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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

Summary of results:

• Google Page Rank for this page:
• Yahoo! has found 774 links to this site.
• MSN Search has found 3,026 links to this site.
• Blogrolling.com has found 0 blogrolls that contain this link.
• Google Backlink Search: 52 linking to eelkat.wordpress.com
• Alexa Traffic Details: eelkat.wordpress.com
• Technorati Search: found 80 links to this URL eelkat.wordpress.com
• Icerocket Search: 7 links to eelkat.wordpress.com
• Del.icio.us Bookmarks: this url has been saved by 1 person. eelkat.wordpress.com

 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

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

Attracting Readers & Keep Them Comming Back For More!

I’m doing more reading than writing tonight! LOL! Well, I just found yet another great post I had to pass on to my readers. Here it is:

Hypnotize Your Visitors!
March 22nd, 2007 — Diana Chance

Invaluable information! -When marketing your blog/website, remember the following acronym: AIDAS – Attract, Interest, Desire, Action, and Satisfaction.

If you follow these tips, not only will you be able to entice surfers to your site but keep them coming back for more.

ONLY AESTHETICS MAY NOT TIC

Most of us think about web site design in terms of our aesthetic preferences, but good web site design incorporates some fundamental elements that will make your web site work for your business and your customers.

ITS-ALL-ABOUT-READABILITY – Its all about readability

Make “readability” a fundamental part of your web site design If you want a professional-looking web site design that encourages visitors to read about your business, products or services, the first thing to do is to make sure visitors can, in fact, “read”. Stay away from all capitals in your writing and use common fonts that are easy to read.

LET THE LOGIC PREVAIL

Organize content into logical sections. Make it a snap for visitors to find information.

BROWSING NOT READING

Incorporate headlines into your web site design. Web users will browse more often than read. Use headlines and subheadings to give customers a quick idea of what your page has to offer. Someone in a hurry should be able to read your headlines and subheadings to quickly understand what products, services, and benefits they will get. Put your most important phrases in bold letters, too.

BULLETS WILL HIT THE RIGHT PLACE

Include bold words, bullet points, section titles and short paragraphs. The visual experience on a web site is quite different than on a printed page.

NO BACKGROUND NOISE

Never (really, we mean never) use patterned or distracting background images as part of your web site design. Your content will be “lost” in the noise.

EASY ON THE EYES

Eliminate bright background colors with bright text. Make reading easy on the eyes. Basic colors and a white background do best with the many different ways your page will look on different monitors.

STRUCTURED APPROACH

Make “Structure” an integral part of Good web site design It’s a good idea to map out the pages of your site; in effect, design the sitemap first. Find the most logical, most direct way to link your pages to one another. Think like your customers – if you were visiting your site, how would you want to find information? Better yet, get your customers to tell you!

PLAN BEFORE PLUNGE

Good web site design practices start with good planning. Don’t develop a single graphic until you’ve set up a skeleton site and done some real-world testing to see if the structure makes sense. Sit your employees or customers down and see if they can navigate your site easily and locate information quickly.

BE CONSISTENT

A good web site design will always (yes, we mean always) use navigation consistently. That means that your common navigational elements will be in the same place, and will have the same look on every single page of your site.

STANDARD PRACTICE

Sometimes, good web site design is simply following standard practices. Keep your logo in the upper left hand corner of the page and use it to link from your interior pages back to your home page. And use common names for things – “home” for home and “about us” for a page about you. If you have a search field, put it prominently near the top of your page. Most people have grown accustomed to these basic web site design principles.

WHEN “MORE” IS NOT ALWAYS “BETTER”

It’s a safe bet to say that all businesses want an effective web site. But what’s “effective” and what’s “excessive”? When it comes to good web site design, more is not always
better. Yes, your site can flash, blink and sing, but there are reasons not to add that extra feature. By “extra features” we mean things that do not improve your sales, make your business more efficient or advance your goals, but are simply surface enhancements. Music, a twinkling star, graphics that fade in and out.

