Blondes that DIY Blog

In case you haven't heard, I started a new blog on May 9, 2014. It's my Blondes that DIY blog! That is actually my fourth Google blog. You know, it wasn't until August 19th that I started to engage on my new blog to do my second post. I started out with a cup of coffee, so to speak, prepared on my Bella One Scoop One Cup Coffee Maker!

Blondes that DIY blog

As of August 30th, I have published some 118 blog posts. The last article is about probably the largest scale do it yourself project I have taken to date! Using a Corona 18 inch razor tooth hand saw, I spent 14 consecutive weeks sawing the up to 50 foot limbs on the 9 crepe myrtle trees that line the back of my property. Boy oh boy, was that ever one heck of a DIY project!!

Squidoo Burp : Nothing to see here!

For me, it is a transitional time. I was a lensmaster on Squidoo for 8.5 years! Wow, pinch me. I can't believe it is over. I am sitting here at my desk gazing out at those trimmed crepe myrtle trees and wondering, "when will my Squidoo lenses transfer to HubPages?" I've set up a new profile there, Julie Ann Brady on HubPages, and am waiting for my 100 lenses to transfer as hubs. Right now, there is "nothing to see here ... yet" on HP!

UPDATE: Well, on September 4, 2014, my 100 lenses transferred over to HubPages as hubs. Because I was busy the first day removing a few, the accolades only recorded 50 lenses published and featured. Within a little over the first week, I had the 10,000 views accolade appearing on my profile. Fast forward to October 3rd at 6:30pm. I removed my final hubs that remained there and repurposed those to my JaguarJulie Blog! Right after I deleted the last one, HubPages took back several accolades that they had awarded - 50 hubs published, 50 hubs featured, 10,000 views! Squidoo never did that. Gosh, HP is rather like an indian giver or something. Taking back something that you earned through your hard work!!

I Love Blogging!

I have been a Google Blogger since December 2004. Wow, can you believe that? Ten years. What is the anniversary gift for ten years? I sure hope Google continues their blogging platform a little longer.

Do It Yourself!

Opting to add more content to my blogs, you can say I am embracing the concept of "do it yourself." I hope you enjoy my new blog and take a moment to say "Hello!" Now that things are winding down and then back up for a lot of peeps, I hope our friendships continue onward as we reach this fork in the road. And, I look forward to also forging new friendships.

Be Authentic!

I guess I need to say this again; i.e., be authentic, be original, be YOU. Don't try to be somebody else or take somebody else's copyrighted images and content to use. Content scraping is not a noble profession.

Thanks Google for Blogger

I love Google! Thanks Google for Blogger! I have learned to appreciate and love blogging thanks all to the power of Google. I would love to work for or with Google in almost any capacity, well except cleaning the toilets. I draw the line on cleaning toilet seats. Do you know how many germs you can pick up on a toilet seat? Listen up; I'd camp out in a tent [with air-conditioning] to get a job at Google. Hello Google people? Hire me please. I am JaguarJulie and I would love to work for or with Google in almost any capacity. Please Google!

I am a Google blogger known as Jaguar Julie Blog On since 2004! This here blog, folks! For the most part, I'm known verbally as a 'woman of few words.' But, you get me passionate about something or really riled up, well I can then become pretty prolific when it comes to the 'written word.' I'm kind of feeling pretty riled up today ... you might have noticed that? Actually the riling up has been building since about March 2012.

Blogging? Why, what a good thing it is to blog and write authentically and creatively on your blog. It's a good thing to talk about other people's content on your blog too ... provided you don't plagiarize them or steal their content and make it look like it is your content! You know?

My very first blog post was on December 22, 2004, inspired by a Microsoft Live Meeting sponsored webinar entitled "Blogging For Business" presented by Jim Coudal of Coudal Partners and Anil Dash of Six Apart. I got the message about blogging online being a good thing!

"It's the Big "T" -- Take time out for blogging you all." I said that! By the way, I picked that pretty picture of very colourful pencils because that's what I think of blogging. Blogging should be compelling and colourful and inviting.

So, are you blogging? Why not leave me a comment about your blog as a comment on this blog post. There was a time when people left blog comments. I miss them. I miss my blog peeps!

