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Thanks to Week 50 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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The Blog Columnist

Bloggers Pakistan

Customer Relations-The New Competitve Edge

Lessons fron the Scrapbook Page

Twenty Steps

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

I thank all 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 badge’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

We Were Hot! Link Leak Virus Was Hotter!

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Imagine How Hot!

Open Comment Night started out very NOT HOT as we discussed the MS phishing bug that bj told us about. But Steve came back and brought Milton the Skinny Moose, who is definitely HOT.

The Link Leak Virus seeped into out hot not hot talk. — 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 and HOT links were shared.

So What WAS Hot?

HOT: Joe saying “Me first, me first…I think I beat Steve and Milton.” And he had by at least an hour or more.

not hot: BJ telling us all about IE7 and McAfee phishing issues that threaten eccommerce sites.

HOT: Ben with a great Basil update. He’s in beautiful Nova Scotia with Derek Andrews. You have to go read about his adventures in Halifax.

HOT: Sean said, “my friend Joe launching an automatic way to convert a static HTML site into a WordPress theme.”

HOT:Sasha told us, I’d like to say I am whenever I’m blogging but usually I’m in my PJs whenever I’m blogging/working. Hahaha. I guess I’m not cool enough yet, eh? I really should stick to naming the hot blogs and bloggers in my “little black blogroll”

HOT: Rick Thanks for the pizza, Seanrox. I haven’t eaten all night.

Then Steve Says:
Not hot – snow
hot – milton in a pink tu-tu

STEVE and MILTON ARE BACK!!

HOT: Dossy House MD is hot.

not not Ah Pek server down

HOT: Cat Liz is blogging over at Blogging Times.

HOT: Doug I think my mother may be blogging soon

HOT: Yvonne is hot and so is The Superficial, Prison Break, and Google IG.

Hendry Lee Full feeds + RSS ads

HOT: Katie jumping in without reading the comments before you.

HOT: Candice I found this gorgeous pair of cole haans — They’re superwoman shoes.

not hot: Trisha still not feeling so good.

HOT: Michael came to check it out.

We also talked about WordPress 2.0.5, Getting Dugg, Stalker phone calls, Dr. Demento, Weird Al, bad behavior

not hot: Paris Hilton, that cold that’s going round, Akismet eating people we like, cats on the keyboard, server outages, everyone’s feed that got stuck in feedburner at partial feed, bloggers who hijack,

Great Quote: Holy sweet Jesus, OMG. Sasha Manuel is *hot*. So, who’s going to put together the “Babes of b5media Calendar, 2007″ for next year?

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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The Mic is On! What’s Hot and What’s Not?

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It’s Like Open Mic Only Different

Here’s how it works.

open mike night

It’s like any rambling conversation. Don’t try to read it all. Jump in whenever you get here. Just go to the end and start talking. EVERYONE is WELCOME
The rules are simple — be nice.

There are always first timers and new things to talk about. It’s sort of half “Cheers” part “Friends” and part video game. You don’t know how much fun it is until you try it.

Tonight we’re talking about what’s bloggy hot and what’s not!

hot

We might also talk about

  • what the cool bloggers wear when they’re posting
  • hot blogs, hot bloggers, hot ideas for bloggers to blog about
  • spam, weird search strings, off the wall comments
  • what cool things you wish someone would come up with

AND THE EVER POPULAR,
Basil the code-writing donkey, and I heard Milton the Moose might show up.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Open Mic Tonight 7pm Chgo Time –What’s Hot? What’s Not?

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Everybody is Hot, Hot, Hot!!!

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YES, the mic will be open again tonight. So start collecting your thoughts. Remember, you get to bring what you want to talk about.

The rules are simple — be nice.

There are always first timers and new things to talk about. It’s sort of half “Cheers” part “Friends” and part video game. You don’t know how much fun it is until you try it.

Tonight we’re talking about what’s bloggy hot and what’s not!

We might also talk about

  • what the cool bloggers wear when they’re posting
  • hot blogs, hot bloggers, hot ideas for bloggers to blog about
  • spam, weird search strings, off the wall comments
  • what cool things you wish someone would come up with

AND THE EVER POPULAR,
Basil the code-writing donkey, and I heard Milton the Moose might show up.

It’s like any rambling conversation. Don’t try to read it all. Jump in whenever you get here. Just go to the end and start talking. EVERYONE is WELCOME.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

Related articles
The Mic is On! It’s Your Dream Home for Sure!

Thanks to Week 49 SOBs

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muddy teal strip A

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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Debbie Millman

The Ink Blog

Kickass Web Design

MBA On the Run

Orbit Now

Write Here

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

I thank all 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 badge’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.

deep purple strip

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

Dream Homes Invaded by Link Leak Virus

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Imagine Your Dream Home

Open Comment Night began in a lovely way. Doug and Joe and AdLib started talking and shortly thereafter the talk of magical exciting dream homes started showing signs of the link leak virus.

The Link Leak Virus was to be part of every home we described — even Phil’s famous Gerby Shak! 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.

Just a Bunch of Dreamers

Douglas came in talking of McMansions, but they weren’t for Joe who dreamed of
a two-part building for his dwelling.
AdLib told of a Dungeon of Doom or the World’s Largest Library, but Joe wasn’t buying. He said it could take as many 11,005,247 comments to get his house back — no telling.

The pace picked up after that.

Dossy brought news of the housing bubble about to pop.
Kirsten decided that one dream house was no place to stop.
Phil’s imagination carried everyone away to adventure land
Start reading at comment 47 and you’ll understand.
Renée doesn’t need a new dream home. She’s got one.
Ben just sold his. So, he’s looking to find another one.

Rick has his dream home planned with a skycar also.
Starbucker will be dreaming his days away in the mountains of Colorado.
HART gets the real estate mantra location, location, location.
A log cabin is Mike’s ideal permanent dream vacation.

Christine will be on a river in the woods.
SeanRox seems to think the house he’s in is pretty good.
Becky wants real wiring and closets that aren’t too small.
Samuel thinks after all his homes this one is best of all.

cat’s had dream houses and is surprised that a city now has its charm.
Whimsperation wants to build downtown homestead farm.

Me? I just want to live in a luxury airplane, flying to see all of my friends in their dream houses everywhere.

–ME “Liz” Strauss
The Mic is On! It’s Your Dream Home for Sure!