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I heard about Rick Rolling from . . . who else? My kids! Mattie-Boo Rick Roll’d me one night a few months ago and then rolled on the floor himself in a combined fit of hysterical giggling mixed with revulsion when he realized that not only did I remember “Never Gonna Give You Up” by Rick Astley, I also remembered all the words and could still bust a move!

Tonight he told me one of his friends Barack Roll’d him so I checked out You Tube and sure enough:

I don’t usually blog about politics, but I will say this much: Yes, I am supporting Obama Biden. My mind was made up after the Vice Presidential picks were announced.


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Social Media Mega Project: Bloggers Unite

Included in The All-Time Best Blogging Articles / January 2008 Group Writing Project at Super Blogging

Have you generated traffic to your site and/or gained new readers/subscribers by participating at a particular social media networking or bookmarking site? Or have you wondered what all the discussion about social media sites is all above, finding yourself completely confused by all the various sites and the many blogs where articles are generated about social marketing each and every day?

Announcing a group writing project that will be of interest to and benefit all bloggers!

InspirationBit is sponsoring / coordinating the Social Media Mega Project. Participating bloggers will share their experiences with and tips/tricks/suggestions for successfully using some of the biggest social media sites.

Individual sites will focus their attention upon specific social media sites. The discussion on each site can take the form of a published article by the site owner or Guest Author, comments or e-mails to the host.

Timeline:

  • Start Date: Monday, January 21, 2008
  • End Date: Friday, February 22, 2008
  • Result Publication Date: Monday, February 25, 2008
  • Final Collaborative Results Publication Date: Friday, February 29, 2008 at Inspiration Bit

Guidelines:

1. Write an article on your blog and share with your readers how you integrate Sk*rt or Blogging Zoom into your online experiences. Have your experiences with those sites been negative or positive? With regard to driving traffic to your site, how does their effectiveness compare with other social networking sites? What benefits, if any, have you derived from using those services? Share with readers any tips, tricks or warnings that you have discovered.

2. Click here to provide me with your name, email address and the permalink to your article. If you prefer, you may be a Guest Author here at Colloquium.

3. After I receive links or articles from all participants and publish them here, you may write another article and link to some or all of the other articles contributed to this project.

4. You may contribute only one article per project per participating site, but you are invited and encouraged to visit all of the participating host sites, each of which is focusing on different social media sites, and take part by submitting articles to those sites about the social networking sites featured there.

Participating Sites / Focus:

Prizes:

The project organizers are eligible to win a prize. Vivien of InspirationBit is donating the $100 prize she won from Daily Blog Tips, along with the $25 she won from All Tips And Tricks, and awarding five $25 prizes to the top five bloggers whose projects are the most successful as judged by the number and quality of entries.

I would really like Colloquium to be named one of the top five participating blog and, toward that end, invite you to actively participate and help make this project a success!

If Colloquium is named one of the top five participating blogs, I will ask readers to vote for their favorite article submitted about Sk*rt and/or Blogging Zoom. The winning author will receive the $25 award provided by Vivien — and I will match that prize twice over by making a donation in the same amount to the charity of the winner’s choice, along with a $25 donation to the American Cancer Society in honor of my sister, a colon cancer survivor. That’s a total prize package of $75.

So what are you waiting for? Start writing about Sk*rt and Blogging Zoom! I look forward to reading and learning from your articles!


What Were They Thinking?

January 19, 2008

What Were They Thinking?

Included in the Carnival of Christian Women at Dandelions and Daydreams

“It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.”

Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Caught in a noose: Tilghman slips up, and Golf Channel can’t wiggle free.”

That’s the headline on the January 19, 2008 cover of Golfweek magazine. It accompanies a photo of a noose (which, because it is so offensive, will not be published here). The magazine’s former editor, Dave Seanor, who was fired on Thursday, described the cover imagery as “an attempt, and a poor one, to link it to the situation the Golf Channel is in.”

The Golf Channel’s problems began on January 4 when anchor Kelly Tilghman bantered with host Nick Faldo about how young up-and-coming golfers might be able to best the phenomenal Tiger Woods. Faldo suggest ed that “to take Tiger on, well, yeah, they should just gang up for a while until . . . ” at which point Tilghman interrupted him and added “lynch him in a back alley.” Although Woods said he was not upset or offended by the remark, chalking it up to a poor choice of words with no underlying ill intent, not everyone saw it that way.

Many people, including me, felt that the Golf Channel had a responsibility to discipline Tilghman because of her comments, even if she displayed no malicious intent and had no history of similar behavior. In order to set an example for the remainder of its workforce and take a public stand about its commitment to diversity, the Golf Channel had an affirmative obligation to take action against Tilghman commensurate with her employment history and her offensive comment.

