DORK 4 PREZ

The other day I got to thinking, why shouldn’t I be the President?
Maybe I could be president of the blogosphere….. OK….. Since I’m now a politician I have act like one and promise you GREAT things. Your weenie will grow so big you’ll have to coil it up like a lasso. A suckling pig in every pot! (bleah!) You will lose 40 KG by eating cotton candy. All the celebs you love will be pursuing you! Your HDTV will grow so big you won’t be able to get it out of your house. Your blog subscriptions will positively explode! Am I getting the hang of political promises or what?
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If your blog is 100% nutritious lean tech protein, it seems as dry and flavorless as a digital camera manual.  Besides, any cook knows that the flavor  is in the fat.   Not useful but people like it better.   That’s the lesson I have been learning lately but I hadn’t taken any action yet.  Even so, for some unknown reason Hot Dorkage seems to lighting up the boards with social action this week. First I get reviewed, then I get tagged. This social stuff is all new to me as a participant.  Like most geeks I just used Google to search for technical info. When I hit paydirt I said thank you and I stumbled it or dugg it if I really found it useful. But never social memes until today.

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Woot!   Social action!!!  Hot Dorkage got reviewed   on pisiosplugs. and on Today’s Blog Reviews  I won’t quote the reviews, that’s what links are for.    I will say that I think Pisio is spot-on with his review, and so is Shen. I’m very happy to be reviewed. If truth be told I’d be happy even if they hated me, because there is no such thing as bad publicity if all you’re looking for is publicity.

If you would like your blog reviewed, either one of them just might do it for you, as long as they don’t find your blog offensive.  Neither queue is outrageously long at the moment but I’d suggest that you submit your request as soon as possible, because I have a feeling that pisiosplugs and Today’s Blog Reviews will become very popular sites.

Ping.fm purports to let you update a bunch of social sites all at once. It is in beta now, and you have to have the current betacode to get an account. The current betacode is “letmeping”. They keep changing it. I have no idea how long that code will be good.

I found a valid betacode somewhere, and was let onto the system.

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I have been struggling to get started with Dojo and Ning lately. Both these technologies are fairly new and the number of books about on Dojo is severely limited, and as far as I know there are no books on Ning. So I would like to hook up with some other developers who are knowledgeable about these technologies, because I learn best from humans. I’m in several social networks, but they are general, and I haven’t had much luck finding anyone with these narrowly defined brands of geekery. I have been hearing about Scoutle. Supposedly it scurries around the web and locates people for you. That did it for me. I’m kind of a tryer of new things, and anything with the word “automation” in it gets my attention. Apparently, once you’ve installed Scoutle, every time someone visits your site, your Scoutle agent takes two steps toward finding your online soulmates.
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I nabbed this graphic off a-stat-a-day
Did you know we have a ning site of our very own? So if you visited it before these stats were compiled, your visits were included in these stats. And if not, it’s not too late to join it!

What is the deal with Twitter? I just don’t get it! I’m with Kathy Sierra on this one. (For those who don’t know, Kathy Sierra is one of my all-time heroes — a brilliant educator, writer and blogger who shut down last year due to misogynistic death threats. Would the bullying have been so egregious, or would it even have happened at all if Kathy had been a male? We’ll never know, but you should really check out her link. Kathy makes her points eloquently and there’s no point in me paraphrasing it. Let her speak for herself beyond the cyber “grave” of self-banishment.)

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