SOB Business Cafe 06-01-07

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Welcome to the SOB Cafe

We offer the best in thinking–articles on the business of blogging written by the Successful and Outstanding Bloggers of Successful Blog. Click on the titles to enjoy each selection.

The Specials this Week are

Seth’s Blog recommends that we choose a game plan to suit the game we’re playing.

One, a few, most or all

Problogger discusses donations as an income stream.

Donations on Blogs - Do They Work?

Vaspers the Grate reviews the newest specialized search engine.

Mahalo search engine from Jason Calacanis

Alister Cameron, Blogologist shares his dreams.

Google’s new BlogRank Authority Index… in my dreams, anyway!

All Things Workplace wonders if 9-5 is archaic.

Can You Be Productive, Successful, and Satisfied 9 to 5? Part I

Good Word Editing does the math, with Einstein looking it over.

Blog Like Einstein - Finally a Formula that Predicts Blog Traffic with a 0.8 Correlation

Related ala carte selections include

Design Your Writing Life is suggesting we fess up.

“I Don’t Have Time to Write” and other Writerly Lies #2

Sit back. Enjoy your read. Nachos and drinks will be right over. Stay as long as you like. No tips required. Comments appreciated.

Have a great weekend!

–ME “Liz” Strauss

Tags: Alister-Cameron-Blogologist, All-Things-Workplace, Design-Your-Writing-Life, Good-Word-Editing, Problogger, Seths-Blog, Vaspers-the-Grate

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Vaspers Asks a Wonderful Writers’ Question

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What’s Your Answer?

What wonderfully intriguing post this is. Here is just a bit . . .

When you write a new blog post, who is addressed? Do you have a composite persona in mind? Do you imagine an aggregation of imagined readers, based on those you know well, and those you hope will find you?

Is there a conscious target? Who is it that you hope to enlighten, engage, or enrage?

I cannot believe that you just slap some text, maybe a photo or artwork, into a post template, with total oblivion as to the intended, expected, or hoped for audience. Do you ever blog against a person or group or company or political party? Do you blog to your Future Self? Do you blog for your friends, family, boss?

Does it depend on the specific post? The general topic?
–steven edward streight, to whom do we blog?

The prose is musical. The thoughts are engaging. Go on click the link and enjoy the entire read.

By the way, I’d be interested in your answer.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

Tags: blogging, Steven-Streight, Vaspers-the-Grate

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Super Bowl Trojans . . . Super Bowl Website Hacked

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This Is Serious

“Super Bowl site hacked, seeded with exploits” The link is to an article at Zdnet.

The official Web site of Dolphin Stadium, home of Sunday’s Super Bowl XLI, has been hacked and seeded with exploit code targeting two known Windows security flaws.

Full access to your computer, via keystroke logger (spyware) backdoor Trojan (you click on what you think is an interactive functionality, like a game, or external link, or forum comment posting, or advertisement), if unpatched Windows system.

Uber horrible news for ecommerce hopes.

[ZDNET — Updated #2: February 2, 2007 @ 5:13 pm] All the affected Miami Dolphins sites (see Alexa traffic data) have now been disinfected but there is evidence that hundreds of other sites have been hijacked and rigged with the malicious JavaScript code.

Thanks to Vaspers the Grate read more in his post “botnet farming at Super Bowl site.”

PLEASE BE SURE YOUR WINDOWS MACHINE IS FULLY PATCHED.

–ME ‘Liz” Strauss

Tags: Super-Bowl-site, Super-Bowl-Trojans, Vaspers-the-Grate, Windows, Zdnet

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A one-time announcement of new-happeningly anxious curios

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Now Appearing . . .

Strangely unusual? Or Synchronicity? Not to be taken seriously.

“machine prayer” at Sci Fi Micro and of course ” Alien Age Reversal Ray”
“universal content utopia and FREE” at Vaspers the Grate
Abandoned Blog…putting the ON back into Abandonment. ‘Forsaking is Fun!”
Dropping Out of the Blogosphere wiki
Future of Blogging & Blog History Timeline wiki
Raiding the Immaterial ~~~ DECOnstructive MARKeting

Now that I think of it? Where did this post come from?

This look like the work of a Grate man to me.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

Tags: Super-Bowl-Coincidences, Vaspers-the-Grate

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SOB Business Cafe 01-05-07

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Welcome to the SOB Cafe

We offer the best in thinking–articles on the business of blogging written by the Successful and Outstanding Bloggers of Successful Blog. Click on the titles to enjoy each selection.