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SOB Business Cafe 06-01-07

June 1, 2007 by Liz

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

Seth’s Blog recommends that we choose a game plan to suit the game we’re playing.

One, a few, most or all


Problogger discusses donations as an income stream.

Donations on Blogs – Do They Work?


Vaspers the Grate reviews the newest specialized search engine.

Mahalo search engine from Jason Calacanis


Alister Cameron, Blogologist shares his dreams.

Google’s new BlogRank Authority Index… in my dreams, anyway!


All Things Workplace wonders if 9-5 is archaic.

Can You Be Productive, Successful, and Satisfied 9 to 5? Part I


Good Word Editing does the math, with Einstein looking it over.

Blog Like Einstein – Finally a Formula that Predicts Blog Traffic with a 0.8 Correlation


Related ala carte selections include

Design Your Writing Life is suggesting we fess up.

“I Don’t Have Time to Write” and other Writerly Lies #2


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

Filed Under: SOB Business, Successful Blog Tagged With: Alister-Cameron-Blogologist, All-Things-Workplace, bc, Design-Your-Writing-Life, Good-Word-Editing, Problogger, Seths-Blog, Vaspers-the-Grate

Vaspers Asks a Wonderful Writers’ Question

February 19, 2007 by Liz

What’s Your Answer?

What wonderfully intriguing post this is. Here is just a bit . . .

When you write a new blog post, who is addressed? Do you have a composite persona in mind? Do you imagine an aggregation of imagined readers, based on those you know well, and those you hope will find you?

Is there a conscious target? Who is it that you hope to enlighten, engage, or enrage?

I cannot believe that you just slap some text, maybe a photo or artwork, into a post template, with total oblivion as to the intended, expected, or hoped for audience. Do you ever blog against a person or group or company or political party? Do you blog to your Future Self? Do you blog for your friends, family, boss?

Does it depend on the specific post? The general topic?
–steven edward streight, to whom do we blog?

The prose is musical. The thoughts are engaging. Go on click the link and enjoy the entire read.

By the way, I’d be interested in your answer.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

Filed Under: Bloggy Questions, Successful Blog, Writing Tagged With: bc, blogging, Steven-Streight, Vaspers-the-Grate

Super Bowl Trojans . . . Super Bowl Website Hacked

February 3, 2007 by Liz

This Is Serious

“Super Bowl site hacked, seeded with exploits” The link is to an article at Zdnet.

The official Web site of Dolphin Stadium, home of Sunday’s Super Bowl XLI, has been hacked and seeded with exploit code targeting two known Windows security flaws.

Full access to your computer, via keystroke logger (spyware) backdoor Trojan (you click on what you think is an interactive functionality, like a game, or external link, or forum comment posting, or advertisement), if unpatched Windows system.

Uber horrible news for ecommerce hopes.

[ZDNET — Updated #2: February 2, 2007 @ 5:13 pm] All the affected Miami Dolphins sites (see Alexa traffic data) have now been disinfected but there is evidence that hundreds of other sites have been hijacked and rigged with the malicious JavaScript code.

Thanks to Vaspers the Grate read more in his post “botnet farming at Super Bowl site.”

PLEASE BE SURE YOUR WINDOWS MACHINE IS FULLY PATCHED.

–ME ‘Liz” Strauss

Filed Under: Business Life, Successful Blog Tagged With: bc, Super-Bowl-site, Super-Bowl-Trojans, Vaspers-the-Grate, Windows, Zdnet

A one-time announcement of new-happeningly anxious curios

February 3, 2007 by Liz

Now Appearing . . .

Strangely unusual? Or Synchronicity? Not to be taken seriously.

  • “machine prayer” at Sci Fi Micro and of course ” Alien Age Reversal Ray”
  • “universal content utopia and FREE” at Vaspers the Grate
  • Abandoned Blog…putting the ON back into Abandonment. ‘Forsaking is Fun!”
  • Dropping Out of the Blogosphere wiki
  • Future of Blogging & Blog History Timeline wiki
  • Raiding the Immaterial ~~~ DECOnstructive MARKeting

Now that I think of it? Where did this post come from?