UPDATE: It is 2019 and I have been dealing with a host of content scrapers who stole my copyrighted images and content and are indexed on Google ... many times with stolen content above the original content! Google HELP ... help to fix this. Do not rank content scrapers.

Stealing People's Blog Posts is Just NOT Cool

Today I was made aware of another blog that is building their blog from other people's blog posts -- using FULL blog posts to build their blog and then try to sell stuff. Ironically, I was alerted through Google Alerts of this Google blogger stealing content. I have taken the time to leave my comment on those blog posts of mine that I've spotted. Since that blog is stacking some blog posts, I might have missed all the blog posts of mine that they've 'stolen.'

I have made it fully clear that I do not condone them using my content without permission. It seems they have found a number of other people's blogs from which to take content -- full blown blog posts.

The offending party's blog: http://governmentworkathome-admin.blogspot.com

There have been discussions recently on the SquidU Forum about this happening with Squidoo blogs. I'd read that this is sometimes seen as a form of syndication in providing the USED person's blogs or lenses with backlinks and traffic. However, to me this is unauthorized use of other person's content. I was never contacted by that Government Work at Home blog and asked if I would like to have my content used for their purposes of making money!

I have taken the time not only to advise that Google blogger to remove my content, but I have reported them to Google using the online webmaster tools.

Have you spotted your personal content at that Government Work at Home blog?

Be the best that you can be - JulieAnnBrady aka JaguarJulie

So, I penned this blog post in August 2009. It is almost June 2019 and you know what? The content scrapers have littered the internet, literally treating it like a litter box of non-authentic and stolen content. Good Grief! Will this ever end? Will Google decide to not index content scrapers stolen images and content? That would be a start, for sure!!

Best / Top Blogs Cited in 2004

Curious about what's the Best Blogs, I did a Google search this morning for "best blogs," yielding results of 13,400,000 for "best blogs" in 0.14 seconds. Big Eye, http://www.bigeye.com/blogs.htm, has highlighted BlogPulse as "best of 2004."

BlogPulse, http://www.blogpulse.com/2004_review/BlogPulse2004_review.html, lists the following, as the Top Blogs cited in 2004:

1. BoingBoing
2. DailyKos
3. Instapundit
4. The Drudge Report
5. Slashdot
6. AndrewSullivan.com
7. Talking Points Memo
8. Eschaton
9. Washington Monthly
10. Power Line
11. Albino Blacksheep
12. Little Green Footballs
13. engadget
14. The Smoking Gun
15. MetaFilter
16. Wonkette!
17. Gizmodo
18. The Command Post
19. Captain's Quarters
20. Wizbang!
21. HughHewitt.com
22. The Volokh Conspiracy
23. Michele Malkin
24. Penny Arcade
25. Informed Comment
26. J-Walk Blog
27. Protein Wisdom
28. Blogs for Bush
29. Kottke.org
30. Belmont Club
31. Lileks.com
32. Buzzmachine
33. A Small Victory
34. Dean's World
35. Crooked Timber
36. The Scepter of Angst
37. Allah is in the House
38. Scobleizer
39. VoidStar
40. INDC Journal
41. Democratic Underground
42. Outside the Beltway
43. Gawker
44. Pandagon.net
45. Gothamist
46. Tim Blair
47. Roger L. Simon
48. Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal: a Weblog
49. VodkaPundit
50. TalkLeft
51. Unconscious Mutterings
52. Daniel D. Drezner
53. Blackfive
54. Mad Science News
55. Oliver Willis
56. Cox and Forkum Editorial Cartoons
57. Matthew Yglesias
58. This Blog is Full of Crap
59. Windsofchange.net
60. Taegan Goddard's Political Wire
61. Billmon
62. Joi Ito's Web
63. Waxy.org
64. Hullabaloo
65. Jihad Watch
66. Marginal Revolution
67. Scripting News
68. IMAO
69. Iraq the Model
70. The Official Kerry-Edwards Blog
71. ScrappleFace
72. MyDD
73. This Modern World
74. Defamer
75. Lessig Blog
76. Maud Newton
77. Kuro5hin
78. Questions and Observations
79. The Blue Lemur
80. techdirt
81. Chrenkoff
82. Right Wing News
83. Rathergood.com
84. Ace of Spades HQ
85. Argghhh
86. Dan Gillmor eJournal on SiliconValley.com
87. Filling a Much-Needed Void
88. USS Clueless
89. Wil Wheaton dot Net
90. Reason Online Hit and Run
91. The American Prospect: Tapped
92. The Truth Laid Bear
93. Backcountry Conservative
94. The Jawa Report
95. Polipundit.com
96. dooce
97. The Politburo Diktat
98. Baghdad Burning
99. Jeremy Zawodny's blog
100. Orcinus 

