We might talk about parts, pieces and chips. But it’s not all about hardware and software. What about music, photos, poetry, novels, thoughts, stories, and dreams? There’s magic inside our computers. You know there is
–ME “Liz” Strauss
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This week on we talked about great places to visit. Some places mentioned were bareback sailing in the British Virgin Islands, Australia, Quebec City, San Francisco, . . . Ireland, Sydney, Perth, Colorado, Breckenridge, Rocky Mountains, PA, New England mountains, Maine, New Hampshire, . . . boat trips down the Rhine River, Indiana, the Berkshires, . . . Taroko Gorge in Taiwan, Italy, Europe, the Alps, . . . Belarus, Carnival in Trinidad, Umbria, Switzerland, . . . the Bahamas, New England, the Caribbean, Scotland, Venezuela, France, Holland, . . . Aruba, Toronto, Banff, Santa Cruz, Monterey, Florida, Montana, Kansas City, . . . . the Humidity and Mosquito Festival, Central America, South America, Atlanta, Atlantis Resort in Bahamas, . . . Vancouver, Sherman Texas, Bastrop State Park near Austin, . . . the Amazon, Ren Faire in Alabama, Kentucky, Tahiti, . . . Thailand, the Outer Banks of North Carolina, Route 66, . . . the Cowboy Hall of Fame, Disney World, England, China, Jamaica, . . . Oklahoma, the Cowboy Hall of Fame in OKC, Osage Hill State Park, Tallgrass Prairie Preserve, Cambodia, . . . and Angkor Wat.
There was also mention of hot weather, beaches, cold drinks, cream and coffee, . . .no worries, “sugar pie”, snorkeling, restaurants, diving, underwater photography, . . . horse-drawn carriages, artisans, crayons, . . . Feedburner, CSS files, . . . skiing, condos, lodges, fireplaces, . . . insurance, Eurail passes, WordPress, castles, blizzards, . . . air guitar, boats, Super Bowl, snow, . . . “cocoa locos”, BBQ, fountains, travel agents, art museums, . . . ice hockey, tornadoes, sumo wrestlers, . . . movies, belly button lint, State of the Union speeches, Askimet, lions and tigers, safaris, . . . Tardis, wigwams, good books, passions, . . . cold drinks, birthday parties, iphones, car traveling, . . . ipods, podcasts, lack of sleep, . . . sunscreen, buffalo, camping, itunes, . . . Starbucks, Basil the code writing donkey, . . . and Lyle Lovett.
We shared beverages and snacks, hot cocoa, and Klondike bars.
Here’s some of the links that were shared:
Thanks for the cool links and for being part of the conversation. I wish I could quote you all, but I know you have an idea of how much time it takes to make that long link summary happen each week. I hate to let it go, but I thought you’d understand.
So, for 2007, we’ll just tell the story and share the links that you bring. You can always read the comments – they’re all there.
After all, how DO YOU explain Open Comment Night, if you’ve never experienced it?
See you next Tuesday? We sure hope so. . . .
Boy, that sugar pie sounded good.
–ME “Liz” Strauss and Sandy Renshaw
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Here’s how it works.
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.
This is the view from a porch in Jamaica. There’s lots of places to go though. Would you rather go skiing?
We might also talk about
including THE EVER POPULAR,
Basil the code-writing donkey.
–ME “Liz” Strauss
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We might talk about places we’ve been, places we dream of, where to take the family, working vacations, vacations from technology, best times to travel, how to travel, vacations in our imaginations, . . . and who knows what else we’ll talk about?
–ME “Liz” Strauss
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This week on Tuesday Open Comments Night we talked about crazy stats, spikes, keyphrases, trends, ratios, traffic, backlinks, pageranks, SERPs, splog sites, algorithyms, RSS subscribers, patterns, plugins, goals, and search terms.
There was also mention of weather, grammar, punctuation, spelling, Mark Twain, Ferraris, a story in six words, full moons, reading tea leaves, gypsies, movies, The View, 24 Hours, Z-list meme, Alice in Wonderland, MyBlogLog meme, weird statistical stuff, workloads of small-business owners, and The Long Tail.
We shared hellos, grins, jokes, laughs, congratulations, poetry, advice, questions, recommendations, addictions (to stats), and goodnights. There was even something about measuring traffic and feet? (I didn’t see any food though.)
Anyway, a thought is that blogging for stats is not the answer. Writing about your passion is.
Sounds like many people use more than one tool to measure stats. Here are some of the tools and sites we mentioned that you may want to check out:
103bees
Alexa
Amibook
Askimet
Awstats
blo.gs
Blogbeat
Crazy Egg
Digg
EasyTask Manager
Feedburner
Google Analytics
Google Pagerank
Google Sitemap
gVisit
Habari
HitTail
Inc.com
Mapstats
Mint
Moveable Type
MyBlogLog
MySpace
Performancing
pingomatic.com
ReviewMe
Shortstat
SiteMeter
Squidoo
StatCounter
StumbleUpon
SuperStats
Technorati
Text-link-ads
The Blogging Times
Tracksy
Typepad
weblogs.com
WordPress
Here’s some of the links that were shared:
Thanks for the cool links and for being part of the conversation. I wish I could quote you all, but I know you have an idea of how much time it takes to make that long link summary happen each week. I hate to let it go, but I thought you’d understand.
So, for 2007, we’ll just tell the story and share the links that you bring. You can always read the comments – they’re all there.
After all, how DO YOU explain Open Comment Night, if you’ve never experienced it?
See you next Tuesday? I sure hope so.
–ME “Liz” Strauss and Sandy Renshaw
Related article
What is Tuesday Open Comment Night?
Here’s how it works.
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.
We might also talk about
including THE EVER POPULAR,
Basil the code-writing donkey.
–ME “Liz” Strauss
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