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If I Had a Dollar for Every Spam Comment . . .

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We’d Be Celebrating about Now!

Akismet has protected your site from 1,004,381 spam comments.

Even lost some in various upgrades over the years.

Well, we can dream.

–ME “Liz” Strauss
Work with Liz!!
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Silly Brain Test 2: What Color Is Your Mind?

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It Ain’t Easy Being Green

You decide whether this sounds like me. . . .


Your Mind is Green
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Of all the mind types, yours has the most balance.
You are able to see all sides to most problems and are a good problem solver.
You need time to work out your thoughts, but you don’t get stuck in bad thinking patterns.

You tend to spend a lot of time thinking about the future, philosophy, and relationships (both personal and intellectual).

What Color Is Your Mind?

Go ahead. Tell me about yours.

–ME “Liz” Strauss
If you want to seriously sort your thoughts, we can do that too. Work with Liz!!

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Fun Find: What’s Your Personal DNA?
Fun Find: Imagini

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Post Card 5: Dr. Lei, a Hypothesis, and the Mystery Is Solved

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Post Cards from the Fake Liz Strauss (written by the real one)

I figure if Dan Lyons can write the fake Steve Jobs, I can do one better . . . I’m writing these post cards before I go on the UK trip with Ann Michael. Consider it a fictional account of real people we might have met, real places we might have visited, and real things that did or didn’t happen as told by the fake myself. Some things actually might have occurred. Like I said, I’m writing this before we go. –Liz

Re: Dec. 6, 2007

Hi, Everyone!
On Thursday morning, we awoke still living under the threat of the mysterious land shark. The London Online Conference Hall was ending. Would the shark be let loose?

At noon, I had a lunch meeting with Dr. Hsien, Hsien Lei. We met in the dining room of a famous hotel.

Claridges Hotel

She put forth a scientific hypothesis about the land shark which, when we tested it, turned out to be true.

The shark was the only decent picture that the web dev guy had on his hard drive when he was building the site.

So our mystery was solved.

Ann headed back for the States this afternoon. I get to meet some cool folks at lunch today, a dinner tonight, lunch again tomorrow — and those are just the ones who blog. Then on Sunday, I get to come home.

Yours truly,

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The Fake Liz Strauss

PS When I’m not catching up with folks at mealtime, I’ll be in my room ironing my clothes.

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Post Card 4: The Taxi Ride

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Post Cards from the Fake Liz Strauss (written by the real one)

I figure if Dan Lyons can write the fake Steve Jobs, I can do one better . . . I’m writing these post cards before I go on the UK trip with Ann Michael. Consider it a fictional account of real people we might have met, real places we might have visited, and real things that did or didn’t happen as told by the fake myself. Some things actually might have occurred. Like I said, I’m writing this before we go. –Liz

Re: Dec. 5, 2007

Hi, Everyone!
Tuesday night, at the blogger movie premiere we had close call with the bloggerrazzi. Luckily, no one was hurt or went to jail. It seems they wanted pix of Ann and I for the tabblogs, but we pulled out our sunglasses, head scarves, and superhero invisibility capes. We lost track of them in no time at all.

We spent hours on Wed. at the London Online Conference Hall. The only hint of a shark we saw was some spilled water on the floor. It was time to pull in some serious help.

We turned first to a London taxi driver. They seem to know everything.

Sherlock Holmes Museum Baker Street photo by Kjetil Bjørnsrud

We asked our driver about the mystery of the land shark and told him of our concerns. He gave us his philosophy of life and a complete tour of the city. We saw sights that even Londoners will never know — places our driver suggested that land sharks might hang out. We asked question after question about land shark sightings. He made up the answers as he drove until we tired him out.

Then he delivered us to Baker St. He said to ask for a guy named Holmes.

The Holmes guy told us to make an appt. with a guy named Watson. We made a reservation for dinner instead.

Yours truly,

Liz's Signature

The Fake Liz Strauss

PS That night we needed refueling so we took Kevin up his offer to meet other bloggers at a pub. Maybe they would have information from the underground about a land shark invasion related to the London Online conference.

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Post Card 3: Maybe the Bridge?

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Post Cards from the Fake Liz Strauss (written by the real one)

I figure if Dan Lyons can write the fake Steve Jobs, I can do one better . . . I’m writing these post cards before I go on the UK trip with Ann Michael. Consider it a fictional account of real people we might have met, real places we might have visited, and real things that did or didn’t happen as told by the fake myself. Some things actually might have occurred. Like I said, I’m writing this before we go. –Liz

Re: Dec. 4, 2007

Hi, Everyone!
We checked in at the conference on Tuesday. Still no one would give up any information about the mysterious shark.

Meeting after meeting found us talking about Web 2.0, social media, blogging, and content. Could we get a person to budge on something about the toothy predator? They showed no interest at all.

Then it dawned on us, which is quite a feat since it was late afternoon. We looked out our hotel window and saw a location that might hold a clue.

Ann and I called John Dodds to say we’d be delayed on our way to dinner, and we were off to see the famous bridge.

tower bridge



We were told that the original famous bridge is now in the southwestern USA. So we settled for this one — which has no appearance of falling down. That was a minor disappointment, for sure.

The bigger disappointment was that no one near the bridge had any information about sharks at all.

Yours truly,

Liz's Signature

The Fake Liz Strauss

PS That night we accompanied John to a movie premiere exclusively for high-power bloggers. Our responsibilities to our industry had to take precedence over our charitable endeavors and our quest to save the world from land sharks just this once.

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