Entries from November 2006 ↓

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I have been interested recently by the number of blogging events that are held globally each year and wonder what it is worth dollarwise and also very importantly - what is the accumulated cost and profit earned, if any, from holding these events?

Where am I going with this line of inquiry? Well, can you remember what we did before the dot com bubble burst? We used forums and I cannot recall a plethora of forum events and organisations worrying about this or that and a thing maybe called DotCom 1.0 or Web 1.0

Nowadays all I hear about is:
Mash-Ups, BarCamps, Rootcamps, Web 2.0 this or Web2007 that, Reboots, Identity Mash-ups and one called BloggerCon (huh?) etc etc.

All of these wherever they are held have a cost attached that needs to be satisfied. So where does the money come from and where does it go?

All the events throughout the year in USA and the rest of the world happen only due to the availability of one vital ingredient - money. Where does it all come from? I don’t know and am not at all interested if a high profile uberguru blogger digs deep and also gets it all back plus some, (good luck to them), no, I am interested in why there are so many events. How is the support for all the events drummed up? Who attends, where do the come from and why do they attend so many events that have been spun off from such a simple thing as blogging?

Is each event a sellout? Are these events attended by a 1000 strong audience or are they intended for a more intimate audience of say 100 maximum? I am intrigued by this as I think it is high time Reading, Berkshire, England, UNITED KINGDOM had a BarCamp or a BloogerThon so that I can go to it too. Also, why are all the blogging events in UK always held at locations I can only get to if I take annual leave?!

Before blogging the marketing industry used to hold their own junkets right? Am I? OK I take that as a yes. So have all the marketing people in the world now adopted blogging as their realm for earning a dollar? Have they transitioned the traditional marketing event into a blogmarketing requirement? Or are marketers in the main, still holding the traditional line when it comes to clients and doing their PR, branding and marketing?

What is Blogging worth?

Rise Above the Rest

There are certain rules you can follow to ensure you meet your expectations and those of either your superiors at work and of course your customers expectations too.

Rule 1
Write down a 5 year plan. Studies show that if you commit a plan to writing, you will measure your performance against the objectives set out in your plan and you will try to attain those goals.

If you do not commit your plan to writing, you stand less chance of remembering milestones and could forget to review your achievements and so fail to meet the objectives.

Rule 2

Same as Rule 1 above.

Rule 3

Apply the DI Principle. Do it!

Rise Above the Rest

I received an email today from Gareth Knight of OneAfrikan.com searching me and a good few other African diaspora bloggers about the possibility of organising a new tech conference for southern Africa called TECH4AFRICA07 maybe sometime toward September 2007 at Jo’burg.

Jo’burg is a good location for these conferences as South Africa has the largest web and mobile technology development programmes going on in Africa. So, I think it is a brilliant idea and an ideal opportunity for you to help decide how in the future, Africa can manage the development of web based technology across the continent.

It is essential in my opinion for Africa to begin building the technology and you can help. The more discussion and input of ideas at future conferences the better and the sooner development can begin.

You can start the process now by going to the TECH4FRICA07 site now and completing the survey. Please do it. It is absolutely essential we get as much feedback as possible.

Ooze Tech4frica07 in 2007

Prompted by the BBC report that 75% of site visitors will not return to your site if it takes longer than 4 seconds to load, Matthew at Bad Language has interviewed John Allwright, head of web design and development at Microsoft UK, and John Harris, a user experience evangelist at Microsoft and I think you must go read the interview HERE!

Interesting Interview at Bad Language

Don’t Use Technobabble Minifesto

1. Do not speak to me in technobabble and think you will impress me with the extent of your technical know-how. You won’t.

2. Do not speak to me without asking me if I have some knowledge of the technical aspects of whatever it is you want to sell or tell me.