HAZARDS OF SHOWING OFF TOO MUCH

All of these things may impress you but they may not impress your visitors. Extra features can : o Slow your site down so that people with slow Internet connections might never get through your opening animation. o Stop or inhibit search engines from listing your site. o Annoy visitors so that they leave your site before learning anything, signing up for your newsletter, or making a purchase o Flashing-blinking-singing things can be distracting, repetitious or detract from the real purpose of your site. That isn’t to say that these elements should never be used. Each has its place and can be an integral part of good web site design. But any enhancement should advance your goals, and your animations and music should come equipped with an “off” button.

USE THE RIGHT TECHNIQUE

On the technical side of web site design So far, everything we’ve mentioned has some visible effect on your web site. But there are other “behind the scenes” design elements that can help to make your web site the best it can be. A good web site design professional will take care to be sure that:

GRAPHICS ARE OPTIMIZED FOR DOWNLOAD.

Visitors should be able to get to your web pages quickly, even on slower Internet connections.

COLORS ARE “WEB SAFE”.

Some browsers display a limited color palette. Visitors should be able to view your site in all its glory, whatever their browser.

VISITORS USING LOW RESOLUTION MONITORS CAN SEE YOUR
PRIMARY CONTENT WITHOUT SCROLLING.

It’s usually best to design for the “least common denominator” so that your most important content is immediately visible on all types of monitors.

MULTIPLE BROWSERS, ON MULTIPLE OPERATING SYSTEMS.

Customers come in a variety of shapes and sizes and so do their web tools. People using a Mac, or IE 5.0 should be able to see your site as well as someone using a PC, or Firefox 1.0.

PROOF OF THE PUDDING

Include testimonials from your customers and suppliers. Nothing builds trust with customers and prospects like good words about you from people who know you and have done business with you.

OPTIMISE FOR SEARCH ENGINE

Search engines are the number one way of getting visitors to your site. You will want pages that are easily registered by the top search engines like Excite and Yahoo. Search engines are a lot smarter than they used to be. Most first look at the title of your page (those words that appear in the little box on your browser), then at the page’s Meta Tags, and finally at the copy on your page. If the same keywords appear in all three places, your site gets a high listing. This means that a customer who searches for you using one of your site’s keywords will find you linked in the first 10 to 15 sites the search engine presents. To see what Meta tags look like, go to any popular site, point your cursor at the page, and click the right mouse button. Choose “view source.” The Meta tag looks like this: <meta name=”description” content=”a few words that best describe your site, separated, by, commas”> <meta name=”keywords” content=”the same keywords listed like this:internet marketing, small business, web site promotion, selling, ezines, home based business, marketing, advertising, email marketing,”>

UPDATE OFTEN

Make sure you update your important info often. Search engines, just like customers, check back often to see how your site is progressing. Lots of helpful articles, tips, and a question and answer page will give customers all the information they need. Also include links to other recommended sites like yours. Try to get those sites to add your link as well. Customers will see you as an authority in your field and will appreciate your ability to help them in a variety of ways.

“Hypnotize Your Visitors II” coming soon!

-Diana Chance

Now, I ask you, wasn’t that a great post? I sure do look forward to seeing part 2 of it.

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

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

 

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…

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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

Today’s featured design from Copper Cockeral: Let’s Rock

Today’s featured design from the Copper Cockeral:

As seen on {March 12, 2007}   Tiddledeewinks Blog:

Let’s Rock

 

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*** These designs by Johnny E. Allen

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

 

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

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

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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

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.

March 2nd, 2007 by womensspace

I am a normally a conscientious objector to the “meme” or “tagged” thingy , 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

Ban List Now Required for this Blog :(

Due to the recent slew of spam coming in, I have updated my ban list to include the following:

83.116.247.148
83.116.247.*
72.32.156.130
72.32.156.*
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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 2.0: 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!

