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The Venus Diary (The Princess Carrina series for Young Readers) (Kindle Edition)By Heath L. Buckmaster Buy new: $2.50$2.00 First tagged “kindle” by Heath L. Buckmaster “_heath_” Customer tags: kindle(3), magic, adventure, young [...]

Hello everyone! I just wanted to Thank everyone! I have reached 600 readers since March 12 2008! I just wanted to take a moment to appreciate all of you out there who have made my blog what it is! I have also finally made google’s search engine!

Hello dear kids! Today I will tell you a short but very interesting fairy-tale about a disobedient girl who did not want to make her book reports for elementary school.   Once upon a time, a little girl called Susie was sitting at her classes. The new material that her teacher was explaining was devoted to writing [...]

A while ago I noted that San Francisco had put a ban on plastic grocery bags. Since then, many cities have followed suit, or at least have contemplated following suit. The problem is that stores aren’t using the biodegradable starch based bags and instead are using paper bags - a big problem for tree lovers and [...]

I just wanted to offer folks participating in the challenge a gratis copy of African Psycho, by Alain Mabanckou. I attach some of the reviews…Any blogger participating the challenge can email me for a gratis copy and they do not need to ...

Well, this is the first I've ever done this on this blog, but I'm announcing there'll be a give away -- good one.What's the prize? A copy of MLB 08: The Show for the Sony Playstation III Console. I did a review on it, and the sponsor was kind enough to give five complimentary copies to give away to readers.The catch, there's none -- however, what I'd like you to do is tell me your favorite baseball story. It could be about the Orioles or anything encompassing the world of the sport -- just as long as it is about it.Anyhow, the story can be tender, heart-wrenching, funny, serious, or it could be even crude (to extent). Email me personally at mdguy2415@aol.com (I'll post your story on the blog), or you can leave a comment and send me a way to contact you.I'll have the contest running until n

First, let me apologize for leaving out part of Tuesday's Question yesterday and today. Today it's because I don't want it to appear to be duplicate content. And yesterday instead of asking When You Were A Child Who did You Want To Be When You Grew Up, I asked; Who Did You Want To Be When You Grew Up? I can't believe I didn't notice (that typo) and I'm sorry- although I know you all knew what I meant there is no excuse for sloppy grammar... And thats not all, Ferd C from Texas Medical Freak said that I made another mistake, but I'm not sure I did, and I think he may be kidding but he said; "Interesting question, "Who" did you want to be, not "what" did you want to be." You see, Who and What are interchangeable when it comes to poorly written questions. I wish he would have caugh

So let’s answer a few more…and I was going to do this tomorrow but Becki and Soliloquy were antsy… because their questions were answered in this one… and because I’m nice, I’ll do it today… Soliloquy asks: Being a new believer that found Jesus in the way you did, what advice do you have for believers who are timid in sharing their faith? What offended you? What didn’t offend you? What drew you? Jesus is all over the internet, you know that don’t you? He works through the internet, oh yes he does. And I have to wonder… do you think that Jesus is a Mac or PC user? Regardless, yes, it was through the internet that I found my Jesus. Ok, so he wasn’t lost, I just decided not to go looking for him… waiting for Him to come to

After the recent debacle I had with Chase credit cards I started thinking about the various credit cards I've had so far in my life. Starting out, there wasn't a one that was less than 20% interest, but as time went on, they dropped. Some quickly, some VERY slowly. Eventually though, I [...]

I haven’t done readers requests in a while because I haven’t had one good one that I think would take up an entire post. HOWEVER, I’ve had several small requests that I can wrap into one post. Inquisitive, interesting, intriguing and some even unusual… So I’ll start with the more normal requests and questions that just [...]