This look like the work of a Grate man to me.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

Filed Under: Successful Blog Tagged With: bc, Super-Bowl-Coincidences, Vaspers-the-Grate, ZZZ-FUN

SOB Business Cafe 01-05-07

January 5, 2007 by Liz

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

Vaspers the Grate has a defense for mind control.

15 risks of blogging

Believe — there’s a new blogging platform on the horizon. It’s over at what’s secretly known as Sillyness Spelled Wrong Intentionally.

Changes around Sillyness

Blogopreneur suggests a quality path to the A List.

One quality blog post is enough to make you famous

Chief Happiness Officer is has 10 things to tell you about finding a job you love.

How to find a job you’ll love

Escape from Cubicle Nation shows you how to build a plan.

A simple way to plan your revenue targets

Related ala carte selections include

Neat Living is giving away the tools to organize your life.

FREE “Do-it-Yourself” Organizing Library!

Cube Rules has a series on creativity in the workplace.

Creativity and Innovation – The Need

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

Filed Under: Successful Blog Tagged With: bc, Believe, Blogopreneur, Chief-Happiness-Officer, Chris-J.-Davis, Cube-Rules, Escape-from-Cubicle-Nation, Vaspers-the-Grate

Steven Streight Is a B.A.D. Blogger!

December 11, 2006 by Liz

Blogger A Day Call: Hello is Steven there?

Steven Streight and I were looking forward to our call for special reasons. He lives in the city where I went to University — we’d already emailed about things we had in common. Yet when the appointed time came, the connection didn’t happen. . . . It happened that he was being bombarded with ringing from a crank during that exact time frame.

I tried the number, but I didn’t leave a message. I get self-conscious about such things — I don’t like to bother people. Steven called me later that night, and we made up for the delay with a heck of conversation. Thank you, Steven, for making that happen.

Steven and I started right off talking about how blogging raises the level of conversation. Steven wondered at the fact that the same sentence said in person in a bar has a more powerful meaning when written in a comment box. We discussed how the actuality of seeing the words right there might make them more powerful. The idea that people think harder before they write also came up. We speculated that maybe the expectation that the words had more meaning made it so.

We started with talk of my university. He went to another school, but he spent a whole lot of time at mine. Steven reported that my school was changing the name of the school mascot. The choices, he told me about were dismal — clock, squirrels, gargoyle. All I could say as a writer was YUK!!! It’s a technical term.

You can bet that Steven and I got to talking about Political Correctness. I mentioned that it was happening in school books for ten years before it was even called that. I told him how people actually count how many of every race is represented, that I learned always to show Mom with a hammer and Dad cooking dinner. He didn’t seem surprised. He didn’t seem to like it much either.

Steven said he was late to the Internet, but he’s been here longer than most bloggers I know. His archives go back to 2004. He says he’s about usability and that he’s a direct marketing copywriter. We talked in depth about one of his ideas. I thought it was WAY COOL and would love to be part of it. He thinks about ideas and wonders the way I do.

We talked about emoticons — with noses and curly hair and earings, people and nations, what we think of governments, music, pay per post, what will happen to the blogosphere, SEO attitudes, what Peoria, Illinois is like and places I used to go, including a restaurant with grandmas as waitstaff and a hotel with a grizzly bear in the lobby.

We remembered all of the ways our paths have crossed over the last year — the people we’ve watched, how we’ve changed, how our respect for each other has grown.

Then Steven asked where I grew up and I told him. I had to explain where it was. When I placed my hometown for him, Vaspers the Grate said the coolest thing to me.

“You really are the girl next door.”

Steven Steight made me feel exactly like I was that girl. That was a genuinely, wonderful feeling.

B.A.D. Blogger Quote

We can almost transmit thoughts from one mind to another. Blogging is almost compu-telepathy. —Steven Streight

Stop by Steven’s Blog, Vaspers the Grate, and say hi!

Thanks, Terry, you B.A.D. Blogger!

–ME “Liz” Strauss
Want to be a B.A.D. Blogger see the. . . a B.A.D. Blogger? page in the sidebar.

Filed Under: SOB Business, Successful Blog Tagged With: B.A.D. Blogger, bc, Blogger-a-day-call, Steven-Streight, Vaspers-the-Grate

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