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BenSpark's Refreshing Soda-Club Contest 2007-06-04 21:58:00 I am running a contest over at The BenSpark. This is my first contest and I am working closely with a company that I have been a supporter of, I own the product, love it and want to share it with my readers. The company is Soda-Club and the product is a Soda-Club Home Soda Maker which will be the first prize to the winner. There are great second and third prizes as well. To learn more about how you can participate in this contest and win your own Soda-Club Home Soda Maker come to Benspark's Refreshing Soda-Club Contest
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Disappointed 2007-06-08 07:12:00 I have not gotten to kayak all week. I am really disappointed because I have carted my kayak on my car top all week in hopes of getting out early enough from work to get on the water at least once. Just didn't happen.However I am happy to report that my Lasso security lock has been doing a great job. I am going to have to post daily like my pal papersurfer and say things like.I didn't Kayak today.Help me Get Paid to Blog for a Year! Please Vote.If you liked this post Please Click a button.
Kayaking on Long Pond 2007-06-10 08:57:00 Yesterday morning I went out for a nice paddle on Long Pond in Falmouth, MA. I hadn't been kayaking all week although I had my boat on my car all week long and carted it to and from work each day in hopes that I would get on the water. But I did not, things prevented me from being able to do so.I took my video camera and my Canon Sd800is with me. This time I went with the intention of making Wired Kayaker Podcast #4. This time I went and documented the two areas where people can go and park. Then I filmed my intro and also filmed with the camera facing the bow and the water. I am going to try something different with Episode #4. I am going to do some voice over in the podcast. That way I can write a script and things would sound a little better. There will still be me in my cowboy hat chatting about what I see on the water. I met a kayak fisherman on the water too. He had his own homemade rig for two rods and a work platform for his tackle box. He was having good luck on Long Pond too Read more:Kayaking
Kayaking Long Pond 2007-06-09 23:59:00 I went Kayaking
today. I don't have time yet to put up a good post or photos. So here is one for the time being. More tomorrow.Help me Get Paid to Blog for a Year! Please Vote.If you liked this post Please Click a button.
Gadget: The XShot 2007-06-14 00:56:00 I am getting an XShot. It is in the mail as you read this. And You can get one as well for a discounted price. Why, because I agreed to have a sample sent to me to test out while I take photos and I was also offered a promo code for my readers. You get $5.50 off the retail price of $24.95. That is a good savings for a nifty product. I need to use it before I can say much more about the features and what I like or dislike about it. I have a feeling I am going to like it.However I can say that it has a 37" reach, and compacts down to 9" in length. That is going to go great in my camera bag of goodies. I can use it to photograph and videotape myself anywhere. I will have to use it on a future Wired Kayaker Podcast.So how to you get your XShot discount. Head to http://xshotpix.com and put an XShot in your cart then just enter SparkRocks when you checkout. Hurry though, the promo code lasts till July 15th.Check this out.Closed the XShot is only 9" long.But it extends to 37" in length when f Read more:Gadget
Wired Kayaker Podcast - Episode #3 2007-06-19 06:35:00 Last evening I spent quite a bit of time putting together the third episode of The Wired
Kayaker. During this episode I was photographed for the Sun Chronicle Newspaper article, the one that came out this past Sunday. Also during this episode I took photos of some frogs and flowers for Macro Monday for a group that I am part of on Flickr. I also reference my other 3 blogs. The BenSpark, BenSpark 2: Electric Boogaloo and Flat-Water TechThis is the first episode that I have uploaded to PodShow. I am a huge fan of Cali Lewis and GeekBrief.tv. She is on PodShow so I decided to check it out. The uploading was so quick. And my file is about 130MB in size, that is 30 MB more than what YouTube allows. My address for Podshow is http://wiredkayaker.podshow.com/. Help me Get Paid to Blog for a Year! Please Vote.If you liked this post Please Click a button. Read more:Podcast
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Episode #3, Delayed 2007-06-18 22:06:00 Episode #3 has been delayed. It is being rendered at this very moment. I will have to upload it tomorrow. I am hoping that Podshow takes files larger than 100MB and that my MPG will be accepted. But the episode is essentially complete, just needs to be rendered. And that is supposed to take an hour, so Episode #3 won't be up tonight.Help me Get Paid to Blog for a Year! Please Vote.If you liked this post Please Click a button. Read more:Episode