3. Do not speak to me if you assume I already understand your acronyms and what you want to tell me.

4. Do not speak loudly to me in technobabble in order to impress me who is standing 2 feet away from you or to impress the group of managers or potential customers standing 30 yards away. If you do, you will see my back walking away from you and the looks from the group of people that communicate “You wanker!”

5. Please speak to me in my mother tongue using terms I completely understand. This way we will have a good conversation and I will learn from you rather than think you are a rude and arrogant twit.

Don’t Use Technobabble Minifesto

Pamela Slim is best known for her blog called Escape from Cubicle Nation where she helps corporate workers transition into entrepreneurs. Pamela is also known as the consultant who turned her back on her former clients to encourage their staff to become entrepreneurs themselves! In her own words, “As soon as I started working for myself, I knew that something was RIGHT! Having my own business was totally liberating and intoxicating. I named my company Ganas since that was what I felt every day I went to work, and was how I wanted my clients to feel as a result of working with me. I even went through a phase of self-employment evangelism, encouraging everyone I knew, or didn’t know, to work for themselves………., my zeal for entrepreneurship and my love of working for myself has never waned.”

Pamela has kindly found time in her hectic schedule that involves being a mom, a blogger, a podcaster and a businesswoman, to complete an email exchange with me and answer some questions.

During your last two senior years at high/grammar school, were you already aspiring to go into the career you have now carved out for yourself? If yes – why? If no – why not?

During my last two years in high school, I was not aspiring to go into the career I have now. Having spent some earlier years “running with the wrong crowd,” I decided to spend my final year of high school as an exchange student in Neuchatel, Switzerland. This was a stark contrast to growing up in a pretty sheltered suburb north of San Francisco, California. In Switzerland, I met people from all over the world, immersed myself in learning French, and experienced my first glimpse of a global perspective.

When I returned home and started college, all I knew is that I wanted to continue my global education, and hopefully change the world in the process. I had no firm career direction, but was overflowing with youthful optimism and exuberance.

What did you begin to study at college and end up receiving a degree in? Explain why if it differed. Explain the rationale behind your final selection.

I studied International Service and Development at college, with an emphasis on non-formal adult education in Latin America. After spending 2 of my four years abroad (one in Mexico and one in Colombia), I realized that I was not quite cut out to be an “expatriate aid worker” or the like, and that I would rather incite positive change at home.

I went to such a small school that there weren’t a lot of options for degrees, and I was happy with what I got. So my intent starting out was realized, and it did help in the organizational development work I did inside companies later on.

For many years, I got to “marry” both worlds by working with kids from Central and South America in the San Francisco Bay Area through my martial art programs. My experience in their homelands (and my Spanish) really helped my work.

The older I get, I wonder about the angst we put ourselves through to find the “perfect” degree. It will change anyway, right? And unless you are going all the way on a career track like my brother who is a post-doctorate scientist, I say do what interests you.

What music genre do you like listening to most? Who or which band influenced your early musical preferences?

My musical tastes are very eclectic. I was influenced greatly at an early age by my next door neighbours, most of whom were musicians. The Dad was a jazz trumpet player and had jam sessions at the house with his band, playing Dixieland. There were seven kids in the family, and the oldest also played the piano - he ended up with The Sons of Champlin, which had moderate success in the 1970s. Another brother played the trumpet and ended up playing with Jefferson Starship.

Another son was not a musician himself, but was a great fan of funk. I learned to appreciate The Commodores, Marvin Gaye and Rick James when it was blared through the walls during his parties. The youngest daughter was always on the cutting edge, listening to punk rock before it was mainstream in the U.S. So they taught me a lot about music, and I liked it all.

I was turned on to Salsa music when I lived in Latin America and love it dearly. Especially when I am dancing to it. I have grown to really love and appreciate Native American music since being married to my husband who is Navajo and sings his beautiful traditional songs. But I have to say that over and above most music, Motown really gets me going.

Given a choice of vacation, where would you go to experience an ideal holiday? And what is the best bit about a vacation for you, the travel to or the arrival? Why?

