Bloggers find ways to profit
Dang, Steven, you can retire on this idea!
"Here's a look at ... different ways bloggers can make money:
Blogads: Blogads is a small North Carolina company run by Copeland.
Advertisers go to www.blogads.com and choose the sites they want to appear on. Prices range from $5 a week on Heretical Ideas to $700 a week on Daily Kos."
Sunday, May 30, 2004
RSS reactions
I'm sitting a home on a lovely Sunday afternoon - the first 73 degree day at this time of the day in a couple of weeks (normally it's hotter). And I want to check my blogs and write a few things... and I notice that I don't have that cool little bloglines button that I intalled on my computer at work here on my computer at home. Yikes! How do you handle the two-computer thing?
Because I'm finding the RSS feed very attractive. So much so that I chose it over checking out my email when I had a few spare minutes between meetings while at work. And unfortunately, they took away my familiar email software and gave me a new product a month ago and I don't like it very much. Bloglines is more friendly.
Anyway, not much else here today. Gotta go check out everyone's blogs.
Because I'm finding the RSS feed very attractive. So much so that I chose it over checking out my email when I had a few spare minutes between meetings while at work. And unfortunately, they took away my familiar email software and gave me a new product a month ago and I don't like it very much. Bloglines is more friendly.
Anyway, not much else here today. Gotta go check out everyone's blogs.
Wednesday, May 26, 2004
TAPROOTS Social Services, 1964-1971... From the State Library of KS
From the State Library of Kansas:
Happy Friday everyone!
This week’s Kansas Government Information (KGI) Online Library blog features TAPROOTS, a serial publication of the Kansas Department of Social Welfare issued between 1964-1971. Taproots covered the different aspects of social services to Kansans provided by state and local government during the 1960s… a time of great change in the U.S. It’s a great source for historians and social service researchers. It’s also full of photos or people and places in our recent history.
Read the blog and peruse the pages of Taproots at:
http://kslib.info/Blog.aspx?IID=279#item
Also included in this week’s blog is a link to agency/division publications in KGI by the Kansas Department of Agriculture’s Animal Health Division (formerly the Kansas Department of Animal Health).
Bill Sowers, KSLIB
Happy Friday everyone!
This week’s Kansas Government Information (KGI) Online Library blog features TAPROOTS, a serial publication of the Kansas Department of Social Welfare issued between 1964-1971. Taproots covered the different aspects of social services to Kansans provided by state and local government during the 1960s… a time of great change in the U.S. It’s a great source for historians and social service researchers. It’s also full of photos or people and places in our recent history.
Read the blog and peruse the pages of Taproots at:
http://kslib.info/Blog.aspx?IID=279#item
Also included in this week’s blog is a link to agency/division publications in KGI by the Kansas Department of Agriculture’s Animal Health Division (formerly the Kansas Department of Animal Health).
Bill Sowers, KSLIB
Girl with the Pearl
Well, I just spent a pleasant couple of hours reading the rest of "The Girl with the Pearl Earring." Some vivid images remain in my mind, accompyaning a personality that's as familiar as those in the schoolgirl biographies I used to read. The fall of the wavy brown hair, the star in the pavement, the color of the earrings. The sound of the children, the rough texture of the wash-ruined hands, and the color of the clouds... it's a simple but rich book. A fast read, no wonder it's chosen for book groups and discussion.
Now I get to go see the movie.
Rarely does a movie enhance my understanding of a book, by the way. Usually it's the other way around. But there have been a few: Ben Hur. Don Quijote. Romeo and Juliet.
Lately, the one I've enjoyed enough to become a fan of is the Peter Jackson Lord of the Rings. Yup, just an interpretation. But a rich visual resource that I didn't quite see when I read the books as a teen. 30 years later, I can now read the books and really appreciate them... and I have to thank Peter Jackson and the team he pulled together to get the movies made for that.
Come to think of it, my favorite fan site was a blog. I've enjoyed theonering.net for over a year now, glad to know the special news and not-news surrounding the release of the last of the trilogy. Even posted to it myself once or twice, although it was via email to the owners. They were pretty selective about what was posted.
Nuff said, off to bed. RSS, tomorrow!
Singing off,
Micaela
Now I get to go see the movie.
Rarely does a movie enhance my understanding of a book, by the way. Usually it's the other way around. But there have been a few: Ben Hur. Don Quijote. Romeo and Juliet.
Lately, the one I've enjoyed enough to become a fan of is the Peter Jackson Lord of the Rings. Yup, just an interpretation. But a rich visual resource that I didn't quite see when I read the books as a teen. 30 years later, I can now read the books and really appreciate them... and I have to thank Peter Jackson and the team he pulled together to get the movies made for that.
