What cartoon character are you?

From an email:

Everyone has a personality of a cartoon character. Have you ever asked yourself what cartoon character you resemble? A group of investigators got together and analyzed the personalities of well known and modern cartoon characters. The information that was gathered was made into this test: Answer all the questions with what describes you best, add up all Your points (which are next to the answer that you choose) at the End and look for your results. Do not cheat by looking at the end of the survey before you are done.

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How my blog got discovered

There’s another way to have your blog discovered. Don’t do anything! Just right about what you love and people just may find you. I wrote about teaching my kids to play poker and got two emails from news agencies wanting to interview me. The first was from a local Fox affiliate in Chicago and the second was a NewsWeek reporter. I just got off the phone with the NewsWeek reporter. I’m sure they each found me through Google. I had two referals from google: “Kids Poker” & “Kids and Poker”.

If you aren’t aware, one undeniable truth in obtaining “Google Juice” is to pick good titles for your post. When Google returns the results, if your title doesn’t accurately reflect the content of your post, people are not going to click on it.

Update Oct 3:
Newsweek flew a photographer and his assistant from California to my home in Austin on Friday, and they spent three hours taking pictures. They said chances are good they will use something from the photo shoot in their upcoming story on Poker.

P2P service judged not violating copyright law

“…a product that has legitimate uses can’t be deemed illegal because some people use it for unlawful purposes”

[Dan Gillmor]

How your blog will be discovered

Robert provides useful tips on increasing readership for your blog.

This has never been a priority for me. Just recently I’ve gotten some trackbacks and Anil left a comment on this post, which I thought was cool, but I’m happy to write this weblog for myself. As my byline mentions, this is my online scrapbook. Occasionaly, I will write down my thoughts or post an extensive commentary, but I mostly post interesting stuff and link to things I want to refer back to, or share with my friends and family.

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Which Game Console to Buy?

My sister asked me which game console I’d recommend. She is thinking of buying one for her sons this Christmas. Her boys are 7, 5, and 2.

My initial response was (not having researched it yet):

Very generally, the XBOX may have the latest technologies and potential for expansion (turning it into a media center for your living room). The competitors have more games to play on it.

Each company tries to get “exclusive” games.

You might want to approach it by anticipating what games you would buy them and see which console they work on. Include very young kids titles, in your research.

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