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Does Breitbard looks guilty of something?

 

 

  When I heard about the crime that O’Keefe and the other three guys committed…I said here that I bet Fox News was worrying that one of their  staff might have said something to O’Keefe that would come back and bite them in the ass over this deal.  I said I did not think they were that stupid at Fox however.
  I have never heard of Andrew Breitbard or his blog until now…  I will go and look at his blog later today but from watching this video my gut feeling is that he looks like he is guilty of something. 
  Andrew Breitbard admits to paying “James” money.  I would be worrying if I were him. If I were Andrew Breitbard I would also be wondering just what tapes does James O’Keefe have of them talking in private.

Search Engine Wars

  I use Google all day long.  I think most people use it. 
As you know most of the traffic we get here is from people using search sites.
  In fact, right now, 60% is from Google, 35% from Yahoo and 4% from Bing. 
  I do not care which one sends me traffic as long as they send you to ShowMeBlog.
  A lot of the traffic from Google is for images that I have here on ShowMeBlog.  And yes those people look at the image and are out of here in a flash.  My hope is that a few of them will look around the blog and decide they like the site.

  The sun is out and it looks like it is going to be a great day in Fort Worth.

Turned off Domain Mapping

    I have had to turn off domain mapping here…so right now going to www.showmeblog.com  is not going to get you here. 
   With the domain mapping turned on the blog shows up like the image above.  I turned in a work order with TypePad on 01/16/2010 at 1140 hours and it is now 01/17/2010 at  0430 hours and I have not heard a word from them yet.  In about seven hours it will have been 24 hours since I turned in the request for help.
  I have turned off the domain mapping so ShowMeBlog will at least look good even if few of you will find it.  I can not stand to see it looking like the above image.
  I been using TypePad for seven or eight years and have got excellent service from them but I am starting to wonder if they have made some sort of change.  Could it be that they do not work on weekends?

Google AdSense Earnings

  I have talked about using Google AdSense here.  It was my understanding that you were not allowed to tell how much you make with them.  I was in error on that policy.  You can say how much you make with them but you can not give out details about the eCPM, CTR per site. 
  You know me.. I am very open and honest and it is hard for me to blog when my hands are tied so it is welcome news that I can comment on earning.

  So how am I doing with Google AdSense?
  I received so far a total of $122.64 from Google AdSense.  At the end of this month I will get about $142.71 from them.  
  This last month I earned $67.78 from them.  You have to have earned $100.00 before they send you the commission.  Right now one of my goals is to get that earnings to $100.00 a month so that I get a payment from them each month.

  The break down is interesting … $30.46 was from ShowMeBlog and $22.58 was from Howard’s Notebook.  The other amounts were from other blogs. 
  This month so far it is $1.34 for ShowMeBlog and $6.04 from Howard’s Notebook.

  When I move to Texas I can be a bit more open about what I am doing… My son is a very private person and it has been sort of hard to blog about some things because he does not want to be mentioned.  When I get to Texas I will not have to worry about that issue.
  In fact my son in Texas I am sure will help me by taking some photos and operating the camera sometimes so I can make videos. 

  Russell and I will be in Texas in 11 days. 
  My son, here, says he will take me to pick up some boxes on Thursday at The UPS Store.

FTC to crack down on bloggers

  Today new rules from the Federal Trade Commission go into effect.  The FTC is going to crack down on bloggers who review or promote products and get freebies or money and do not tell readers.
  I have always told you up front if I am getting any money or anything else.  The new rules will not bring much of a change here.  The new rules will make me think a bit more when I post something. 
  I post here daily about sites that I like or services or things I buy or want to buy and never tell you that I do not get paid for those comments.  I may have to start telling you, some how, that it is an un-paid recommendation.  I know that is not the rule… I need to tell you when I AM getting paid.  But I do not even want anyone to think that I might be breaking the rules.  I think the FTC rules are a good idea.
  I have seen a few excellent blogs that I did read go to hell… Because when sites like PayPerPost and others started up …those blogs that were so excellent would then be just post after post of promotions so they would get paid.
 

Right sidebar is back

  The other day I posted a video here.  I embedded the video from a site.  It was not a YouTube video but from another site.  I then noticed that the front page never fully loaded it just keep sending data.  It was sending data back to that site.  I guess to tell them when someone watched their video or something. 
  So I found the same video on YouTube and I put it on to re-place that video. 
  It is after that, at some point, that I noticed the right side bar was not appearing on ShowMeBlog.  Well I looked around and could not fix the problem.
  I messed up because I failed to look at SMB other than the front page.. If I had looked at any page other than the front page  would have seen the sidebar was showing up.
  When I noticed that 12 hours later I knew the problem was on the front page.  Not a TypePad problem but a Jim Howard problem. 
  I took off that video and the problem was fixed.  They have some sort of code to give credit and I guess report back that their video is being watched and it messed up the alignment of the blog.
  I will have to watch about embedding videos.