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Yaro has already kicked us off on this topic of how to find readers for a new blog but I thought I’d pull together a few ideas on the topic also (with a little overlap with Yaro’s ideas). These points come from a variety of older posts I’ve written on the topic - sort of a ‘best of’ kind of thing. I’ve updated some, others are straight extracts from things I’d said before and a few are new: 1. It takes time - It may not be what you want to hear, but it unless you’re a genius, extremely lucky or have an amazing new idea, it takes time to build a readership. So settle in for the long haul and muscle up some patience. 2. Content Content Content - I’ve said this over and over again so will keep it brief but unless you have ‘good’ content you’re unlike to build a rea

We are proud to announce to have a small but neat giveaway for our loyal readers:You can win 1 free blog design, either a complete new layout or a modified design of your current theme! According to your wishes we will design your blog, header image and add/change the widgets you are currently having. This giveaway is meant for all our readers who have a blog on Blogger / Blogspot. Upon finishing the design we will send you the XML layout file and assist you with implementing it if you require.As this giveaway is for loyal readers we only require you have left at least 3 comments on our blog in the past. So entering the contest for you is very easy.If you would like to participate in the lucky draw about the free blog design all you have to do is to just send us an email at info@chicapumuc

INSIDE TRACK READERS’ CHOICE AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED Canadian road racing star Ron Fellows continuesto dominate prestigious awards TORONTO, ON – After more than two months of voting and the counting of over 5,000 ballots, the winners have been determined for the Sixth Annual Inside Track Readers’ Choice Awards, presented by Castrol. Between January 11 and March 14, [...]

I just wanted to say thank you to the many vistors to this site. I never anticipated the readership of this blog to grow as it has. I started this blog nearly one year ago - more or less just to keep a record of my investing and occasionally share some ideas. In the last [...]

If you are blogging for a purpose it is not enough just to attract attention, we need things to happen as a consequence. That means at least providing the right content to the right people. As I have said many times before, while many people are looking for “traffic”, you can often be more successful with a smaller audience. One of the challenges we face when launching a new blog is what our theme or subject should be. What will attract a good audience for what we have to offer? The simple answer is to follow the diagram at the top of this page Find out what readers want to knowNarrow it down to what you can credibly provideProvide it??Profit It can be that simple, but to be truly successful, and to really stand out from the crowd, and actually achieve the goals you set out, you need

Photo by: .Bala Each Monday here on Gather Little by Little I write about topics and techniques for saving money. This article is part of that ongoing series called Monday Saving Monday. Last week I decided to change things up a bit and instead of me sharing a money savings tip, I asked readers of Gather [...]

Dear Michelle,How should I handle it when someone leaves a nasty comment or writes something bad about my blog in one of their posts? What should I do?I get this question every so often but I talked rather extensively with Loralee at Loralee's Looney Tunes not too long ago so I'm paraphrasing her question--leaving out the not-so-pretty particulars.There are a couple of things to remember with a situation like this:1. People who are truly nasty cannot be swayed by your articulate, logical and highly intelligent responses. Even if you're much smarter and better looking than they are.2. Your words are permanent and they can come back to haunt you.Now one of the oddities of the mom blog niche--or to expand it to blogs by women in general and parenting blogs by dads too--is that people are u

Hi everyone and thanks for stopping by. We've been getting a lot of positive feedback from our readers on the Titliest AP2 irons. People are trying them at demo days and are falling in love with them. SirPutts talks to one such reader today...

I am proud on readers of this blog. One of the reader asked asked question on article SQL SERVER - Delete Duplicate Records - Rows and another reader followed up with nice quick answer. Let us read them both together. Question from Mayank Mishra Is it possible to delete a single column from a table in SQL [...]

