tellhimfred.com

A note to bloggers: If you are one of the first people to report on a story, and follow the right pinging and notification protocol, you’ll get a bunch of traffic.
On September 3rd, I was watching NBC’s “A Concert for Hurricane Relief” and saw Kanye West, who said:
“I hate the way they portray us in [...]

[Read more →]

Last week, one of my bosses asked if I was going away for the holiday weekend. I said no. He took me into his office and offered me tickets to the Deutsche Bank Championship Tournament.
I’ve never been to a professional golf event. I’d never even thought about it. It seems like it would be excrutiatingly [...]

[Read more →]

I can’t believe what I just saw….Kanye West was on with Mike Myers on the Red Cross/NBC special tonight….and he started rambling.
West was talking about the importance of donating money, and that those were his people. He was talking about how important it was to help “black people” in the South.
He was obviously [...]

[Read more →]

I just thought I’d post this for those of you who have blogs. It’s easy to put up a button to allow your site viewers to donate to the Red Cross. I’ll make it even easier for you.
Just place this code snippet on your site wherever you’d like the image to appear:
<a href=’http://store.yahoo.com/redcross-donate2′><img src=’http://www.blogstring.com/images/arc2.gif’ width=’122′ [...]

[Read more →]

So, there are some emails going around today asking people not to buy gas just for the day. Their logic is such that
“IT HAS BEEN CALCULATED THAT IF EVERYONE IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA DID NOT PURCHASE A DROP OF GASOLINE FOR ONE DAY AND ALL AT THE SAME TIME, THE OIL COMPANIES [...]

[Read more →]

I think it’s been pretty clear through this blog that I live in an animal mad house. We live with a cat (Bob), a rabbit (Molly), and of course, the dog (Toby).
This can make for an interesting time at the apartment.
It used to be that Bob and Molly didn’t get along well. Being a [...]

[Read more →]

So, I’m trying to put a survey together to get information about bloggers and how they operate. I’m doing this because I want to offer only good tutorials, reviews, etc. on the BlogString.com site.
The first survey is now up. I’m asking bloggers to fill it out, and I’ll give everyone that does a link [...]

[Read more →]

I hate the “Mitchum Man” ad campaign. I really, really hate it.
Get on the subway, and you can’t escape them. Go to the mens room, and they’re right over the urinal. They are everywhere.

Here are some of the ads:

If your only real fear is commitment, you’re a Mitchum Man.
If you’ve never left a [...]

[Read more →]

I was thinking about this whole blogging experiment this morning, and I realized that it is just that: an experiment. It’s millions of people sharing personal information on the web for reasons unknown.
And that’s kind of strange. And a little bit counterintuitive for most.
Think of any action and the motivation that is the cause. [...]

[Read more →]

I shouldn’t even announce it yet. I really shouldn’t.
But I have to.
I have another blog site I’m working on. The first idea was to have a service that acts almost like the “WebRings” of yore….but for blogs. I wanted to merge the idea of webrings and toplists together to create a service that groups blogs [...]

[Read more →]