14 Domains

  No wonder I am poor.  I own 14 domains.  I was just checking GoDaddy.Com and I see that I own 14 domains.  If you asked me to name them I could not remember them.
  Here are 13 of them;  www.denizensofhell.com, www.denizensofhell.info, www.hnb1982.com, www.hnbbs.com, www.hnbbs.net, www.hnbdo.com, www.hnbwp.com, www.showmeblog.info, www.showmeblog.mobi, www.showmeblog.net, www.showmeblog.us, www.showmecam.tv and www.showmecam.us.
  Why did I not list the 14th domain?  It is a site that I set up for another person.
  Of the domains above many of them are just re-directed to one of my main sites.  But now we know why I am broke. 

  The truth is that domains do not cost all that much these days.
  I should do something with the domains.
  Got any ideas?

Turnout in DC for Right Wing Protest

  I have not commented on the protest in DC the other day and I did not plan to comment on it.  But I got an email saying that 2 million people turned out for the protest and showing photos of crowds.
  The AP and The New York Times reported “thousands” AND Fox “news” reported “thousands.”  
  Right wing bloggers are attacking The New York Times and the “media” for not reporting two million people at the protest.  Some of the bloggers are reporting that the Capitol Police estimated the crowd at 1.2 million.  That is a flat out lie they Capitol Police did not say the crowd was 1.2 million people.
  A few Republican blogs that try to be more honest and are not as crazy as the right wing blogs are saying that the number might have been close to 750,000 and that would be a very good turn out for a lost cause made up by a lot of stupid racist people.  
But all the news media are reporting tens of thousands and NOT hundreds of thousands.
  The problem with all of this is that right wing lies…They lie all the time…They lie about everything…Even things that are not important and do not matter…They just lie…  I just find it odd that people that want the Ten Commandments in our court houses, schools and government building do not remember that one of them is that you should not lie.
  If you use PhotoShop on photos or use photos from other events that is a lie.  Why should anyone trust?  Why should anyone listen to you?  
When they lie and say that they had 2 million people at the event and they only had 60,000 it makes their entire cause a lie and fake.  Then I am not going to believe anything that they say…because they have lied.
  If they just told the truth and said that they got a turn out of 60,000 people then we could say…well that was a pretty good turn out.
  The right wing can not tell the truth…  They are calling the 09/12/2009 event the “Conservative Woodstock.”  Now that is that is a great name for the event…That was some smart PR on their part…All the right wing bloggers used it and that was smart…If you search for it on Google you will find all the links listed for pages are right wing blogs…So that was smart.  It is also a lie I think.   
  Woodstock has 600,000 people attend.  The right wing got 60,000 attend.  Keep in mind I can not even be sure they had 60,000 because some of their photos are not photos of their event and some of their photos have been doctored by PhotoShop or PaintShop.  
  Woodstock or The Woodstock Festival was the music event of all time.  I remember the event…I remember watching TV in Kansas City and news reports breaking in to report that roads in New York state were shut down and the  Republican Governor (Nelson Rockefeller) wanted to send the New York National Guard and declare a state of emergency.  Sullivan County did declare a state of emergency.
  My fellow Americans the event that took place on 09/12/2009 was no “Woodstock” event.  I am only commenting today because of the lies being told about the event.  The Woodstock Festival took place in 1969 and we still remember it and talk about it today. 
  The event that took place last week is already forgotten.  It is over and it is dead and no one is going to remember the “Conservative Woodstock.” 

Free TypePad Blog for One Year

  Many of you know that I run ShowMeBlog using TypePad.

“TypePad is a blogging service from company Six Apart Ltd, and the largest paid blogging service in the world.^{[citation needed]} Originally launched in October 2003, TypePad is based on Six Apart's Movable Type platform, and shares technology with Movable Type such as templates and APIs, but is marketed to non-technical users and includes additional features like multiple author support, photo albums and moblogging.

