May 28, 2005

Be there or be square! ;>)

BLOGGING WORKSHOP
What is this buzz about blogging?   

Find out all about it at this interactive workshop that will answer these six questions:
 What is a blog?
 Who uses blogs?
 Where do I blog?
 How do I blog?
 Why should I blog?
 How do I find an audience and promote my blogs?

When:  7 – 9 a.m., Friday, June 17th
Where:  Room #170, Arizona Western College Career Center, 1351 S. Redondo Center Drive.
Cost:  $19.95
Register: Call Carmen Madero at 928-317-6181, Monday–Friday, 7a.m.–3:30p.m.

               

January 02, 2005

Come and join the Family Picnic!

Come and join the Family Picnic!

While there are Carnivals galore, and other events designed to help people promote political, food, business and personal blogs, so far there’s not been one that collects blog entries relating to the wide variety of family issues.

So I thought I’d start one at my other blog, the DesertLight Journal.

When I was growing up, Sunday was always Family day, so that’s the day it’ll appear. It’ll work the same as the Carnivals – send a recent blog entry by 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time Saturday to picnic-at-desertlightjournal-dot-com

Please submit in this format:
Title of your Blog:
URL of your Blog:
Title of your post:
URL linking to that post:
Trackback URL, if any:
Description of the post:

The entry should be about any issue that impacts the family. This can be anything such as: marriage, divorce, parenting, domestic violence, education, etc. Essays from a personal point of view on these topics are also welcome. Please keep in mind this is not a contest! It’s a way for bloggers to share their ideas with readers outside their usual readership.

I’ll start the first one, but I’ll be looking for hosts as well! You can volunteer to host at the same address.

Let’s shoot for next Sunday, January 9, and we’ll see how it flies!

November 17, 2004

Carnival of the Vanities #113

Number One Thirteen.

Why on earth is a foodie hosting this wordie event?

Because man does not live by bread alone. Yep, that's poor, but by golly, it's true. I'm one of those bloggers who wants everybody to meet my friends. I've got all these blogs and a bunch of different people reading different blogs. I figure it's about as cool as it can possibly be to present variety at its best!

Do we love blogs and bloggers? Oh, yes, we certainly do!

We've got just a list here; no theme or wry bon mots. Please go and read our buds; that's what this event is all about. Copied and pasted in order recieved. Thanks for your cooperation in this not-quite-stylish event; my dad died and I've got a funeral home appointment later today.

Letter to John Perry Barlow From A Pot-Smoking Deadhead Bush Supporter

Dick Cheney's Lesbian Daughter of Musician Jokes (the follow-up to Musician Jokes, Son of Musician Jokes, Bastard Child of Musician Jokes, and Test Tube Baby of Musician Jokes)

The Raving Atheist
Interview with Sam Harris "The Raving Atheist teams with three other godless bloggers in grilling author Sam Harris ("The End of Faith") about his position on mystical, but allegedly non-religious, spiritual experience."

Parableman
Affirmative Action VII: Sidebar on Reparations

This post interrupts a series on affirmative action to
consider an argument for reparations based on slavery from Bernard
Boxill but based entirely on Locekan principles.  The argument seems
to go through even on the assumptions of politically conservative and
moderate black thinkers such Thomas Sowell and John McWhorter, once a
couple of objections are dealt with, but the kind of reparations
required required by the argument need not be much more than many
people (including McWorter) already want to do on other grounds.

My blog is Coyote Blog  This week I am submitting this article
This article is about Meyer’s Law, which is a tool to help weed through conspiracy theories, which seems timely right now.

THE BIG PICTURE
Newest Liberal Argument: Religious Americans Are Like Islamofascists (And What to Do About It)

Watcher of Weasels: I'd like to submit the following post for your consideration

Looking to add the prizes for the Dead Pool to the week's roundup:

Thanks,
-ls

Comparing the cost of living in red states and blue states.
Alan K. Henderson

Gordie (RoguePundit)  Permalink 

Canadian Sewage

For those of you heading to Canada, here's something for your to-do list...get Canada to stop dumping raw sewage into its rivers, lakes, and oceans.  The Victoria BC area alone dumps over 26 million gallons of raw sewage into the Pacific Ocean each day; it's a supposedly modern city that lacks a sewage treatment plant.  Victoria screens the sewage to keep the bigger solids (from grit to man-made things) out of the water, and it makes industrial activities like dry cleaners capture their hazardous wastes on site...

La Shawn Barber

Is Bush Duty-Bound To Reach Out To Black Voters?

A black liberal columnist implies that if Bush doesn't pander to blacks with "black issues", he's shirking his duty to "serve all." The columnist is wrong, of
course, and I tell him why.

