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SOB Business Cafe 11-10-06

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SB Cafe

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 title shots to enjoy each selection.

The Specials this Week are

Freshblog has been investigating a social search engine.

Social Searching with URL[dot]com

Creative Think wants to know what your rules of thumb are.

Sensational Color draws attention to the ligihting.

The Temperature of Light

ePublishingDaily is wondering whether 10,000 views of Michael Connelly’s book is a sign of a new opportunity

Can you use YouTube to marke you info product?

OnebyOne Media is offering a special for your reading pleasure.

Carpe Factum asks whether we’re competing when we should be pitching in.

Racing Against Phantoms

Related ala carte selections include

We still have a chance to be part of the Make It Great! contest.

Contest Extended to November 10

Newton doesn’t know that Shards of Consciousness has the laws of relativity reapplied in a new and interesting way.

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

Net Neutrality 11-10-2006

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Net Neutrality Links

I’m adding this link to the Net Neutrality Page.

Cable and Telco’s Lying about Net Neutrality


. . . My point is that if the Cable and Telco’s are spending Advertising Dollars Lying about Net Neutrality, we need to amp up our efforts to Protect our Rights to a Free Internet.

And in case our friends in Canada think they are safe from Cable and Telco interference with the Internet in the Great White North, Read The Newspapers… They’re trying the same thing up there.

Want to know what you can do?
MA Bell Monopoly Versus the Free Internet — Tell the FCC Net Neutrality Is Not Negotiable

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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NET NEUTRALITY PAGE

Stop Writer’s Block: 10 Minutes to Ideas to Write About

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Plenty of Ideas — Make Things Up!

Finding Ideas Outside of the Box logo 2

A young man wrote this week,asking how he might open his mind to be more creative. We passed emails back and forth. He said he knows that he stops his ideas. He asked if I might point him to how he might open his mind to let the ideas flow.

Do you have that problem too? Let’s check.

Stop right now and make something up. I’m sure you know how. Make me taller or shorter or older or younger, or any some such. Invent a new character in your life who is all evil or who is all good. That wasn’t so hard, was it? Okay we’ve got the making things up part covered. Most of us learned that in childhood.

Making things up is the stuff that ideas are make of. The exercise training for getting better at doing that involves time spent test driving your subconscious and unconscious a bit.

I’m going to show you one way to do that using a photo, your brain, and about 10 minutes.

Old Moon in New Moon

C’mon turn the page.

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Net Neutrality 11-09-2006

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Net Neutrality Links

I’m adding this link to the Net Neutrality Page.

On Network Convergence ( Susan Crawford )

It would be a great day for me, if I as a subscriber, had the power to download the movies I like, edit these movies for my home viewing ( for example when my kids are up, edit out violent and sex scenes and when they are asleep, edit back these scenes) and generally have the power to select what comes into my tv.

Today, broadcasters decide what comes into my home and typically say, if you don’t like it…change the channel.

NO, I DON’T WANT TO CHANGE THE CHANNEL. ITS MY HOME, I LIKE TV AND I SHOULD HAVE A SAY ON TO HOW THE CONTENT IS PRESENTED IN MY HOUSE.

Afterall, we all agree that most of the evolution is happening at the edge of the network which is directly interfacing with me and my family.

So there are various arguments to what convergence means, there are economic implications that trigger off political, corporate and technological events, but please don’t loose focus that all this is done to serve me, since I and another 4B people are paying for these past present and future services and of course salaries.

Want to know what you can do?
MA Bell Monopoly Versus the Free Internet — Tell the FCC Net Neutrality Is Not Negotiable

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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NET NEUTRALITY PAGE

Introducing the Blogs of Trevor Hampel

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SOB Hall of Famer: Trevor Hampel

Trevor Hampel is a retired elementary school teacher who lives in South Australia. He has always written stories and poems to use in his classroom and many have been published in Australian magazines. In the 1990s he had six books published, two curriculum guides for teachers with four accompanying student work books. He is now concentrating on writing this blog about writing and blogging which he hopes will help and inspire other writers. Some of his poetry and short fiction also appears on this blog. He is also working on several novels and picture book texts for traditional print publication.

Trevor’s Birding is a blog about the wild birds that live in his garden and in the district where he lives in South Australia. Watching birds in the wild has been his hobby now for over thirty years and he passionately shares this interest with his readers. More recently this passion has developed into a desire to photograph the birds he observes and to share the beauty of these birds by posting the photos on his blog.

