Finding My Tribe Online… Music Lovers!

Introducing Sean Coleman, fellow blogcatalog blogger known as Scole .  Sean loves music! He writes about it on his blog called “pod”. Why did he call it pod? “Write the word “pod” in lower case letters.

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 MyBlogLog’s Potential Closure Empowers BlogCatalog

A Notice from BlogCatalog’s CEO Yahoo recently announced that it was evaluating the possible sale or closure of MyBlogLog. For us, the BlogCatalog team, it serves as a reminder that any company that is complacent runs the risk of dying. This fact is made more poignant given that MyBlogLog was one of the most innovative social media networks of the past decade.

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 My New Favorite Blog

Upon researching the Blog Catalog directory for inspiration for my weekly Blog Catalog blog post, I happened upon the most charming, stylish, artistic and entertaining blog ever… Sunday Magazine Paper Doll Challenge.

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 BlogCatalog Weekly

F rom the BlogCatalog Community Blog This week LotusB has shared some great information about Twitter and WordPress with us. Cheryl enlisted the help of Joel Williams from Blog Tech Guy to give us some information on what a splog is and if bloggers should be worried about them

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 WordPress Gives Blogs a “Push”…

Mostly everyone in the Blog Catalog community is aware of the basic rules of blogging; hosts, tags, comment management, etc.  Bloggers also know that the lifeline of their blog is the Really Simple Syndication (RSS) tool

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 How to turn blog comments into discussion

Have you always wanted to meet someone who lives in Finland?  Please welcome Antti Kokkonen from zemalf.com with his answer to a question I’ve been wondering about. As I’ve visited blogs, I’ve noticed certain bloggers enjoying lively discussions with their readers – all taking place in the comments section of their blogs.

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 The Rise-and-Shine Discussion

With my stint in Houston a few days behind me, and a much needed vacation stretching out before me, all I’m left with are the few freelance jobs I’ve taken on to keep me busy.  So waking up early is….well, just an option.  I can meander from under my covers as early (or late) as I want, and while enjoying the benefits of my new found liberty, I wondered how the rest of Blog Catalog feels about waking up. The discussion topic this week was simply, “What’s the First Thing You Do When You Wake Up?”.  The responses came in a pretty wide variety.  Going pee first thing was a trending response, as was saying a quick prayer.  HaplessHermit even said he cries first thing in the morning.  But the most common answer seemed to be ignoring (or abusing) that good ole faithful alarm clock. Scenexg responded that he’ll “hit the snooze button 7 times” before he gets out of bed every morning.  Jaspuri chimed in that his alarm, which is an app on his mobile phone, won’t allow him to hit the snooze button until he’s solved a maze and a math puzzle!  My praises go out to Jaspuri for having more strength than I.  I punch my blackberry when it doesn’t open Google fast enough, I can only imagine what I’d do if it wouldn’t shut up at 5 AM

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 How to attract guest bloggers to publish on your blog

Looking for some new ideas to extend your reach? Andrew Rondeau, from WeBuildYourBlog.com offers some excellent tips and ideas for attracting guest bloggers to publish on your blog.  Andrew lives in England. What I appreciate most about Andrew’s tips is that they are straight-forward, practical and relatively simple to implement.  Please let us know your thoughts on this topic and feel free to leave some new ideas of your own.

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 Am I Dating Myself?

The other day I came across an article by a woman who claimed to have the secret to finding your life partner.  This woman chose to work for 18 years on herself with experimental therapy, holistic meditation techniques and read books and took classes all for the betterment of her own self.  She wanted to erase all of her inner demons, all of her insecurities.  Then after nearly two decades of seeking love within herself, she found her life partner and they lived happily ever after. Kind of like a new-age Cinderella, no?  Well, despite the skeptic that I am, I actually took something she said to heart: I knew, even then, that if I kept up any sort of pretense and tried to be something that I was not, then I would only meet men who had similar masks and armor and, in the long-term, none of my relationships would ever work. Like a beam of light striking my eyes, suddenly I felt like the way this lady described her thinking made total sense.  Every relationship we have, we enter it usually wearing expectations and ideas of who we are.  If we haven’t taken the time to get to know ourselves, how can we really know who we are?  Most of what we know about our-self is product of what we’ve been through and what we’ve seen.  So when you leave one relationship broken hearted, and you don’t take time to work through it, you may enter the next relationship suspicious or jaded or in a hurry to get to the disappointment.

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 Long Distance Relationships: Doable?

I thought he was out of his mind when he suggested we be together.  The “together” part would prove difficult, since I was living in Houston, TX through the winter and he lived in California.  The idea of missing the one person in the world you love the most on a constant basis is about as appealing as living in a refrigerator, but when compared to the alternative…it can prove to be an adventure and definitely a test of love. My boyfriend and I came up with some guidelines that so far have proved to keep our relationship going.  They go something like this: Yap it Up.

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 Knockout: Interviews with Doctors Who Are Curing Cancer-And How to Prevent Getting It in the First Place

World Cancer Day is marked on February 4 to raise awareness of cancer and to encourage its prevention, detection, and treatment.  As a way to acknowledge the day and to find out more about how to help yourself or others, take a look at what Suzanne Somer’s has to say about her cancer journey and the alternative therapies that she’s investigated. Suzanne Somers’ 19 th book was written as a result of being misdiagnosed with full body cancer in November 2008.  Suzanne says that her doctor told her to prepare herself and her family for the end.  See Suzanne Somers discuss Knockout (via Spruce TV) It makes me wonder, if something like that can happen to someone with Suzanne’s resources, what else is happening that we never hear about. “Knockout” is a series of interviews with patients who’ve received alternative medical treatments and the doctors or medical practitioners who prescribe these different types of treatments.  Dr.