If you are reading this, then you are literate, most likely computer literate as well. Most readers don’t really think about illiteracy. Once you learn to read, it’s not like you are going to forget how to do it again. Problem is that illiteracy abounds. In affluent Bucks County, PA over 60,000 residents are functionally illiterate. This is a county that claims to have 88.6% of it’s population with a high school diploma and 31.2% with a college degree. An inability to read is truly insidious. How can you possibly cope in today’s environment with out being able to read?Reading needs to be nurtured, fostered, encouraged and promoted. Reading is the keystone that holds the archway of education. How do you learn something new if you can’t read about it? If a love o

(I didn't know how I was going to live")This weeks Tuesday's Question was How long Have You Been Without Sleep, And What Were The Consequences?Because often a night without sleep can make your brain feel dreadful- totally fried- I haven't been sleeping much lately, so a fried egg felt like the perfect metaphor commonly used when one feels burnt out-Hence, in my Tuesday's Question post I give a few examples of consequences, (By the way, I apologize for use of the word consequence. I don't like it anymore-) you can get into when you haven't had enough sleep... and I posted some links of posts I've written about my after effects of insomnia- one of which I linked here because I couldn't find it when I was in the frying pan. And if it hadn't been for Sandee at Comedy Plus, I still

Today is seriously one of those days, and I mean THOSE days! I just feel bitchy and pissed and just grumpy...probably for no reason, but of course to me everything is a potential candidate for a reason!!! For starters it seems like its rained every weekend for the past month or so here in NYC! I'm starting to feel like I live in the UK or something! Ugh...I hate the rain and all the humidity. Not only because it totally makes you feel lazy but also because I cant ever do my hair how I want to. Rain and sleek hair don't mix! Another thing is that it seems like lately I'm always trying to find more hours in the day! I've been sooo busy and haven't had time for anything and it sucks! I don't even know where my day goes.Not to mention that the busy schedule and constant run-around is leaving

I know you guys have been reading this every day and are out there rocking Planet Funk fashion hardcore. I couldn't be prouder of my kids and kittens who rule fashion school and are making with the sexy in True Religion's, Salvage, Monarchy, Seven For All Mankind, Lipstick Bandits, ROAR and my favorite, Planet Funk Brand clothing. You work it, are the best dressed and the coolest out there. Plus you keep me writing everyday like a fool. So here's to my Hustler's...Keep reading.Hustler - Simian Mobile Disco

Early Readers' First Phonic Stories - We now use phonics to make words that make stories. Five more of my secrets of child literacy. More: continued here Other Review: Nature's Inventory Antibacterial Diaper Wellness Oil (Pack of 2) (Health and Beauty)

The beloved game designer won by a landslide in the recent TIME 100 reader poll, besting such celebrity figures like Stephen Colbert, Tiger Woods, Bono, Bill Gates, and David Beckham. Miyamoto holding a Wii Remote and Nunchuck (TIME Magzine) According to TIME, Miyamoto took first place with more than 2 million votes, 300,000 more than second place finisher, Rain, a Korean pop star. Stephen Colbert took third place with 900,000 votes.TIME praised the venerable Nintendo designer for his numerous contributions which include Mario, Donkey Kong, The Legend of Zelda, and most recently, Wii Sports, Super Mario Galaxy, and the upcoming Wii Fit.Miyamoto, universally known as the "father of modern video games," began his career at Nintendo in 1977 as a staff artist. He has been quoted for saying, "

The race for supremacy in the internet based businesses has been really heating up and many sites have been put up to help others to get ahead for a small fee. But there are also ways in which you don’t have to pay so much to make yourself a good list of loyal followers. Having a satisfied web traffic and visitors allows you to put up a foundation wherein you can build an opt-in list and make it grow from there.An opt-in list allows you to provide newsletters to your subscribers with their consent. When people sign up, they know that they will be receiving updates and news from your site and the industry your represent via an e-mail. But that doesn’t mean that all of those who subscribe read them at all. Many lists have been built due to an attachment with free software or for a promo

Panedia is a content creation and licensing company, specializing in high quality georeferenced photography using immersive panoramic technologies. Panedia offers three core services. Panedia panoramas offer 360 degree immersive images of “amazing places.” The service is completely web based, so users choose a location and can move around each position. Panedia’s Map service offers over 3500 [...]

