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You might be right. I think it would be hard to rebuild at this point. But it's definitely something to think about.
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I did. If you look at my comment section in one of the posts, I mention that I wanted to treat the breach of contract as a separate issue from the posts. It is a separate issue. And I did mention it in the comment section <a href="http://www.abdpbt.com/personalfinance/2010/04/25/blogher/#comment-2432">here</a>;. Admittedly, I did not post the text of my attorney's letter, but I didn't think I needed to, it was an employment dispute. It had nothing to do with the posts I was writing.
Here are the material facts:
A corporation took my ads away. I threatened to sue them.
I wrote posts about them.
They sent a letter to me. I told you guys about the letter.
I'm not sure how Redneck Mommy and the NikonHatesBabies chick have managed to make this into me being the bad guy but kudos to them. -
Probably. But no, because a URL is like real estate, and if I move it then I lose everything I've built. That ship has sailed. I am a cautionary tale. But I also consider it kind of a weeding mechanism.
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I have not gone in a while, no. There is no reason other than laziness. When I moved to LA, I never found meetings that I liked, and never really got into a good routine like I had in the town where I got sober. Every once in a while I'll catch a meeting and think I need to start going back, but so far it hasn't panned out.
I am not recommending this as a plan of action, but this is how I have been. Life gets away from you sometimes. -
my traffic has gone up about 500 more people per day, but the biggest increase is in the pageviews. People are going to my site and looking at a lot more pages than they used to, so I'm thinking that this means they are looking at back posts, maybe people who have never been there before? I'm not sure. In other words, I'm not necessarily seeing visitor numbers that are unprecedented, but usually I don't get this many pageviews off this many visitors.
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It depends on the day, I go in phases. But it's usually either the personal finance or the personal section. I tend to like the comments on the personal finance section the best, because people are so smart and really make me think about stuff over there.
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enjoyed an episode of America's Funniest Home Videos.
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Not really. I like form, it forces me to be more creative. Like with the English Reneaissance sonneteers, they were inspired by the constraints of form. I like comedy. I like cracking jokes. It's a coping mechanism.
Also, my writing changes all the time, I never know where I'm going to end up. There have been times where I'm more focused on writing about my day-to-day life, and then lately it's been more about the blogosphere and all the craziness there, and then I was doing a lot of fiction at one point. I like to switch it up, and people enjoy the lists.
Sometimes it's hard to come up with a good idea for one, though. -
They actually convert more often than you would think. I guess I keep it up because I am trying to build the site as a destination, and the crossword adds to that, and it also kind of serves as a thematic anchor to the site, if that makes sense. I don't know that I will always keep it. But for now I like it, and there have been enough people converted to justify it.
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Let's see . . . I love a bunch of design blogs like Oh Happy Day, Making it Lovely, Design Mom, and Oh Joy and like eleventy billion other ones. The design bloggers are cool because they post pretty stuff and they don't usually fight. I think I'd get bored eventually if that was my niche, but I love just being a fan of them.
I am a huge fan of Penelope Trunk. She hasn't been writing that much lately, but I do love her stuff. I also like Sweet Salty Kate and The Awl. I used to read Ben Cosnocha but I think he's too much of a goody goody for me to stick to reading him forever.
No, it's not all business for me, but I think people don't understand that to me looking at things critically is not just business, it's just what I do. It's hard for me to enjoy something without analyzing it. Actually, that is probably why I like the design blogs, I don't know enough about that discipline to do anything other than just look at it and decide if I like it. -
No, I'm not involved with BlogHer in any way other than running ads. And going to the conference. I think they're OK with that.
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Hmm. It sounds to me like that's a problem with it taking too long to load. That is probably because I need to use more image sprites and less pictures. I will work on this and see if there's anything I can do.
Thank you for telling me about it. I am thinking of hiring a compatibility person to fix these issues because I'm not sure that I can do it, personally. But it will get done. -
I really wish I knew how to fix this problem. I am guessing it is a problem with javascript, flash, browser settings, or an old browser version, because when I try to load my site in all of those different forms, it works on this end. Also, the pictures show up for me in all of the forms, including Google Reader and Bloglines.
Which versions are you guys using? I want to fix this but I'm moving out of my knowledge base -- I will keep plugging away, though, thanks for letting me know. -
Blast. You WOULD ask the one question I'm not allowed to answer. I'll tell you what, if we meet in person, I will tell you. Beyond that, I will tell you he is not an Indian chief, and he owns a business.
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I don't know. I don't even know what #momspotting is. A lot of times, I try to stay away from hashtags, unless they are funny. I've seen the #momspotting one, but I've never stopped to figure out what it means. Is that bad?
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Well, I don't have a problem with them in theory, it's like if you were a street performer and you put out a hat to collect donations. And I have made donations to bloggers using those things in the past, so I clearly don't object to their existence.
That said, it's not a strategy I would use myself, because even if I really needed the money, I'm trying to have more of a "this is my business establishment" atmosphere -- like, you wouldn't probably toss out a hat for donations at a concert hall, right, even if you were in bankruptcy, just because it would probably send the wrong message. So, for me, it's not something that fits with my overall business gestalt. -
Motrin ran a kind of dumb, unfunny ad about how wearing your baby in a sling is great but ow! so painful, good thing there's Motrin! This was like a year ago, and it was a dumb ad because, well, it's not true, and also, duh.
But some people, I'm not going to mention any names, got all up in arms about this Motrin ad, said it was another example of how the media is always belittling motherhood, called for a boycott of Motrin. It was a hashtag on Twitter, and before you knew it, eighty thousand blog posts, teary-eyed You Tube videos, outraged moms are everywhere. Motrin pulled the ad and (I think) apologized for the whole thing.
And it was yet another example of how when you fly off the handle over nothing, people have a hard time taking you seriously. The ad was not funny (I think it was supposed to be), but it wasn't offensive, either. It should have been one of those times where you look at it and never think about it again, or maybe you do, and decide to not buy Motrin, whatever. Instead, it turned into this big issue, and mainstream media wrote about it, and we all looked like fools. And some people made names for themselves because of it. -
I live to serve. :)
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Use Tweetdeck and put them in the column called "People I have to follow but I don't really want to read their tweets ever again."
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Use Tweetdeck and put them in the column called "People I have to follow but I don't really want to read their tweets ever again."
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blogger, mother, wife, analyst of the business of mommyblogging
