Morning!

In honor of Make Your Own Holiday Day, I have decided to designate this Wednesday to be

National Brainy Blog Tip Day

On that day, you should share your best blogging niche tip with your audience.  I figure that nobody knows everything….but everyone knows something!  Put all of those somethings together and you’ll have a power with which to reckon.

So!  Think about [Read more]

<YAWN> Easter is over and Purim is over and Spring Equinox is over and ….

Oh hello!  Nice to have you drop by!  

I hope your weekend was quite enjoyable as well.  Over here in Ling Land, we did the usual Easter Egg Dye-Kiddie-Fingers blue and green and pink, a holiday brunch, quality time with the family, etc.  And now it’s time to start the day!

As you know, finding ideas about what to write can sometimes be a daunting task.  That’s why I’ve scoured the Internet for you!  Did you know that [Read more]

Yesterday I wrote my first Twitter rant over here.

It’s time for my second Twitter rant.  I’m sure you’ll agree with the fact there’s

No way to share images. 

is utterly maddening!  Oh sure, I can send a tinyURL to an image, what about dragging and dropping the image to my Twitter box and having it sent to specific people?

What’s wrong with adding that most-likely-short bit of code to simplify my life?   Unless I want to hire someone to take a picture of the image and then send it over to [Read more]

Do you inflame your network?

Eliot Spitzer’s rep wasn’t built in a day, but his monetary value increased over a 1 million in less than 24 hours.  Talk about an exponential growth!!

Over here in the Internet, it’s social networking that creates such an inferno.  I was reminded of this when I read [Read more]

You know, I’ve been educating myself quite a lot about Twitter lately, and I can really see the benefits to it. 

But the more I analyze it, the more I realize…it’s missing some key critical features.  And for my Friday Musings, I’ve decided to start listing them, one by one.

Let’s start with:

No way to communicate in MORE than 140 characters. 

Sure, I know, the basis for Twitter IS 140 characters or less, but c’mon!  If someone [Read more]

In two words, I am going to reveal to you the secret for eternal bliss.  Yes indeed, only 2 (count ‘em, 2!) words:

Are you ready?  Atingle with excitement?  Riveted on the edge of your seat?  Okay, here we go:

"A full night of heavenly luxurious sleep couple with" "utterly decadent coffee upon waking up".

What do you mean that’s not two words?  ‘course it is!  Don’t you see [Read more]

You know, niche blogging ideas can emerge from the strangest of places.

No, I’m not talking about praying to the All Powerful Blog Idea Faerie, or dropping your freshly-made piping hot morning coffee onto your pajama-clad nether regions, or even absently-mindedly commenting to your darling children:

"No dear, we do NOT use Mommy’s newly folded clothing as the scratch pad for your Elmer glueing (ohmigosh wow, what a magnificent blogging topic!)"

Instead, I’m referring to tried and true testosterone-fueled ability of [Read more]

Are you sitting down?  You should be to ensure you don’t fall off your chair after visualizing the following:

You promise me now you’re sitting, right?  I don’t have to worry about hearing large <THUMPS>?

Alright then….tell me.  Picture the following.

SpongeBob SquarePants battling the Cloverfield Monster.

Okay now!  Is that image firmly lodged within your cranium?

Is it crowding out visions of freshly-perked coffee and the spine-tingling joy of a neat laundry room (complete with nary a single sock in sight)?

Excellent.  Now tell me….what on earth could such an image convey?  You’ve all heard, a picture is worth a thousand words….what would cute yellow SpongeBob up against mean scary Cloverfields make people think?

Hang on, wait a sec, what’s that you just thought?

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Money…it’s good.

I like money.  Don’t you?  Money enables me to keep my kids in slide rulers, my parakeets in Macaw-sized Nutriberries, my coffee maker always perking (although I will admit, it doesn’t do a darn for keeping kids sock pairs intact….).  But I digress.

Recession….it’s bad.

I don’t like a recession.  Recessions mean less money will be spent, which might mean less slide rulers can be bought or my parakeets will have to endure agony of plain old birdieSeed or my coffee maker will [Read more]

Pssst!  I have the ultimate blog-writing secret:

Do you think you can handle it?  Are you alert?  Ready to be amazed?  Can you guess what I’m about to write?  Read the next line and digest it for 3 seconds:

Microsoft is buying CNN.

 Okay, HOLD ON!  The above is NOT true….but….let me ask you: [Read more]