Welcome Sun Chronicle Readers 2007-06-17 08:35:00 Well imagine my surprise today as I was leaving church when Fr. Dave said to me in excitement that he had seen me on the front page of The Sun Chronicle
. That is our local newspaper. I had been interviewed by Rick Foster about 3 weeks ago and then photographed by Martin Gavin. Well those images were on the front page today along with an article about local people who are using You Tube to post their own videos of the things that they are interested in.The article was pretty interesting, there are quite a few other pepole who are uploading videos from the Attleboro area. There is a train enthusiast, some urban explorers and other interesting videos.I will try and get episode #3 up today, that is the one I made when I was being photographed for this article. You can read the article, From river to Web on The Sun Chronicle website.Help me Get Paid to Blog for a Year! Please Vote.If you liked this post Please Click a button. Read more:Welcome
Photo Contest 2007-06-25 14:36:00 I have come across an opportunity to participate in a Photo
graphy contest. The top prize for this is $10,000.00. That is a sweet chunk of change for the winner. But that is not the only contest prize, nope there are over $100,000 in prizes. It is free to enter and participate. If you want to try out one of your snapshots and enter it in the pool then check out this link. Free Photography Contest
- Enter Now! Win $10, 000!A couple of on line friends are already participating in this on line Photography contest and I wouldn't want anyone who had a shot at winning to miss out. There are many categories including one for cute baby pictures. It is not strictly a baby photo contest though. There are many more categories to choose from. Help me Get Paid to Blog for a Year! Please Vote.If you liked this post Please Click a button. Read more:Photo Contest
Trailer: Into the Wild 2007-06-27 09:39:00 I read Jon Krakauer's book Into the Wild a while ago. It is an amazing story about a young man who is out to challenge and to discover himself. He gives away or leaves all that he has to wander the world and to live in the wild in Alaska.I read this and Krakauer's other book, Into Thin Air. I liked them both. Well now the story of Chris McCandless will be told on the big screen. And the Into the Wild trailer looks pretty powerful.One of my favorite folk singers, Ellis Paul even has a song about Chris McCandless it is called The Ballad of Chris McCandless.Help me Get Paid to Blog for a Year! Please Vote.If you liked this post Please Click a button. Read more:Trailer
Contest: Want to be in Pictures 2007-07-02 20:22:00 Today I launched my second contest at The BenSpark, this one is called Win an XShot from BenSpark. The contest is pretty simple. All you need to do is follow these simple steps.What do I do?Read the XShot website to familiarize yourself with the XShot product.Write a 100 word post on your blog.Include a link to http://www.benspark.com/xshot.html with anchor text Win an XShot from BenSparkInclude a link to http://www.xshotpix.com/ with anchor text XShot.You may add any additional links and anchor text that would be appropriate to promote either the Win an XShot from BenSpark Contest
or the XShot itself.Include the image submitted to the contest.Either Option #1: Your photo of 5 people at arms length (that would be you and 4 friends,family, or randoms) or Option #2 Your photo with one other person and something cool in the background.Embed this YouTube video into your post. It explains and demonstrates the features and benefits of the XShot. Click video to go get embed code at YouTub Read more:Pictures
Take it to the slopes... 2007-07-27 07:29:00 It has been a few years for me since I have been skiing. I should probably get back on the slopes this year because I have all of my equipment and it would be cool to do a little podcast on the slopes.I have only been skiing out West once before in my life. And I have been out to Utah many times, however I never got past the airport. And Utah has some great skiing, especially Park City. And if I get a chance this season I may be on the lookout for Park City accommodations. Skiing is a sport that The Wired Kayaker needs to go out and tackle. If only for the great views and huge mountains. Some great Photo-A-Day shots will be taken on a trip like that. So when I next go to Utah, lets hope I can get out of the airport and onto the ski lifts in Park City. Read my disclosure policy. You can make money with your blog too, click on the referral button.Help me Get Paid to Blog for a Year! Please Vote.If you liked this post Please Click a button.