"Tinseltown rebellion"
Hollywood hunkers down as the Dark Ages, or so they imagine, begin.

Muchas gracias....cgh

Steve: Blog D'Elisson

"You Say You've Got a (R)evolution" - We don't really live in Moron Central, but the national media may have you believing differently.

Here's my COTV submission. Thanks:
But Does He Like Naked Statues?
The Geneva Conventions are quaint,
Said Gonzales. A scholar, he ain't.
But he's Dub's nominee
For the post of AG,
Where no doubt he will rule sans restraint.   

Eric Scheie

"NOTICE TO ALL COMMENTERS!"

The Classical Values Eleven Rules of Etiquette for Commenters.

Please find below submissions for SEVEN different blogs (NOT seven
submissions for one blog)

Dissecting Leftism says that the big Democrat vote in the major cities was
mainly a bought vote

Greenie Watch is having a laugh at the latest claims about the Arctic
warming up

Political Correctness Watch has an article about the banning of a major
conservative political party in Belgium

Gun Watch has an article about the shambles that is the British gun registry

Socialized Medicine says that the banned flu vaccine was perfectly OK

Education Watch says that minorities want access to private schools in
Australia too

Leftists as Elitists debunks Ted Rall's claim that Leftists are smarter

Condi in 2008
I predict Condoleeza Rice gets the Republican nod in 2008

Wicked Thoughts says that Brian Leiter's attacks on Christians are childish

I have a Yasser Arafat Retrospective

Thank you,
David Gerstman

America and Terrorism

One of the unique things about the United States is its lack of groups that
commit terrorist acts that disrupt our lives. We have our Eric Rudolphs and
Ted Kuzinskis, and our SDS and ALF. But they don't capture the notice that
groups in smaller First World countries do. Maybe it's because we are such a
large country. In part, it's because we don't have any serious separatist
movements. And, in great measure, it's because we routinely accept a level
of violence that would not be tolerated in other nations and would be called
terrorism by them.

The SmarterCop
Pietro --  Generosity
Think the south doesn't carry its own weight? Charitably speaking, that notion just don't fly.

"How?" by Josh Cohen of www.d-42.com In response to an entry about how a young man didn't know what to do with his hands during sex, I lament a gaping hole in school-run sex education.

See that you're listed as hosting Carnival of the Vanities....so here's an entry:
"Reviewing currently modish ideas on childcare, Tim comes up with a truly radical and progressive idea."

Homelessness Report - Meanest Cities In summary, if a city has laws to prevent
vagrants from turning the community into a toilet, chances are the city will be ranked high on the "mean scale."

Blog: Interested-Participant

WAL-MART WORLD  A whirlwind tour of a neighborhood Wal-Mart Supercenter...

King of Fools
Grinching

I note from Silflay Hraka that you are hosting the Carnival of the
Vanities this week.  I would like to submit, from my blog Caerdroia
a post on how Democrats are coming to see Federalism as a good thing after their election loss, and what can be done to improve our system because of this. 

Thanks

-jeff

Tex the Pontificator

Does Moving Toward a Safer World Count?

When I was a child, I was often told that "virtue is its own reward." I can't say that I acted much on that as a child, but the saying has a point that came to mind when I saw the headline of Chirac's admonishment to Blair. Chirac announced that Blair has gained nothing by supporting Bush, apparently wanting to influence British opinion against Blair.

The Gleeful Extremist slams Jacques Chirac for denigrating England's support of the U.S. 

Finally, from your hostess: my dad's obit at the DesertLight Journal. He taught me to love and respect men; which is why I work so hard in fighting the feminists and their campaign to make men second-class citizens. Our fathers, brothers, and sons are worthwhile human beings that don't deserve the abuse they get in media, courts, and human services.

Blog on!

November 12, 2004

The Bloggers Should Be TIME's People of the Year

I concur -- no other group has done so much to start opening up our institutions to the will of the people, no other group has so much potential to bring positive change!

From Steve Rubel:

The Person of the Year is defined as follows:

"Person of the Year is an annual issue of TIME magazine that features a profile on the man, woman, couple, group, idea, place, or machine that "for better or worse, has most influenced events in the preceding year"

For 2004, I cannot think of a single person or persons that had a greater influence on society than the bloggers. Let's remind them by making our voice heard. If you think about American politics, media, business - no one, no one had a greater influence for better or worse than the bloggers. Not Osama Bin Laden. Not Sadaam Hussein. Not John Kerry. No one. The bloggers absolutely deserve to be this year's People of the Year.

Check Steve's site for info on how you can speak your mind on this!

