Filed under: General | Tags: Blogging, Entertainment, Friends, Fun, Games, Humor, Meme, telephone
No sooner I’d tagged JD for the Telephone Game, but in came three “calls” for call waiting. I happily clicked them over using that old “Oh, just a moment, I have another call” line and set about to forget about them for awhile so they would truly feel like they’d been put on hold.
However… JD tagged a friend who had to pass on the game and so, without further ado JEFF, your number is up.
Errr, not in that oh-my-this-is-bad way, but in that hey-you-get-to-play-already way.
I enjoyed your heartfelt post about the homeless, and yet, I see your blog is about humor too. I can’t wait to see what you come up with here! So Jeff.. you’ve been officially taken off hold, no longer have to listen to that “The Allstar Singers Perform Barry Manilow” crud while you wait and can officially take part in the fracas telephone game!
***Fracas created this game, and because only one person gets to play at a time, consider yourself a real fraccer! Here’s what you gotta do. See those 3 asterisks at the start of this paragraph? Copy from there to the three asterisks at the end of the post. Then, add your line and change one word. JUST ONE. It’s like playing the telephone game when we were little. Then tag ONE person and pass it on. If the game gets stalled at someone who doesn’t play, fracas takes it back and sends it on its way again. For playing, you get links… and you get to take this badge and display it with a link back to the telephone page so your readers get to see your contribution!
If you want to be part of it, please leave a comment at the telephone page at fracas and fracas will add you the next time it comes back around to her, but please don’t just start doing it yourself as that will ruin the proper flow.
1. Fracas – http://fracas.wordpress.com writes:
Never continue dating anyone who is rude to the waiter.
2. Mark @ Blogitude – http://www.blogitude.com/ writes:
Never continue dating anyone who is nude to the waiter.
3. Wiggy @ http://damewigginsoflee.wordpress.com writes:
Forever continue dating anyone who is nude to the waiter.
4. Froggy @ The Road Less Traveled – http://froglette79.wordpress.com writes:
Forever continue dating anyone who is nude under the waiter.
5. InTheFastLane@ That’s Life – http://thatslifev2.blogspot.com writes:
Forever continue dating anyone who is nude under the water.
6. Treadmillista @ Just Treadmilling Around – http://treadmillinginplace.blogspot.com/ writes:
Forever continue dating everyone who is nude under the water.
7. Christine @ Watch Me! No, Watch Me! – http://watchmenowatchme.blogspot.com/ writes:
Forever continue watching everyone who is nude under the water.
8. Candace @ not that i don’t love my kids – http://notthatidontlovemykids.blogspot.com/ writes:
Forever continue scratching everyone who is nude under the water.
9. Fracas @ fracas – http://fracas.wordpress.com writes:
Forever avoid scratching everyone who is nude under the water.
10. Bluepaintred @ Bluepaintred – http://www.bluepaintred.com writes:
Never avoid scratching everyone who is nude under the water.
11. Shelli @ Shelli’s Sentiments – http://shellis-sentiments.com writes:
Never avoid kissing everyone who is nude under the water.
12. Judy @ Sugar Queen’s Dream – http://sugar-queens-dream.blogspot.com/ writes:
Never avoid kissing everyone who is nude under the blankets.
13. Trish @ Not Your Typical Granny - http://notagranny.blogspot.com/ writes:
Never avoid spanking everyone who is nude under the blankets.
14. Amy @ Amy’s Musings – http://www.amysmusings.com/ writes:
Never try spanking everyone who is nude under the blankets.
15. Tense @ A Tense Teacher – http://tenseteacher.net/ writes:
Never try shagging everyone who is nude under the blankets.
16. Chili @ The Blue Door – http://theinnerdoor.wordpress.com/ writes:
Certainly try shagging everyone who is nude under the blankets.
17. O’Mama @ Life and Times of Organic Mama – http://thebluetwin.wordpress.com/ writes:
Certainly try shagging everyone who is nude under the bleachers.
18. Grammar Snob @ Grammar Snob – http://amylynn1313.blogspot.com/ writes:
Certainly try judging everyone who is nude under the bleachers.
19. Prof. J. @ Professor J’s Place – http://professorjsplace.blogspot.com/ writes:
Certainly try judging everyone who is rude under the bleachers.
20. Shrieking Lizzy @ Shriekinglizzy’s new digs – http://shriekinglizzy.multiply.com/ writes:
Certainly try juggling everyone who is rude under the bleachers.
21. Fracas @ Fracas – http://fracas.wordpress.com writes:
Certainly try ignoring everyone who is rude under the bleachers.
22. Linda @ At Linda’s – http://atLindas.com writes:
Certainly try ignoring everyone who is shagging under the bleachers.
23. Rotus @ Rotus – http://rotus.wordpress.com writes:
Certainly try joining everyone who is shagging under the bleachers.
24. Linky Love @ Add Your Link – http://www.linkylove.net writes:
Certainly try joining everyone who is linking under the bleachers.
25. Fracas @ Fracas – http://fracas.wordpress.com/read/telephone/ writes:
Certainly try joining everyone who is leaking under the bleachers.