At this very moment, I will be extremely cliché and say that I would love to vacation in Hawaii. I say this because:
-I am very, very tired and the soothing water, island air and pace of life sounds great
-I have a toddler son and long plane rides are out of the question for a few years
-Life in general is very good at home, and I am in “nest” mode, not wanting to venture too far away from home.

This is very different from earlier years of life where I was a great adventure traveller. I don’t view it as scaling back on dreams, just working on different ones! Places on my list for the future are Australia/New Zealand, Southern Africa (of course!), Thailand, and a “Roots” trip back to the home of my ancestors in Scotland, Ireland and Wales. The journey and the destination are always fun.

What legacy would you like to be remembered for?

I would like to be remembered for using my life to liberate others. I can’t explain it easily, but the notion of liberation is central to my purpose for being on earth.

I have gone through many, many turns and twists to liberate myself from a variety of unhealthy situations and beliefs; I have always passionately believed in freedom from oppression for all people, and I adore helping people liberate themselves from thoughts, environments, people and situations that make them feel small and insignificant.

I want my children to see me as one who always stepped up to a challenge and chose to participate and be creative. And I want to be remembered for feeling fear sometimes, but always choosing love.

Has your profession progressed in a way you previously envisaged it would?

My profession has progressed in ways I could not have dreamed of. I never really had a clear picture of what I wanted to “be” when I grew up, I just kept following my interests.

Some days I wake up and can’t believe that I have been supporting myself through self-employment for ten years, and that I choose the kind of creative work I do. Work has always been abundant, so I try not to worry about what is next, or how I will pay the bills.

Something always comes. In recent years, I have been challenging myself to “play bigger,” meaning step into more public forums to share ideas and contribute to the field of entrepreneurship.

How has blogging affected your life and career? When are you most creative? Morning or evening? Do you only blog at certain times of the day or night?

Blogging has added a wonderful and creative dimension to my life. As soon as I started doing it, I felt like I had come home. I took a life coaching class a couple of years back, and had to do some exercises about my favourite subjects in school. In each stage of my education, English was my favorite.

Go figure! But the profession of journalist or writer was never appealing to me. Blogging is a totally creative release for me. It doesn’t feel like “work,” yet it has had a profoundly positive impact on my ability to get known and get in front of the exact kinds of people I want to work with.

I generally like to write blog posts during the morning, and comment on blogs and do email in the evening. I blog whenever I can. In fact, I often have to force myself NOT to blog so that I get other critical projects done.

Has any former corporate boss you previously consulted to, commented to you directly or to the media on what you are now achieving as an Escape the Cubicle evangelist? If yes, what was said?. If no, what do you think they think of your career now?

That is a fascinating question, and the answer so far is no. I do wonder sometimes what some former clients might think! All in all, however, I have had a very good relationship with most clients, and many have become friends and subscribers to my ezine or blog. I have always tried to be open about my work and outside activities, sharing of course in appropriate ways depending on the situation. I am great friends with the partners of the consulting firm that I did a lot of work for the last couple of years, and they wholeheartedly support my new direction.

The “Open Letter” post was of course the most controversial, and I bet it would raise the eyebrows of some of the senior executives I worked with in years past. But I look forward to the dialogue if it comes up, and always stand by the work I did as a consultant. The thing about doing work in any environment is that you are constrained by the cultural norms, rules, regulations and customs. I could have been the radical outsider in my corporate consultant hat I guess, but that wasn’t really my style. I did speak as clearly and truthfully as I could. But I will sheepishly admit that I hoodwinked myself into helping create some of those PowerPoint fests that I deplore. And for that, I will most likely pay an extra penance.

The previous 6 months for you has been a period of growth professionally with some tough personal challenges thrown into the ring that might have proved to be too daunting to cope with for many. But you appeared to have taken the pressures of parenthood, your professional business life and the tragedy of your close friend Carlos’s death in your stride.
What advise can you give to people, especially those in their fledgling business who might encounter similar experiences as you have that might push them close to quitting?

