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Star Log’s Blog Carnival for Writers

I have spent the last couple of hours browsing through Blog Carnivals. I love them.  They are such a great way to find new blogs to read. Well, I submitted several posts from Star Log to some of the carnivals. When browseing the carnival index though, I was disapointed to find that more than half of those aimed at writers have been shut down and are no longer taking new submissions.

In light of that info, I am now starting a new one, to be posted on an ongoing basis here at Star Log. I have decided to hold 12 carnivals a year, one each month. Submissions are open and accepted year ’round.

The overall theme is blog posts of interest to writers. What I am looking for are posts (written by you and posted on your blog), that offer advice to writers of all levels. The prime focus being on fiction stories, though all advice for writers is accepted. Posts on “general” writing topics accepted each month. Additionaly, I’d like to have a sub-theme each month as follows:

January: Writing Mysteries

February: Writing Romance

March: Writing Children’s Fiction

April: Writing Fantasy

May: Writing Science Fiction

June: Writing Pirate Fiction

July: Writing Action/Adventure

August: Writing Gothic

September: Writing High Fantasy

October: Writing Horror

November: Writing Family Memoires

December: Writing Holiday Fiction

Submissions are due by the last day of the previous month. Blog listings will be posted the first week the month. Send your submissions here.

You can copy the following tag to add to your blog so people will have a link back to find your listing with Star Log’s Blog Carnival For Writers:

testing tags

having a problem getting posts to show up… testing to see if tags are working yet

Who Links to You?

I found this site (wholinkstome) and decided to give it a try.

Look up site:

Now displaying links to: eelkat.wordpress.com

Alexa Traffic Graph for eelkat.wordpress.com

Summary of results:


 eelkat.wordpress.com

Wel, I found that very informative. Wow! MSN found 3,026 links! I do know that the Blogrolling on came up wrong, because I know of at least 4 blogs that have Star Log in their blogrolls, so this scrore result isn’t entirly accurate.

Try it out with your site, and see how many are linking ti you!

~~EK

Who links to me?

Share the Link Love

As you know I’m a regular reader of ProBlogger, it’s prob’ly the blog I read more than any other; it’s certainly the one I talk about most often here on Star Log. Well, today I was reading this post on ProBlogger, and of course it lead me to reading the links in it, includeing this one.

Oh my! I don’t think anyone would accuse me of being a link nazi!

I love surfing the blogs out there, and everytime I find one that I want to go back and read again I always forget where they are and can’t find them again…

I solved that problem though… the way I figure it, if I like the blog enough to go back and read it again, than people who like my blog, prob’ly well want to read it too, so I write a post about the blog, which contains a link to it, and than I add it to my blogroll… today my blog roll has over 100 links in it, it’s by far the biggest blog roll I’ve ever seen on a blog, but at least now I don’t lose my way back to blog I like to read.

well, an unexpected side effect of doing this is that a few days after adding my long blog roll I checked my Technorati rank, and was shocked to learn that I had gone from being in the millions up to being 200,000 that was quite switch…

well I come to find out, that several of the blogs I had added to my blogroll, had in turn added me to theirs, I was not expecting that, but that’s what did it… when I added them to mine, it raised their rank, and they did me the same favor…

WOW! You see at the time I started doing this, I didn’t know about pingbacks, I had never heard of them before, so I didn’t know that everytime I talked about a blog I liked, my blog sent them a copy of my article, so each time I sad something nice about them, they knew I had said it, only I didn’t know that was happening, so I didn’t know that the blogs I was talking about knew about my blog… well long story short, I found a great way to do link exchange and I wasn’t even trying!

~~EK

New From The Twighlight Manor Press: 2008 Calendar


Twighlight Manor Press on LuLu
Twighlight Manor Art by Wendy C. Allen 2008 12 month calendar
All art, drawings, and paintings by Wendy C. Allen, featureing the characters from the Twighlight Manor series, including EelKat, Sir Roderic, Etiole, Xavier, and more.
Price: $19.79

SPAM???

(¯`•Stormraven•._) wrote: define spam?

on my board im puttin a spam board, and most people that are joined to my forum dont know what spam is, so i wanna put an announcment about ‘what is spam’, can someone help me out and write me the announcment?EDIT: please P

So you want to know about SPAM? All right.

Did you know?

The word SPAM is not an acronym at all. It comes from a famous “Monty Python” sketch wherein a customer at a cafe is bombarded with SPAM, the only item on the menu. A chorus of Vikings revel with the song: “SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, SPAM, lovely SPAM, wonderful SPAM.”

