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Friday, September 16, 2005

Opinions are worth...

about a dime a dozen. Which means you aren’t getting good value when you offer a penny for someone’s thoughts. Since my opinions obviously aren’t worth two cents, and I can’t seem to stop writing in clichés, I ought to get the hell out of Dodge and exit stage left out of this category. Elvis has... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, April 24, 2004

Still feeling snakebit?

I know I am. I've been sitting here typing away trying to do some damage control necessitated by the recent Blogit crash. I attempted to go to the "Write" area to select my next blog for posting and nearly had a stroke. I got a screen that was blank except for a big bold message in the upper left... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, April 17, 2004

The ABCs of Opinion

What follows is a repost from my "Beyond News & Politics" blog in the News & Politics category on April 15th. It seems to me that it applies just as readily to Opinion, and that it is likely to have a wider readership here since Opinion is always one of the two or three most read categories. I hope... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, April 13, 2004

Diversity is good. Over-extending yourself is not.

I reinforced that lesson with a vengeance yesterday. I had made a promise to myself to devote the final-day of a three-day weekend to blogging and writing. Unfortunately, I felt like crap. I also got involved with some technical difficulties in the grandiose plans for one of my blogs. The... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, April 7, 2004

Threatening to leave Blogit really works.

I knew it did, even before the April Fool's joke in my last post. It wasn't really a click trick. Neither are all posts from bloggers declaring their intention to leave. Many of them are giving a legitimate farewell message. It only counts as a click trick when the blogger has no intention of... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, April 1, 2004

Farewell Blogit

I've had enough. I'm leaving this strife-ridden, clique-infested, two-faced, list-mongering poor excuse for a writing network forever. APRIL FOOL Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, March 12, 2004

I was wrong!

KNOW-IT-ALL doesn't know it all. There is one other surefire way to skyrocket up the ratings -- PLAGIARIZE! This way, however, is both unethical and criminal. Fortunately, plagiarists always get caught. Their egotistical desire for success always makes them forget two basic facts. People who are... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, March 4, 2004

The ONE, surefire, way to SKYROCKET up the ratings!

Purchase a second account. Think about it for a minute. Yup. Its devious and it verges on the unethical. But its perfectly legal and it works. Its been done. It'll be done again. How does it work? Simple. Conceal any association to your new account. Create a blog or two in one of the hot categories.... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, February 26, 2004

Are you a social blogger or a writing blogger?

I know I'm the latter. I read a great many blogs, over a thousand a month. I don't comment very often in spite of my desire to do so. The more I comment, the less I actually write. And writing is what I came here to do. I want to be a more social blogger and I'm working on it. But I am what I am. I... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, February 9, 2004

It's time to move on.

No, not out of the network! Far too many have done that recently, including some of our best and most popular. Its time to quit dwelling on them and get over it. Its time to suck it up, look around us, and dwell on what we have. Even as some have left us, many more have joined us. They should be... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, February 4, 2004

He talks a good game, but can he deliver?

I could be talking about politicians, athletes, or entertainers. And is there really that much difference between them? I could as easily be talking about a female as a male. I'm talking about one particular writer who at times has talked a pretty good game. Yet that writer (or blogger if you... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, January 31, 2004

Continuing where I left off

Under synonyms, my Webster's says: "An OPINION is a belief or judgment that falls short of absolute conviction, certainty, or positive knowledge; it is a conclusion that certain facts, ideas, etc., are probably true or likely to prove so: political opinions; an opinion about art; In my opinion, this... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, January 28, 2004

opinion, n.

a belief or judgment that rests on grounds insufficient to produce complete certainty. a personal view, attitude, or appraisal. --Syn. 1. persuasion, notion, idea, impression. OPINION, SENTIMENT, VIEW are terms for one's conclusion about something. Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary of the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, January 20, 2004

Decision Making Time

I've committed to Edwards for president and New England in the Super Bowl. I've had fun playing games in On Blogging after deciding to continue in that categor just for fun. Now come the hard decisions. This is one of only four blogs I've posted too since returning to the fray after an absence of... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, January 16, 2004

Told Ya So!

My rankings on the BN took a tremendous nosedive over the last two weeks. It was the inevitable and anticipated outcome of a situation that I knew would prevent me from posting much, if at all, for a period of at least eight days. As it turned out, I posted to nothing for exactly two weeks. The... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, December 30, 2003

My rankings are about to take a nosedive.

This is not opionion. Its a statement of fact. Its already happening. It will get much worse over the next eight days and it will take me a lot longer than eight days to struggle back to where I was. I'm not in a panic, however. Its an expected outcome of the move that I'm going through and the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, December 28, 2003

Resolutions

I'm not one to make a lot of New Year's Resolutions. Hell, I haven't consciously made one in so many years that I can't remember the last one I made. Unless its the unconscious resolution to make each coming year better than the last one. Other than that one, I probably broke them all in short... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, December 25, 2003

Value for Your Money

For most of my life I bought Pepsi Cola by the six pack and cigarettes by the carton. This didn't provide maximum value for my dollar, but it was convenient and close enough for me. There is however, one constant, in the world. Things change. In 1997 things changed drastically for me. I was... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, December 22, 2003

The Important Things in Life

My grandchildren's health, the general well-being of my family, my writing, my own well-being, and then everything else. That's it. My own personal list of the important things in life. I could stick numbers beside the aforementioned things and post it in Lists and Information. Of course, it would... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, December 17, 2003

Bad News and Bashing Sells Newspapers

I learned this very early in the newspaper game. Newspapers and network newscasts do not thrive on good news. Sensationalism, sex and violence, bad news, bashing, and political mud-slinging. That, my friends, is what sells newspapers and gives networks high ratings. Its our own fault. As a people,... Sign in to see full entry.

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