Wha??? this is weird. The only religious thing with bacon I know about is that orthodox jewish folks do not eat bacon (pork products). That's it... no biggee deal... these signs are weird!
- Susan Beebe
I thought for a second I remembered hearing, "The bacon of Christ" in a liturgy in Catholic school, but surely I remembered incorrectly.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
Derrick, your religion thread reminded me of this LOL
- Mona Nomura
Mona, I swear, I didn't mean for that thread to venture off the way it did. I pondered something, asked it, and there you go. I'm thinking I'm skipping bacon and going straight to the smoked pork shoulder, though. Send cole slaw.
- Derrick
Have you ever received that stale bread they call The Body of Christ during mass? That is nowhere near as tasty as bacon.
- Joe Pierce
I love the comment at the bottom: "i'm guessing you wouldn't want to do this in a house with children, or else they might get the idea that eating Legos is ok." Yes, because when I was a kid, a bag of gummi bears made me want to just run out and eat a real bear. Now come on...
- Wizetux
It is these types of people that think that candy cigarettes cause kids to smoke.
- Wizetux
just seeing him play basketball was cool enough for me...No chance you'd see Gordon Brown making a run for the basket, or taking a penalty in football and actually be any good.
- Zee.
sadly, I think that's one of our actual criterion - if you look at the last several elections, the cool one won, whether it was the best choice for us or not -- we got lucky this time :)
- Christopher Galtenberg
Bush? That's the first time I've heard someone say that.
- Glen Mistletoe
Any thoughts would also be appreciated. It's one of those posts that's as much a letter to myself as anything else.
- Steve Spalding
I almost didn't read this because RS liked it - wow I am experiencing a personal backlash against the 'A-listers'? Weird, because RS actually has a high approval rating with me... Anyway, this is a really interesting post and you have piqued my interest. Good writing that engages, communicates, educates and/or entertains is what I want to read. I would love to produce it, too, and perhaps this might help. Is 'good writing' enough is no-one ever reads it? Yes, you have my interest...
- WorldofHiglet
...and I'll be looking for the rest of the series. I like the idea of the 'top 10%' of all your advice/writing but can't help but feel that by condensing it you necessarily leave something out. The journey of how you came to this point is surely as instructive. But I'm lazy and therefore grateful you are doing this. In the last post will you be summarising in easily-digested bullet points? :)
- WorldofHiglet
Is it enough? I think it's necessary but not sufficient. As a marketer (amongst other things) I see a lot of great content that no one ever sees. A part of this whole game is not only being able to generate content that doesn't make you want to commit Seppuku but also get it out to the people who matter to you.
- Steve Spalding
The journey is important and I think that's what this is about. I've done enough back patting for ten lifetimes, it's time to start looking at things critically. Trust me, if I didn't -like- a lot of what I've done I would have quit a long time ago. As to your last point of course, expect a top 20 list. :)
- Steve Spalding
This actually came at a great time for me today. I have a friend who's interested in writing/blogging, but has a ton of questions about how to be successful at it. She's not super tech savvy, but you're writing in a language I think anyone can relate to, which is great. I'm passing it along. And I'm personally interested in seeing where you take it.
- Jen (SquirrelGirl)
Yes, I think you are right about content not being enough on it's own. If a blog contains really great content but no-one reads, it is it still really great content? The next step is to get it out to people who will enjoy/benefit from it. A critical assessment of your own work is a brave step - will we be seeing some of the things you shouldn't have done/wouldn't do again? Plus, can you do a time-line? On it I would like to see the following: your posts, what was 'hot' at the time, what you got right....
- WorldofHiglet
...what didn't work so well. Obviously not everything can go on the timeline, but just some stand-out/pivotal points over the years. Ok, I've kept you away from it long enough!
- WorldofHiglet
@Squirrel :) Thank you, I hope it helps and if you want to see anything in particular feel free to reach out to me. @WoH That sounds good, I have skeletons written for the entire series but I want to fill it in with suggestions like this. Let me noodle over it and we'll see what happens.
- Steve Spalding
Thanks for reading everyone, feel free to leave any more input here or send me an email sbspalding [at] gmail.com. I'm looking forward to this series, it's the first blogging thing I've been excited about in months.
- Steve Spalding
South Carolina: "too small for a republic, too large for an insane asylum."
- Steve Lowe
from Bookmarklet
Ironically, there are fundamentalists who also say McCain is the Anti-Christ. They should all get together and write someone in...
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
"The pieces are printed in the amazing form of RabbitHoles: state-of-the-art digital motion holograms, which display 1280 frames of full-color, 3D imagery with up to seven seconds of fluid and seamless animation on a completely flat surface."
- Anthony Citrano
offtopic , but... hey, how did you put here 4 pictures and one title same time? and how did you put pictures without URL for original page? there is no bookmarklet reference.
- A.T.
On the beta FF, you can post pictures directly, silpol.
- Yolanda
anna: USB rings...and they would be for....?
- WorldofHiglet
What if the little tab breaks off... like my ethernet plugs always do... Loraina Bobbitt time (sp?)
- anna sauce
Bobbitt! Not heard that for so long...yeah it would be like "I'm sorry honey but I was a bit rough and it just, like, fell apart in my hands...." (I chose my words carefully then....)
- WorldofHiglet