Trevor’s Travels is a travel blog written by author Trevor Hampel. He has travelled extensively throughout Australia and more recently Thailand and Nepal (including a trek towards Mt Everest) and he writes about his adventures in his blog. These adventures are well illustrated by some beautiful photos of places he has visited over the years.

Notes from Liz: Trevor is a blogger’s blogger. He documents the details of his doings, a variety of experiences recorded through his writing. Trevor’s blogs bring his thoughts and images through the screen to make them ours. We get to share his world view with him. It’s his curiosity about how we choose one word over another, which bird comes to sit for his camera, or the diversity of what he finds when he travels that makes the reading unique and Trevor.

Thanks, Trevor, for the time it takes to document the details of your thoughts and your travels.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Links Leaked over the Lyrics and Quotes

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Can I Quote You?

Wisdom and conversation were the same thing at Tuesday Open Comments Night, last night. We heard from Oscar Wilde, Somerset Maugham, and Betty White So it was no real surprise when the links started leaking as they always do.

The Link Leak Virus seeped into every thing we saw. — The Link Leak Virus is a special strain of the indie virus with blogtipping mutations that occur in threes at Open Comment Night they become a link free-for-all.

Welcome to all of the new folks who came. It was great fun having you!

Cool links were shared in a word or twol

Quoting Geniuses

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Ellen Weber Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 7:03 pm e
My quote – “We can learn from experts – and we seek them for mentors as well as partners. Yet, when these pros grow stagnant and compacent – we call them on their relapse, and encourage their evolution forward.”

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Sean says “It’s yet another in a long series of diversions at an attempt to avoid responsibility.” – Chris Knight (Real Genius)

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Ah Pek Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 7:07 pm e
“Imagine all the people..living life in Peace….”

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Joe Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 7:07 pm e
Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away…

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Sean Says:

“You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.”

– Albert Einstein

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Mermaid Renée Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 7:18 pm e
“To be successful at anything you have to have the guts to be hated” – Bette Davis

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Sheila Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 7:21 pm e
“You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you just might find, you get what you need.”

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HART (1-800-HART) Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 7:21 pm e
Sudden-savage-shining-solid-soiled-solid-sanded
Steel-shuddering-shattering-shovelling until the
Sabre toothed rooter roots the earth
The eater eats his fill and is not satisfied and
Roars and reves his mathematical rage
on the footprints of Vikings
trapped on a sonic tape recorder
ten million years old, ten million years old, ten million years old.

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Delaney Kirk Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 7:36 pm e
WOODY: Pour you a beer, Mr. Peterson? NORM: All right, but stop me at one. Make that one-thirty.

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cat Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 7:36 pm e
“No offense intended, I’m also fiery passionate about the brand of nuts I eat”

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ME Strauss Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 7:36 pm e
“I can’t believe I ate the whole thing!”

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Chris Cree Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 7:42 pm e
OK, Instead of Bette Davis, how about a quote from Betty White?
All creatures must learn to coexist. That’s why the brown bear and the field mouse can share their lives in harmony. Or course, they can’t mate or the mice would explode.

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Scorpia Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 7:43 pm e
More like:

You’ve got questions. We’ve got security flaws.

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Rick Cockrum Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 7:50 pm e
Or maybe a pod? The kids look at me like I came out of a pod sometimes. Would that make us iPods?

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Jessica Doyle Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 7:50 pm e
“I fear what i do not know.” from my boyfriend eric.

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Marti Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 7:51 pm e
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.

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Service Untitled – Douglas Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 7:54 pm e
“Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted. “

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Steve Sherlock Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 7:56 pm e
Still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest… Simon and Garfunkel

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Sandra Renshaw Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 9:10 pm e
A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.
– David Brinkley

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Char Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 9:11 pm e
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
Brian Tracy, Eat that Frog

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Ben Yoskovitz Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 10:01 pm e
“Money…it’s a gas…”
“Hello out there, we’re on the air, it’s hockey night tonight…”
“All in all we’re just a ‘nother brick in the wall.”

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Candice brought the lovely Christopher Walken video

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Troy Worman Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 10:29 pm e
“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.” — Sir Winston Churchill

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John Richardson Says:
November 7th, 2006 at 11:55 pm e
It was 90 degrees here in Sunny California today…

All the leaves are brown
And the sky is grey

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ME Strauss Says:
November 8th, 2006 at 8:10 am e
“And in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love, you make”

The Beatles

-ME “Liz” Strauss

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