Where have I been... 2007-07-25 11:46:00 I have been pretty absent from this blog for a while. It all began back on the 2nd of July where I went to the Cape after Transformers BotCon 2007. I haven't been in contact with my boat or paddle or any of my equipment in well over a month. Can't exactly do a 'weekly' podcast when I can't be on the water to film. I do have footage for a 4th episode, however no time to actually produce the podcast. I give a lot of credit to those people who can podcast each and everyday, some as full time jobs and others as enthusiasts. I won't be back to the Cape to get my boat until the weekend after this one, I will make a point to get out on the water.Help me Get Paid to Blog for a Year! Please Vote.If you liked this post Please Click a button.
A place to buy boating gear... 2007-07-25 07:40:00 On my kayak I really have no need for much marine equipment but there are quite a few things I could find and use from American Marine Supply. Sure it would be silly to have any nautical clocks on my kayak but there are many more things to enhance my kayaking experience. For example I could get some shock cords for tying down my gear. And if I start fishing from my kayak I would benefit from rod holders so that I wouldn't have to fumble with my paddle and my fishing rod at the same time. And if I would like to extend my kayaking season I could certainly get myself a Wet Suit.Read my disclosure policy. You can make money with your blog too, click on the referral button.Help me Get Paid to Blog for a Year! Please Vote.If you liked this post Please Click a button.
Disclosure Policy for Wired Kayaker 2007-07-15 07:52:00 This policy is valid from 15 July 2007The Wired
Kayaker is a personal/hobby blog written and edited by me. For questions about this blog, please contact benspark@benspark.com.The Wired Kayaker accepts forms of cash advertising, sponsorship, paid insertions or other forms of compensation.The compensation received will never influence the content, topics or posts made in The Wired Kayaker. All advertising is in the form of advertisements generated by a third party ad network. Those advertisements will be identified as paid advertisements.I am compensated to provide opinion on products, services, websites and various other topics. Even though the I receive compensation for my posts or advertisements, I always give our honest opinions, findings, beliefs, or experiences on those topics or products. The views and opinions expressed on The Wired Kayaker are purely my own. Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufa Read more:Disclosure
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Someone to share your kayak with... 2007-07-31 18:50:00 I have found my lifetime kayak
ing partner and am very happy to be out there paddling with her. But maybe you haven't found your adventurous outdoor companion yet. Take a look at fitness personals at FitnessDates.com. There you will be able to search based on a variety of factors. The advanced search features shot down to another page. With fitness dating you can look for an activity companion, someone who shares the same love of outdoor activities that you do. Or maybe look for more, that adventure seeking, fun loving, carefree lifelong friend may be a search away.You can join for free and browse the people listed on the site as well as send them flirts, (messages) or if they are online instant messages. The search starts with you.Help me Get Paid to Blog for a Year! Please Vote.If you liked this post Please Click a button.
In the Den, the Blogging Den 2007-07-31 09:56:00 I am now able to write posts over at a collaborative blog called the Blogging
Den. It is a blog that is made up of multiple authors. If you have a blog you can sign up to write for them as well. And what's more you can write about your won blog and promote your own blog. A very interesting concept.Here are some simple rules about posting on The Blogging Den:There are certain requests I have with all Blogging Den Authors:1) Be nice to each other. Do not defame each other's blogs.2) Add a link of Blogging Den to the blog/s you author.3) Fave it on Technorati.4) Post one review about Blogging Den at your blog, when you guys join in.5) Tell your friends about Blogging Den.This would work in our mutual interest, bigger the Blogging Den community, better it is for our blogs ! If the readership of Blogging Den increases, it will benefit all it's members !Help me Get Paid to Blog for a Year! Please Vote.If you liked this post Please Click a button.
