Blogging

April Closing In

Around the first of March, Chris and I decided we’d do a little testing with each of our domains – seeing if we couldn’t make a few dollars with some of the domains we have scattered around the web. I never really put a whole lot of faith in advertsing programs, because it seemed just too easy – ya know? Money never comes easy, does it? For reference, we’re using the following programs for advertising in various different spots on our various different domains: Text Link Ads Google Adsense AdBrite Crisp Ads BlogAds I’ve tried not to make the ads […]

Blogness

Just some random blog stuff for you: Blogads is a nice way to make a little revenue off your blog. If you have a high traffic blog, that is – advertisers are generally interested in you if your traffic and readership are high. I use Blogads over at Right Voices and do moderately well. Some months are slow, other months aren’t. These days – bloggers can have BlogAds on their site if they are a member of Blogads. If you are not a member, you need an invitation from a blogger who is a memeber, and who has invites to […]

MT Style Contest

A Style Contest by the developers of Six Apart (of Movable Type fame) have opened up a style contest for designers who want to try their hand at developing standard styles for Movable Type, TypePad and/or Live Journal. I WISH I had time in my schedule for this – – but sadly, don’t. The deadline is May 15th to have your submissions in. That is right in the midst of some heavy wedding planning. But YOU! If you’re a designer (beginner, intermediate or expert skill levels) give it a shot! Joelle and Kathy are part of the panel of judges, […]

SXSW Interactive – One week to go.

Public speaking really isn’t my bag, ya know. I’ve done it at various times in my lifetime, when I’ve had to – but usually never voluntarily. Though, when I was in high school and college – I was in all those public speaking type deals like the debate club, forensics – – and even the drama club and have umpteen gazillion plays and musicals under my belt. In addition – many years of singing in various different bands. So obviously, there is a part of me somewhere deep inside that does not fear the stage and embraces the spotlight. What […]

Bleep

Yea. Bleep. It’s a cross between blog and sleep. Bleep happens when you’re working long, hard hours at blog designs for your clients and then you lay down at night to go to sleep and you have dreams about those blogs. Well, hey – at least I’m sleeping 😀

Blegging

I have nothing against Weblog Awards. They can be fun. It gives the nominees and finalists fun things to blog about for a month. It can give the illusion of popularity, acceptance and greatness (for whatever it’s worth). It’s all good. I hope everyone who wants to win..wins! However, if I get one more f’n email begging for me to vote for them in this awards thing – I’m gonna blow a gasket. Today? I got 15 – – FIFTEEN – different emails asking me to go vote for them. Yesterday? I got 10 emails – – 5 from the […]

My Thirteen on Thursday

This makes for three weeks in a row that I’ve completed the Thursday Thirteen. But since Leanne added me to the blogroll – I figured I better keep it up for awhile, eh? Besides, it’s a little fun in middle of my week of total chaos! Here’s my 13 bits for the week: I recieved a wonderful testimonial from a recent client – – part of her testimonials stated the following: “…Should she ever need a place to live, food to eat or a compliment on her hair..I’m totally ready” – – that girl better hope I never end up […]

Pay me to chat

I was contacted a few weeks ago by the folks at Harris Interactive to participate in a moderated discusison about emerging web technologies. Basically, it’s a Q&A online discussion that they are conducting for market research purposes. They found me via E.Webscapes – dropped me an email and asked if I would be interested in participating in the A part of the Q&A – – and they’d pay me to do it. With dollar signs attached and the opportunity to talk about a subject that I love and am totally obsessed with – – of course I agreed! One hour […]

Thurs. 13

Here’s my 13 bits for this week: Ya know, I dabble a bit in a little blog design now and then . . and to celebrate the coming New Year – – I’m giving one away for free. The instructions to enter for the free blog design are easy – you can read about them here. And don’t worry – the second runner up gets a prize, too! I opened up a Flickr account last week, just for fun. I’ve no idea why I did it – since I already have a Photoblog of my own that I’ve been keeping […]

Just In Time – Thursday 13

For those of you who aren’t aware, this Thursday Thirteen thing is a weekly sorta gig. You just babble about 13 random things for the week – – nothing specific. It’s not topical (thank god – – cuz with my ADD, I find it hard to stay on topic!). Just 13 random things from the week. This is harder for me than you’d think . . . maybe because I don’t think 13 things from my week are blog worthy?? But then . . blog worthy according to who? So here it is. My 13 random bits: Leanne has a […]

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