Additionally, SPAM is a Hormel product named after “spicy ham” that served as the basis of the sketch.

So what exactly is this thing called SPAM on places like email, blogs, and message boards?

What is SPAM?

That depends on what you are really asking.

SPAM is illeagle, not only is it illeagle, but it is a criminal act, an FBI reportable offense, that can result in a $25,000 fine, and for the worst offenders a prison sentance.

What is SPAM?

SPAM is the posting of links to illeagle web-sites, such as those promoting Porn or drugs; usually through emails, blog comments, or “guest posts” on message boards.

HOWEVER:

SPAM has come to mean many other things as well… and today is used very losely to discribe a wide variaty of interrnet activities.

Most of us today, know SPAM as the posting of multi-links to a single web site…SEE THIS POST HERE FOR AN EXAMPLE… this type of SPAM is usually done by Bloggers hoping to raise their blog ranks through pingbacks and inbound links… like the “true” SPAM it too, is an FBI reportable offence (admins getting this type of posting on their site can go to the FBI website, and file a report of “online harasment”)

the type of SPAM you are refereing to is known as “friendly” SPAM… this is when an admin of a blog or forum invites members to post comments that are totally pointless and usually only one or two words such as:

LOL!

)

Got Ya!

I Won!

so… does that answer your question?

~~EK

Blogs for Writers: Fourth Round of Blog Additions

Here is the next round of blogs I plan to add to the Z-List for Writers:

The Working Writers Coach

Sylvia’s Insight
Writer in the Making
Ink In My Coffee
Grow Your Writing Business
DESiGN YOUR WRiTiNG LiFE
KCWrite4u
Wealth of Words
Content Done Better
Writers in the Sky
Musings from a Writer
JM Writing and Editing Services
Renegade Writer
Mrs. Write Right, Word Therapist (aka Writer-Editor)
Practicing Writing
WritingThoughts
Engaging Pages For Working Writers
A writer’s life and times
Six Figure Writers
Write For Life
Writers and Authors
Muse Writers Peer Awards
Will Write 4 Food
National Association of Writers’ Groups
My Words, My Way
Writing for Reason
Funds for Writers
Beginner’s Guide to Freelance Writing
The Rural Writer
Paperback Writer
Creatively Self-Employed
Ye Old Inkwell
Writers in the Sky
Bleeding Ink
Editing for Everyone
Newbie’s Guide to Publishing
Irene Goodman
academia
Pub Rants
EVIL EDITOR
iUniverse
Budding Authors
NaNoWriMo
World of Words
Miss Snark
Absolute Write
101 Sites
Agent Query

Weirdly Wednesday: THEY’RE MADE OUT OF MEAT

Well, it’s Wednesday once again, and you know what that means. That means it’s time for me to post the Star Log’s latest addition to Weirdly Wednesday. If you are new to The Star Log or to Weirdly Wednesday than here is what Weirdly Wednesday is all about:

Weirdly Wednesday

 weirdly wednesday

You can find “Weirdly Wednesday” posts at these sites:

1) http://atlindas.wordpress.com
2) http://fracas.wordpress.com 
3) http://eelkat.wordpress.com
4)… add your site here…



Want to join us in Weirdly Wednesdays? Here’s how it works.
On Wednesdays, post a “Weirdly Wednesday” post… a weird site, the weirdest search term in your stats, something from Hollyweird. Whatever.    Link to www.atlindas.wordpress.com  — Let me know and I’ll link back to you.

This weeks addition from EK’s Star Log:

Star Log started out in life as a place for writer’s, or at least that’s what I had intended it to be. That’s why you well find so many posts such as Writing Exercises, and info about writing fiction. Well, so far my posts for Weirdly Wednesday, have had nothing to do with writing. Today that changes, after I found this bit of short sci-fi: THEY’RE MADE OUT OF MEAT.
LOL!

ROTFLMAS!

hhhhhhmmmm…. humans…. yummy

Blogs for Writers: Third Round of Blog Additions

Here once again are more blogs for/by writers, which are to be included in the Writer’s Z-List…

Self-Publishing
ZDocs Blog
The Golden Pencil
DarkMoon Press
Home of the Children’s Writers Coaching Club
SmallPress Blog
Tumbled Words
yoga gumbo
The Writing Show
Stories Rule!
Murderous Ink
Advice on Novel Writing by Crawford Kilian
Right Writing
Fiction Writing Site
Fiction Factor

this last addition is not really a writer’s blog nor a blog by a writer, but I thought it would be of great interest to writers, and so I am adding it to this list as well:
Pretty Good on Paper
How many words do you actually use?
Which words do you own?–Neil Gaiman

