I posted my Bloggiesta to-do list on Friday morning. It wasn’t very long, but it was pretty heavy on time-intensive post-writing, so even as I put it together I wasn’t sure I’d be able to accomplish it all. And then Natasha had to mention the mini-challenges, and I thought about trying out a few of those too – hey, they were mini-challenges, right? How much time could they take? Some of them took longer than […]
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BLOGGIESTA To-Do List
Bloggiesta commences this morning, and will continue for the next 48 hours! I am not sure how many hours I’ll be devoting to it, but I do have a list of tasks that I’d like to accomplish during this marathon, which is aimed at developing blog content. Here’s what I want to work on: Draft two posts for the LA Moms Blog, and select pictures to go with them. Since I have a twice-a-month posting […]
Book reviews by the numbers (Blog Improvement Project #11)
The current task for the Blog Improvement Project is a bit unusual, so I’ll let Kim explain it herself: “This week’s task is a content analysis of book reviews to get some info about reviews. How long are they? How personal are they? How many paragraphs does the average book review have? By comparing book reviews written by bloggers to reviews written by professionals, I hope we can come up with some interesting stats to […]
Because someone asked: Blogging about Blogging
Ms. Mazzola at State of Denmark has taken on a “senior project” of her own to keep her students company; she’s doing some research on blogs and blogging. She’s posted some questions for bloggers, and if you’d like to be part of her unscientific, self-selected survey group, you’re welcome to answer them on your own blog and leave a link in the comments on the “project” post. This is my contribution to the effort. It’s […]
Please excuse Florinda from blogging today
I just don’t have anything prepared for today! I’m scrambling to get the TBIF memes done for tomorrow. It’s been a crazy couple of weeks, and I’ve really had trouble making time for writing. It’s been tough keeping up with my blog reading as well, so this week’s Saturday Review may be on the lightweight side again. I am brewing a few posts for the near future, including some themed entries for next week (leading […]
A few comments about comments
The Musing Mondays question for April 13 dovetails rather well with Task #7 for the Blog Improvement Project, I think – see if you agree: How do you respond to the comments on your blog? Do you try to email individually or comment on post yourself answering the comments above? What do you think is the best way to respond to comments and do you respond to all of them? Do you feel slighted if […]
Blogiversary Wrap-Up: prizes for some, and a survey for you all!
I hijacked this survey from the blog of one of my Silicon Valley Moms Group associates. Cecily contributes to the Philadelphia Moms Blog, but this was posted on her personal blog, Uppercase Woman, on the recent occasion of its fifth Blogiversary. As you know, I just celebrated a Blogiversary of my own, and I always want to know more about my readers. Got a few minutes to answer some (mostly) painless questions? Here goes! 1. […]
Blogiversary, part 1: Crossing between communities – a reflection
In a recent comment about some links in one of my Saturday Reviews, Lenore said… “Gosh I didn’t even know there was such a thing as Mommy blogs. I am very focused in my blog reading on book blogs I guess.” I’m definitely less focused. My interests are pretty wide-ranging, and so is my blog reading. On the Internet, I’m a bit of a wanderer, but I find that I have two communities that feel […]
Blog Improvement Project #5: The Social, part 1 – tweet tweet!
Although I haven’t actively participated in the Blog Improvement Project tasks lately, I’m joining in for #5, the first of two during what Kim has designated as “Social Media Month:” “…Social Media Month is going to be about educating each other about social media. Our first project is the much-anticipated Social Media Carnival! The task is simple: write a post about one social media tool that you currently use. If you don’t currently use any […]
Blog Improvement Project, Week 1: Setting Goals
I think that this blog made a lot of progress during 2008, but things can always be tweaked, and as I’m coming up on my second blogiversary, participating in the Blog Improvement Project (hosted by Kim at Sophisticated Dorkiness) sounds appealing. The first task in the project, “Setting Goals,” is less appealing, I’m sad to say. It’s not that I don’t have goals, but as an attempting-to-recover control freak, I try not to get too […]
The Awards Shelf
Other bloggers have occasionally found this blog to be worthy of special recognition, and I greatly appreciate the honors! This page will be updated intermittently, as conditions warrant. This blog’s very first award was bestowed by UnfinishedPerson (in his previous incarnation as Just a (Reading) Fool) in August 2008: Two different bloggers, April of It’s All About Balance and Louise (Bogsider) from Lous_Pages, have officially declared this blog “cool”: The Prémio Dardos (the Darts Prize) […]
It’s a win-win-win-win!
Thanks to everyone who entered my Second Chance at Summer (Reading) Re-Gifting Giveaway! About 40 people entered, although some got extra chances because they posted about it on their blogs. Some book bags were more popular than others, so that affected your odds of winning. Entries closed on Friday, and I did four drawings today, one for each book bag, using random numbers for each entry generated by random.org. And now for the winners! Bag […]