Places to find Kayaking Information 2007-07-20 06:49:00 There are many resources online to find out information on Kayaking
and where to go to Kayak. In New England you can take a look at the places that the state allows for car top boating. Car top boating is where your boat is transported on top of your car to the destination. Kayaks and canoes are the boats that fall into that category. Massachusetts has a table of all the places where people can boat that have parking facilities. Some are free and others you need to pay for but there are many locations across the state.Take a look at the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and RecreationHelp me Get Paid to Blog for a Year! Please Vote.If you liked this post Please Click a button. Read more:Places
Get a Flickr or Zooomr PRO account to host your outdoor photos... 2007-08-03 12:38:00 This month I am sponsoring a contest all by my lonesome. And it is a crazy one, only the innovative need apply.By hosting this contest I am hoping to create greater exposure of all of my projects across the web and to build community among my readers. Isn’t that what we all are looking for with our blogs, exposure and community. The more exposure, the more readers, the more communication and interaction the better the community. I love interacting with everyone who visits and comments here on this blog and my other blogs.So I am giving away three prizes. The prizes will be photography related. I have found that as my photography has improved so has my group of readers (I’m talking quantity here, I have always had quality readers) and photography related prizes are perfect for this blog.I’m going to do something a little out of the ordinary here. The contest will run for the month of August and there will be no voting but there will be many ways to earn points instead.Are you up f Read more:Flickr
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Get out and Bike.. 2007-08-09 12:33:00 I have a bike, It is hanging in the garage and I have not used it once this year. It is a MT bike and paid pretty good money for it to have all the latest fancy gadgets. But do I ride it, not that much. The last time I remember riding my bike was last summer on Cape Cod. I rode my bike on the Shining Sea Bike Path. This is a great little Bike Path that runs from Falmouth to Woods Hole. I guess I really don't need a fancy bike that goes off road and on when all I ever do is ride the bike on bike paths leisurely down the beach. That is why I have been giving much thought to selling my fancy expensive bike and getting back to basics, albeit with some style. I've been checking out the beach cruiser bikes on Copacabana Bikes.com. These are well made quality bikes made for cruising up and down the boardwalks and bike paths. I need a beach bike because that is where I do the bulk of my bike riding. I even picked one out that I really like.That bike is the Firmstrong Bruiser and it is only $
Updates 2007-08-07 10:19:00 The past month of July brought no new epsiodes of The Wired Kayaker. It was also a month that I didn't get a chance to kayak at all. I won't be going back on the water till the 18th or so. I appreciate everyone visiting. If you have an outdoors blog and would like me to write a post about it leave me a link in the comments and I will check it out.Help me Get Paid to Blog for a Year! Please Vote.If you liked this post Please Click a button.
Dev3.ro - Web Design Services 2007-08-07 09:08:00 Before my job in marketing I used to work for a web design firm. We did everything. Now that I am on the outside of that world I sometimes long to get back in. I saw this company called Dev3.ro Web design Services
and I checked it out. I wanted to see what sorts of services were provided as well as what the prices were. They have many services and the prices are more than reasonable. Here are some of the services that they offer. Website Development, Database Design, E-Commerce Solutions, Search Engine Optimization, Corporate Identity and even Custom Web Applications. I know that I myself no longer have time to work on each of those aspects of my websites. Having a good team behind you is key. I browsed through the portfolio for Dev3.ro Web design Services and found some very clean design and eye catching corporate logos. I even went and looked at some of the sites that were designed by Dev3.ro Web design Services. Birthday in a box is light years ahead of anything we ever created at m Read more:Web Design
Surf's Up! 2007-08-10 12:13:00 My friend Andy, he would be Stephen the Dog's A., is a water sports athlete and he has done many different on the water sports like wake boarding and kiteboarding. I am not sure if he has been surfing but I bet he'd be awesome at that as well.I am not sure if Andy has a board but if he wanted one he could check out The Surfboard Warehouse of a custom surfboard. Once he has been hooked up with a shaper for his custom board, and he has a ton to choose from like Lost, Linden, Cordell, WRV, Cannibal, Rat, BAT, Orion, Lucas and Wooster, he can start looking for accessories. Gear that he could find includes fcs fins, and future fins to name a few.Being the jet setter that he is, Andy could also get his board delivered to him no matter where he was because The Surfboard Warehouse delivers anywhere and can get boards to customers even if they are traveling. That is pretty sweet, say for instance I knew that I was going someplace to surf within four to six weeks I could have my board delivere
So envious... 2007-08-10 12:08:00 I have been following the exploits of Mark from Southwest Sea Kayaking and every time I see his photos I am so envious of the amazing life he is leading. Mark is writing a kayaking book and has been researching and kayaking for the past year. He posts very often and it is worth adding his feed to your reader because the posts are informative as well as entertaining and the photos are amazing. Simply amazing. I can't wait till the book is finished because I want to get a copy. I hope that the photos are in the book as well.Help me Get Paid to Blog for a Year! Please Vote.If you liked this post Please Click a button.