These last six months have been pretty amazing, and have had some challenges interspersed with the joyous successes. But at no point in the process did I ever even consider giving up … the thought just doesn’t cross my mind.

This is because I have done some pretty deep head scratching to discover the exact kind of work that I want to be doing with the exact kind of people I want to be doing it with. And although this may sound a little far out, it truly feels “divinely inspired.” Meaning I really feel like I am doing work that I am meant to be doing. When difficulties arise and I get stressed or tired, I stop and think “what do I need to learn from this right now?”

I ask myself if there is something I need to pay attention to, or stop doing or start doing that will make the process of running and growing my business more fun. I choose to look at fear as a great educator. I encourage my readers and clients to do the same, and to not feel bad for being scared sometimes. The only thing that will sustain you in the rough times is an intense love and passion for what you are doing. So if you build your business on that foundation, you can’t go wrong.

Let’s look to the future, 5 years from now. What will you want your business to have achieved 5 years from today. Do you envisage operating out of your own building with staff on the payroll? Can you see yourself having to open up operational centres in other countries? Please provide us with some insight into your business plan and aspirations for the business.

That is a very timely question. This year has been a big experiment in building platform and getting connected with the people that I am interested in working with. In the ten years I have been in business, I have never had the aspiration to grow my company into a big outfit with lots of employees and facilities, since one of my greatest sources of joy is freedom and flexibility. Managing payroll and employee relations is not my favourite thing to do.

That said, I do foresee having lots of independent people chipping in to work on projects with me and support my “back office” functions. I would love to see at least 2 published books, an established retreat schedule in my new home town of Sedona, Arizona, a radio show, lots of media exposure and a suite of helpful programs and products to help people make a good transition from corporate employee to entrepreneur.

I also would like to work on some very creative and experimental programs that bring together the best of business, new media and academia to serve my people. In my twenties, I was the Executive Director of a non-profit arts group and I produced many very interesting cross-cultural collaborations in music and dance. I am very hungry to bring some of that experience into some really fun experiences that will wake up and energize my audience. I am really, really looking forward to these next five years!

Interview With Pamela Slim – Escape from Cubicle Nation

Interview with Pamela Slim

I found a story at #302’s blog that lifts the heart and makes it all seem OK for a while. To see a larger photo of the best cricket ground in the world, click on the small pic below.

To go read the story at #302’s blog click HERE.

Cape Cobras Knock Apartheid For Six

Dave at Woza Friday tagged me to make a list of my ideal dinner guests. So here goes with my ideal 10 dinner guests:

John F Kennedy
Pamela Slim
Chris Hani
Gloria Steinem
Bill Clinton
Jim Lovell (Apollo 13 Commander & only man to go to the moon twice but not land)
John Lennon
Stephen Fry
Annie Lennox
Dr Richard Bandler

Dave says, “To add a twist to this and hopefully it gets kicked around the net a bit you must pick two fellow bloggers as waiters/waitresses and in so doing they become tagged and hopefully replicate a list of their own on their site.”

Waiter: John Dodds from Make Marketing History

Waitress: Michelle

Next time I get tagged I want to be able to pick 30 people to a braai (BBQ).

How many times in your life have you had a wonderful idea suddenly spring to mind but then let your logic begin to erode the initial enthusiasm? You talked yourself out of the idea or plan or decision didn’t you.

How many times have you regretted not just following your instinct? Too many times huh? My friend Michael Neill sent me this note about how he deals with his instinct.

He says:

I have learned that the moment you begin talking yourself into or out of a course of action based on logic or ’sensible’ reasoning, it’s a sure sign that deep down you already know what to do.