The Friends of Star Log Network

EK’s Star Log is a blog for writers, lovers of sci-fi, and just general observations on life, the universe, and everything.

The Friends of Star Log Ning-Network, is for all other bloggers with blogs of similar tastes, that want link together and get more readers for their blogs. All owners of family-friendly blogs are welcomed to join. Thank you for visiting, hope you decide to stick around and join! Once you have joined the network you can add discusions to the forum, post in the group blog, and post links to your own blog//myspace/websites here. I hope to see you around! Thanks for visiting!

Do you enjoy chatting with other bloggers? Want to get more readers to your blog? EelKat has started a Zing Community, just for people like you. Why not join The Friends of EK’s Star Log today?

Friends of EK’s Star Log

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What is the topic of your blog?

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

Note: I am editing this post, so that it’s an a-z list…. 

Still researching Z-Lists… well, this time I searched Google for Z-Lists, and now I’m going to post the longest Z-List you well find any where!

Copy This entire  post to your blog, for inclusion in this The Ultimate Z-List!The Z-List: A great wonderful idea to help advertise blogs. Yes? Yes. I think anyone who has used the Z-List well agree with that. The principle behind the Z-List is the same as a chain letter. In a chain letter, you mail a letter to five people. One that letter is the addresses of five more people. Each person who recieves a letter, adds five new addresses, and sends those to the five addresses on the letter that they had recieved. The piont of a chain mail is to send the same letter to an ever increasing network. Useualy the letter is an advertisement for something being sold. Basicly it’s a lot of free advertiseing for a company, based on “word of mouth”.

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!

Absorbingneutrino

adsense4dummies

Adventures in Parenting Adventures in the SF Trade

Africa Unchained

aialone

The All-Grown-Up Woman

Ally’s

Anderson Daily Photo

Andrew pakpahanAngel Feathers Tickle Me

Anne 2.0

Another great blog about earning money

Anthony’s Blog

Apache

Are most writing contests even worth it anymore?

Arthur’s Hall of Viking Manliness

Aspiring Comedian

The Asylum of TerminalFrost

Altjiranga Mitjina Awesomely Amazing

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

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

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. EK’s MySpace Blog

EK’s Star Log

EK’s Star Log, the Pink Edition

ElsaElsa – The Advice Blog

The Emerging Brand

Emily Chang – eHub

The Engaging Brand

eSoup

FEAR AND LOATHING IN LONDON

Ficken Chingers

Flee the Cube

Flooring the Consumer

For Queen and Country

Frank Uncovers Excellence in Leadership Frazzled Lashawn

Frozen Puck

The Fun Hunt

Getting Rich

gDiapers

Giraffe Blog!

Golden Practices

Grasshopper Ramblings

Gritty Thoughts

Guy Fawkes

Half a Dozen Streets

Haunting Thunder

Hee-Haw Marketing

Hidoi Desu: Sayonara’s Dull Blog

Hillary Clinton’s Blog

Hits and Mythses

Hochiak! Delicious Asian Food

¡Hola! Oi! Hi!

Home with Heather

How to Earn Money Blogging

How To Earn Money Online

I didn’t understand ghosts and spirits If Ya Want to Make Money In.co.her.ent~ish

Indians in China Indigus Interactive Health

Internet Bazaar

INTRADAY TIPS Is there God indeed?

I’ve got you under my skin

Jake and Sarah

John Wagner

Jottings From Jersey

journalcomic

Journey to a new found ME!

Kinetic Ideas

kipperfrog

Knitty In Pink

Kumiko’s Cash Quest

La Bella Noire’s Ramblings

Late Developer

Learning To Be Dad

Lee Carlon’s Writing Blog

Life

The Life and Times of Apparently Crazy Lil’ Duck Duck

Logic + Emotion

MapleLeaf 2.0

Marketing Nirvana

The Making of an Internet Entrepreneur

The Meaning Of Life

memetherapy.net

Metaphysics As A Guide to Lunch

The Metaresonant Temple

Mike’s Money Making Mission

The Million Dollar Experiment

The million dollar experiment down under

Miscellaneous Adventures of an Aussie Mum

The Moment It Hit

Monetize Your Blog

Money!

