blogging platform (outside of Microsoft, of course) to fully support it -- even before it shipped!       One of the cool features is that you can do a blog entry, like this one, add the pictures and they will automatically be uploaded to your site.       To get going, you must first download and install the Windows Live Writer from       Enabling your blog is easy, j

With my new bidding directory gaining momentum in terms of support and backlinks improvements thus far. It is now sitting pretty at No.6 on Google search results for the keyword ‘bidding directory‘. So I thought it would be great to push it up a notch by running a contest where it will benefit everyone which [...]

I don't know much about cloaking. I checked back on the SEM Inc. blog and they had this great post about cloaking. When I am done the shopautodotca seocontest I am going to "try" cloaking. Not with a real site or anything just as an experiment. You know, for scientific purposes. ;-) Check it out here: http://www.seminc.com/blog/ask-sem-inc/ask-sem-inc/ Shopautodotca Seocontest Home

I often find when I post something that I’ve forgotten to do something I had planned to and that might have made the post just that much better, who knows at times it could mean the difference between the post disappearing into the archives or rocketing to the top of some social networking site. So I have made a post of what I should be doing every time before I hit that Publish button. So here we have 10 simple steps to a solid post, hopefully it helps others who make the same mistakes I do and serves a reminder to myself. 1. Working Title, The first thing that pops into your head to describe the post will do. 2. Research, Know what you are on about, real facts to back up your words are worth the effort. 3. Write, Don’t rush, one great post a week is better than 1 crap one everyday. 4. Edit, Cross check your facts, correct spelling, rearrange text if need be, cut bad or usless bits of information out. 5. Links, Give credit to the places you researched a

Okay folks its time to reveal what I’ve been up to for the past week . As most of you are well aware I’ve had a little experiment going asking people to link to the post “Experiment with your local link whore” using the term “Irish in Denmark”. Now, one side effect of creating a “mini Google bomb” is that I know rank #1 for the term “Irish in Denmark”. Go ahead, have a look for yourself. The experiment! However, nice as that is, it was not the real goal of the experiment, which was to see how many people read the Terms of Service on a website. The answer, rather predictably is: Nobody reads the terms of service! Okay, let me explain how this all came about. I got the idea for this because of the entire Krak.dk deep linking incident, and had actually started the experiment back at 1:06 am on February 6th, before the Kraks guys started their blogs. On the 6th I removed the Creative Commons licence from this blog and rep

This post really got me started this morning! McCall is not one of the top referrers for no reason. Obviously he knows how to get people motivated. His small direct line (around 83 members) is really doing a great job -> he's got more than 12.000 members in his network.

Class, I received a comment today from one of the gang, Mr. Humor-Blog himself! And he inspired me with his Totally Inappropriate Card Day. Thus, I have a confession to make to ya'll: with my recent massive blog surfing/sniffing/surveying/snooping combined with the recent partying at the Oscars (and especially the after parties!), your unique and very special blogs have become one big blur to me. I can't recall who is who anymore unless you tap HARD on my blog with comments. So Identify Yourself by comments. I don't even care if they're inappropriate. In fact, the more inappropriate-- the more I'll laugh, and that's a way to win brownie points with your blondalicious teacher. HINT!Did you listen to me and blog about the Oscars? That was your homework...remember?! You probably were very naughty while I was busy and forgot all about the Oscars or went to sleep like so many did during the Oscars and then woke up with total amnesia.I checked out the blogs on Outpost Earth, and I was