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Here's a photo of President Bill Clinton taken on Memorial Day. Looks like he's gained a little weight. Hope you're taking care of yourself, President Clinton!
Here's a snapshot from a long, long time ago!
Bill and Hillary were married on October 11, 1975 in Fayetteville, Arkansas. the rest is history!
Looking for solid, honest blogging and social networking advice that's FREE with nothing to download, nothing to subscribe to, no crazy popup screens to get past? I've put my entire course "THE BLOGGING CLASS" online in one easy-to-use collection. Go visit The One Minute Blogger!
If you're like me, you've probably had it "up to here" with know-it-all "guru" bloggers, writing a bunch of crap so they can either win a contest or sell you something like an eBook or a "system" or maybe even some software!Bloggers: AVOID "affiliate marketing" at all costs! Scroll down to read comments on this one!All of the above were discussed in a May 09 2011 post on The Blogging Bookshelf. The article has racked up 129 comments of the very best kind! [See my upcoming post about having too many comments on your blog, coming soon! Check back everyday until it posts!]
COVER GIRLS!Nicki Minaj & Rihanna!
Music blogger Roberto Carreño lists “5 great moments of Chilean hip-hop” [es]. He includes a brief description and a video of each song.
Is the Drudge Report Drumming up race wars? The Trough (and the rest of us) want to know!
Martha Rivera Alanis, the teacher who sang to her students during a shooting in Monterrey, México was given an award for her bravery. In an interview with Regioblogs [es], Martha describes what happened before, during and after the shooting. She explains she decided to sing to the children to try to drown out the noise from the shoot-out.
The Man Who Had HIV and Now Does Not ::: Four years ago, Timothy Brown underwent an innovative procedure. Since then, test after test has found absolutely no trace of the virus in his body. The bigger miracle, though, is how his case has experts again believing they just might find a cure for AIDS.
Kate and William's decided to go ahead with their visit to Canada and they will come to Montreal on July 2. 2011. The exact route is yet to come.
A couple groups have promised to demonstrate against the monarchy which complicates the preparation of the organizers. For his part, Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper promised during the royal wedding to provide the young couple with camping equipment to help them to better appreciate Canada. A question asked by some: Will Pippa be on the trip?
Stay tuned!
Photo 1,2,3 : Prince William and Kate ;
She can hardly believe it herself...
Dan Collins, on the Weiner Scandal ::: “Strangely enough, most women bloggers don’t seem to want to touch this thing.”
Except maybe for Little Miss Attila... Hmmm, nothing on Michelle Malkin...
Most of the time, I absolutely hate re-makes. If you wanna do someone else's material, you'd better do a damn good job!
"To me this is the best kind of remake. You don't simply make a copy of the original. That's just lazy and disrespectful to the original artist. To take an admired song and do an interpretation that shows the song in a completely different light, yet sounds good too, makes it interesting and worthy of the original. Best of all, it 's not a competition- each can be admired on their own merits."
As one who keeps an eye on the global financial market and the US Stock Market, I've been following the LinkedIn IPO... I'll be watching the stock this week, and possibly "buying in."
You know LinkedIn - if you're a "professional" (whatever that is) you are probably registered and maybe active on the LinkedIn social network, which generated buzz when it went public. But people far more immersed in the world of finance than I seem to have reservations and warnings when it comes to LinkedIn:
Carla Fried blogs on moneywatch.com:
Even if you are clued into the downside of chasing after initial public offerings, and you were content to watch from the sidelines last week as LinkedIn’s IPO more than doubled in its first day of trading, your portfolio could soon face more risk courtesy of LinkedIn.
The relative merits of LinkedIn as an investment, whether it be at its IPO price of $45, or its close (as of Friday) at $93, is somewhat beside the point...
...it will be interesting to see if a string of more eye-popping IPO debuts sets off a broader — yes, here it comes — stock market bubble led by the tech sector. A reprise of the 1990s tech bubble is certainly the story line that emerged after LinkedIn’s one-day double. And it was on Larry Summers’ radar the day after the LinkedIn IPO.
A similar story over at the Wall Street Journal, where Dave Kansas thinks of LinkedIn as "an IPO that popped, then fizzled.""Hype surrounds a hot offering, such as LinkedIn, and the details of the ensuing months are covered more episodically. Folks move on to the next hot IPO -- last week, a Russian Internet company, Yandex ("The Russian Google"), grabbed headlines with a hot offering. Its shares soared 40% on opening day.Kansas goes on to detail his own experience being involved in and part of an IPO - you can read that here.