In “You Can Have What You Want”, I share this useful rule of thumb:

*The number of reasons you have to do something is inversely proportional to how much you actually want to do it.*

In other words, if you have too many reasons to do something, chances are you don’t really want to do it. But if you can’t think of a great reason to do something and you really want to or know to do it anyway, that’s almost certainly an authentic intuitive prompting or heartfelt desire.

Nine months later, (Michael and his family were living in UK and were to all intent and purpose settled and happy but one morning he intintively felt the need to relocate to America), we moved to America and after a couple of financially shaky years we found our feet and things have turned out better than either of us could have imagined. I am more convinced than ever that strange as it may seem in the moment, navigating by joy and following your intuition day by day is the safest way to travel.

In her new book “Trust Your Gut: How the Power of Intuition Can Grow Your Business”, author Lynn Robinson shares the following “One-Minute Intuition Quiz”, which I have reprinted below with permission.

You can use it to fine-tune your own intuitive promptings and evaluate any potential decision or course of action you are considering taking…

Try This Exercise:

Simply think of a problem, challenge, goal you are working towards or decision you are facing and one possible course of action. Then answer each of the seven questions with a “yes” or “no”. Keep track of your “score” and then compare it against the table at the bottom:

1. Do you feel excited or energized by this decision?

2. Do you feel open to making this change?

3. You know you have other choices, but does this one feel
right?

4. Is this the right time to act on this decision?

5. Does this decision feel right in your gut?

6. Can you see the successful completion of this decision?

7. Close your eyes and think of an image that represents this decision. Did you receive a positive image?

Your One-Minute Intuition Score

*If you answered YES to all seven questions:

Your intuition is giving you a clear go ahead. It’s time to take action!

*If you answered NO to one question:

Try to modify your decision and see if it affects your score in a positive direction.

*If you answered NO to two questions:

Perhaps your decision required a leap of faith that was a little too big. Are there some smaller steps you could take?

*If you answered NO to three questions:

Timing is always important in decision-making. If you didn’t receive a resounding “yes!” from your intuition, it may not be the right time for you to make a change.

*If you answered NO to four questions:

It’s normal to feel at least a little anxious when something changes in our lives. Is there part of the decision you could adjust that would make you feel more comfortable?

*If you answered NO to five or more questions:

Change your mind! Your intuition is telling you this is clearly not the right decision to make right now.

Books

*Following Your Own North Star by Martha Beck

*Practical Intuition by Laura Day

*Trust Your Gut by Lynn Robinson

*Trust Your Vibes by Sonia Choquette

*You Can Have What You Want by Michael Neill

Reproduced by kind permission of Michael Neill Copyright 2006

Secrets on How to Manage your Instinct

So the politicians have at last woken up to the fact that we bloggers have brains and use our right to speak out via our blogs against the crap, lies, deceipt, corruption and utter patheticness of Labour government.

This is what one of the arseholes who just caught onto the fact that it is 2006 and time to wake up, smell the coffee and get to grips with reality, manged to string together:

What is the big breakthrough, in terms of politics, on the web in the last few years? It’s basically blogs which are, generally speaking, hostile and, generally speaking, basically see their job as every day exposing how venal, stupid, mendacious politicians are. - Matthew Taylor, Blair’s chief strategy adviser

Personaly I think he had difficulty getting the words to hang together in a logical sequence. It does not read well does it? Makes me wonder what the others can string together?!

I don’t shout out about politics much. I realise it is a waste of effort, emotion and another person’s right to the oxygen it takes to do so but I am coming to think that blogging is a brilliant way to voice opinion about the government.

You will know that I am anti Gordon Brown. He is a Trotskyite and will bring United Kingdom to ruin. He also is not at all eye-candy is he. Can he smile? Has he ever smiled in his life? Yes but not a genuine smile. He looks as if he only bathes once a month and his shirts are old M&S stock (the Trotsky beliefs in him run deep) and I would not give him my baby to hold let alone kiss. Yuk! I genuinely fear for UK under Gordon Brown. Believe me - Blair is the lesser of two evils and if Cameron cannot sway the electorate to vote Conservative then we are in big poo.