The Money Spider’s Guide to Earning Money from your Web Blog

Mountain Bikes And Life The Moving (Middle) Finger Writes Multi-Cult Classics

Musings of a chick

My Journey to One Million Dollars

My Life

my little corner of my little world

My Quest to Success

The Nice Guy

Nick Rice

Nifty Chart

On Influence & Automation

One Reader at a Time

One Student Doctor’s Thoughts

One Thing

Online Money Reviews and Tips

Out in the Parking Lot

Own Your Brand!

Pablo Pabla’s Whatever

Pacifist Guerilla

The PaperBirdBlog

Peculiar Lives

Perspective

PhotoShop Sims

Pixelated Abe Poet Skinny’s Webpicks

Popcorn n Roses

Pow! Right Between The Eyes!

PRACTiCAL CHiCK

Presentation Zen

Promoting Your Site

Quest 4 Sanity

The Quest Of Nik

Quest to make money on the internet Rainyuki

Ramblings Of An Undisturbed Mind Rambling On

Random Encounters of We raving lunacy

Risk Exile An Allegorical

Ruminate this site

RyeUrn – A Blog Kegful of Wry

The Sartorialist

Savvyology Designs

Say It, Don’t Spray It

The Seaside Stitcher

Semicolon

Servant of Chaos

Shameless Complacency

Shut Up and Drink the Kool-Aid!

Shady’s Blog

ShawnAllison.com

Shivered Sky

Shotgun Marketing Blog

Skittles’ Place

Small Surfaces

Smeg’s Window

SMogger Social Media Blog

Smoldering Embers In a Mohawk Campfire

Snark Fest

Social Media on the fly

Social Misfit

Standing under the Sky

SuccessCREEations

Successful Blog

Sunshine

Tawny Taylor

Tell Ten Friends

This Writing Life

Thoughtz from da HEADoc

Time to Budget

To be Mrs. Marv…

Troy Worman’s Blog

Two Hat Marketing

Turn Your Blog Into Money Making Machine

Trapped in the Body of a Civil Servant…Help!!!

The Ugly Truth

The Ultimate “Make Money Online” Blog

Unconventional Thinking

Us Danes & Our Family

Using My Powers for Good

Velcro City Tourist Board

Viaspire

The Weird World of MerapuMan What is Brand?

When You Brake Up With Someone..

Where Worlds Collide The Wicked Bitch of the West Side With A Turn And A Twist She Gets Her Wish

The Wombat Cage

Women, Art, Life: Weaving It All Together

Woolgathering

Working at Home on the Internet

World Blog Collection

Wormbrain

Write now

Writer’s Block

writers are horribly boring

WTIT WVUA-TV Weather Blog

Yada Yada Yada The Z List

Zamphir Panflutemaster

Volume31.org My Fun House 

Life’s a Dance

The Babblings of Whimsicalnbrainpan

Opinion Minions

Acne Treatments and Information

How to get healthier

Naturopathic Medicine

Always Sleepy

PCOS Gurl’s Blog

Meditation for Enlightenment

The Gnostic World of Candy Minx

Brow of Calm

Short Story Blog

Books Love Me

Southern Expressions

Rugjeff’s Blog

The Simple Blog

Investor Market News

Gifts-For-Kids-And-Pets

Paid Mails

Consolidate Debt Loan

Earning online from MyLot

Earn at Home Tips

Some Useless Info

CASHSPEAK

April Decheine 2006 at a glance

Crazed Mama’s Work At Home Strategies

Wizened Wizard

My World

Terri Terri Quite Contrary

The Far Queue

Duct Tape Diaries

Christy’s Coffee Break

Weight Loss Diet

I-Bibliophile Library

Thoughts and Imagery From the World of Karl Moore

Hot Tatoo Dot Com

Blind Copy

SaF Investments

Stello Blog

Bob Sutton

Perspective

Ramblings from a Glass Half Full

Simplicity Mary’s Blog

Funny Business

Creative Think

The Copywriting Maven

Brain Based Biz

Experienceology

QAQNA

Shut Up and Drink the Kool-Aid!

