24 Comments to “Looking for This Week’s Ideas?”

1. July 9th, 2006 at 8:51 pm
   Mike said

   Thanks Liz !

   I’m thinkin’ the heat’s getting to all those in the U.S., ’cause comments are hard to come by and links are non-existant.

2. July 9th, 2006 at 8:53 pm
   ME Strauss said

   Hi Mike!
   It’s good to see you!
   I really do think your post is outstanding. That’s why I recommended it.

3. July 9th, 2006 at 9:00 pm
   Mike said

   I recommend it too, but it’s been really slow lately in the blogosphere.

   Traffics down, comments down, links down, etc.

4. July 9th, 2006 at 9:02 pm
   shirley buxton said

   Hello, Liz.
   It’s Sunday evening, and I’m inviting you to church at my place…(and in your heart of hearts you know you need to go.) I promise you’ll love it.:)

   Blessings,

   Shirley Buxton
   http://www.writenow.wordpress.com

5. July 9th, 2006 at 9:03 pm
   ME Strauss said

   Mike,
   You are one of the best things about the blogosphere. I swear it. You keep me here!

6. July 9th, 2006 at 9:04 pm
   ME Strauss said

   Shirley,
   You know I’ve always been a sucker for one of your invitations. I’ll be right over.

7. July 9th, 2006 at 9:24 pm
   Cat said

   Mike, brilliant post. Liz, thanks for sharing.

   Mike, thanks again for mentioning John E. Powers. I don’t have access to a library, so I googled and came up with what seems to be a decent write-up on the man.

   http://www.ciadvertising.org/student_account/spring_02/adv382j/jeong/paper2/

   Clicking on the plus symbols takes one to more information. Good stuff.

   I’m now off to check out amazon.com … Thanks!

   cat

8. July 9th, 2006 at 9:26 pm
   ME Strauss said

   Cat,
   As always, you are wonderful!

9. July 9th, 2006 at 9:47 pm
   Mike said

   Hey Liz - want to see something funny ? Go here and read the comments :

   http://moblogsmoproblems.blogspot.com/

   Top 25 marketing blogs and he say’s I don’t qualify.

   Check some of the Top 10, which must be friends blogs, as they have ZERO marketing info on them.

10. July 9th, 2006 at 9:56 pm
    ME Strauss said

    Mike,
    I did have a curious question.

11. July 9th, 2006 at 9:59 pm
    Mike said

    I’ve got more than one question, BUT it’s his blog and his ranking, so it doesn’t matter what we think, but as long as it’s bogus, I’ll not be linking to it.

12. July 9th, 2006 at 10:03 pm
    Mike said

    You would have thought a blog with a PR of ZERO would have wanted a link from a PR6 though, wouldn’t you ?

13. July 9th, 2006 at 10:23 pm
    ME Strauss said

    You might have thought that, but then that would be good marketing.

14. July 9th, 2006 at 10:32 pm
    Mike said

    And he obviously knows nothing about that.

    Funny the word commentary had never been brought up til now.

    Why the hell would you want to rank blogs that blog about what other blogs had written ?

    Why would you not want original content over commentary ?

    Kinda link wanting to read quantity or quality. Otherwise why even make the comment that he likes blogs that post 5 times a day about what other people have written ?

    An easy decision to remove that one from my feed reader. One less piece of noise to filter.

15. July 9th, 2006 at 10:37 pm
    ME Strauss said

    Mike,
    I’ve been removing blogs from my feeds like crazy lately. They’re just not saying anything worth reading.

16. July 9th, 2006 at 10:40 pm
    Mike said

    Seems to be an epidemic of nothingness.

    I’m gonna quit for the night, as I’ve got another industry related blog to get ready to show to it’s company CEO tomorrow.

    Maybe more bloggers should try to find a company that needs a blogger and then they wouldn’t run out of something to say or the motivation to blog.

    Beats contextual ads all to heck.

    Whattaya think ?

17. July 9th, 2006 at 10:42 pm
    ME Strauss said

    I think I need your Midas touch.

18. July 10th, 2006 at 4:30 am
    HART (1-800-HART) said

    Actually .. I liked Chris’s version but Mike’s Graphic definately makes is seem more important and added value to the 2005 post.

    It’s all important - what Chris said in his comments is entirely true, and I also can concur that from experience.. I got hit first from technorati and then my own busy season off-line. It’s almost more than an effort .. it’s debating whether it’s worth it at times..

    On one of my blogs I didn’t post for a while because I was busy …. The blog nearly died, traffic dropped massively and took a much greater effort to bring it back from the brink than if I had kept it pootling along. I won’t make that mistake again.

    But, I like to follow the white rabbit deeper into all the holes .. so, my PetLvr.com blog had a litter of bloggettes this weekend - http://DogLvr.com and http://CatLvr.com

19. July 10th, 2006 at 6:16 am
    ME Strauss said

    Hi HART,
    I liked Chris’s version too, but to me it wasn’t as
    friendly.

    I read the comment about not posting. I agree, I think that it’s a great way to get readers to stop coming by, especially now that there are so many blogs to read. I’m amazed at how different things are just in one year’s time.

20. July 10th, 2006 at 1:43 pm
    Easton Ellsworth said

    Mike’s made a classic? I’m off to check this one out - thanks for the tip Liz!

21. July 10th, 2006 at 2:00 pm
    ME Strauss said

    Hi Easton!
    Thanks for the visit.

22. July 12th, 2006 at 11:58 am
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23. July 12th, 2006 at 6:22 pm
    Mike said

    Hey Liz -

    This post got me some links and some traffic !

    Thanks for doin’ what you do with your voodoo !

24. July 12th, 2006 at 6:24 pm
    ME Strauss said

    Hey Mike,
    You’re welcome. I only do such things for the best.