Bloglines - BlogExplosion.com Sold!

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who is Ingrid Diaz ?? will she and jeremy help me sell my blog ?? :)-

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Ensight - Jeremy Wright's Personal Blog business & tech & jeremy

BlogExplosion.com Sold! By Jeremy Wright on Blogging Good times! As per the post by Jeff and Thomas, the sale is official! Here’s a bit from their communication to the community: We are pleased to announce that BlogExplosion has been sold to Stephen Sartain and a group of private investors this weekend. We had competitive bids all through last week and finally was decided on Saturday afternoon. Stephen has bought two sites from us previously with great results and has extensive experience running sites like BlogExplosion. Our final closing price was in the six figures and well beyond our minimum bid of $100,000. We also want to extend a huge thanks to Jeremy Wright for doing an amazing job brokering the sale of BlogExplosion for us. Yep. My first six figure sale. Thanks to the team that helped out, specifically Ingrid Diaz for the incredible help putting together a kickass buyer’s package PDF in under 24 hours. I’m really, really happy for the team. Of course you always want to see a client get more, more, more, but this is a really good deal with someone the entire team is happy with. All around, a great little project. I know I said this last time, but I have no plans on making brokering sales a full-time or even regular activity. As with The Blog Herald’s sale, it was mainly helping out folk who weren’t getting the kind of offer they deserved. And, while I’m sure that’s actually the norm, I do have my own little company to run (along with Shai, Duncan and Darren) and will be staying away from much of this kind of stuff for at least the next few months. Unless someone wants me to give me a million dollars to sell a site ;-) Comments

Bloglines - The A-list Blogger Circle Jerk

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Another round of A-Listers and the suck up , bend over and grease up attitude !! Randy digs the story well :)-

Take time to Follow te linky's !!

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iBLOGthere4iM Randy Charles Morin blogs for the sake of blogging.

The A-list Blogger Circle Jerk In blogging Ever wonder how the A-list blogger circle jerk works? What happens is that some non a-list blogger picks up on a news-worthy item. Then an a-list blogger reads his blog or comments he makes other-place and post about the issue without linking up the original blogger. Then another a-list bloggers links him up. Of course, there's no a-list. Comments

Bloglines - He's got perfect puppy dog eyyyyyes

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This is cute :)-

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Cute Overload At Cute Overload™, we scour the Web for only the finest in Cute Imagery. Imagery that is Worth Your Internet Browsing Time. We offer an overwhelming amount of cuteness to fill your daily visual allowance. Drink it in!

He's got perfect puppy dog eyyyyyes By Meg on Pups Buddy, the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel ehibits picture-perfect puppy-dog eyes and puffy schnozzle. I have to ask you guys, though—there should be a name for the puffy area around the nose—you know, the place where whiskers eminate?! it's so prosh—what is that area called? Is it cheek puff? Take him for a walk, Joy M.! :)

Bloglines - BPM Implementation Pitfalls

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Hahaha- Sandy finds herself included in an article and she does not know what this means !!

Point to note- Sandy actually writes well. I learn what's happening in the BPM world from her. She's a good source :)-

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Column 2 Sandy Kemsley's blog on business process management, enterprise architecture, business intelligence and technology in business.

BPM Implementation Pitfalls In BPM Although the AIIM E-DOC magazine site still shows the January/February issue, you can find the link to the article that I wrote for the March/April issue here (or check out the dead-tree version of the publication). In this article, I highlight three major pitfalls that can occur during BPM system implementations: Over-customization Allowing the business to design the solution Applying the wrong BPM tool A couple of oddities in the online version: the entire last section is in boldface, rather than just the first header sentence ("Apply the wrong BPM tool") in that section; and my mini-bio at the end states "Sandy Kemsley has BPM experience from the lenses vendor, user, and, currently, consultant experience." I have no idea what that means, but enjoy the article.

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Bloglines - Blogger Problems?

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Outage / service distruptuions of last nite being noted here too..

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Blogger Problems? By Ionut Alex. Chitu Very weird. In the latest 4-5 hours, Blogger has some strange problems: I couldn't save or edit posts, republish the blog. Blogger remains at 0% in an infinite loop. [I know Philipp is smiling...]

Bloglines - An Unwanted Journey: Day 0150 - Serious Complications

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I only met Don once, when we had the Shel / Shoeless joe event. but from that day (mar/6th) I began takin his feeds and I find myself humbled by the strength that he has !!

I sincerly wish that he slowly recovers.

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An Unwanted Journey: Don Spencer's Battle with Cancer Although my blog started without a specific theme, this has changed dramatically. I was diagnosed with rectal cancer in November 2005. My blog is now dedicated primarily to lessons learned about battling cancer.