In less than 75 days of its birth, this blog has hit 100 RSS subscribers. No mean achievement, considering that this number is achieved by a non-tech blog. This stands as a proof for the immense support for Chennai Super Kings. So, a Big Thank You for all the readers and subscribers for this blog. You have made this site the leading blog/fansite for Chennai Super kings fans. Not only the RSS subscribers, but even the page views has been quite high for a such a young blog. (More than 10,000 visits in this 74 days)

During my free time, I like to read blogs. I will always try to explore new and exciting blogs everyday. If it is interesting, I will bookmark it and visit it again some other time. Due to this, my bookmark list keep growing and it's getting harder and harder to maintain it. It makes me wonder, wouldn't it be nice if I can received a weekly summary from all these interesting blogs through email and only visit those blog posts that interest me.Recently I found out that there is really such email marketing application designed specifically for bloggers. When a blogger placed the Zookoda's custom newsletter subscription forms on their blogs, their readers can subscribes to it. Zookoda will then help bloggers to manage these email newsletter subscribers and send out a daily, weekly or even mo

Author D.L. Carroll announces children's chapter book, 'Sir Licksalot & The Maverick Fools' (ISBN: 1-60474-917-2) for Ages 9-12. Author D.L. Carroll intertwines alienation, adventure, and tween humor as the story of one boys struggle to fit in unfolds.... Tech Tags: children's newswatch children's news kids news children kids youth

Some of you may have already noticed the new banner running on the top right side of TWI. Well I can officially tell you that The Wild Investor and Alyuda Research have teamed up to offer reader’s of TWI a 15% discount on their popular trading software, Tradecision. What is Tradecision? Tradecision is a trading software [...]

Do You Handwrite HTML? [Ask The Readers] Most web page authoring software like Dreamweaver—or even blog publishing systems like Blogger or WordPress—all come with WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) mode, which formats web content without exposing the HTML and CSS behind it. But even in 2008, lots of web authors turn off WYSIWYG and just hand-code their own markup—even at the NY Times. Mac news site TidBITS reports: The New York Times's design director Khoi Vinh noted in a recent reader Q&A segment on the Web site, "It's our preference to use a text editor, like HomeSite, TextPad or TextMate, to 'hand code' everything, rather than to use a wysiwyg (what you see is what you get) HTML and CSS authoring program, like Dreamweaver. We just find it yields better and f

I finally decided to register my Health domain and Celebrity Blog on Entrecard. It takes time to create a nice banner for three blogs. So since I have ample time to do it while I am on sick leave, why not? I wont loose anything anyway. I was able to do 3 banners for my cousin, so why not do it for all of my new blogs?I have Entrecard for quite sometime now due to my curiousity. But lately, I've no

Hello blog readers and thank you for your subscription. As a thank you for either subscribing to or reading my blog, I’d like to extend an offer only to you. Until May 15th those who visit my blog and would like to get themselves online, I’m offering you a discount on our web hosting services and for [...]

What Apps Should You Never Install? [Ask The Readers] In a dated but still relevant post, technologist Anil Dash lists a bit of Windows software that no one needs to install these days, like WinZip and "sketchy codec packs." I'd add any software manufactured by AOL, Adobe Reader, and digital camera-specific photo software to that list. (You're better off with 7-Zip, Foxit Reader, Picasa, and Pidgin.) How about you? What bits of software do you uncover on your co-workers' and relatives' computers that should have never been there to begin with? Tell us in the comments. The Windows Apps You Never Need To Install [Anil Dash] Link - Gina Trapani - Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:30:31 GMT - Feed (44 subs) Ask the Readers Windows User comment: Comment fr

If you’re like me, the excitement of that little plus sign was soon replaced with questions…lots and lots of questions. From how to deal with round-the-clock nausea, to how I was going to find an outfit for my shower that wouldn’t make me look like a beached whale; my mind was racing. I [...]

Readers share their summer travel tipsSmarterTravel.com - 23 minutes agoBut vacation rentals aren't the only way to save money and make the most of your summer vacation. Jayna M. shares her secret for splurging while staying … Original post by nathaniel

Last week, I started reading more on how you can drive traffic to your website using Twitter. Several bloggers that I read use Twitter daily to help find new readers and meet new people. I really didn’t grasp it at first, but I definitely got sucked in to Twitter quickly. For those who don’t know the [...]