MineThatData

Design Sojourn

aialone

Frozen Puck

Africa Unchained

Energy Blog

Movie Marketing Madness

gDiapers

Time to Budget

Soloride

Girls Swimsuits

Home Business Wiz

Working at Home on the Internet

Kristie T

Asia Inspection Community

Employment Law Colorado

Leading Questions

Steve Olson

Make It Great!

You Already Know This Stuff

HolyMama!

My Marrakesh

Gangster Sonny

Talking Story

AENDirect

Being Peter Kim

BizandBuzz

bizsolutionsplus

Blog Till You Drop!

Branding & Marketing

Business Garden

Buzz Canuck

Buzzoodle

Christine Kane

CKs Blog

Conversation Agent

converstations

CrapHammer

Customers Rock!

Diva Marketing

Dmitry Linkov

Drew’s Marketing Minute

eSoup

Flooring the Consumer

Get Shouty!

Golden Practices

Hee-Haw Marketing

Hola! Oi! Hi!

Jeremy Latham’s Blog

John Wagner

Kinetic Ideas

Logic + Emotion

Marketing Hipster

Marketing Nirvana

Mindblob

Multi-Cult Classics

Nick Rice
On Influence & Automation

OTOInsights

Pardon My French

Pow! Right Between The Eyes!

Purple Wren

Servant of Chaos

Shotgun Marketing Blog

Small Business Blogging

Tell Ten Friends

The Branding Blog

The Experience Curve

The Instigator Blog

The Marketing Minute

The Viral Garden

Two Hat Marketing

Unconventional Thinking

Viaspire

Popcorn n Roses

Current World news

Choice at Your Fingertips

Blogtrepreneur

Can I Make Big Money Online

Dosh Dosh

Internet Bazaar

Kumiko’s Cash Quest

Million Dollar Experiment heads Down Under

Quest to make money on the internet

Above Popular

Critical Fluff

Forged Euphoria

OrbitNow!

The Sartorialist

Bullshitobserver

New Millenium PR

The New PR

Carpe Factum

Work, in Plain English

turned out

Evolution…not just a theory anymore

SEO Blog

Flee the Cube

Community Guy

A Free and Decent Blog Host

Billions With Zero Knowledge

Connected Internet

darrenbarefoot.com

Deepak

MapleLeaf 2.0

Scott Burkett’s Pothole on the Infobahn

Small Surfaces

TechBuzz

Masey.com

Through the Lenses

Travel And Vacation On Blog

The Best Guides to eCommerce with Favor

Web Metrics Guru

The Future of the Web

Social Media on the fly

http://asyuu.asablo.jp/blog/

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 Novel

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

Author! Author!

Backstory

Deserved Indulgence

Heather Harper

Hulles

Observations From Missy’s Window

Paperback Writer

Plot Monkeys

ProBlogger

Putting It All Together

Rachel Vincent

The Write Snark

Write Stuff

The Incurable Disease of Writing

Writer’s Edge

101 Reasons to stop writing

An Innocent A-Blog

At Home in Rome

Confessions of…
TracyPlaces
Web Worker Daily
5-web-based-entrepreneurship-experiments
Crushing Krisis
theLactivist

Arkansas Times Daily Blog

E-r-u-d-i-t-e Redneck (I must not be Erudite cause I cain’t even SPELL it)

Entertainment Fort Smith magazine

Find Yourself in Fort Smith

HotSoup

lucidpoints.com

RiverValley411

The Five Forty

Feedback Secrets Blog

Geekwhat
Hundred Dollar Business
Juice Feed

Robert Afnani’s Blog

CraveOnline.com

Diversified Stocks

TalkMatic
Gigaom
internet business daily
Tom Ferris

Motherwear Blog

Mama Knows Breast

Breastfeeding 1-2-3

TulipGirl

doulicia

MaMa C-Ta

Jen’s Musings

ChewyMom

A Little Pregnant

Making it Up

Mocha Milk

Breastfeeding Mums
Friends of Star Log
Navelgazing Midwife
Spring Widgets

Antiwar.com

FreeTalk Live

Get Ready!