BlogPulse Trends is the one-click answer to the simple question: "What’s the buzz?" BlogPulse Trends identifies the topics and subjects that people are talking about in their blogs.

"The BlogPulse Showcase is a sandbox for our researchers, developers and collaborators. This is where we offer an early peek into new and cool things related to blogs, blog searching, blog analysis and more."

I am a Blogger x5!

1. Julie Ann Brady Blog On and On
2. Blondes that DIY
3. For Sale By Owner - Leesburg, FL
4. For Sale By Owner - Jacksonville, FL
5. Topicability

Six Apart, LiveJournal Merger Creates Blogging Powerhouse

"There's money to be made," blog expert B.L. Ochman, author of "What Could Your Company Do with a Blog?," said. "As soon as that becomes clear, you'll see more mergers in the marketplace. This acquisition will certainly help Six Apart, which is starting to see quite a few competitors."

http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/39463.html

Six Apart, a developer and provider of blogging software and service, has acquired Danga Interactive, operator of LiveJournal, an online community organized around personal journals, for an undisclosed amount. The merger of the two blogging pioneers makes the new company a blogging powerhouse serving up 6.5 million blogs, with thousands more added daily, according to the companies. Analysts said it puts Six Apart in a better position to capitalize on the revenue-generating aspects of blogs.

Six Apart now has a complete package of blogging software and services.

• TypePad offers bloggers a hosted service with more flexibility and power than free services.
• Moveable Type offers corporations and institutions a server-based blog publishing platform.

Blog Shares Blogshares - Fantasy or Reality

OK ... me again with the Google searches. I live to LOVE Google searches. I honestly don't know what I did before Google!! Really. And, I'm much too old to be carrying on this way. I'm sure my husband would say, "It must be men o pause!"

Well, I just searched "Blog shares" and yielded 24,700 for "Blog shares" in 0.19 seconds. Without the quotes, you get 1,290,000 for Blog shares in 0.27 seconds.

The most obvious result is http://www.blogshares.com/ -- a fantasy stock market for weblogs. Players get to invest a fictional $500, and blogs are valued by incoming links.

As I am new to fantasy and to Blogshares ... much more into reality ... I was surprised to find Jaguar Julie in Blogshares. In reality, I nominated my blog as Best Small Business Blog for the 2005 Blogging Awards.

I am a Blogger x5!

1. Julie Ann Brady Blog On and On
2. Blondes that DIY
3. For Sale By Owner - Leesburg, FL
4. For Sale By Owner - Jacksonville, FL
5. Topicability

Have Blogs taken over the world

Several searches on Google returns some surprising MONSTER results!

• "Blog" yields 154,000,000 results in 0.19 seconds !
• "weblog" yields 40,200,000 results in 0.15 seconds.
• "Blogging" yields 9,560,000 results in 0.14 seconds.
• " 'web log' " yields 4,140,000 results in 0.12 seconds.
• "blogosphere" yields 1,380,000 results in 0.15 seconds.
• "blogrolling" yields 655,000 results in 0.19 seconds.
• "blogsphere" yields 122,000 results in 0.23 seconds.

Additional Google searches yields some EMERGING terminology.

• "Blogophile" yields 385 results in 0.09 seconds.
• "Blogphile" yields 156 results in 0.15 seconds.
• "Bloggerphile" yields just 5 results in 0.24 seconds.

What is the history of blogs? They aren't as new as you would think!

