Square Zebra

Blog your way to Success?

An Ohio candidate in a long-shot bid to unseat a 16-term House veteran has an unusual approach in deciding how to spend his campaign. He asks Web surfers... - Article

Oh, I like the web, and blogging, as much as the next geek... call it my little addiction to not paying attention to the real world. But even I get that not everyone out there is blogging. I don't think this is a dumb idea, per say, I simply believe one shouldn't think a blog as your "branding" staple. (Then again I'm anti "donation via pay-pal" icons on blogs...lordy those things annoy me. If you were a non-profit I might think about a donation. But staying in your mama's basement because you're to lazy or prideful to get a job. Instead asking for hand outs from your readers... how rude.)

Your blog is an extension of your company - another form of communicating with your clients. (Granted my blog sucks from time to time because I'm to busy looking at gadgets or pondering Google's health plans to really pay attention to ribbon cable technology, or lack there of.) But I don't for a second think this blog replaces:
5 - Client Relations
4 - Networking
3 - Mailings (paper advertising)
2 - Word of Mouth
and... what I consider the most important:
1 - Doing my job well.

Actions, to me, speak so much louder then words... even if those are in a blog form.

Have you read your SkyMall today?

The SkyMall Catalog. It's one of the few constants in today's uncertain airline industry. The carriers can reduce the number of blankets and take away the meals, but travelers can always count on the SkyMall Catalog, a beacon of consumer whoredom, to be waiting for them on the plane, conveniently located in the neighbor's seat-back.

Imagine every silly catalog you've ever received aggregated into one lifestyle-enhancing meta-directory. Do you have problem areas in your yard? Sore calves? Insect bites? Small mailbox? The SkyMall Catalog can help!

It all makes sense at 50,000 feet. Flying is so surreal, what with the constant drone, the lack of cell phone chatter, and the people in navy blue demonstrating emergency oxygen procedures before passing out little bags of peanuts, that it doesn't seem strange to consider spending $895 on Mombasa, the eight foot tall garden giraffe. "Your neighbors are sure to be surprised when Mombasa moves in!" - Full Post

Via Becky at "Good Grief" :)

Wine Blogging:

I know I completely spaced out and didn't pass this information along a month or so ago, but for those interested in the wrap up: Lennedevours World Wine Blogging Wednesday has posted the results of bloggers fav's.

"Many of you have either heard of or participated in Is My Blog Burning? -- a monthly blog cooking event that is the brainchild of Alberto over at Il Forno. It's grown and grown over the past few months and it's has me thinking...can we do something similar with wine?

The theme: Inexpensive New World Merlot that is not from the United States

The rules...don't spend more than 15USD on the bottle. It must come from a New World wine nation that isn't the U.S., which leaves you places such as Australia, Argentina, New Zealand and Chile. Once you drink the wine (hopefully with friends!() you should post a picture of the bottle/label and write a little blurb with your impressions of the wine, what food you either did or would pair with it and, if possible, post an "official" tasting note for the wine. You can often find those online. I like to read those first and then compare it with what my palate tastes. It's a good way to learn as well." - Post

Salute! :)

Did you know there were city bloggers?

Well most of us already knew of the whole city blogger community... but apparently CNN just figured this all out.

Many blogs, like Gapersblock.com in Chicago and NewYorkish.com in New York, focus on just one metropolis. But this summer, a site called Metroblogging.com launched a network of blogs for major cities including Chicago, New York, San Francisco, London and Vienna - Article

Now I'm not dissing the article because of it's news'ability. It is packed full of information. It's just really old news.

New Blog for the Wannabe

In order to avoid cleaning my house over the weekend... I created a new blog: Rubis Bleu

One odd thing I did notice was the lack of writer blogs. Another thing - ever notice the majority of writers are alcoholics? I might do a study on alcohol and its effects on ones editorial skills.

Geek Milkshake:

Because we needed this song back in our heads....

Geek Milkshake: Milkshake by Kelis

My web log brings all the nerds to the yard,
and I'm like: "mine's better than yours".
Damn right, it's better than yours!
I can link you, but I have to charge!

Oh once you get involved,
everyone will look this way, so,
you must maintain your charm;
same time maintain your click-through,
just get the perfect link.
Feed what you have within;
RSS is cheaper than ink.
The geeks pick up your scent.
- full song

:)

The Gathering of the Blog

BloggerConIII has been put in motion. Seeing how I missed the first two I felt it only fair to continue on that trend and miss this one as well. Preferring to lurk rather then participate, as "true" introverted geek that I am should do.

All you ESTJ's have fun! ;)

Blog'n Media

All I can do is copy/paste - :)

Blogs are going to change the world. Example:

OLD, TIRED MEDIA: "The Associated Press reported that Saddam Hussein was captured yesterday by American forces."

NEW, EXCITING MEDIA: "omg like kos reported that he saw on chris's blog that john trackbacked to mike's journal where he read about bob's girlfriend's brother's cousin who was like watching Fox News (fair and balanced my ass! lol) and they said something about saddam i dunno current music: brittney cleary - im me current mood: corpulent"

Notice the synergy of information and the ease by which information propagates throughout the blogosphere. - blog

:)

Blog that book!

I love this idea: "Blog your book."

Jason Chervokas is blogging one chapter at a time his book titled "Electricity." No matter if this is your subject matter for a novel or not...(what can I say? I love trashy romance)..... what an ingenious idea. I love that can get chapters in a RSS feed.

Found via VC blog:

Yahooooooo (blog)

Yahoo has personal blogging... although it is still only in Korean. Mmmmm

Still - Yahooooooo!