This is a new one for me. Have you ever been to a garage sale where everything was free? This seems to be that type of happening in the blogosphere. The originator labels it bloggygiveaways.com and she invites each individual blogger to offer a free something or other. The catch is that one has to comment at the participating blog and leave an email address. I haven’t checked to see if this may be a spammersgiveaway.com in disguise, however it does appear to be quite innocent and on the up and up.
If you have some extra time on your hands, there are literally hundreds of blogs awaiting your erudite comments. If your comment wins - ta da - you get to take home some of their stuff … for free. Hurry, hurry before the spammers and robots get the message and ruin it for everyone.
My blog is worth $173,878.32.
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Right now you can purchase this blog for half-price. What a deal! That’s 50% off and much less than the $1,000,000 that the “Million Dollar Blog” sold for, and “Neddy’s Palaver” is much more interesting.
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The Trackback Wars Rage On
The New Zealand Bear has revealed some of His secrets and plans to Don Surber. Adam’s Blog has prepared a petition for TTLB to continue counting trackbacks in the blogosphere.
The Trackback Party (Google It) has become so popular, that it has evolved into the Carnival of Trackback Trackbackers. Has it happened to you yet? Have you crashed the party? Or are you the Open Post Host whose party has been crashed by those who, instead of BYOB, brought canned Spam. You’re bound to be one or the other. If not - watch your back! That is what trackbacks seem to be now a-blog-days. Yes, at one time trackbacks were cool and easy when you had an interesting post that you wanted to promote. Now - you trackback to tell others that you are throwing a Trackback Party and they RSVP to inform you of their own Open Trackback Party. Party on trackbackers, but no longer request BYOB due to the increasing incidents involving Molotov cocktails. The Crazy Rants of Samantha Burns shows the crazy trackback musical chairs now being played in the blogosphere.
Samatha even pled with her readers to trackback actual blog articles rather than trackbacking about “Open Trackbacks”, advising that you “are more likely to attract a reader”. HA! She thinks trackbackers are seeking readers. Since the arrival of the Trackback Party scene, few bloggers care about readers, seeking instead to attract trackbacks and trackbackers. Let the readers go find some “newspapers”, if there are any left!
If you happen to see a blogger sauntering about sporting trackbacks on his/her back - you know what that means: he/she has been run over by a track!
PS: This post is - “you guessed it” - trackbacked at The Conservative Cat’s “Trackback Wars” and basil’s blog Breakfast.
Or Forty Mug Shots of the last forty bloggers who just blogged? Find out at Philipp Lenssen’s Forty Faces. When one of Philipp’s bloggers updates, his/her photo is displayed at the top of the 40-portrait list. COOL! Here’s 16 of the 40, of whom Neddy is two. Now I have to blog to get to see my face in the blogosphere.
NEDDY’s Palaver now has it’s own search engine, thanks to Google. Try it out HERE!
I have now posted another new search engine for searching Blogger profiles. It is in my sidebar under “Search”. The blog “A Consuming Experience”, which is linked on my “Blogging Help Page“, created it and she has some good new tips for blogging, especially for Blogger. Although I am not sure just how worthwhile it is, you can try the new “Blogger Profile Search”.
Greyhawk at Mudville Gazette has some good blogging tips today “Everything you always wanted to know about blogging“.
I have encountered someone who has been given an invitation to the new WordPress.com blogging platform. Here is his new blog if you want to take a look: Sadish and WordPress.com Check out my Blogging Help Page.
Live Blogging from New Orleans
Live from Poydras Street, New Orleans!
Six blocks from the Mississippi River, on the 10th and 11th floors of a skyscraper a New Orleans blogger, Michael Barnett, has been holded up reporting on Kristina since the beginning. His five person staff has food, water, a diesel generator, a camera and they are armed. Their blog has been renamed: “The Survival of New Orleans Blog” (also here). During the aftermath of the storm’s fury they had a live Webcam running. There is a page of photographs. (CNet News.com)
Saturday 9:05 pm PDT: “Hmm. This could actually be a nasty storm.”
Sunday 6 a.m. PDT: “Come on with it then, storm. Bring me what ya got. Let’s see who wins.”
Monday Morning: “… as long as no flooding occurs, the city should be fine. There’s really nothing to say…Imagine a low rumbling turbine engine for several hours, lots of wind and debris… .”
Tuesday Morning: “I do not want to be an alarmist, but people who have the means to leave the greater New Orleans area need to do so. The infrastructure required to maintain a city is down. It could be a long time before it’s back up. There will be too many people fighting for exceptionally scarce resources.”
Wednesday Morning: The chaos began as he described the scene on the camcorder; “You’re watching the flood progress … and the looting of a hotel. We’re seriously considering trying to restore some order to this city since the government has totally given up (and probably couldn’t do anything anyway). The police have been looting according to reports, and the honest ones are under siege at their precincts as automatic gunfire was unloaded at one near the Quarter. I know it’s dangerous, … if there’s a chance of slowing down this Planet of the Apes deterioration, someone’s got to take the first step. I mean, it’s Lord of the Flies out there right now. There’s no order at all. No respect for private property, no respect for life.”
Wednesday Afternoon: “The police are looting. Some of the looting might be ‘legitimate’ …. They have broken into ATMs and safes: confirmed. We have eyewitnesses to this. They have taken dozens of SUVs from dealerships ostensibly for official use. They have also looted gun stores and pawn shops for all the small arms, supposedly to prevent ‘criminals’ from doing so. But who knows their true intentions.”
Thursday Early Morning: “Security has become a major concern now, because the NOPD is ineffective and the looters (and) terrorists are roaming the streets. It is a zoo out there though, make no mistake. It’s the wild kingdom…That doesn’t mean there’s murder on every street corner. But what it does mean is that the rule of law has collapsed, that there is no order, and that property rights cannot and are not being enforced. Anyone who is on the streets is in immediate danger of being robbed and killed. It’s that bad.”
Friday Morning: “This place is completely coming apart. The hopelessness on the street breaks the heart. The old, the tired, the sick seem resigned to their presumed fate. Death.”
Friday Late Morning: There are signs of relief. “This convoy coming down the street is loaded with supplies. I see MREs and water and I assume ice, …. OK, so the troops used to restore order went in first and now the supplies are coming …. Hope is on the way for the people at the Convention Center. Finally.”
Linked at basil’s blog “All Day Picnic“.
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