Blog Review: Tiddledeewinks

A blog which EK’s highly recommends:

Friday, March 16, 2007

 

Check out my newest designs on fun products
Current mood: optimistic
Category: Life

Check out these new original designs from me and the kids on fun products! Let me know if there are other products you want to see for sale. Go to these web sites to see and purchase. www.cafepress.com/doggiebiscuits  www.cafepress.com/doggiebiscuitsb  (Jordan’s design-age 12). www.cafepress.com/letsrockstar  (Johnny’s design-age 15). www.cafepress.com/skullblackred  (mine). www.cafepress.com/joshuastiger  and www.cafepress.com/joshuaspenguin (Joshua’s- age 14, done when he was 11).

Currently reading :
You Call the Shots: Succeed Your Way– And Live the Life You Want– With the 19 Essential Secrets of Entrepreneurship
By Cameron Johnson
Release date: By 09 January, 2007

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Second Round of Blog Additions

Here is the second round of blogs I plan to add to the Z-List for Writers:

Writing Fiction
Crime Fiction Dossier
Kathryn Cramer
WritersWrite.com
Writer’s Beware
The Fiction Writing Blog: Articles, Writing Exercises, Prompts and More….
sfsignal.com
Bowing to the Future
David Louis Edelman
Louise Marley
Among Amid While
Authors Blogs
The Writer’s Life

Weirdly Wednesday

Weirdly Wednesday

 weirdly wednesday

You can find “Weirdly Wednesday” posts at these sites:

1) http://atlindas.wordpress.com
2) http://fracas.wordpress.com 
3) http://eelkat.wordpress.com
4)… add your site here…



Want to join us in Weirdly Wednesdays? Here’s how it works.
On Wednesdays, post a “Weirdly Wednesday” post… a weird site, the weirdest search term in your stats, something from Hollyweird. Whatever.    Link to www.atlindas.wordpress.com  — Let me know and I’ll link back to you.

This weeks addition from EK’s Star Log:

A Chinese Scientist discovered that the Earth is round during the Han Dynasty by measuring the sun and moon’s path in the sky. He recorded this fact down in the imperial records but went unnoticed until it was unearthed recently but Chinese archaeologists.

First Round of Blog Additions

Here is the first round of blogs I plan to add to the Z-List for Writers:

Writing White Paper
Fiction Scribe
How To Write and Blog Better
Write Now!
So You Want To Write
Rosebud
Lighthouses
Storyteller
INKSLINGER
Book Blog
Alicia’s Writing Forum
A Writers Words an Editors Eye
Suspence Thriller
The Conjurers
A Writers Eye With Jacob Malewitz
Bearing Life
52 Novels
Write and Publish Fiction
Custom Book Publishing
Library Girl
CopyBlogger
Freelance Writing Jobs
These Words
Finding the Right Words
Reading For Writers
Successful Blog(gers)
Copy Writer Underground
Angela Booth’s Writing Blog
Ink Thinker
Ask Allison
Content Done Better
The Golden Pencil
Blogs In Space
The Human Race
The Black Blog(Italian)
OLIN e-Book e-Publishing
How to Promote Your Self-Published eBook (or Print!)
Corner of Writers Block
Scribe Life
O Making Many Books
Dragons of the Pyramid Book Reviews
WriteLines
Fantasy SF Horror

Is your blog on this list? If not let me know so I can add it.

Blogs for Writers

 

I’m planning on doing an update for my Z-List for writers. I’ll be posting the new edition in the next week or so. For now I am searching the net for blogs geared for writers, blogs by writers, blogs about the writing life, blogs that give writing lessons, and other such blogs that would be of interest to novelists everywhere. While most of the blogs I have added thus far are blogs that I read, I am looking for suggestions. What I mean is: If you are a writer and you have a blog for other writers, feel free to leave a comment on this post with a link to your blog so I can check it out. If it fits the type of blog I’m looking for, I’ll add it to the next edition of The Z-List for Writers. I look forward to reading your blogs.

For those of you who don’t know what The Z-List is, here is an explaination:

Like the chain letter, the Z-List contains addresses, but it differant in that it never asks you to buy anything. You don’t even have to buy a stamp. The Z-List is the chain mail for bloggers. It gets a blog pingbacks and inbound links, and helps to send more traffic to the blog, hopefully traffic that well stay on to become regular readers.

Anyone can start a Z-List. It’s easy. Just take a list of Blogs which you enjoy reading, and put them in a post on your own blog. Some say not to add your Blog to the list, while others say to go ahead and put your Blog right on the top of the list. Well, it’s your Blog and your list so you can put links to any Blog you please in it.