Inexplicably, the Golf Channel failed to react immediately, instead waiting a full two days to issue an apology from Tilghman and a statement saying that no action would be taken against her. After public outrage, she was suspended from her duties for two weeks.

But the Golf Channel’s mishandling of the situation was mild compared with Golfweek magazine’s ill-fated decision not only to feature a photo of a noose on its cover, but also to attempt, via its headline, to compare the Golf Channel’s conundrum with the historical significance attached to the image. Seanor claimed that the headline was an attempt to “convey the concept that they were caught in a situation where it just continued to tighten around them.”

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Link Love

September 8, 2007

Are you participating in the Link Love meme? Everyone can play!

* Start Copy Here **

Here are the rules:

1. Copy this post from “Start Copy Here” to “End Copy Here”.
2. Add yourself and 5 of your favorite bloggers to the end of the list.
3. Post this on your blog

Enkay Blog Ms. Danielle Cash For Comments BetShopBoy JohnCow Mr. Gary Lee Jon Lee Dosh Dosh Some Make Money The King Kong Blog RomanDock Michael Kwan Ed Lau Jane MaySam Breadstone Windows Tips, Tricks and Hacks ProBlogger The Beef Jerky Blog The Prize BlogOnline Coupon Codes Jamaipanese Rugjeff ShadowScope The News Press Net JohnWaraas Life Is Colorful A Touch of Sweetness That Says It All Bama 365 Bohemian Bloggers The Sassy Southerner Protocol In Practice TJ’s Anti Contrarian Londoner Life Dot Com Theres A Blog In My Soup Daily Webbers Clear 2 U Marketing Drunken Housewife Vic2x Programming Riches of Destiny Bisean Agloco Hours Net Business Journal Milton Ramirez Adsense Tracker Mischief Gaje Master Blogging The Life of Socrates Rowan Forest Homeschool Blog Duck Cash Rich Tools An Island Life Almost Somewhat Positive Are We There Yet Colloquium The Ice Box Holly’s Corner Blog A Southern Girl’s Guide to Almost Anything 2nd Cup of Coffee Exceedingly Mundane Laughing Through the Tears The Monkey Boys’ Mama Still His Girl Broken Perfection Riddle Eccence Race Coner A Slice of LIfe Nita’s Corner Yen (Me and Mine) My Two Cents Worth Simply Jen Genny Lutchi’s Thoughts Blessie The Four Seasons of My Life Grace Tere’s World Tere’s Journey in Life Blessings in Life Just Let Go Dancing with Butterflies My Drama The Daily Matters Wishing & Hoping Nora’s Notes My Musing Pad Trials of My Life Pieces of Me Endless Words of Mine Fingertalks Manila MomVanidosa MarieVanidosaMarie.com Hipncoolmomma My Two Cents Worth Simply Jen Genny Lutchi’s Thoughts Blessie The Four Seasons of My Life Grace Tere’s World Tere’s Journey in Life Blessings in Life Just Let Go Dancing with Butterflies My Drama The Daily Matters Wishing & Hoping Nora’s Notes My Musing Pad Trials of My Life Little Peanut Wilson1 Scarty Emmyrose Francine Meowminx Chez Francine My Hide-Away Accessories4less Ylan’s Refuge ZJ Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder Monica Nita VelikaHipncoolmomma.com Phamzy KC Thess Rhada HealthFreakMommy Shern’sMom Mommy2Qiqi Mommyof2angels MommyCool KK LifeinVegas On the Horizon Here’s looking at . . . me! Cactuus littlemummy.com Seabird Chronicles

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Consider yourself tagged!


Blog Day 2007

August 31, 2007

JHSEsq commemorates Blog Day at Colloquium

Did you know that today is Blog Day?

According to the official BlogDay site: BlogDay was created with the belief that bloggers should have one day dedicated to getting to know other bloggers from other countries and areas of interest. On that day Bloggers will recommend other blogs to their blog visitors.

With the goal in mind, on this day every blogger will post a recommendation of 5 new blogs. This way, all blog readers will find themselves leaping around and discovering new, previously unknown blogs.

There are specific guidelines provided:

  1. Find 5 new Blogs that you find interesting.
  2. Notify the 5 bloggers that you are recommending them as part of BlogDay 2007.
  3. Write a short description of the Blogs and place a link to the recommended Blogs.
  4. Post the BlogDay Post on August 31st) and
  5. Add the BlogDay tag using this link:
    http://technorati.com/tag/BlogDay2007 and a link to the BlogDay web site at http://www.blogday.org.

Here are the five blogs I discovered today:

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