The SezWho plugin really captured my interest with it’s powerful community driven features. I am proud to announce that I have enable it here on this blog to accommodate their ever growing users although it is still in an infancy stage. With the SezWho plugin installed, readers can rate blog posts and comments even though they [...]

Yesterday was a short but great post thanks to three of my most loyal readers answers to the most recent of Tuesday's Question in awhile: What is the worst food You've Ever Tasted In Public? Plus, I created a Tuesday's Question image link to the comment page if you would like to read any of these bloggers past comments or yourself if you've ever commented to Tuesday's Question. All you have to do is copy the code and put it in your sidebar and it will link to the comments page, instead of having to search through archives to find the comment page. Also, your readers will be able to read your answers by clicking on the link from your blog. Yesterday, I believe I may have taken the long way around articulating the reason for the brag badge or Tuesday's Question image, so I saved that post

Alltop.com has been described by many as an online magazine rack. It is a place where average Internet users can find hundreds of blogs, view the 5 most recent posts and preview the first 2 paragraphs of articles. I'd like to thank Alltop founder Guy Kawasaki for including this blog in the Social Media section of the site - Thanks Guy!Most of us who are active bloggers or social media participants use a feedreader to stay updated and informed. The average Joe/Jane Doe doesn't understand or utilize this technology though - only 5.4% of Internet users take advantage of RSS, according to Daily Blog Tips.Alltop uses feeds to populate the site, and caching to optimize load time (otherwise, the gargantuan number of feeds would make loading it insane on any computer). It refreshes itself every

I want to just take a moment and thank my readers, all of you, for passing on your own tips, suggestions, and favorite resources in an effort to help others find solutions to this crazily, and incredibly, detailed endeavor known as a kitchen renovation! I can't say how appreciative I am. I continue to learn from you, and we all benefit from one another. Your participation helps to make this blog better and better, serving as a great resource for many, as I am told via private emails and public posts. Your willingness to share is inspiring. The quality of your ideas and the information you bring to us all is simply fantastic. I'm not looking to gather compliments in return, please don't go there. I just want to take a moment and express these thoughts. Your thoughts and informatio

I‘d bet that title alone made you curious right? Well the fact that we can even make some money when our readers or visitors leave is just too good to not look into. Linkbucks.com enables us to monetize our outbound links by placing either a top bar or intermission ads. Although a very unique concept, it [...]

Three weeks ago, I asked readers what age they think is appropriate for a woman to start getting Botox. The results are in: 38 percent (the majority) think women should wait until 35; 24 percent think they’re ready at 25 (surprising!); 18 percent think it is best to wait until 45; 10 percent think 55; …and only 10 [...]

rssHugger is a RSS feed submission site for blog owners. Here is an excerpt from the site itself : - rssHugger is a unique website that aims to bring bloggers and readers together. rssHugger aims to provide blog owners with a unique easy-to-use way to promote their blogs by sending them traffic, building backlinks for search engine optimization, as well as attracting new rss subscribers if the content is interesting to the reader. rssHugger aims to help visitors be able to easily find blogs that write about subjects they are interested in. These subjects include: internet marketing, making money online, charity, sports, gambling, and many more. If the visitors find a blog that they had not previously heard about, they can easily add it to their RSS readers or bookmark it. At this momen

So, you use a lot of online services, and you're all across the Web all the time. You write your blog with Blogger, host your online photo album with Flickr, keep yourself updated with the latest news on Digg, and watch all your favorite videos on Youtube.While you're doing all this, you hope to be able to update your blog readers with your latest activities, or in other words, you take the question "What are you doing?" and post your answer to that in your blog. So far you've been able to do so with Twitter, an online service that asks you just that: "What are you doing?." And then it lets you answer with a quick update that can't be more than 160 characters long.Don't you see anything wrong with that? Or haven't you ever considered it ridiculous to be logging in on Twitter every other mi

Hi! I have gotten some very interesting emails this week. My personal favorites are the ones where guys are asking about my husband’s job. Nothing about girls or marriage. No, no. Just questions about jobs and money. Alrighty. I love talking about jobs. In fact, I have the very odd hobby of job searching. I [...]