With the success of LinkedIn and Yandex, other companies are busily huddling with lawyers and bankers to get in line for their own IPO. Big names out there include Facebook, of course, but also Groupon, Zynga and LivingSocial.
Anything that can fit into the Social Network/Internet box now looks like a hot ticket. But as my own experience can attest, the markets are fickle. Bankers talk about "the window," meaning the period when the market will gobble up certain offerings. Windows, by definition, open -- and close."
The EU controlling said the Seagate and Samsung accord would consolidate the U.S. company's position in the adamantine deejay drive market, abrogation alone two rivals, Western Agenda and Hitachi. 
The champion equestrian Eric Lamaze and his horse Hickstead won the equestrian jumping competition in Rome to continue to earn World ranking points 2011.
Congratulations and good continuation of season!
Photo 1.2, and 3: Eric Lamaze in Rome;
Photo 4: The horse Hickstead;
See story competition Rome ;
View Facebook page Lamaze ;
See site team Lamaze (Torrey Pines Stable) ;
Secretary of State aide Huma Abedin may be the next "Good Wife" to launch a mad crackdown on her hubby: she may have some "competition" ... or not ...
With everything going on these days, like Arnold, Tiger Woods, the mad Frenchman and the hotel maid, the political fellow from western NY who sent out shirtless pix of himself... this isn't really surprising!
21-year old College coed Gennette Cordova (aka "Gennette Nicole" Cordova, a student at Whatcom Community College, Bellingham, Wash., where she is a reporter for the student newspaper, Horizon) got a XXX photo from Rep. Anthony Weiner's Twitter account! She says she never met him in person, but admitted to being "a fan". The Daily News points out ::: Some right-wing bloggers insist it must be proof that Weiner was having an affair with Cordova, who had once jokingly Tweeted: "I wonder what my boyfriend @RepWeiner is up to."
Cordova issued a lengthy statement [ReAd it HeRe], complaining about how she's been characterized on blogs and other web sites.
Rep. Weiner insists a "hacker" sent photos to "Genette Nicole" ---
THE PLOT THICKENS:::
Liz Benjamin: “The woman to whom the picture was sent has since deleted both her Facebook and Twitter accounts. Very odd.”
Yeah... why would she delete her accounts ??? That's a move of DESPERATION...
And apparently, there's been an effort underway to erase the name “Gennette Cordova” off the Internet — even having her byline removed from articles she wrote for her college newspaper!
Hover & CLICK on the image for the Daily NX Story!
JUST IN! CONSERVATIVE BLOGGER CONFESSES TO HOAX!
Tags: Genette Cordova, Huma Abedin, Anthony Weiner
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THIS article is adapted from HOW TO STEAL LIKE AN ARTIST (AND 9 OTHER THINGS NOBODY TOLD ME) by Austin Kleon
Steal like an artist. This technique reminds me of NICKI MINAJ! She stole the "Barbie" trademark without actually stealing it! THAT is an accomplishment of major order! Kleon's remarks apply ::: I love this phrase. There’s two ways to read it: Fake it ‘til you make it, as in, fake it until you’re successful, until everybody sees you the way you want, etc. Or, fake it til’ you make it, as in, pretend to be making something until you actually make something. I love that idea.
Particularly interesting is how Minaj hijacked the “Barbie” franchise without stepping on any copyright toes: This could be a great lesson for bloggers… Minaj-icize your blogs!Make sure you save/print this link: observe the "before" and "after" photographs. Now, substitute YOU and YOUR BLOG for the "before" ---- how do you want things to be/look "after" ?????Click on the image to see what Nicki Minaj looked like BEFORE her "transformation."
It was Kleon who seeded the idea in my little brain for THE BLOGGING CLASS: " I get a lot of inspiration from people like Bob Ross and Martha Stewart. Bob Ross taught people how to paint. He gave his secrets away. Martha Stewart teaches you how to make your house and your life awesome. She gives her secrets away.
People love it when you give your secrets away,..." Best of all, Kleon has logged OVER A THOUSAND COMMENTS on his original post!
A special Memorial Day Weekend edition of the CBS NEWS Program hit the airwaves at 7, with Lara Logan serving as anchorette!
You know her: sexually violated. You've searched for her swimsuit pictures!
A little changing, a bit of re-arranging on this beautiful NY Sunday afternoon. I've got two cookouts coming up: one this afternoon at 5 and another on Memorial Day. I'd like to call your attention to a test-ad running just under my blog header: a way you can help increase your blog's earning potential via PR7 links! It's well worth investigating for any of you looking to make serious full or part-time income from your blog. (And if you're earning some coin already, this will help your income multiply!)
