WRITING: What my blog’s voice … …

Saturday, November 4, 2006

http://www.webpronews.com/blogtalk/blogtalk/
wpn-58-20061103TheSoundOfYour
BloggingVoice.html

http://tinyurl.com/ykeq5e

The Sound Of Your Blogging Voice
Steven Bradley
Expert Author
Published: 2006-11-03

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“To gain your own voice, forget about having it heard. Become a saint of your own province and your own consciousness.”

-Allen Ginsberg

A good writing voice can carry most any idea for a blog post. And a poor writing voice can ruin even the best of ideas. So what sound does your writing voice make?

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… … it has to be a whine! ;-)

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WRITING: Ambition and success thru writing?

Monday, October 9, 2006

http://www.webpronews.com/expertarticles/expertarticles/wpn-62-20061009GetPublishedtoGetAhead.html

Get Published To Get Ahead
Gerry McGovern
Expert Author
Published: 2006-10-09

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If you are ambitious, you must publish the important things you do today. Publishing is about visibility. It’s about getting your name in front of those who matter to you. If you do something great and don’t create a record of what you did, did you really do it? As far as the Web is concerned, you didn’t, and the Web is becoming the global memory. So you’ve got to get it down – get it recorded.

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Not very likely for fowgs!

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WRITING: Advice to new bloggers

Saturday, September 30, 2006

http://wheredidfreedomgo.blogspot.com/

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I have been thinking about starting a blog for a long, long time now and I have finally started one. It’s only been up for about a week and it is my first blog, I don’t know if for sure if I will keep it or not yet. I would like to know what you folks think of it, it is a libertarian blog, so I thought there would be no better place to introduce it and get some feedback. Feel free to post comments on the blog and in the thread to let me know what you think, I would appreciate it.

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I’m blogging also.

I’d suggest that you put up a FEEDBURNER and FEEDBLITZ for your blog. FEEDBURNER creates, and for free, gives you some insight into your readership. Then stuff that rss feed into FEEDBLITZ that gives you, also for free, a once a day email off all your posts that day. I have some other things I’ve tried, but those are the two things I tell new bloggers to do before they create to much content.

I use WORDPRESS; it’s free. And, have a had two burps that cost me some pearls. I understand that it’s not uncommon occurrence.

SO, I try to create my post in a text editor, save it locally, and then cut’n’paste it over. The posting online is seductive but you can lose stuff.

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WRITING: Blog 2 Book

Friday, September 29, 2006

Since I always wanted to be a published author. (My mom will get a kick out of it.) I’m looking into the Blog 2 Book options. None of the advertised sites make it as easy as it sounds. I was really hoping for “here’s my blog. here’s my credit card” and “thank you for your order. here’s your book.” Not that I am too lazy, but who needs to add another “spinning plate” to the ones I am already trying to keep spinning? Suggestions welcome.

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WRITING: TYVM … “thank you very much”

Monday, September 18, 2006

Sarcasm!

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WRITING: Standing on the shoulders of others

Saturday, September 16, 2006

A fellow pinged me back about something I had written in a public forum about “good points”, here’s what I wrote back.

Thanks but I didn’t write that to “score points”. I did write it to let people know what I was seeing. I like to say “I’m hopeless, nut maybe I can help you”. That, and my other favorite, “We all stand on the shoulders of other men. Some of who were giants. Some of who gave all for us. When is it our turn to be the shoulder that others stand upon”.

Very philosophical this morning.

By the way, I still haven’t figured out what to call this media or medium. “Online drivel”, “pearls of wisdom”, “dikw”, … or “stream of consciousness poetry” come to mind.

Is it a blog? Most of the blogs I read are much more structured. more topic restricted. written by multiple people.

This is a — single authored — personal ramble — on things that attract my attention — of dubious value — somewhat whiny — randomly interesting?

A personal web log? A pblog! (Dare you to pronounce that!)

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LIBERTY: Cottage kits could spark the post-Katrina recovery

Sunday, September 3, 2006

http://www.newsobserver.com/104/story/481759.html

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Four floor plans will be offered, ranging from 544 square feet to 936 square feet. On average, the cottages will take four to six weeks to build. They were all designed to allow for future expansion.
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Smaller is quicker and, if the gubamint stays out of the way, it could provide demonstrable relief quickly.

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LIBERTY: Debunking the English terrorist threat … sounds like F troop doing chemistry! Very funny imho.

Thursday, August 31, 2006

http://www.file.sc/7575f2/

As you probably know, I listen to Free Talk Live (http://freetalklive.com) on a pretty regular basis when I’m commuting via podcast.

[No, not because it’s free!]

It’s an entertaining pro-liberty show. Recently they did a rendition of a Register article that went into the chemistry of the recent English threat.

Having attempted to make explosives in high school chemistry, (hey who knows why; the nerd herd thought it would be a kool if we could blow up the darn place; that’s why I think of any school — public or private — as a prison!), I KNOW it’s not as easy as one might think. Thermite is pretty easy. (And a hoot, when the good brother teaching chemistry singed his arms putting out the fire we created. Accidentally, of course.) Phosphorous burns nicely as well. (Note, don’t throw water on that fire. I remember the same Brother panicking, doing it, and creating a nice steam cloud. Whatta hoot!) Leaving the bunsen burners open just sets off the gas alarm; no boom. Oxygen in a bottle is lame; unless you can put it under pressure, but Boyle’s Law works against you.

So, I listened with a big chuckle as Ian read the article about how do actually do the chemistry in an airplane’s lavatory (laboratory). It his a chord ’cause I know first hand that blowing stuff up isn’t as easy as it looks on TV or james bond movies.

Any way, I snipped it out and put it on a free site for your enjoyment. Yell if you need it done differently.

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RANT: Have an idea; need a patent!

Sunday, August 13, 2006

It’s not easy. TO have an idea that is. So, I want to protect it!

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WRITING: My feedback made it into print!

Sunday, August 13, 2006

http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/gwm/2006/0807msg2.html

Mailbag: Communications in the healthcare industry
Readers weigh in with their views on the healthcare’s slow adoption of IT

Messaging Newsletter  By Michael Osterman, Network World, 08/10/06

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My recent article offering one potential explanation about why the healthcare industry is slow to adopt the use of e-mail and other communications technology prompted a number of readers to offer their comments – here is what some of the readers said:

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* “I blame the technology industry primarily [for the slow pace of adopting communications technology]. No one has a good easy public key encryption system. I look for a ‘solution’ with identification, authentication, authorization, accountability, confidentiality, non-repudiation, continuous protection, and recovery across the problem spaces of users, systems, applications, databases and networks. The technology industry has known the problem space for at least four decades. I remember being lectured about it when personal computers were first put into use! This is all our fault. I could go on for hours. PKI and GSSAPI are/were out there. Encryption engines abound. Yet, I can’t sit down and e-mail, fax, call, or IM my doctor. AND, the doc can’t communicate with me.”

Thank you to everyone who sent me their feedback on the article.
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Hey that’s mine. I got into print again!

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