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Blogging Through the Blogosphere

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My wife, Carole, found an article in the Washington Post entitled, “Be More Than a Blip in the Blogosphere.”  That sounded like it might be helpful.  I didn’t want to be a blip, so I read the things they suggested to make me a successful blogger.

I started out in good shape.  They suggested to “tell stories and don’t just post photos and links.”  I thought, “that’s me, I tell stories, even in my poems.”  I don’t post photos cause I don’t know how (don’t give up on me – I will learn).  Next, they suggested creating a voice.  After studying it for a while, I realized they meant having an area of expertise, like being a movie critic, or into cooking, or city council politics.  I strike out on that one.  I think my topic of “Random Thoughts,” on a scale of one to ten, gets me a zero.  But, I submit my “voice” is humor.  I try (emphasis on try) to be funny in each submission.  I’m not talking about knee slapping funny.  If I have caused a little smile to cross your face, I will be delighted.

The next suggestion left me in a stupor.  They suggested that I “sift through blogrolls and create one” of my own.   I am familiar with egg rolls and nut rolls.  I jumped ahead to the next suggestion to see if I could survive without blogrolling.  But, the next suggestion told me to “widget my page!”  I thought a widget was something that was bought and sold in an Economics 101 class.  I decided not to blogroll my widget until I figured out what the hell was going on.

By now, I knew I was the proverbial babe.  But the article is going to help.  Here is what I am going to do.  I’m going to look at other people’s blogs and comment on them, plugging ricequips.com every chance I get.  I’m going to join the “blogging community” so that I can post ricequips.com.  Then, in keeping with their advice, I am going to nominate ricequips.com for an award (the bigger the better).  I am going to nominate myself for some award so that I can say at the top of my website, “Nominated for the Most Original and Entertaining Website in North America.”  I have no shame.  Three years from now, it will say “Nominated for Three Consecutive Years!”

One thing you can do for me is subscribe to ricequips.com.  If you have looked at my home page and you can’t figure out how to do it, then forget I mentioned it.  The price is right.  It’s free.  And then, each time I click on the publish button, an email will go out to you with my latest effort.  Think about it.  If you don’t, then I am going to have to start widgeting my blogroll.

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  2. Isn’t great to have a daughter that reads your blogs. She’s a sweatheart and probably knows what a widget is. She knows it would be a waste of time to try to explain it to me.

  4. Speaking of award winning, Ken and Barb were with us in Germany when I received my award for saving the Army thousands of dollars in unbroken light globes (see, “How Much Does a Light Bulb Cost the Army.”) PJ Rice

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