The Lib Dems are a party without a cause. Limp-wristed spineless losers.

UKIP is only now becoming a party (at long last with Nigel Farange as leader),that will be able to threaten the complacency of the other big three. So I am going to vote UKIP. Keep us UK independant of the screwed up Brussels parliament who dictate the laws but don’t follow them. Have you noticed how it is only the UK that obeys the laws laid down by the Brussels bunch?

WHY?

UPDATE:
This post has been trawled up into UK Poli Blogs a political blogsite that searches Technorati (I have a rant about Technorati in the wings waiting to be completed) for any blog on politics.

Click HERE to see for yourself.

Are women better bloggers or just darned better conversationalists than men?

I have previously bemoaned here the number of comments I get versus the high numbers female bloggers achieve. I have a conspiracy theory about this phenomenon but will save that up for a rainy day.

Suffice to say that female bloggers attract the males in droves and their blogging ’sisters’ by the dozens. Is it a thing like what happens when women have a baby? Do they tend to group under a common denominator like parenthood OR is it simply a matter of interest and personality attraction?.

Dave Duarte takes this matter a stage further. Go read his article here

Do women blog more and better than men?

For those of you who for whatever reason are intriqued by or hold in awe the subject and inticacy of ‘Marketing’, John Dodds has leapt out from blogosphere an plonked a brilliant and succinct 10 paragraph short marketing minifesto in to our laps that spells out so clearly what marketing is.

John joins the ranks of il Marketing Maestro Seth Godin or surpasses him in ability to be so brief and poignant.

Go read John Dodds’s J-Train here

The J Train Minifesto

I am hoping that the issue with the sidebar dropping down below the main table will be fixed today.

I cannot guarantee it but here’s hoping. Hang in there! I thought I had it licked yesterday when I noted the ClusterMap bled over the side of the sidbar table margin. I deleted ClusterMap to no avail!

I had long ago thought ClusterMap as a useless bit of candy. Despite paying $9 for whatever it was supposed to do, the rule on updates and 20% increase on previous day’s/week’s or month’s unique visitors, meant that you and I would never see an update unless I went into the A List stream. Hardly likely. I also got pissed at the fact that their blog is seperate to the working site. Does not make for easy comunication.

And as for finding out that they had a seperate blog to communicate to them - that was a pure fluke I found out. Nowhere on the main working site does it clearly indicate a link to their support site. Guys (at ClusterMap) if you want happy clients, please learn to communicate clearly, and make navigation simple and in big font so that dumbtawts like me can see where to go to complain. Because you did not folow this simple rule you are now getting some bad press from a hacked off ex-customer. Also - change the rules and you might win back some customers.

So I hid ClusterMap from view unti yesterday when I deleted it.

OK, I hope the next time you see me, the sidebar will be visible to all those errr ummm must I say it? Oh here goes, errrrr Firefox and Safari users (eeeeeeew, ughh spew ‘n splutter and go wash out mouth and hands)!

Joking. Whatever floats your boat in terms of browsers is fine with me. I made a big mistake on the Dell. I downloaded IE7. Oooops! What a load of kak it is! So now I are stuck with a browser on the Dell that does my head in. Why didn’t I just leave IE6? Stupid dipstick.

By the way, I did try FF but thought it just like and a mirror of the awful IE7 so I deleted it. As for the other drek browser - the less said the better.

Ciao amigos und bonitas chiquitas!

Time is flying toward Christmas and New Year but most importantly for me is that it is ‘min dae’ before I fly off to New York. I need the break badly.

We welcomed #302 and Sparrows to the blogroll this week. You can go see what they have been up to by clicling on the link below.

Meanwhile…..

