By Colleen, on August 9th, 2008%
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?
Continue reading Win 2000 EC: Elect Dork President of the Blogosphere
By Colleen, on July 14th, 2008%
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.
Continue reading Free link juice in a blogalicious flavor
By Colleen, on July 7th, 2008%
Lolcatese — is it becoming the new internet pidgin? Perhaps first exclusively written language? Lolcatese is named after the acronym LOL, which is Textese for “laughing out loud.” Textese is a thing distinct from Lolcatese. The purpose of Textese is to transmit the message with the fewest number of keystrokes. Lolcatese and Textese have similar ancestry, but Lolcatese seems to be evolving into a separate language all its own, complete with grammar and spelling conventions, and even pronunciation hints, although Lolcatese is primarily a written language. I’m not sure where the “cat” part comes in.
Continue reading Lolcatese — u lerns it or eatz mai dust sucka
By Colleen, on March 18th, 2008%
Blogrush is an interesting concept that is intended to mix up the gene pool a bit with regard to blogs. You place your blog in a category and then you put your own custom widget for that category on your blog. The widget has links to other blog posts in your category. Every link is tagged with your blogrush id so that they know who sent a page to that other blog. You get points every time someone clicks the widget to see one of the related blog posts. When you have enough points then links to your blog will pop up in other people’s blogrush widgets and supposedly bring traffic to your blog. Continue reading Pimp your Blog with Blogrush Part I