With the list you leave a message, asking that the next person to read this post, copies it and pastes it into the next post they make on their own Blog. They are free to add as many Blog links to the list as they like, and they are welcome to remove any links that are already in the list, if they feel that theose Blogs are inappropiate to be linked back to their own Blog.

Most Z-Lists start out with five or ten links, but after being passed on to just ten more bloggers, that Z-List can quickly have 100 or more links in it. The advantage of this is, that for each post, that each Blog in each link, well recieve a ping-back for that post. In other words, their Blog becomes linked to your Blog and your Blog to thiers, making it a win-win situation for both your Blog and their Blog, by raising the inbound link ranking with such places a Technorati and Google, meaning that you Blog moves higher in the ranks on search engins, resulting in more people finding your Blog and giving you more readers. Great huh? Absolutely!

P.$.

I only accept family friendly blogs into my Z-Lists, so blogs that promote sex, porn, hate, racism, violence, hunting, guns, drugs, and other such acts are never added to any of my Z-Lists. If after addition to one of my Z-Lists, I later find that such posts and links have been added to the blog, the blogs link well be removed from all of my Z-Lists.

Please note, that spam posts are deleted automaticlynow, cause I got sick of scrolling through dozens of Porn and sex posts. Blogs that are about or link to sex or porn sites are automaticle scanned and deleted and I never even see them at all now, sobe sure your blog has no sex or porn on it or linked to it, before you post it, because it well never be reviewd if it does.

  

This is the Z-List for Writers as it originally appeared. As you can see, it was thrown together as I read the blogs, with no rhymn nor reason. The new edition, well be in alphabetical order.

The Z-List, EK Edition 1.0: Blogs for Writers

The Copywriting Maven
Click Here to Advertise on My Blog
EK’s Star Log, the Pink Edition
EK’s MySpace Blog
Wayfarers Journal
Calling On All Serius Bloggers To Read This And Respond
Are most writing contests even worth it anymore?
Writer’s Block
writers are horribly boring
journalcomic
Troy Worman’s Blog
Copywriter’s Crucible
Copywriting Tuneups
bizsolutionsplus 
Servant of Chaos
darrenbarefoot.com
ANITA’S OWL CREEK BRIDGE
Decadent Tranquility
Welcome to Axe’s Asylum
NaNoWriMo: I Won!
Whew!
Hawaii, My New Novelwriting : thinkmap visual thesaurus
1minute book reviews
livingthequarterlife
Naughty Heather
Mom & Much More
ninglun
lew-lew
Writing Mamas take note
what you write
the book
Blog Of The Problematique
Chasing The Starlight
Saipan Writer
a lifetime of dreaming
 antithete
Michigan::Flint Red Hot Writers Blog
1 Word 2 Words
NaNoCaiRo
The Dream Thief
Reality is Running Away

Romiet-and-Julio

WOW! This blogger did such a great job ay writing this review that I want to go see it now! (that is a rare thing… I’m usually very critical of reviews!)

Here it is so you can judge it for yourself:

Romiet and Julio

Monday February 12th 2007, b:36 am
Filed under: Shakespeare, Gender, Drama, Culture, women

I attended a performance of Romeo and Juliet this past Thursday. When buying my tickets—at the amazing student price of $10—I realized that I had never seen a “classic” rendition of the play. The two shows I attended in the past were art-house performances and wildly interpretive. These adaptations attempted to create a new edge to the show, but ultimately portrayed the exact same message without much of a twist, aside from some crazy symbolism involving shoes and a dead girl.

The thought that I was going to see a “normal” performance had me feeling excited and cultured. Because I was excited, it’s needless to say that my bubble was about to burst. Not two days before the play I noticed an article in the local news paper titled “Romeo and Juliet: Shakespeare’s tale of life, love and death takes a twist.” Wah Wah, bring in the decrescendo-ing trombone . There went my idea of a night at the playhouse.

I read the article skimming for whatever “gritty” or “refreshing” “twist” the show would take and found that the theater company putting on the show, The Aquila Theater Company, would perform the classic script of Romeo and Juliet but would draw their parts from a hat.

At first this baffled me, but then the possibilities crept into my mind. Did this mean that the couple could be homosexual? Could the roles be reversed? Would Capulet be a cross-dressing, pants-wearing matriarch? Apparently, yes, yes and yes.

These amazing possibilities are plausible because supposedly—I’m still a bit skeptical–each member of the 6 person cast has learned every part in the play, and audience members draw the actors’ and actresses’ parts from bags.