An Unwanted Journey: Day 0150 - Serious Complications By Don Spencer This entry will be short. First, thanks to Ian for filling in for me when the most I could do was breathe. Second, thanks for family and friends for visiting and taking care of me as I suffered through more complications arising from surgery. My brother died of a massive coronary almost four years ago. It now appears that was almost my fate. Tuesday morning, I collapsed at home. After being admitted first to emergency, then to the cardiac care unit, and just today into a standard medical ward, I have run through many tests. The most important was the lung scan which shows multiple clots (pulmonary embolisms). The next most important was the ultrasound showing possible renal failure and bladder spasms. What evidently happened was that a clot travelled to my heart, broke up in the heart and then shot out multiple minor clots to the lungs. This elevated by pulse rate and left me short of breath and in danger of a heart attack similar to what killed my brother. I am now on heparin to thin the blood and dissipate the clots. But I have also had to catheterize again (removing 2-3 litres of urine and blood each day). In addition, I am starting an antibiotic to fight an infection which is probably in the bladder. I still can't move much at all. In fact, I am most comfortable when I don't move at all, simply letting sleep and drugs work their wonders. I have had a blood tranfusion, iron pills, multivitamins, aspirin, pentaloc (for the bloody ulcer), Tylenol to fight the fever, etc. I've almost lost track of everything I take. One good thing is that I have regained a minimal appetite, colour in the cheeks, and some coherency in speech again. My haemoglobin levels are rebounding and I do not have the C-Difficile infection that the intensivist first thought might be the case. The precaution was to put me into contact isolation in the cardiac care unit. This meant everyone who came into my room had to gown and wear gloves. Now that the infection has been ruled out, we're back to monitoring the blood thinners and emptying the bladder through the catheter. I don't know when I'll be home again. I also don't know when I'll be able to walk further than a few feet to the washroom. Maybe soon. Early next week, there will be further tests, including more ultrasounds and lung scans to see the effect of the treatment. In the meantime, I'm just doing what I'm told to do, eating when I can, resting as much as possible, and dreaming of being at home with my family again. Powered By Qumana

Bloglines - signing in/out

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He also caught the change happening on security policy.!!

This is the first wave containment for single sign service offering !

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signing in/out By Brinke Guthrie why is it that each time i go to my personal page, i have to sign in? i have cookies enabled.

Bloglines - Hu's Heckler: Online fallout

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When I get home. I must watch the video. Rebecca alwasy has some insight on the issues with china and the freedom of speech and democracy. I wonder how come she is not been deemed as 'non welcome' status in china ? What do they call it "perso non grata" status ??

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RConversation Musings, links, and occasional rants by Rebecca MacKinnon, a recovering TV reporter-turned-blogger.

Hu's Heckler: Online fallout By Rebecca MacKinnon on Human Rights Thanks to Jeremy Goldkorn for pointing out that somebody has uploaded the CNN video of Chinese President Hu Jintao being heckled by a FLG practitioner during his speech at the White House on Thursday. Chinese censors may have blacked out the live TV signal and all CNN replays, but it's all over the internet. And Chinese chatrooms are re-posting and analyzing the photos from the Great White House Lawn Debacle. This one (via Imagethief) has a shot of Mrs. Hu, scowling next to a smiling Laura Bush. Meanwhile Roland Soong over at ESWN digs up a rather fascinating revelation: according to photos on this website belonging to photographer Darrin Zammit Lupi, Dr. Wang Wenyi - Thursday's heckler who was accredited into the official press coverage pool via the FLG-run publication Epoch Times - also managed to break through the security detail and confronted former President Jiang Zemin when he was on a trip to Malta in 2001. I have e-mailed the photographer asking him to confirm the authenticity of this photo and describe what happened in detail. When he gets back to me I'll update this post. Chinese netizens were already speculating that the White House or somebody in the U.S. government had allowed her into the press stand on purpose, given how long it took before she was led away. (Roland quotes more such speculation here.) Then there's the added issuse that even many Chinese who dislike their regime equally dislike FLG. For a taste of those sentiments check out Bingfeng here and here. I have a lot of Chinese friends who share similar views - people who also have a habit of saying very unflattering things in private about various Chinese leaders and government departments. But what has really upset a lot of Chinese people was Bush's rude and very public yank on Hu's sleeve. See Imagethief's post about the reaction of his Chinese co-workers. Lead sentence: "They think Bush is a protocol-impaired dweeb." The saddest thing about Thursday's White House Lawn Diplo-Debacle is that many Chinese who generally dislike the Chinese Communist Party have now turned against the U.S. government. Roland cites a Hong Kong newspaper poll with the following results: Issue: The White House master of ceremony announced the playing of the national anthem of the Republic of China.     - 33% said that the American goverment deliberate set this up to insult China     - 21% said that the American government was of poor quality     - 23% said that it was an unintentional mistake      Issue: When the female FLG member disrupted Hu Jintao's speech, she was allowed to go on for almost three minutes before the secret service agents removed her.     - 79% said that the American government should apologize     -   9% said that the American government should not apologize Issue: How should China protest against what occurred?     - 43% said China should demand an apology from the American government     - 22% said China should lodge a diplomatic protest     -   6% said China should cancel the recently signed purchase contracts Issue: Do you think that the United States is a trustworthy partner?     - 17% said USA is a trustworthy partner     - 62% said USA is not a trustworthy partner Youch. And this is from people in relatively Westernized Hong Kong. For more news and blogger coverage from Reuters and Global Voices Online, click here:

Bloglines - Cloudsat launch rescheduled

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This is why I love Susan. :)- she cuts a post which gives clean crisp details. Its like being in the darn control room at T-48 seconds !!

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Cloudsat launch rescheduled By Susan A. Kitchens on Space The launch was scrubbed. Today’s attempt to launch the CALIPSO and CloudSat satellites was scrubbed at T-48 seconds due to loss of the primary and backup phone communications between the Mission Director Center at Vandenberg Air Force Base and the Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES) Space Command in Toulouse, France. So. Tonight, stay up to watch a meteor shower. Then, just at dawn, watch for launch plume. Launch is at 6:02 am. So it might be viewable from further south in Southern California. My bad: 6:02 am Eastern, which is 3:02 am Pacific. The window is open for a mere split second. (I know a couple of people who are attending the launch. It’s gotta be disappointing to have it scrubbed at T-minus 48 seconds. It certainly was a bummer in 2002 when Space Shuttle Endeavor was scrubbed at T-minus 20 minutes. But that’s how it goes.) Comments