This post is to test my installation of the Intense Debate Comment System. I tried it back in 2008, but had issues with it – too many people told me that their browsers were crashing when they came to the blog to comment, which totally defeats the purpose! However, several blog-friends of mine have recently implemented the system and are loving it, so I thought I’d give it another shot. Feel free to leave a […]
Tag: site stuff
Announcing my first hosted reading challenge: The Blogging Authors Reading Project
I am going ahead with my first original reading challenge, and I’d like to invite you to join me! However, because so many of us have stated that we couldn’t possibly join another challenge this year, I’m calling it a “Reading Project” instead. The Blogging Authors Reading Project is pretty much what it sounds like: reading books by authors whose blogs you also read. In some cases, I read one of the author’s books first […]
Bloggiesta Wrap-up: Missions accomplished
I didn’t create an overly-ambitious to-do list for Bloggiesta, and it was just as well! I didn’t have much time to work on it either Friday (did the work I get paid to do instead, except during lunch) or Saturday (out most of the day – coffee with my sister, errands, and buying a new car). I did spend most of my available time on Sunday working on blog-related tasks, but after spending most of […]
Just in case you missed it…
…the (slightly re-titled) Weekend Review was posted yesterday, and has officially moved to Fridays. Beginning tomorrow, I’ll be participating in the Sunday Salon, which is where you’ll find my reading-related links and updates now. Hope to see you tomorrow, and enjoy your Saturday! Subscribe to Blog via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Email Address Subscribe Join 2,318 other subscribers
Post #1000 – The 3 R’s Greatest Hits!
Nine hundred ninety-nine posts ago, this blogging adventure began, and I hope it goes on for another 999 (at least!). For post #1000, I thought that it might be fun to see what posts have been the most-viewed on The 3 R‘s during its history. Even though the first post here was March 16, 2007, stats don’t start until June 3; there were 11 page views recorded that day, and 9 of them were my […]
The goal of avoiding blogging burnout (belated Geekery and BBAW leftovers)
Lots of things catch my eye as they make their way around the blogiverse, but sometimes it takes me awhile to get around to doing something with them myself. Part of the “assignment” for the final day of Book Blogger Appreciation Week was to consider blogging goals: “Tell us in 50 words or less where you want your blog to be by the next BBAW!” Since it’s no longer BBAW, to heck with the 50-word […]
Site status: Two things for Thursday
I’ve got a couple of blog-related status reports for you today, just in case you missed some things that happened earlier this week. (1) If you’re like me, you probably do most of your blog reading via an RSS reader of some sort and don’t visit the blogs themselves very often. Also, your feed reader probably brings you many blogs where you don’t comment regularly, so you don’t really need to go to the sites […]
Book Review Policy: information for publicists and authors
UPDATED 3/1/10: I am not an especially fast reader, and I have a family, a full-time job, and other responsibilities unrelated to book blogging. In order to fulfill the review obligations I already have pending, I will only accept a limited number of new review offers – please read on to find out more about the sort of books I’ll consider accepting. Thank you for your understanding. My goal is to post book reviews here […]
Blogging with Integrity, part two: what it means to me (and some other people)
(Part One of my commentary on this subject posted here yesterday.) As I’ve mentioned before, I take up space among both mom bloggers and book bloggers, but I learned about this through my mom-blogging connections. And while Blog with Integrity was founded to address issues arising in the mom-blog community, that’s not the only segment of the blogiverse that gets involved in marketing relationships and product reviews – or the only one who may find […]
Blogging with Integrity, part one: the pledge and the practice
The mainstream media has picked up on the debate that’s been going on in the blogiverse for quite a while now – the one concerning disclosure, ethics and the interplay between blogging and marketing. As CNN.com states in a recent story titled ‘Mommy bloggers’ vow to avoid ethical conflicts: “(M)oms who detail every moment of their domestic lives online produce some of the Web’s most well-read blogs. Many of these ‘mommy bloggers’ even draw the […]
Time to Blog! (Weekend Assignment #278)
For about a year and a half now, I’ve been a (mostly) regular participant in the Weekend Assignment writing exercises hosted by blogger Karen Funk Blocher – I’ve missed some due to other commitments (or, a few times, honestly not having any idea what to say in response to the prompt), but for the most part, I’m there. Sadly, though, there aren’t many of us turning out for the Assignments lately, so I wanted to […]
The post where I talk about going to BlogHer’09
I’ll be glad to make room and share the corner, though. It is a truth universally acknowledged that anyone with a blog and plans to attend a conference must write a post prior to said conference discussing her hopes, plans, and fears surrounding her attendance at the event. This is mine. Too early on Thursday morning, I’m boarding a plane at LAX headed for Chicago, a city I’ve never visited before and probably won’t get […]