The show could take any one of numerous twists. The performance I attended remained fairly neutral except that Romeo was a middle-aged man, Juliet: a younger woman, a man played the nurse and a woman portrayed Benvolio.

The performers did an amazing job; the nurse was especially hilarious, partly due to the fact that she was a he talking about breast feeding but mostly because the actor did a superb job and played the part well.

Mercutio developed into an amazing character, and while still mischievous, quick-witted and sly, he was played more flamboyantly than I’m accustomed to, which was not a negative point at all; he was even more entertaining than usual.

While the idea seemed strange and very un-classic, I realized that the performance, which had a minimal cast, a conservative setting and few props, probably came closer to an authentic, classic performance than any glamorous movie or “classic” rendition I could have seen or may ever see.

Not only are some of the female characters played by men, but the performance they gave contained much more humor than any renditions I have seen; the actors emphasized many lines, mostly sexual, that had been so unobtrusive in other performance, that I’d never noticed them. The minimal setting and props also seems more realistic from when Shakespeare’s plays and theater traveled through Europe.

The actual dialogue of the play struck me the most, because even though it was the same script, it seemed less pretentious than usual, and the flamboyant, often crude tones of voice and gestures only added to that feeling; however strange this sounds, it seems more accurate. Shakespeare wrote and performed for mass audiences, not just the elite, and that relatability and humor inclusive manner of performing would be key to keeping everyone interested and happy.

The performance was great, and the message we’ve become so accustomed to was given a new twist. Even the thought of a Romiet and Juliet, a Romeo and Julio or a Romiet and Julio was enough to drive home the idea of respecting, expecting and accepting diverse couples with love ultimately being the only important issue.

As a rose by any other name sounds as sweet, love, in any form it takes, remains as pure and strong.

Now I ask you… wasn’t that a great review?

~~EK

Some Blogs I Read

As you have probly figured out by now, I like to post links to other blogs in my posts… this is another of those times! LOL! Today I thought I’d post links to the blogs I have commented on recently. So, here they are:

Commented: Is there an owl in your future?

Commented: This little mouse.

Commented: The owls

Commented: New Friends

Commented: By Hand.

Commented: Dr. Who?

Commented: Jedi Mail from the US Postal Service

Hand Over the Doggie Biscuits and No One Gets Peed On!

As posted on Xaveir’s Nest: Hand Over the Doggie Biscuits and No One Gets Peed On!

 

New from Copper Cockeral

Doggie Biscuits ***

Doggie Biscuits Black ***

Hand over the doggie buscuits and no one gets peed on!Doggie Biscuits T-Shirt Dog T-Shirt whiteDog t-shirt black Dog T-Shirt

 




*** These designs by J.J. Voldy’s Assistant

Product Review: BremanTown Musicians

As posted on Xavier’s Nest:

Copper Cockeral’s newest design is Bremen Town Musicians featuring 4 of EelKat’s pets: Thunder Puff the wild pony, Junior the Bearded Collie, Utopia the Albino Siamese Cat, and Spot the White Crested Black Polish Rooster.

 Dog T-ShirtBrementown  Ornament (Oval) Golf ShirtBrementown Button Tote Bag Greeting Cards (Package of 6)

Copper Cockeral Introduces it’s New Blog: Xavier’s Nest

The following is an introductory quote from Xavier’s Nest:

Copper Cockeral Cards & Gifts began in November of 2003 when I got this computer I ue today and the free printer that came with it. I had the printer set up in less than an hour and by the end of the day I had gone through 2 reams of paper and card stock, after printing up hundreds of sample designs for cards, stationary, and what not. The printer being also a scanner, ment that I had set out to scanning all of my paintings into the computer as well. One of those paintings I call, The Copper Cockeral. It’s a close up of a rooster’s head, painted an aged copper green-blue. I shrunk it down to a tiny logo and printed it on the back of everything I printed up. A month later I was printing up Christmas cards for paper carriers to hand out o their customers, as task which I continued to do for the next 3 years. And so began Copper Cockeral’s early days as poor quality printed off a free printer. I was happy that I had gotten this business off and running, but I was very displeased with the quality. I went on to test out the quality of four more printers and every type of paper I could find, but still none meet my standerds of perfection.

In the meantime however, I discovered an online printer called Zazzle, who would take my designs and put them on thier products, allowing me to build a website to sell them on. I was intreged and quickly set up my own Zazzle Gallery. In those days Zazle offered 3 products: cards, plain white t-shirts, and posters. Today Zazzle has expanded their line to include buttons, bumper stickers, silk ties, t-shirts in every color imaginable, US Postage stamps, keyrings, posters, framed prints, mugs, hats, totebags, and lots more. As they expand their line, so too does Copper Cockeral.

