Archive for May, 2008

I signed up for Social Spark

Posted in Personal on May 21st, 2008

A while back I signed up for SocialSpark. So what is Social Spark?

Well Social Spark is a social networking site for bloggers and advertisers. You can promote your site as well as rate other blogs and users. Social Spark will also keep track of stats as well. You can see visits to your page and the “Real Rank” of your page according to Social Sparks page ranking system.

There are many things to do with in Social Spark with out even taking a paid opportunity. You have the ability to see if someone is willing to promote your blog in exchange for you promoting their blog. This really could help with the cross traffic posting and get you more visitors.

Reserving opportunities in Social Spark can be a pain. You have 12 hours to complete the assigned task from the time that the opportunity becomes available to you. This, to me, is an issue as where you may not always know if you got the opportunity. you may have to check the site every 12 hours to see if you need to make a post. The good thing about this is that it prevents link spamming the search engines.

There are several aspects of Social Spark that I have not even tried yet. I mainly signed up because of another way to make money online with Mouse Clone. I do not make a ton-o-money with Social Spark, but it can allow you to pay for your hosting cost. So for a few words a month you could have free hosting, to a degree, just some work on your side.

All opportunities with Social Spark, that contain links, have “no follow”. This means that the search engines will not follow the links. They will just read the words for the links. This is also another way to prevent the link spamming and paying for links. You will get the traffic for some of the key words, and people will follow those links from your site. This could even be more traffic for yourself.

So go on. What are you waiting for. Own a blog? Sign up for SocialSpark today!

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Amie Street Music Wednesday #33

Posted in Amie Street Music Wednesday on May 21st, 2008
Amie St. Music Wednesday

I can’t help but to do this. This is a band that I hear every year at Moondance. It has just amazed me that I know someone on Amie Street. I’m just shocked that I found them on Amie Street. I even used to know someone that was part of the band. Crazy right?

Well because Moondance is this weekend, I have to set them up on here. It just would not be right. By now you are wondering just who is this band. Well the band is Spiral Rhythm.

The song Grandmother sticks out in my head the most. That is just because you can hear it from any where at the camp site. That is not a bad thing. I also remember it being one of the first songs that I hear around meal time. Everyone sits on the side of the hill, and enjoys eveyones company. I’m normally eating with about 20 people that I have meet over the years.

Today though, I’m going to say give Come and Dance a listen. It is up tempo. It is sure to be enjoyed by anyone that loves drums as well.

One last thing to point out. The type of drums you hear playing in the music, well, they play until about 3am on Friday and Saturday night. There is nothing like going to bed to the sound of the beating drums.

Getting the Checklist for Camping

Posted in Personal on May 20th, 2008

Tonight is the night that all of the camping gear will be moved to the living room. Time to make the list and check it off os what we have and don’t have.

We had to toss out our cooler last year. It reeeeeeked from leaving water in it because I was lazy when I get back and didn’t really feel like cleaning. Well that went on for a few months, and I didn’t even want to open it after that.

So I’m off to pack stuff up and get it sorted. I’m headed home. I’m hoping this will not take that long. But I have got to make sure that I have room for everything in the car. I have a trunk full of wood this year, last year a burn ban was in place.

Xbox 360 Account

Posted in Personal on May 19th, 2008

My account for the 360 expired this weekend, on Friday night, and it wouldn’t let me renew. For what ever reason It just wouldn’t let me. It would say that I needed to update my account, and then it would just die.

So I have a new name on Xbox Live. Mouseclone. That is right, you will now be able to find me under Mouseclone. If you have a live account and want to hookup on some gaming. Send me a message. I play CoD4 90% of the time.

This time next week…

Posted in Personal on May 16th, 2008

This time next week I will be camping. I will not have a cell phone, computer, internet access, or video games. Oh no, what am I going to do.

NOTHING!!!!!!!

Really, I’m not going to do anything but stoke a fire and cook some stew. hang out with some friends. Get away from all of the craziness that is in the “modern day world.”

So in a week I will have no way to get to a computer or to my cell. Well I could go into town but I really do not care to do that.

Do you ever just get away from everything and enjoy nature?


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