I've been studying blog traffic and the amount of time visitors spend on the blog. Since I had a little extra time today, and since traffic last year was light during Memorial Day Weekend, I decided this would be a good time to take a sample.
1 - Nothing "unusual" going on - no recent posts generating special buzz or getting noticed by search-engines
2 - Nothing new of mine showing up on StumbleUpon or Blokube - no rush of links from twitter or facebook
(In other words: a "mellow" moment in digital time!)
3 - I selected the timeframe 10:48pm EDST Saturday through 10:48am EDST Sunday: figuring that the lighter traffic load would still give me a good snapshot of "normal" activity.
4 - I'm satisfied with the results! I know that I'm on the right blogging pathway: it'll just take a little more time and tinkering to tweak things exactly how I'd like them to be!
Incoming Traffic Sources:
32% - Google
24% - Google Images
22% - direct traffic to my blog's URL
7% - No data available
Traffic from StumbleUpon, Bing, Entrecard and a few blogs and other resources came in the 2% to 4% range for each.
I've got some work to do! The bounce rate is high: I notice visitors come in, scan a post for 30-40 seconds... and they're gone! That's where these numbers come in handy:
12% - visitors stayed on the blog for more than 1 minute
6% - stayed on the blog for more than 5 minutes
WARNING! A high bounce rate doesn't mean bad things! Going back to 2005, I've had people comment on particular posts - and it is quite obvious they read the post - and when I match the comment IP to the one in stats - "Time spent on site = 0 minutes." So these stat and site meters may not be recording as much data as they would have us believe?I was able to go into the data and see which posts attracted these readers - there were 14 specific posts, each visited by more than one individual. I already knew netizens would find these particular posts interesting. The same ones show up on a daily basis when I check my stats. So, my mission is to figure out how to write more of these types of posts.
I'm always interested in finding new ways to stimulate and promote my blog business! PEOPLE love free stuff! Laser engraved pens can be a very efficient tool for promoting your blog or social media site. They look snappy: Amsterdam Printing designs them in-house, and they are available in a variety of colours and styles.
If you're the kind of blogger who attends meet-ups, tweet-ups, "falsh mobs" and really any events specifically organized by and for bloggers and other social-media devotees, pens make a great hand-out gift. No one ever says "no" to a free pen, and they almost always hang on to the ones that are stylish (like the sample shown in the picture above)!
The Financial Times of London published an exclusive interview with Lady Gaga by actor and writer Stephen Fry.
According to Lady Gaga, one must discover who he is and then support themselves internally to become a champion!
A unique story and photos.
Photo: Lady Gaga and Stephen Fry by The Financial Times;
See The Financial Times interview ;
See photo album by The Financial Times :
I'm chillin' - enjoying the beautiful suddenly summer New York weather! Hope y'all have a safe and happy Memorial Day Weekend, as I know many of you stopping by here won't be back 'til Tuesday!
Presenting a Memorial Day Poem (via Wanderer Thoughts Poetry http://www.wandererthoughts.
What name would you choose for yourself if you couldn't have the one you do now?
There's a chance that if, at this late stage of the game, you register a twitter account, the "hat" or "handle" or "i.d." you want has already been taken. If you were an early adopter of the Twitter platform, chances are you were rewarded with the username of your choice. (I was!)
Now, you need to get on twitter, but the name you want, need, crave is not available. You could always go back to Sentence One and come up with a unique name that you really like.
If your name is your name is your name, you could try the free service tweetclaims.
-or- treat yourself to some advice on this forum.
If you're seeking to acquire a Twitter name for your business and the current account holder has let the account become dormant, try this method.
No time to wait? In cases where a twitter account has been registered but has never been updated, Twitter can write the owner of the username about releasing it (results may vary).
You might just want to take the matter into your own hands. Most sites don't allow users to sell names to each other, but that doesn't mean that deals can't be cut. Anybody can transfer control of a social media profile (or a blog) by handing over the username and password.
Tags: twitter user name, twitter name taken
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Musician Gil Scott-Heron (#Gil Scott-Heron), who helped lay the groundwork for rap by fusing minimalistic percussion, political expression and spoken-word poetry, is gone. He was 62, still young by 2011 standards.
Gil Scott-Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised - youtube.com
3 min - Pieces of a Man (1971)
Also watch on: Dailymotion - dailymotion.virgilio.it - WAT TV
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