One of our readers called S. Iqbal Khan went out and bought the LG KU990 Viewty because he was looking for a phone with a very good camera, he was stuck between the Nokia N82 and the LG Viewty and in the end decided to buy the Viewty. The problems started when he got the [...]

Things have been a bit quiet here at the Vine for the last couple of weeks, and that only ever means one thing: We’re Growing Again. We’ve recently brought on 3 additional members to our team in order to bolster our strengths in design, service, and training. Our publishing pace always suffers when I have to be so “hands on” in training and transistion. Look for a surge next week! Fortunately, we have the support of guest bloggers. This week, Margaret Woda (FocusOnCrofton.com) makes her Real Estate Tomato debut with an excellent post on her person experience with blogging about her local real estate statistics. Take it away Margaret! Why Bore Blog Readers With Statistics? By Margaret Woda My community real estate blog “for and about Crofton, Maryland” is picking up steam with m

  Always on the lookout for excellent WordPress plugins, I would like to recommend something called Rating Dominator. This plugin has a variety of uses, but in short will add some excellent interactivity to almost any blog, regardless of subject matter. For those operating review-based sites it will be even more attractive as a must-have add-on. You’ve probably [...]

RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is an amazing technology and an RSS reader is a must have for any blog devotee. But if your blog isn’t tech oriented or serving an internet savvy audience then you’re probably losing out on a lot of readers. Zookoda is an email marketing application designed specifically for [...]

Filed under: Wireless For airlines and cargo handling companies, the inability to know precisely where a specific item was located on a belt could (understandably) prove to be quite the limitation. Thankfully, the gurus at Alien Technology are aiming to add more functionality to a few of its readers in order to nix said quandary. The [...]

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Today I had my last in-office visit with the baby doctor. While we were there, Julia addressed the doctor; her tone was very mature as she reported, “This is the last visit. Next time, you will cut Lucy out of Mommy’s belly.” The doctor smiled and said, “Yes! The next time, we will [...]

April 21, 2008 PEOPLE * * People published four letters, including one as the headline. They're gracious, sincere, coherent, real. (Even the one promoting nursing wasn't patronizing or arrogant, jmo.)

As many of you know, I'm helping to set up a new newsletter at Sloan-Kettering that will focus on cancer survivors and their personal stories. In addition to having submitted an essay for the inaugural issue, I'm also working on another section which will simply ask a question and list the responses of a few survivors. So, I need your help. Any responses are most welcomed! The questions are:While during and/or after treatment, did you incorporate a complimentary approach by doing exercises, such as yoga, meditation, massage therapy, or reiki, and if so, why? Were they helpful?Did you embrace any particular quote, motto, or verse for strength during treatment?If you wish, I can list your name or your answer can be anonymous. Just let me know in your response.Thank you.

Remember sand art? Bottles and shapes filled with layers of colored sand? It always looked good enough to eat… and now you can with Sandy Candy aka Edible Sand Candy. Our friends over at Sandy Candy want to share their fun and tasty Sandy Candy with Candy Addict readers so they have donated 12 [...]

When I was a kid, I was snooping around my father’s office and found a newly-purchased book about gifted children. Naturally, I assumed he was trying to understand his enigmatic daughter. For three full days I was flying higher than Willie until I mentioned it to dad, and he told me he’d actually bought it [...]

