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Bloggy Question 43: Love or Money?

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I Don’t Like You

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 bloggy life question. . .


Someone has approached you about buying your blog. He wants all of it, lock, stock, and barrel. Well, that is, you can remove — delete any personal references. All other content, deisgn, widgets, and every other little bit will go to the new owner.

The new owner is . . . a guy you just can’t stand. He runs about 4 other blogs that you think are ugly, poorly kept, badly written, and inaccuate when they don’t seem to have copy you suspect is scraped.

The price offered is US$15,000. He’s ready to wire it to your bank account.

How do you respond?

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Sandy’s Great Graphic Find: PictureTrail

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Create Photo Flicks with PictureTrail

Great Find: PictureTrail

Permalink: http://www.picturetrail.com/

Target Audience: Anyone with photos!

Content: This growing public photo community boasts a number of features that you are sure to enjoy, including image hosting, photo sharing, print ordering, and Flash slideshows called Photo Flicks, available in more than 30 formats. Most allow you to add descriptions and control the speed and color.

Here’s a couple Photo Flicks that I made. Click on the pictures to view.

Try it today and let me know what you think. These were easy to create and post to this site. What a wonderful way to share your favorite pictures.

This community is a great place to connect with others, and the services I tried out were free. When you upgrade to a premium membership, you have access to time saving functionality – like a utility called ‘Batch Move’ that enables you to move more than one image at a time.

Have fun with this great find . . . and send me links to your creations.

See you next time!

–Sandy, Purple Wren

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The 6 Quickest Ways to Fill Your Universe with Stars

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Don’t Look and You Won’t Find

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Sometimes it feels like we’re in a black hole. All of our energy has been sucked off by demands and little irritants. Nothing is sparkling. We don’t see bright points on the horizon. Our universe seems dark and unfriendly — empty of stars and friendly faces.

I’ve noticed something about times like that.

Every time I give my soul room to breathe, everyone around me gets nicer. The people in it shine brighter like the stars they are.

So I’ve been working on ways to fill my universe with more stars.

The 6 Quickest Ways to Fill Your Universe with Stars

These are the 6 quickest ways I’ve tound to fill my universe with stars.

  1. The quickest way to add joyful light is to bring conversation to someone who is alone. Making arrangments to see someone, who is shut-in, sick, or who cannot get to see the sunlight or a starry night, is added hassle in a busy schedule. Do it anyway. You’ll know it was the right choice when you see a lonely person’s entire face light up with the joy of your arrival. The light you cause will die out until long after you’ve gone and your conversation has been replayed over and over.
  2. The quickest way to change folks’ dark behavior is to change my own. When someone is doing something that makes you crazy, change your response. A new response always gets attention. The person will stop to see what you’re doing. The original cycle will be broken. Act quickly. Say something — something nice can set a new star into the conversation.
  3. The quickest way to change my behavior is to change my thinking. If you start to feel stressed or angry about a person who bugs you, it could be that you’re stuck on one tiny facet of that person’s being. Stand back and consider the whole person. Pull out your generosity. See some good things. Bits of starlight will begin shining into your thinking.
  4. The quickest way to change my thinking is to change my mind. What the heck?! If the day is lousy, why not try to find a brighter one by reversing something? Just decide that one assumption youre made is totally bogus. Blow it out of the water and watch the fireworks make lovely stars as you give up your precious notions.
  5. The quickest way is to shed a new light. Use your eyes to listen for what’s not being said. Watch what’s happening and how the person in question is or isn’t responding to things. Notice what is off in the responses the person is showing. That’s where you’ll find the potential to turn a dark how into a supernova.
  6. The quickest way to fill a universe with stars in constellations so breathtaking is to make a smal child smile.. Find a child under the age of four and say these words, “Did you know that every time you smile your eyes twinkle?”

Our human universe was meant to have stars that shine in the daytime, to shine with the smiles of the people We only have to give them a reason to show you the way they twinkle brilliantly. We all know how to — people and stars are made of the same stuff.

I bet you could add ways to make more stars on Earth.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Thanks to Week 76 SOBs

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Successful and Outstanding Bloggers

Let me introduce the bloggers
who have earned this official badge of achievement,

and the right to call themselves
Successful Blog SOBs.

I invite them to take a badge home to display on their blogs.

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They take the conversation to their readers,
contribute great ideas, challenge us, make us better, and make our businesses stronger.

I thank every one of our SOBs for thinking what we say is worth passing on.
Good conversation shared can only improve the blogging community.

Should anyone question this SOB button’s validity, send him or her directly to me. This award comes with a full “Liz said so” guarantee. It is endorsed by Kings of the Hemispheres, Martin and Michael, and backed by my brothers, Angelo and Pasquale.

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Want to become an SOB?

If you’re an SO-Wanna-B, you can see the whole list of SOBs and learn how to be one by visiting the SOB Hall of Fame. Click the link or visit the What IS an SOB?! page in the sidebar.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

SOB Business Cafe 04-06-07

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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 titles to enjoy each selection.

The Specials this Week are

Finding the Money is taking a radical new approach to getting traffic.

Sifry’s Alerts reports on how we’re growing.

The Art of Money lets us know whether we’re supposed to be afraid.

Smart Wealthy Rich explores using the whole brain.

Lorelle on WordPress raised Jesse’s question to the level of a challenge.

SteveOlson.com went on an intellectual quest.

Related ala carte selections include

Design for Your Writing Life has a question worth considering.

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