The Super Bowl is months away... 2007-08-15 10:42:00 But it is never too early to vote for me to be in a Super
Bowl Commercial. Hot on the heels of the FuelMyBlog/Gizfolio contest is the FuelMyBlog/MyBowlAd.com contest. This contest is for the chance to win a trip to California to see the taping of a Super Bowl Ad and possibily be in it. This contest has been narrowed down to 10 finalists and it it up to a vote to determine the winner. Voting can take place once a day from August 15 through August 23rd. So now my fate is in your hands alone. I can only vote once a day and I don't think that my votes alone are going to cut it. So I need you to please go to FuelMyBlog, log in and please vote for me each day from today till the 23rd of August. (If you don't have a FuelMyBlog account it is very easy to set up.Go here to register - http://www.fuelmyblog.com/index.jsp?c=/user/ You need only a user name, password and e-mail address, that's it.Once you are registered you can vote for me.If you want to read why I think I should get to go on th
Kayaker Raising Awareness Of Fragile Marine Sanctuary - Yahoo! News 2007-08-22 17:50:00 My wife sent me this article. Kayaker RaisingAwareness
Of Fragile MarineSanctuary
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! News. This is a guy that is getting out there and doing something. I'd love to go with him and film him for a Wired Kayaker podcast. I wonder if I could get in touch with him to help build buzz about his cause. He's pretty determined at 77 to make a difference and I commend that. I must learn more.
Healthy Kayaking 2007-09-27 10:46:00 With any outdoor activity you need to make sure that you are in good health to participate. And doing such outdoor activities can keep you in good health, so health is important. With Kayaking
you want to be sure that you have a proper technique for paddling so that you do not hurt your back of make yourself too tired with improper strokes. Think of your body as a spring that can be coiled and uncoiled. Your trunk, the lower back, stomach, basically your midsection should get as much exercise when paddling as your arms do. I have seen so many people go out and try to power through it and just use their arms to paddle. And then some of them need to be towed in by a much smaller paddler who has been going non stop all day. So what is the secret to paddler number 2's success. Well they could be eating a healthy diet and supplementing their nutrition with products like muscle milk and vitamins and be really strong. But then again paddler #1 may have been doing all those things. While prop
Sea Kayaking Dot Net 2007-09-27 10:38:00 As I search around the Internet for other kayaking websites, products and other items I came across Sea Kayaking
Dot Net. The author Adam Bolonsky is an avid kayaker from Gloucester, MA. He watches what is happening in the world of kayaking and is great about reporting the information to his readers, that is when he is not out kayaking. He also writes for several print and online publications.Some of Adam's latest posts have been about NOAA charts. Reading through his posts one can see why he writes for so many publications, he is clear and concise and full of great information. I will be adding his blog to my list of kayak resources and frequenting his blog often to learn more.Join the Blog Rush.
Storing your boats... 2007-09-27 10:27:00 For a few years my Dad and I have toyed with the idea of setting up some shelves for the kayaks in the back of the garage, on the outside wall. We would like to put the boats up onto shelves that have little rollers on them so that you can slide the boats in and out. I know that major manufacturing places have steel buildings, forklifts and all sorts of ways to store the boats. But we are looking for a much smaller scale in our own backyard.However if I ever hit the lottery I am going to get my own steel building and buy one of every kayak I can find, live on a lake and spend the rest of my time kayaking in each boat and writing detailed reviews of the ins and outs of each of those boats. But, if some company wanted me to review their boat I would certainly be up for getting on the water to demo and then review.For now our boats are on the second floor of the garage handing off hooks from the rafters. It is kind of a pain to get them down because you need two people. How do you store y
Point 65 Kayaks 2007-09-27 09:56:00 In my search for many kayaks the world over I learned about Point 65 kayaks, they are from Sweden. And I was reading their blog and it seems that Nigel Foster (Basically he is THE MAN when it comes to kayaking) is now heading up the Point 65 Research and Development team.Point 65 has some beautiful kayaks that range from the cute Nemo recreational kayak to the high end sea touring kayaks like the Sea Rover.Point 65 is sold in the USA. They are distributed in both Maine and New York. I'd love to go and try one of their boats out if I ever get a chance to go to Belfast Maine or Plattsburgh New York.A really cool bit of information also is not that the Point 65 kayaks are being sold in Iceland. But rather, they started being sold on the 30th anniversary of Nigel Foster and Geoff Hunter's circumnavigation of the island back in 1977. How awesome a trip that must have been.Join the Blog Rush.
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