Fri
19
Feb
2010

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#3 iPads to win in global competition exclusively with bloggers!

Clockspot.com the online time and tracking attendance service has come up with a fabulous competition exclusively for bloggers – read on for your chance to win one of the 3 iPads!

Here is how and where to enter:

Step 1: Register your blog for this exclusive competition HERE including the mention “fuelmyblog” to the question “how did you hear about us?”

Step 2: Write a blog entry on the following subject:

If you were responsible for producing the next revolutionary technology, what would it be?
How would you use Clockspot to help your endeavor?

-Write it in a minimum of 300 words.
-Link to http://www.clockspot.com labeled with “online timesheet” or “online time clock”.

Step 3: Post a link to your blog entry in the comments section at the bottom of the competition page. All entries are due March 31, 2010.

All entries will be judged on creativity, entertainment value, level of credibility and cleverness, Clockspot exposure with bonus points granted for entries that attracted most online interaction.

Deadline for this entry March 31st 2010

Disclaimer: This competition is run and managed entirely by Clockspot.com, while it is available to all note that shipping fees will be applicable to bloggers living outside the United States of America.

Best of luck to all!

Follow Clockspot.com on twitter: @ClockspotNews

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#New Product Review For UK Based Bloggers

We have a great campaign coming up folks for blogging dog/cat owners living in the UK.
We will be working with a pet food and care supplier re-launching its brand new site and we will need bloggers willing to place an order and review the overall feel of the website from a user/customer point of view. Vouchers will be available for successful applicants.

To be eligible for this campaign you will need to be:

-Based in United Kingdom
-Have a cat or a dog (we want to see a pic!)
-Be willing to write an honest review and link back to the site within two weeks of receiving the order.

If you feel that you have a space on your blog for a bit of pet talk then please forward your URL to sylvie(at)fuelmyblog.com

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By sylvied | Posted in Competitions, product testing | Tagged , , | Comments (8)
Wed
17
Feb
2010

How many dead blogs does it take?

How many dead blogs will it take to kill us all?

I watched a documentary the other night about the state of the blogiverse.

There are, apparently, 1.2 billion blogs out there of which 95% are ‘dead’ (ie no activity for 3 or more months). This doesn’t even take into account the non-English speaking blogs – there are also over 73 million Chinese bloggers just for starters…

So if the average blog uses up half a GB of disc space and there are 1,073,741,824 bytes in a gig (assuming the use of gigibyte being 1024 to the power of 3 and not gigabyte being 1000 cubed) and there are 95 x 100/1,200,000,000 dead blogs (English speaking only) that means that there are 1,073,741,824 x 95 x 100/2 x 1,200,000,000 bytes of forgotten information in dead blogs. Also take into account the billions of archived posts in active blogs, unread undiscarded emails, undeleted spam, really rubbish porn that nobody watches and the contents of Daddypapersurfer.com. Then that means that there is exactly and definitively quite a lot of wasted space out there.

People think that this is okay – digital information has no physical presence and can therefore do no harm to this beautiful planet of ours. But those brazillions of bytes are all taking up valuable disk space that is manufactured by tiny hands in hot countries and powered by electricity produced by ripping gaping holes through the ozone layer.

So in conclusion – to save Mother Earth and all of humanity:

  1. You must delete all your spam.
  2. If you have a ’sad’ porn site that nobody visits – take it down.
  3. And, most importantly if your blog is full of rubbish that nobody reads – delete the lot. Right now. You know who you are…

This post can also be seen at Papersurfer.

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By penfold | Posted in Guest Posts, blogging | Comments (27)
Sun
14
Feb
2010

It is Valentine folks

So today is Valentine’s Day!  It is the day where we are supposed to be paying more attention to our other halves…

Pressure to please and to feel loved is on and with it comes the unavoidable “let down” factor…

Every year I am amused by the amount of heart shaped  knick knacks thrown at us in magazines and shops.

Surely if I presented @kevindixie with a dish of heart shaped pasta (that’s as far as I am prepared to go) he would just take the pea! I can just imagine how unromantic the rest would be…

So this year I have decided that Valentine will have zero knock on effect on our relationship whatsoever…and I am going to be quite public about it!

As you can see we have both equally committed ourselves to Valentine this time, him by buying me a free t-shirt and I simply by wearing it all day…bliss.

“Roses are red wine makes me wee my other half is so tight this tshirt was free…”
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Tell us your thoughts about Valentine…especially if they are negative…on the other hand if you have experienced the best Valentine do share it with us it may inspire us for next year!

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By sylvied | Posted in Fuelmyblog News | Tagged , | Comments (19)
Thu
11
Feb
2010

Adding a Bit of Twitter Love to FuelMyBloggers!

Now I’ve always been a bit of a Twitterholic and since the addition to lists on Twitter I thought it was about time that I used the list system to create a little TwitterLuv to my fellow FuelMyBloggers.

For those wondering what a Twitter list is, it’s simply a way of adding twitters in certain categories etc to a list that is self updating and can be followed as you would follow a twitter user, but, it will follow the list instead.

FuelMyBlog Twitter ListAs you can see I’ve started building the list up already, so all I need now is for everyone using FuelMyBlog and Twitter to comment on this post with their Twitter name, but please only if you are a member of FuelMyBlog. I will then add you to the list ;)

You can find the Twitter List at @rembeatz/fuelmyblog and I will follow those of you that I add to the list ;)

So there you have it, simples ;)

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By Karen from Blazing Minds | Posted in Guest Posts | Tagged , , , | Comments (14)