My income with Zazzle has been hit and miss, mostly due to the fact that they do nothing to promot your line. It’s up to you to do that, marketing and advertising was not something I was interested in, I was more interested in creating the products than promoting them, and back than, the Space Dock 13 Network did not yet exist.

Displeased with the slow sale of Zazzle (and still not marketing on my own) I set out in search of another printer. This time I found CafePress. CafePress, at the time, only had 14 products; today they have 90. Compareing CafePress’s 14 products to Zazzle’s 3, I realized that there was so much room for me to expand the Copper Cockeral line. CafePress not oonly had cards and t-shirts, but they also had clockes, cups, and ceramic tile jewerly boxes. Copper Cockeral expanded.

Today Copper Cockeral embraces both Zazzle and CafePress, offering over 60 designs each on more than 150 products. While most of the line is still designed by me (Wendy C. Allen / EelKat), there are 4 others also creating designs: my three brothers and our mom.

Starting on February 16, 2007, Copper Cockeral now has it’s own web site, still under construction as I type this, but online and taking orders.

This site which you are reading right now, is the blog for Copper Cockeral, named Xavier’s Nest, in memory of the long line of real copper cockerals all named Xavier that have lived on our farm over the years. The original Xavier was Xavier Logan, a character out of my Twighlight Manor series: a wild rock star from planet Flame, most noted for his long firey-red hair and his neon yellow clothes trimmed in pink. In 1989, our farm expanded to include a flock of 25 bantam roosters, which saddly got lost in the mail, and shipped to us 3 days late, with all but one having died. That one went on to become my first Xavier, the first of many. Xavier roosters are always green-eyed Partrige Cochins, a rare mutation, with brilliant green eyes and bright firey red feathers, that oddly resemble Xavier Logan, for whom they are named.

Weirdly Wednesdays: A Bird that Eats Cars.

I just came across this and thought it was a good idea:

Weirdly Wednesday

 weirdly wednesday

You can find “Weirdly Wednesday” posts at these sites:

1) http://atlindas.wordpress.com
2) http://fracas.wordpress.com 
3) …



Want to join us in Weirdly Wednesdays? Here’s how it works.
On Wednesdays, post a “Weirdly Wednesday” post… a weird site, the weirdest search term in your stats, something from Hollyweird. Whatever.    Link to www.atlindas.wordpress.com  — Let me know and I’ll link back to you.

and so, here is my addition to the weirdness for this day:
The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows!

Kea – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

1856

Kea have red feathers under the wings

Kea have red feathers under the wings

Habitat & Nutrition

Keas range along the whole South Island of New Zealand, yet they are closely bound to the southern beech (Nothofagus) forests in the alpine ridge. In one study nest sites occur at a density of 1 per 4.4km². Nest sites are usually positioned on the ground underneath large beech trees, in rock crevices or dug burrows between roots. They are accessed by tunnels leading back 1m to 6m into a larger chamber, which is furnished with lichens, moss, ferns and rotting wood. The laying period starts in January and reaches into July (Jackson 1960). As omnivores, Kea are known to feed on more than 40 plant species (Tab. 1), on beetle larva, meat and foods provided by humans. Keas have also been taking advantage of human garbage and “gifts”. In captivity, these birds are very fond of butter, all forms of nuts, apples, carrots, grapes, mangos, figs, bread, dairy products, ground meat and even pasta. When roaming around, They might even chip paint the roofs of cars (if cars are near) and eat that.

Thinking Blogger Awards

I was just reading THIS POST on THIS BLOG, and thought it was such a great idea that I had to copy the post over to here, so that I could keep it for future referance… it gave me some new ideas on blog promotion, now I must go work on that.

Thinking Blogger Awards

March 2nd, 2007 by womensspace

Thinking Blogger Award

I am a normally a conscientious objector to the “meme” or “tagged” thingy :P , but I kinda like the idea of the “Thinking Blogger Award,” and since Witchy-Woo tagged me, I figured, why not, just this one time.  )

These are the rules:

1. If/when you get tagged, write a post with links to five blogs that make you think.

2. Also link to this post so that readers can track the meme to its origins.

3. If you want, display the ‘Thinking Blogger Award’ on your blog with pride – and a link to the post you wrote to pass it on.

Of course, there are far more than five blogs which make me think! Everybody who blogs and posts here makes me think!  Everybody who posts here and doesn’t have a blog makes me think! But here goes anyway.