Mallory Jensen writes,

"They have actually been around since the early days of the Internet. In the strictest sense, a blog is someone's online record of the Web sites he or she visits. Today's blogs, of course, are much more than that. In 1999 there were dozens of blogs. Now there are millions. What happened?

Simply put, some of the blogging pioneers — in an effort to make their own work easier — built tools that allow anyone, no matter how little Internet savvy he or she possesses, to create and maintain a blog. All you need to get started is a name, a password, and an e-mail address. The most popular of these tools is the aptly named Blogger.com, which was launched in August 1999 by Evan Williams, Paul Bausch, and Meg Hourihan and quickly became the largest and best-known of its kind.

Part of Blogger.com's appeal is that it lets people store blogs on their own servers, rather than on a remote base. This allows them to have a personalized address (like www.yourname.com), whereas with other blogging tools your address starts at the remote server."

I love Blogs and Blogging

That makes me a BlogPhile ... So, "What's a BlogPhile? " you ask? Blog a.k.a. blogger -or- blogrolling -or- weblog -or- Web log -or- blogosphere

• A blog is basically a journal that is available on the web.
• The activity of updating a blog is "blogging" and someone who keeps a blog is a "blogger."
• Blogs are typically updated daily using software that allows people with little or no technical background to update and maintain the blog.
• Postings on a blog are almost always arranged in chronological order with the most recent additions featured most prominantly.

-phile or -phil suff.

1. One that loves or has a strong affinity or preference for: audiophile.


• Loving; having a strong affinity or preference for: Francophile.
• [New Latin -philus, from Greek -philos, beloved, dear, from philos, beloved, loving.]

I am a Blogger x5!

1. Julie Ann Brady Blog On and On
2. Blondes that DIY
3. For Sale By Owner - Leesburg, FL
4. For Sale By Owner - Jacksonville, FL
5. Topicability

Get Blog Inspired

Thinking about starting your own blog and want to get some ideas on what to write about? Are you making meaning with your blog?

Check out these Blogs for some blogging inspiration:

• A VC
• Engage
• VC Ball
• Blog.org
• Blue Sun
• eblogsky
• Beyond VC
• Amy Jo Kim
• Jeff Nolan
• Madeleines
• Clay Shirky
• David Allen
• TJ's Weblog
• Section One
• Trader Mike
• CorporatePR
• Media Culpa
• PR Opinions
• Common Craft
• Mathemagenic
• Susan Mernit
• Venture Blog
• Dave Pollard

A Blog How To - Easy Instructions

Want to start your own blog?

Here's some really easy instructions to help you get started !

http://www.businessownerscoachingclub.com/videos/Blogger-firstblog.html

Enjoy!
Jaguar Julie

Welcome to my Blog

What do you post to your first entry for a daily blog? Well, briefly, let me tell you why I decided to launch this blog.

Recently, I attended a Microsoft Live Meeting sponsored webinar entitled "Blogging For Business." It was presented by Jim Coudal of Coudal Partners and Anil Dash of Six Apart. It was a well spent one hour of interactive discussions on the merits of blogging

For those of you who are late adopters of this form of communication, I'll share some links below with resources to help you get started

1. http://www.sixapart.com
2. http://www.coudal.com
3. http://www.typepad.com
4. http://www.movabletype.org 

Free for the first month; $4.95/mo after: http://www.theblogcafe.com
 
Google's free offering: http://www.blogger.com
 
Some examples:

• http://smallblock.gmblogs.com
• http://www.andrewsullivan.com
• http://www.greencine.com 

Check out some popular blogs:

• Boing Boing
• Veer
• The Skinny
• Stonyfield Farm 

Remember, it is important to have relevant and current content. Market or promote your blog by trading links ... use a lot of outbound links.

Thanks for your attention! -- Jaguar Julie Ann Brady, retired Marketing professional

P.S. It is nearly June 2019 and I am reviewing my over 500 blog posts in my Julie Ann Brady Blog On Google blog. Holy smokes, but I see a lot of development throughout the nearly fifteen years of blogging. I've not removed my early blog posts so as to show the progression. If you want to blog, go ahead and do it.