Holy Resurrection Orthodox Church

Ivey
Nikole Conspiracies
Jeremiah
The Debris Files
Kindom Trees
Miss Conspiracy
LewRockwell.com
Moonage Spacedreams
LibertyConspiracy.com
Revelations
Ludwig von Mises Institute
John Bitch Society
New Hampshire Underground
Conspiracy of Care
Samurai Appliance Repair Man
Freedom Philadelphia
The Samurai Appliance Repair Forums
Freedom Fight
Tim
The Zeniod Files
Tregubov Studios
911 Blogger

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

The Z-List: A great wonderful idea to help advertise blogs. Yes? Yes. I think anyone who has used the Z-List well agree with that. The principle behind the Z-List is the same as a chain letter. In a chain letter, you  mail a letter to five people. One that letter is the addresses of five more people. Each person who recieves a letter, adds five new addresses, and sends those to the five addresses on the letter that they had recieved. The piont of a chain mail is to send the same letter to an ever increasing network. Useualy the letter is an advertisement for something being sold. Basicly it’s a lot of free advertiseing for a company, based on “word of mouth”.

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!

Well, I only just discovered the Z-List earlier this week. and searching for more Z-Lists had lead me to one conclusion: most of them are just randomly thrown together with no rhyme nor reason, and so comes my idea for Keyword Specific Z-Lists or links to blogs all on a single topic.

The first of these I shall call:

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

Do you have a Blog for writers? Are you a writer who has a Blog? If so, leave a comment on this post,  with a link to your Blog and I well  add it to the list.

Do you know of any good Blogs for writers? Leave a comment with a list of the Blogs for writers, that you enjoy reading so I can add them to my list!

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My Blog Ranking Continues to Rise!

WOW… On February 16, 2007, I had 0 inbound links and $0 value on my blog, and my Technorati rank was in the millions, forget the exact number. I adding the Z-List  yesterday, could that have anything to do with my rank change? My ranking is moving up fast!

Your Blog’s Value is $25.56!

Inbound links: 21
Technorati rank: 649805

Life, the Universe, and Everything…Don’t Panic

This board new, just started, so still getting things moved around. Any suggestions?

Life, the Universe, and Everything…Don’t Panic

A Writer’s Desk…new skin

A Writer’s Desk…new skin  

Okay, there were several complaints about the old skin, so I got rid of the Black & White skin and I’ve got the new forest skin, mostly finished now, still tweeking the colors around abit, but it’s pretty much finished. Any thoughts on the colors I’m useing now?

Yes, as I said, the house pic was temporay, cause my image host (imageshack) was down all week for matanance checks., and I couldn’t uplaod the pics for this forum, than, but that’s overwith, so I got the correct pics up now. The house pic is gone, (well, actually it’s only moved to the sub-board on houses, where it was supposed to be in the first place) and replaced with a banner instead, still not sure that I’ve got it right, but at least it’s better than the house pic was. Any ideas on a better banner?

Also, looking for suggestions on what to do with the icons.

This place is VERY new (just started it April 5, 2006) so I haven’t yet got all the catagories/topics up and running, but you can see where they are headed from what’s up already. Once I’ve got the layout of the skin/colors/icons finished, I’ll go back and finish the catagory/topics stuff.

Here is the link to it, check it out and let me know what you all think! Thanks!

A Writer’s Desk