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Open Mic 7pm Chgo Time — We’re Going to Margaritaville!

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Salt or No Salt for You?

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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 going to Margaritaville!

We might also talk about

  • the invention of a virtual pinata
  • Tony’s margarita jig
  • places where tequila takes you
  • wasting away in Margaritaville

AND THE EVER POPULAR,
Basil the code-writing donkey, and Milton the Moose.

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

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You Should Have Seen the Links Leaking!!!

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Did You See That?

People came to see what Open Comment Night was about and were we surprised when we had a guest visit from — the one and only code-writing donkey himself, BASIL! We also saw sights of the world both natural and virtual. Then 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!

You should see the links that were shared.

Let’s See

You gotta see who was here!
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The Mic Is On — Things You Gotta See!!!

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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 things you gotta see!

Grand Canyon Steps

We might also talk about

  • a rainbow in the shape of a circle
  • the glacier in Alaska
  • St. Elmo’s Fire in Australia
  • the Alps, the Rockies, the Amazon

AND THE EVER POPULAR,
Basil the code-writing donkey, and Milton the Moose.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Open Mic 7pm Chgo Time — Things You Gotta See!!!

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You Gotta See This!!!

Personal Branding logo

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 things you gotta see!

We might also talk about

  • a rainbow in the shape of a circle
  • the glacier in Alaska
  • St. Elmo’s Fire in Australia
  • the Alps, the Rockies, the Amazon

AND THE EVER POPULAR,
Basil the code-writing donkey, and Milton the Moose.

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

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

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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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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