Ballastexistenz  Reading Amanda Baggs’s writings at Ballastexistenz has been and is an ongoing experience of consciousness-raising for me.  Her posts and comments about language, coercion, medicine, psychology, her day-to-day life  as an autistic woman,  are a goldmine.  They continually challenge, provoke and inspire me.  I know Amanda is tired right now because of recent media publicity, and I hope being tagged will be a welcome and energizing diversion as opposed to a burden! 

Radical Goddess Theology  I really appreciate Athana’s thoughtful, interesting and educated writings about the dangers of male deities to all life, about saving the planet, and about the centrality and primacy of unconditional love as modeled by female deities.   I love her writings about mutuality, gifting and gift economies, matriarchy (as not an “-archy” at all), consensus decision-making,  and the importance of bringing the day of the male bully gods to an end.

Stanselen  I am really appreciating Jo, who is an anarchafeminist.  I’ve connected with a couple anarchafeminists recently online, have added them to my blogroll and vice versa, and I am loving reading them!  There’s an old Second Wave article around somewhere in which the author says something like, “Anarchy is the theory, radical feminism is the practice.”  So true!  I connect so well with these women’s writings because at their core, our views are so much the same.  I’ve got a blog post fomenting about anarchy and am looking forward to writing it, thanks, in part to reading Jo and her sister anarchafeminists.

Midwife: Sage Femme This is the beautifully-written blog of a  homebirth midwife who is lesbian mother.  She and her partner are raising their three children together.  I so appreciate Sage Femme’s compassionate, respectful, woman-honoring writings, her amazing birth stories, her counsel in the tradition of wise woman healers and mystics, and her practical, down-to-earth advice.

Amy’s Brain Today  Amy and her partner, Kya, are radical feminist lesbian separatists whose writings and photographs never fail to inspire and teach me, whether they’re writing about the oppression of women,  their land dyke oddyssey, womyn’s community, war tax resistance, woman-only space, radical feminist sexuality, radical feminist history or theory, whatever they write about, they write as thoughtful revolutionaries committed to living the dream in all of its mundane, difficult, frustrating, challenging, heady and nourishing glory.  I’m so glad you two are in the world!  You give me so much hope.

Well, I could go on like this forever.  I would have liked to include Professor Zero, Chasing Moksha, Shannon at Egotistical Whining,  Twisty, Sokari at Black Looks, Trula Mama, Womanish Words, Tiyospayenow, Uppity, Rural Womyn, Ginmar, Compartments, Ann Bartow, Heather, argh, there are way too many women who make me think!  But I have to follow instructions, so those are my five.  )

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This is kind of a lot like my “beloved” Z-Lists crossed with web reviews… such a great thing to do!

~~EK

The Z-List, EK Edition 2.04: The Ultimate D-List

Like the chain letter, the Z-List contains addresses, but it differant in that it never asks you to buy anything. You don’t even have to buy a stamp. The Z-List is the chain mail for bloggers. It gets a blog pingbacks and inbound links, and helps to send more traffic to the blog, hopefully traffic that well stay on to become regular readers.

Anyone can start a Z-List. It’s easy. Just take a list of Blogs which you enjoy reading, and put them in a post on your own blog. Some say not to add your Blog to the list, while others say to go ahead and put your Blog right on the top of the list. Well, it’s your Blog and your list so you can put links to any Blog you please in it.

With the list you leave a message, asking that the next person to read this post, copies it and pastes it into the next post they make on their own Blog. They are free to add as many Blog links to the list as they like, and they are welcome to remove any links that are already in the list, if they feel that theose Blogs are inappropiate to be linked back to their own Blog.

Most Z-Lists start out with five or ten links, but after being passed on to just ten more bloggers, that Z-List can quickly have 100 or more links in it. The advantage of this is, that for each post, that each Blog in each link, well recieve a ping-back for that post. In other words, their Blog becomes linked to your Blog and your Blog to thiers, making it a win-win situation for both your Blog and their Blog, by raising the inbound link ranking with such places a Technorati and Google, meaning that you Blog moves higher in the ranks on search engins, resulting in more people finding your Blog and giving you more readers. Great huh? Absolutely!

Daily Blog Tips

DaisyCake — oh yeah! crafty crap!

Dane Carlson

darrenbarefoot.com

Design Sojourn

Did You Ever Get the Feeling… Difference Make Identity

The Digital Cloud

Dinosaurs: A Creationist’s Fairy Tale

Dipping into the Blogpond

Dishpan Dribble Do You Have Issues?

DoshDosh

DotMySpot.com

Dove Pro-Age Campaign

Drew’s Marketing Minute

A droll way to look at things.