Come to think of it, my favorite fan site was a blog. I've enjoyed theonering.net for over a year now, glad to know the special news and not-news surrounding the release of the last of the trilogy. Even posted to it myself once or twice, although it was via email to the owners. They were pretty selective about what was posted.
Nuff said, off to bed. RSS, tomorrow!
Singing off,
Micaela
Tuesday, May 25, 2004
Another perfect day in Kansas...
In 1999, my husband and I hosted a Presbyterian pastor and his wife Stephan and Elizabet from Switzerland in our home in Independence, Kansas for about 6 weeks.
Turns out the wild, wild West is very much alive in Stephan's imagination. He is a reader of the Western genre, translated into German, one of several languages he knows, including his native Romanian. I will have to ask him again who his favorite author is.
He had a blast touring our state with his wife; I got to go on a couple of day trips with them. He was always so appreciative. And when the travel was over, and he was studying or visiting around town, he made it a habit to sit out on our front porch at 5 pm every evening for conversation and beer. Sometimes it was way too hot! But there was always a breeze. Sometimes the thunderstorms would shortcircuit our plan. But we would join him as often as possible and enjoy that perfect part of a life: good friends and a few moments to take a breather.
Then he would always lean back in his porch chair tipped to the stone railing and proclaim, "Another perfect day in Kansas."
Most days I can, I think of that and sing it out to someone here on campus or in the library. And we often think it's ironic and sometimes think it's right on. But I know, in a mythological sense, that it's always true. And that helps.
Turns out the wild, wild West is very much alive in Stephan's imagination. He is a reader of the Western genre, translated into German, one of several languages he knows, including his native Romanian. I will have to ask him again who his favorite author is.
He had a blast touring our state with his wife; I got to go on a couple of day trips with them. He was always so appreciative. And when the travel was over, and he was studying or visiting around town, he made it a habit to sit out on our front porch at 5 pm every evening for conversation and beer. Sometimes it was way too hot! But there was always a breeze. Sometimes the thunderstorms would shortcircuit our plan. But we would join him as often as possible and enjoy that perfect part of a life: good friends and a few moments to take a breather.
Then he would always lean back in his porch chair tipped to the stone railing and proclaim, "Another perfect day in Kansas."
Most days I can, I think of that and sing it out to someone here on campus or in the library. And we often think it's ironic and sometimes think it's right on. But I know, in a mythological sense, that it's always true. And that helps.
Monday, May 24, 2004
Sick, sick, sick, busy, busy busy
That cold thing really developed into a monster this week. On top of that, it was a busier week than usual at home - and taking a sick day off on Wednesday didn't alleviate the pressure at all. So, the blogging didn't appeal to me nearly as much.
In fact, my brother Brian called, and told me that after long experience, he takes two days off when he gets a bad cold, which really puts him on his feet again instead of feeling bad for 3-4 weeks. Brian works as a programmer for NASA, and I concluded our conversation by asking him to think about giving a presentation here in my library, which happens to be his alma mater. His programming work puts him in direct contact with the astronauts, as he develops software for their laptops. His latest piece lets them know the geo coordinates for exactly where over the earth they are; even over cloud cover, they can identify land features peaking through. And he was excited to describe the way the software works as an archive, so the astronaut can go back and place a photo he took at a certain time and know precisely where that was.
He talked for 20 minutes, very passionately, yet says he has never given a program. He's got what it takes though, and maybe he'll consent to give his first one here, before he takes it on the road to the software conferences he goes to.
Well, this week will be busy also, as I balance the budget and see how much I have left to spend by the end of the fiscal year. I'm glad to be feeling better.
Singing off,
Micaela
In fact, my brother Brian called, and told me that after long experience, he takes two days off when he gets a bad cold, which really puts him on his feet again instead of feeling bad for 3-4 weeks. Brian works as a programmer for NASA, and I concluded our conversation by asking him to think about giving a presentation here in my library, which happens to be his alma mater. His programming work puts him in direct contact with the astronauts, as he develops software for their laptops. His latest piece lets them know the geo coordinates for exactly where over the earth they are; even over cloud cover, they can identify land features peaking through. And he was excited to describe the way the software works as an archive, so the astronaut can go back and place a photo he took at a certain time and know precisely where that was.
He talked for 20 minutes, very passionately, yet says he has never given a program. He's got what it takes though, and maybe he'll consent to give his first one here, before he takes it on the road to the software conferences he goes to.
Well, this week will be busy also, as I balance the budget and see how much I have left to spend by the end of the fiscal year. I'm glad to be feeling better.
Singing off,
Micaela
Friday, May 21, 2004
No pictures
Guess that tells me something about blogging again. Do you have to pay to insert pictures? Are they only available as links to websites where they are posted?
I'm disappointed, but will try to get the pics on our library website and come back to edit the URL in.
It was still a jolly day.
I'm disappointed, but will try to get the pics on our library website and come back to edit the URL in.
It was still a jolly day.
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