Saturday Specials
1. Overstock.com has some great deals on MP3 players (I’m still thinking that birthday wish list on this end)
2. Columbus could be getting more jobs because of the EPD.
3. A Windom, MN school is adding art back to it’s curriculum.
4. Check out the The Juicy Fruit iPod shuffle
5. Top Iraq Terror Leader Arrested
In a coup for security forces battling a raging insurgency in northern Iraq, a terror suspect known as Mullah Mahdi was detained early Saturday along with his brother, three other Iraqis and a non-Iraqi Arab national in eastern Mosul, 225 miles northwest of Baghdad, said Iraqi army Maj. Gen. Khalil Ahmed al-Obeidi.
The UrbanGiraffe has great instructions on using WordPress and Bad Example has some outstanding blogging tips (I started you at the first one here, but look to the right of his page to find the rest).
I still have 50 GMail Invites!
Quote
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
-Albert Einstein, (attributed)
US (German-born) physicist (1879 – 1955)
1Abraham Lincoln
wrote on 4 June 2005 at 8:07
I like the part about Art being added back. Hope you can stop by to see what I do. oldmanlincoln.modblog.com
2Redoubt
wrote on 4 June 2005 at 11:08
Re: Blogging Tips
The blogsphere is full of pitfalls for the novice blogger because, unfortunately, we’ve taken this all a bit too seriously and created plenty of bumps in the road (read: protocols).
I have learned (and am still learning) the various customs and hazards. One has to do with Trackbacks. Bloggers get really touchy if you link back to their blogs without some mention of them in yours. Your experience (or lack thereof) is no excuse and you’ll find yourself in hot water real quick by making your first mistake.
Then there are trolls.
One of the reasons I migrated away from web forums (message boards) was because of trolling. These butt-weevils can and will attack you by using your name, email address and blog URL to post nasty things on other blogs in your name. Then the offended come calling back to your site and deposit equally nasty comments and this creates a war that the Trolls love to watch. So, if someone comes and flames your blog, just ignore it. Delete it even. But don’t go for revenge and create a show for the trolls.
Top of the day to all
3Jo
wrote on 4 June 2005 at 13:28
Redoubt,
That’s great advise. Fortunately I haven’t had to deal with trolls yet here. I have had one nasty comment and I did as you advised, I deleted it. Thankfully it hit the moderation que so no one else saw the vile stuff the person said.
4John
wrote on 5 June 2005 at 16:03
Wise words from Redoubt, and a thank you from me for the nice comment!
5Harvey
wrote on 11 June 2005 at 15:42
Just wanted to say that I’m flattered that you found my blogging tips worth mentioning, and that I added you to my Groupies blogroll.