26. JD @ I Do Things – http://idothings.info/ writes:
Certainly try drying everyone who is leaking under the bleachers.
27. Jeff @ View From The Cloud – http://www.viewfromthecloud.com/ writes:
???
That’s all for now folks, but visit the telephone page later, and there’ll surely be a new twist! ***
Filed under: General | Tags: Blogging, Content Theft, Crime, Internet, Media, Petition, Spam, UASS, United Against Splogs & Scrapers
I’m tired of blog scrapers and their splogs are a blight upon the internet.
So is Ian
So is Lorelle
So is Jonathan
Aren’t you?
This morning, the first task I had was to have to go to yet another splog and leave the first step in the process of doing something about having my content stolen and posted on crappy spam blogs (splogs) so that some scraping (fancy name for a thief) suckhole who isn’t smart enough to write their own content thinks they can use mine to provide content on their ad-filled blog. In other words, they want to make money off of ads and click-throughs, but they don’t want to write the content that will draw the traffic to click those ads that make money for them. They want to make money off of the rest of us.
Kind of like the asswipe who breaks into your house, steals your electronics and then pawns them for cash. Yeah, that’s right you splogging suckhole, you aren’t any better than the common thief who steals televisions and dvd players from houses.
I have a bit of a series of posts that will be coming up in this area. The funniest, will no doubt be the screen caps I took of the splog that (because these thefts are automatic, taken from feeds or by bots) scraped a previous post I wrote condemning their actions. So indeed, on this splog, sits a post condemning themself. It’s poetic justice. I may leave that one just for entertainment value.
However, I’ve decided to collect names of bloggers who are tired of this. Another petition of sorts. I’d like to collect enough names to attract some regular old fashioned publicity. Aside from bringing awareness to honest bloggers, it will send a clear message to the scrapers, that we’re on the offensive and their posteriors will be ours.
It can be done.
Help fracas get this out there. There are manyof us who know what blog scraping is, who take steps to deal with these events and do our part, but there are still too many bloggers who don’t know what it is and think they can’t do anything about it. Some, even think that a few extra links to their site might actually be a good thing, so they don’t do anything about it at all. They couldn’t be more wrong. According to this Wikipedia page on scraper sites,
“Scrapers tend to be associated with link farms and are sometimes perceived as the same thing, when multiple scrapers link to the same target site. A frequent target victim site might be accused of link-farm participation, due to the artificial pattern of incoming links to a victim website, linked from multiple scraper sites.”
So by being a repeat victim, your own site could actually suffer loss of pagerank and loss of google indexing because you could be labeled as a blog of ill-repute yourself.
Of course, please don’t just believe me, or if you’re like me, you tend to take Wikipedia results with a grain of salt unless you confirm them somewhere else. You’re free to confirm what you just read at this Googlerankings.com page. Or heck.. why not just believe Lorelle. She left that advice in response to that previous post I talked about.
Are you angry yet? For taking time to create your own content, for putting effort into your blog, some thief has the power to sully your blog with the reputation of a link-farm. Now are you angry enough to want to do something?
Help the cause then.
Please inform your blog readers about my campaign. Write a post, and link to this post so they can read the explanation and then follow through to join the petition. Encourage others to also link to this post and sign the petition.
I’ve decided the most fitting name for a group against these thiefs is one that describes our intentions as well as what we think of the thiefs. Please join:
UASS (United Against Splogs & Scrapers)
Text link: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/uass-united-against-splogs-scrapers
Filed under: Entertainment, General, Humor, Meme, Monday Melee | Tags: Peeves, praises, Wishes
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Fracas’ The Monday Melee for January 7, 2008
1. The Misanthtropic: Name something about humanity you absolutely hate.
Ego. It honestly feels so much better to lift someone else up that I don’t understand those who need to tear someone else down in order to feel better about themselves.
2. The Meretricious: Expose something or someone that’s phony, fraudulent or bogus.
I’ll just name a whole category. Sploggers/blog scrapers. If you can’t earn money with your own content, then really… you’re not meant to earn money this way. I’m sure there’s something in life you are meant to be good at so why steal from others? It’s an advertisement in how little you think of yourself.
3. The Malcontent: Name something you’re unhappy with.
I’m unhappy that to sponsor a child in another country, one has to wade through the organizations who collect money “for the children” but then spend most of it on administration. If people could just know their money was going to the child, finding sponsors wouldn’t be so difficult.
4. The Meritorious: Give someone credit for something and name it if you can.
This week I’m going to give Cowgirl Betty credit for what she does for a living. For personal reasons, her chosen profession makes me consider her a hero(ine). Want to know what she does? Go read her blog.
5. The Mirror: See something good about yourself and name it
I give good advice. I didn’t always. I used to be more quick-tempered and less likely to use reason than emotion. I think I’ve learned how to not necessarily lose the emotion in decisions or advice, but include enough reason that I do a darn fine job of making sense to those that ask. I pat myself on the back for that. It is indeed an accomplishment.
6. The Make-Believe: Name something you wish for.
I wish I could sing. Well of course I can sing…. in the technical sense. I mean sing so that someone wants to hear me.
Now it’s your turn.
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