The Minima template features only one definition for the background property, so if you change the color (or add a background image) this will affect the whole of the template, including the posts area and sidebars.Over the past few weeks, many people have emailed or commented who would like to know how to add a background image/change the main background color in Blogger's Minima template, while retaining a flat color for the posts and sidebar areas. So in this post, I'll explain how to achieve this. How backgrounds work in the default Minima templateThe only style for a background property in the default (uncustomized) Minima template is for the main body section: body { background:$bgcolor; margin:0; color:$textcolor; font:x-small Georgia Serif; font-size/* */:/**/small;

Zykosis, that test came out in October. Would you have been able to do it then before seeing Fox Business? At the time I only got 4 out of 10 aka random aka I couldn't distinguish between Fox Business anchors and porn stars. Neither can Ben Stein, -media/2008/03/17/fox-biz-foxes-get-ben-stein-hot-and-bothered

TIM- you're on the right track w/everything you're doing here. I'm all in for you bringing your own show the way you want to do it. models- hell ya...works for Howie Mandel...it can work for anyone!

Catching up on some somewhat-useless headlines…while CNBC’s ratings were up 20% as whole, their numbers for everybody not getting social security were down 20%. Where did those viewers go…obviously not to Fox Biz–not with their 10k daily viewers…sorry guys…and probably not to BloombergTV–that channel works better than Nyquil aka should never be watched while operating [...]

A hermit crab will do whatever it takes to not be seen. They live out their lives burrowed deep inside shells, venturing out only to grab a quick drink or bite to eat when they think no one is looking, almost always at night. What I want to know is, when did we decide to [...]

Teachers and parents both can play an important role in making the child a good reader. Research has shown that enjoying books with a child for even a few minutes a day can make a measurable difference in the acquisition of basic reading skills, and that everyday activities – such as a trip to the grocery store – can be turned into enjoyable learning experiences.These are 11 tips for parents can encourage the children to become good readers:1- Create appreciation of the written word Find time to read aloud with your child every day. Typically, parents play an important role in developing this skill by reading to children and showing how important reading is to their daily life. Lap time with picture books and stories can strongly motivate your child to enjoy reading. Try to make these

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I believe that you never know EVERYTHING there is to blogging and driving traffic to your sites. There are always new tools being developed that create excitement and innovative ways to interact with your readers. One of these new tools is Zookoda, a new email marketing tool, created by IZEA, especially for bloggers. It gives bloggers [...]

Getting in the habit of reading early stokes the fires of curiosity and general reading habits later in life. That is why most programs that spearhead the population of elementary students look to catch struggling readers at as early of an age as possible. To grasp the scope of the problem, it’s been estimated that [...]

After showing off her 3-week-old twins, Max and Emme on the cover of the latest People issue. She and her twins appear on OK mag UK cover again. Perhaps, she and hubby Marc Anthony need more $$ for their twins. I am wondering how much she sold the exclusive photos? Are we talking about million $$$? The [...]

This is the first of a 3 part series looking at blog optimisation. When people talk about how to optimise blogs, they are generally referring to Search Engine Optimisation – while this is important, and something I’ll be looking at in depth in part 2 of the series, it’s only part of what we should [...]

I would like to personally welcome everyone who has visited my blog for the first time due to Mashable featuring a few of my easter eggs on their Mashable Easter Egg Wrap-Up post. If you are one of the 150,000 daily readers of Mashable, I want to personally introduce myself. My name is Collin LaHay [...]

Yesterday Scot Duke invited me to be co-host on a very impromptu Mr.Business Golf Show and we talked about a couple of posts of mine. The first topic of the show (and the last as well) was my reaction to a post by Erin Kotecki (The Queen of Spain). called "So you want to talk to [...]

If you aren't a reader of Gather Little By Little I wrote a guest post for glblguy that he put up today. Feel free to head over to his blog and check out my article Why be frugal?If you are new to my blog, please consider subscribing to my feed and checking out some of my articles. I am currently in a series discussing why my family is committed to live debt free. I've also written about monkeys, ninjas, and what you can do with pennies. I enjoy tracking my spending and have some realistic but ambitious goals for 2008. Feel free to stay as long as you like. And remember - always be good, always stay clean, and always have fun.