1. Acidic Ice - Queenie is already dieting to make room for the Calorie Fest over Xmas/New Year!

2. And Pop Pickers straight at #2 this week is Pop The Cork - with a Xmas Gift Wishlist!

3. Guy Kawasaki - Guy & Woz are doing a pre Xmas panto, promising you will have an informative and entertaining evening. They said that about Les Dennis on I’m a Celebrity Get Me Outta Here.

4. ChampagneHeathen - Champers is fighting the clubbing bottle blondes, pulling bitches hair, scratching eyes out, hissyfitting while puking up cheap ‘watered’ down kerosene/tequila mixes, incurring memory loss, picking up los men - ja all that good normal weekend stuff when we get wrecked and go to a club we hate.

5. Cheap Tart - Burning the toast and spilling the mik?

6. Cook Sister - Dreamy Creamy Gem Squash. Yummy yum yums!

7. CaZ - CaZ claims she had the best jnf ever. WRONG! I did. In 2003. Yaboosucks to you too!

8. Insanely Single - Having a tough time because of hormones acting wierd.

9. KattBox - Katt all you need to know is that we menfolk wear the trousers, while you do the cooking, washing, cattle herding, shopping, ploughing the mielie fields and raising Azania and his 10 sisters and also other stuff leaving us men free to go play dominos at the pub. OK? Got it?! ;0)

10. Kyk Noord - I did not know that Kyk are a aktor and serious muso too! Kyk sinfully did not bought ‘Worsie Visser – the Early Years’. Jislaaik it’s a sin! Sis man! How could you not?!

11. John Dodds - Riding the J-Train manifesto. Good stuff. Go read it.

12. Misty - Misty can’t say it out loud any louder than she does in her new article, “Weenis Of The Week #3. Just do not get on the wrong side of Misty or you willl pray for death! She’s a cutie really. She is. Honest. Misunderstood is all.

13. Michelle - Michelle now is not into me at all! Damn!

14. Urban Trash - Home Affairs? Ouch this rings loud bells from years ago. Did you buy oJeremy’s book yet? No? Then do so. You’ll love it. Help improve the Kak-O-Meter reading.

15. Aquila Online - Ag shamepies, Aquila is suffering a Blackberry Thumb! So did Simple Simon. But at least he pulled out a plum!.

16. Bad Language - Matthew advises us How to prevent alien domination of the Earth! I suggest Misty reads this. And then we can all test her on it!

17. BigRic - BigRic is Couch Surfing. Lucky man!!

18. Boer Seun - Leon has a new CD out called Op Dun Eish?

19. Escape Cubicle Nation - 10 Laws to Help You Thrive as an Entrepreneur.

20. Gaping Void - Lame 3.0!

21. La Dolce Vita - Writes about Echoing Pricesses,Echoing Pricesses,Echoing Pricesses,Echoing Pricesses.

22. The Real Marbro - Searching for Ferdi. Hello, where are you?p>

23. OneAfrikan - Lost his mojo but found his flow!

24. ShutterJane - ShutterJane still shopping on Sunday?! Lovely pic.

25. White African - Eriks at a Nardi Gras. Or is it a Nerdi Gras?

26. Woza Friday - Dave want Dopey to be kept out of town. Poor Snow White!!

This edition of the Roll-Up is a weekend too late! . Enjoy!

iScatterling W2/1106 Blogroll Round-Up

I want iScatterlings to be read in 130 countries:

Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Antarctica, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Bahrain, Barbados, Belgium, Benin, Bermuda, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Bouvet Island, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Cameroon, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, England, Estonia, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands, Fiji, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Isle of Man, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Isle of Man, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macau, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Malta, Mauritius, Mexico, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, Netherland Antilles, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Northern Ireland, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Romania, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Scotland, Serbia, Singapore, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United States, Uruguay, US Virgin Islands, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vietnam, Wales, Yemen, Yugoslavia, Zambia

Let’s make it happen.

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