The Z-List, EK Edition 2.03: The Ultimate C-List

Like the chain letter, the Z-List contains addresses, but it differant in that it never asks you to buy anything. You don’t even have to buy a stamp. The Z-List is the chain mail for bloggers. It gets a blog pingbacks and inbound links, and helps to send more traffic to the blog, hopefully traffic that well stay on to become regular readers.

Anyone can start a Z-List. It’s easy. Just take a list of Blogs which you enjoy reading, and put them in a post on your own blog. Some say not to add your Blog to the list, while others say to go ahead and put your Blog right on the top of the list. Well, it’s your Blog and your list so you can put links to any Blog you please in it.

With the list you leave a message, asking that the next person to read this post, copies it and pastes it into the next post they make on their own Blog. They are free to add as many Blog links to the list as they like, and they are welcome to remove any links that are already in the list, if they feel that theose Blogs are inappropiate to be linked back to their own Blog.

Most Z-Lists start out with five or ten links, but after being passed on to just ten more bloggers, that Z-List can quickly have 100 or more links in it. The advantage of this is, that for each post, that each Blog in each link, well recieve a ping-back for that post. In other words, their Blog becomes linked to your Blog and your Blog to thiers, making it a win-win situation for both your Blog and their Blog, by raising the inbound link ranking with such places a Technorati and Google, meaning that you Blog moves higher in the ranks on search engins, resulting in more people finding your Blog and giving you more readers. Great huh? Absolutely!

Calico Monkey

Calling On All Serius Bloggers To Read This And Respond

Can I Make Big Money Online

The Case of The Bulletproof Harpist

Celebrating Holidays Everyday Celebrityday

Chasing The Moon……

Cherry, Plum, Peach and Damson Blossoms CKs Blog

Click Here to Advertise on My Blog

Clo’s Fascinating Things.

Coffee2go

Coleman Web – The personal Website of Anthony P. Coleman

The College Marketer

Community Guy

Composing Myself

Conspiracy Theory, UFOs, and Alternative Topics

converstations

Copywriter’s Crucible

The Copywriting Maven

Copywriting Tuneups

CrapHammer

Creating Passionate Users

Creative Confusion

Crisisblogger

Critique My Blog

Crumbling Spires

Customers Rock!

Curbside View

The Z-List, EK Edition 2.02: The Ultimate B-List

Like the chain letter, the Z-List contains addresses, but it differant in that it never asks you to buy anything. You don’t even have to buy a stamp. The Z-List is the chain mail for bloggers. It gets a blog pingbacks and inbound links, and helps to send more traffic to the blog, hopefully traffic that well stay on to become regular readers.

Anyone can start a Z-List. It’s easy. Just take a list of Blogs which you enjoy reading, and put them in a post on your own blog. Some say not to add your Blog to the list, while others say to go ahead and put your Blog right on the top of the list. Well, it’s your Blog and your list so you can put links to any Blog you please in it.

With the list you leave a message, asking that the next person to read this post, copies it and pastes it into the next post they make on their own Blog. They are free to add as many Blog links to the list as they like, and they are welcome to remove any links that are already in the list, if they feel that theose Blogs are inappropiate to be linked back to their own Blog.

Most Z-Lists start out with five or ten links, but after being passed on to just ten more bloggers, that Z-List can quickly have 100 or more links in it. The advantage of this is, that for each post, that each Blog in each link, well recieve a ping-back for that post. In other words, their Blog becomes linked to your Blog and your Blog to thiers, making it a win-win situation for both your Blog and their Blog, by raising the inbound link ranking with such places a Technorati and Google, meaning that you Blog moves higher in the ranks on search engins, resulting in more people finding your Blog and giving you more readers. Great huh? Absolutely!

Bathos

Battlestar Galactica Blog BecKaDoodles

Being Peter Kim

Billions With Zero Knowledge

bizsolutionsplus

Blogging Secret

Blogging to Fame

Blog-Op

Blogtrepreneur

BlogSire

Bob Sutton

Boise Wants Jay Mariotti

The Branding Blog

Branding & Marketing

Branding and Marketing

BrandSizzle

Broadband and Me

Bullshitobserver

The Busy Dad Buzzoodle

The Z-List, EK Edition 2.0: The Ultimate A-Z-List: Update

Because there are so many links in the A-Z-List, all in one post, the scrpit keeps coming back with a coding error, and loads the page incorrectly. As a result, the links blend together as a one long solid link instead of several. So I am updating the list, so that each letter has it’s own list. Watch for them to show up here soon!