November 01, 2004

Best of Me Symphony

The Best of Me Symphony is assembled at Yuma Tech Consortium! Hurry, don't miss the overture!

October 27, 2004

Best of Me Symphony

The Yuma Tech Consortium will be hosting the next Best of Me Symphony.

If you're not familar with these kind of blogging community events, they're mainly to help bloggers let the world know they're there, and to give readers something new they maybe haven't seen before. There are no restrictions on subject matter other than the standard no commercials/no X-rated.

Here are the rules:

The Best of Me Symphony is built around the best posts from your blog archives. Post submission criteria are very simple. The post must be at least 2 months old and the submitter must think it is a very good post. How easy is that?


Submissions should be sent to the blog hosting that particular week's Symphony. Inasmuch as that's me for the week beginning Nov 1, 2004, please send entries to twschuett-at-peoplepc-dot-com by 11:59pm Eastern time Sunday, October 31
Submissions should include the following:

Post Title
Post Permalink
Author's Name (or handle)
Weblog Name
Submitter's Name/Handle (if different from Author)
Description of post and/or why this post is being submitted (That is, what about this post makes you think it is one of the best from the weblog).
The only absolutely required item is the permalink. Other items may be left blank on the Bestofme Symphony post if they aren't provided with the submission. That could mean less people will go to read the post so submitters are encouraged to include as much of the info as possible.

Note that a post does not have to be submitted by its author so readers and lurkers with or without their own weblogs may contribute.



October 04, 2004

A bona fide blogging first!

I'm probably ruffling some feathers here and there with my citizen's media project at one of my blogs. Setting the subject matter aside, what's important here is the way I'm doing it. The idea could probably be put to use by any non-profit or activist group, which is why I bring it up.

Continue reading "A bona fide blogging first!" »

September 20, 2004

New Kid on the Block!

Let's Play Restaurant is brand-new and says some lovely things about us here at FB. Why not go over and have a look?

August 11, 2004

Testing Meme Propagation In Blogspace

Testing Meme Propagation In Blogspace: Add Your Blog

This posting is a community experiment that tests how a meme, represented by this blog posting, spreads across blogspace, physical space and time. It will help to show how ideas travel across blogs in space and time and how blogs are connected.

It may also help to show which blogs (and aggregation sites) are most influential in the propagation of memes. The dataset from this experiment will be public, and can be located via Google (or Technorati) by doing a search for the GUID for this meme (below).

Please join the test by adding your blog (see instructions, below) and inviting your friends to participate—the more the better. The data from this test will be public and open; others may use it to visualize and study the connectedness of blogspace and the propagation of memes across blogs.

The GUID for this experiment is:

as098398298250swg9e98929872
525389t9987898tq98wteqtgaq62
010920352598gawst

(Be sure to enter it all as one complete word. It's broken here into three parts for publishing purposes.)

The above GUID enables anyone to easily search Google or other search engines for all blogs that participate in this experiment, once they have indexed the sites that participate, which may take several days or weeks. To locate the full data set, just search for any sites that contain this GUID.

Anyone is free to analyze the data of this experiment. Please publicize your analysis of the data, and/or any comments by adding comments onto the original post (see URL above). (Note: it would be interesting to see a geographic map or a temporal animation, as well as a social network map of the propagation of this meme.)

INSTRUCTIONS

To add your blog to this experiment, copy this entire posting to your blog, and then answer the questions below, substituting your own information, below, where appropriate. Other than answering the questions below, please do not alter the information, layout or format of this post in order to preserve the integrity of the data in this experiment (this will make it easier for searchers and automated bots to find and analyze the results later).

REQUIRED FIELDS

(Note: Replace the answers below with your own answers)

(1) I found this experiment at URL: http://www.thegodblog.com
(2) I found it via “Newsreader Software” or “Browsing the Web” or “Searching the Web” or “An E-Mail Message”: Newsreader Software

(3) I posted this experiment at URL: http://wolves.typepad.com/food_basics

(4) I posted this on date (day/month/year): 08/11/04

(5) I posted this at time (24 hour time): 09:03

(6) My posting location is (city, state, country): Yuma AZ USA

OPTIONAL SURVEY FIELDS:


(7) My blog is hosted by: TypePad

(8) My age is: above average

(9) My gender is: female

(10) My occupation is: professional blogger

(11) I use the following RSS/Atom reader software: N/A

(12) I use the following software to post to my blog: N/A

(13) I have been blogging since (day, month, year): 27/06/2003

(14) My web browser is: Internet Explorer 6

(15) My operating systems are: Windows XP

June 16, 2004

Blogs with Flavor

A how-to on setting up a food blog, plus a few of the author's favorites. Here>>