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Fun Find: DONTCLICK.IT

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Great Find: DONTCLICK.IT by Institute for Interactive Research
URL: www.dontclick.it
Target Audience: Anyone interested in web interfaces and interactivity

Content: The Institute has packed more information than first meets the eye when you enter this award-winning, flash-driven website. Everywhere you mouse over you will find options to learn and invesigate without ever needing to click.

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You can play a game called Housecamp. It’s a bit addictive and not easy. You can cast your vote for clickless interactivity and try out several types of clickless button interfaces. You can explore the history of computers, leave a message in the crowd of visitors, and much, much more. Look for something behind every word you see. In the experiment lab, you can replay how others moved through the site. This website is like a giant puzzle. Enjoy and explore at the same time.

Be sure to mouse over the gold seal on the opening screen before you go in.

Who knows? There may come a day when the words click here will be history.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

SOB Buttons Are Here!

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It is with great dignity and pride
that I announce and present
the official badge of achievement
of SOB to all who have been named

Successful and Outstanding Bloggers.

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They take conversations here back to their readers.
I invite them to take this badge of achievement
back to their blog and to display it with pride.

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For the complete honor roll and details on becoming an SOB, see the Successful & Outstanding Bloggers page.

Blogging Hypothetical Question 3

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For those who come looking for a short, thoughtful read, a blogging life discussion, or a way to gradually ease back into the week, I offer this Blogging Hypothetical Question.

Here you go. . . .

A friend in your blogging niche has 700-800 visitors a day. (Don’t we all wish?) But she gets no comments.
She asks:
Is this a bad thing? Is it my writing? What should I do? Should I do anything?

What’s your response?

Besides, of course, “Send them to me, and I’ll ask them.”

–ME “Liz” Strauss

A Genuine Blogging Community

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Being Part of Something Bigger

To serve our readers, to make something bigger, to show the blogosphere what community looks like . . . to keep blogging fun and engaging, to have a place to go figure out solutions and share our successes, to make blogging all it can be come hell or high water . . . Successful Blog is a community blog where every voice is welcomed and every contribution is valued.–MES

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Have stories or ideas to add to the conversation?

  • Is there something you do that works really well?
  • Have you had a success you’d like to share?
  • Have you figured out a useful trick or two?
  • Have you got a tool or tip we don’t know about?
  • Have you figured out the hard way a pitfall we can avoid?
  • Have you written an article you’d like to submit?
  • Do you have ideas on how we might collaborate?
  • Do you have a post with fresh, relevant content we’d enjoy?
  • Do you have a post that explores a new angle on an old subject?
  • Do you have a post with a tool that belongs in the Survival Kit?
  • Do you have a post about an experience that might help a new blogger?

Share what you know and we all get better. For details on how, see the Want to Be a Contributor? page.

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Be part of something bigger than one–Successful Blog–a genuine Blogging Community.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

Fun Find: Instant Blog Post Generator

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And this from a site called Flooble:

You know how sometimes you feel like you haven’t posted anything to your blog for a while, and you should really get around to doing it, but there’s nothing to really write about? We’ve all been there. That’s why we at flooble have decided to give you an Instant Blog Post Generator.

Now you can have a ready-to-post entry for your blog with just one click of a button. Our system is random enough that there’s thousands of variations to the post that it can generate, so if you don’t like how it came out, you can simply keep clicking until the generator comes up with something you find acceptable.

Instant Blog Post Generator

Be careful, if you go playing around on this site, there are plenty of pop-ups and pop-unders for you to play with as well. Still there is fun to be had for a minute or two.

Remember quality is king, but fun is fun.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Blogging Hypothetical Question 2

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For those who come looking for a short, thoughtful read, a bloggy-life discussion, or a way to gradually ease back into the week, I offer this BloggingHypotheticality.

Here you go. . . .

You receive an email that reads like this–only yours is from a real domain name.

Dear Sir/Madam:

Would you like to link to us?

Website: http://www.ilinkwithstrangers.com

Thank you very much.

What’s your opinion of this practice?

–ME “Liz” Strauss