If you aren't a reader of Gather Little By Little I wrote a guest post for glblguy that he put up today. Feel free to head over to his blog and check out my article Why be frugal?If you are new to my blog, please consider subscribing to my feed and checking out some of my articles. I am currently in a series discussing why my family is committed to live debt free. I've also written about monkeys, ninjas, and what you can do with pennies. I enjoy tracking my spending and have some realistic but ambitious goals for 2008. Feel free to stay as long as you like. And remember - always be good, always stay clean, and always have fun.

It's probably obvious from my blog that I hold my family and home in high esteem. A home is the heart of your family, a place where you can return at the end of a long day to feel relaxed, safe and secure. You want it to look nice but you also want it to smell nice. Another obvious fact I'm sure you can tell from my blog is of course... I love to cook. But the wonderful aroma of dinner cooking at 6:00 isn't so wonderful when the smell lingers for hours or even a day or two later. Because I live in the upper Midwest where winter sometimes lasts up to 7 months, opening windows to let the fresh air in isn't a choice so after cooking a roast or bacon it's either smell the lingering aroma for a day or two or try to fight it off with candles and air fresheners.Tonight I had a chance to tell

You guys really stepped up to the plate last week when I asked for Your Best Tip To Waste Money from which we created the Experienced Wasters: 100 Ways To Blow Your Debt Through The Wall. Many people related to and said they would take action when they saw the final product. What’s the reason for [...]

How Would You Pack a Vacation into Just One Backpack? [Ask The Readers] The Zen Habits blog pulls together suggestions from its readers on how to travel very, very light to make vacations less stressful and more adventurous. The compiled backpack list includes travel documents, deodorant, two each of shorts, T-shirts and underwear, and only a camera to tinker with, amongst other warm-weather necessities. But we turn now to you, dear reader, to ask: What bare necessities would you pack if you had to shove an entire vacation into a backpack? What gadgets and tools can you not stand to live without, and what items have you found unnecessary? Offer up some minimalist wisdom in the comments, and get inspired by your fellow readers if you're making a trip this weekend. Photo by ToastyKen.

Like Meebo Me, Google Talk now allows you to chat with people who may not have signed up for Google Talk or a Google Account. This is possible through a new Google Talk Chat Badge that bloggers can embed in their web pages to chat live with blog readers and other site visitors. It really doesn’t matter whether your readers have a Google Talk account or not - they can talk to you through the web page as long as you are signed into your GTalk account. When they visit your site, they’ll see a badge like the one on the right showing your online status (available, busy, offline) and, if you’re available, they can just click and start chatting. Chatback uses the web-based Google Talk Gadget so your visitors don’t need to download anything. It opens in a new windo

~Snooper~Armed Forces Recruiting Station Attacks Across The Country...a record...Michelle Malkin has an ongoing history of Armed Forces Recruiting Stations Attacks.Here, here, here, here, here, here (the last one is the comprehensive report).Move America Forward has The Sedition Report in two parts:Part APart B.

I ran a full year of statistics on MyBlogLog to see where people go when they leave my blog. The Top 50 accounted for a huge % of the activity. Here they are in descending order:The Top 50TechnoratiBloggerDunbar Associates Newsletter SignupFoodservice.COMClustrmapsRestaurantChains.NETHotel F&B ExecutiveHotel TrendsUNLV Hotel SchoolFoodserviceResource.COMFood-TrakJoe Dunbar's EmailKen Burgin's WebsitesToday's Restaurant News - FL & TXGoogle AdsenseSquidoo FreshCasual.COMSt. Louis TodayCostGuardPOS'RUSAmazonAuditSenseAccuBarJoe Dunbar's LinkedIn ProfileRimag.COMCornell University CHRMidwest Food NetworkBBQForumsMyBlogLogProfessor Shock's BlogsTISOHCulinary Institute of AmericaUrner BarryVideoEggKiplogPorter's Competitive StrategyWine SpectatorHFTPMicrosProfessor Dyer's HomepageBeef Recall