The service is available in several languages and countries around the world, but in the United States is sold at four different subscription levels.^[1]

TypePad is currently used by many large organizations and media companies to host their weblog, such as ABC, MSNBC, the CBC, the BBC^[2] and Sky News.^[3]”

  I been using TypePad for ShowMeBlog since July of 2003!  Yes, before they went fully public. 
  TypePad is great for a blog.  They made some big improvement to TypePad and they want to have a little celebration.
  So as one of their “top TypePad bloggers” they are going to let me give away a one year of their Plus level service.  That means you can have their service, Plus level, for 12 months and it will be free.  (Plus level is about $9.00 a month so that saves you about $100.00 for the year.)
  This is for new bloggers only. You can not have TypePad service now.  I can not sell it and I have to give it away before October 15, 2009.
  So how do you think I should give it to?  I could have some sort of contest.  I could have a design a masthead for ShowMeBlog or come up with logos or banners for ShowMeBlog.  We could just have some sort of lottery drawing or something.  Let me know what you think.  hnbbs@usa.net

CNN Links to HNB

    I woke up about 0600 and I posted the story about Kanye West at the MTV awards.  I then went to bed about 0900 and woke up at 1100.  I noticed 24 comments on Howard’s Notebook.  That was a lot of comments on one subject for Howard’s Notebook.  In fact it was a lot of comments even for ShowMeBlog in such a short amount of time.
    I then started reading the comments.  Here is one of the comments:

    “It is so obvious,I won't stick up for this moron because he wasn't taught manners. Remember when Janet had her clothing problem? This is much worse and look where it is, on another TV show. Yes TV show and show is all it is. I'm almost 60 and white and I like some Rap, not all but some. This had nothing to do with the Entertainment but the total disrespect of another human beings triumphant winning of an award.

Just don't buy his CD's and that will hurt him more than throwing out insults at a bigot who could actually care less. It could have something to do with the outright racist attitude Americans are being forced to endure by the Raunchie Right who only knows how to destroy rather than build. He probably hates Country Music, which in my opinion will outlast any Rap Music.

Beyonce brought a tear to my eye with her unselfish jesture to Swift, she made herself many friends in and out of Rap. Someone should tell him how to spell Cain as in Cain slew Able, well this Kanye isn't able to slay anyone with his anti-country ignorance. He just gives those racist Right wingnutz something else to jump on and create more racial problems for our country. Ignorant Basterds!”

   CNN listed Howard’s Notebook under the Kanye West grabs mic at MTV awards story.  CNN has a section on their site “From the Blogs” and they list some comment from one to three blogs.  
 ShowMeBlog has been listed many times.  I think this is the first time for Howard’s Notebook.  I noticed 24 comments on my post about the MTV story.  I then went and did a check of the stats for Howard’s Notebook and saw that there were 60 people on Howard’s Notebook reading the post.  I knew something was going on then…. So I checked and found that CNN had linked to my blog. 
  It is nice to get the traffic but I suspect they read the post and some comment and then they are gone.  My dream is for them to look around and decided they like the blog and bookmark it and come back and read it often.

Eight Blogs Making Millions of Dollars

  I found a new site HubPages.  It is a site that will let a person set up a blog and make some money from the blog.  I have no idea if it works or not. 
  There is a blog post by a prasetio30 called “Eight Blog Making Millions of Dollars.”

“What do you think if you have a blog and producing million dollar. Do you quit your daily job? buy a new car? build a big house? pay off your debts? put money into bank accounts? I know this is a difficult for me. Get million dollar from blogging. Just only expert people can do this. We know many blog produced thousand dollar. I will share about 8 eight blogs that making million dollars. I know many blogs produced thousand dollar out there…”

   You can read the post but the sites that I have heard of are;  BoingBoing, Talkingpointmemo, Prezhilton, and TechCrunch.

   Now back to HubPages…It looks to me more like Kola than a list of blogs.  It looks like articles written on a subject.    It feels very much to me like Knol. 

   I found a blog, they call them “hubs”, on HubPages and it it a woman is saying that Barrack Obama is just like Castro.  She says:

“…Taxpayers dollars are being used to spread President Obama's socialist ideology – the fact that school children across our nation will be forced to watch the president justify his plans not only goes against the beliefs of a great majority in the United States, but it is an abuse of power, as it allows him to bypass the childrens’ parents.  That's not okay.

My kids are not yet in school, but if they were, I would be keeping them home on September 8^th…”  Barrack Obama Propaganda in our Public Schools

 

  I think that woman needs to get her kids in school soon.  They need to get away from her for sure.  Just our luck she will decide to home school them to protect them from being turned into Socialist.  That is just what we need more dumb votes in a few years.

  There is another “hub” that is called “Top 7 Marxist Communist Policies Being Implemented by Obama Today.”  
  It is full of shit and lies.  I have to wonder if they believe this crap or is just an attack on a black president and they do not want to appear racist.  I find it hard to believe that they can believe that crap that they dump out on us. 
  I think it is time for the middle of the road normal decent Republicans to speak up an attack this sort of propaganda.  If the true decent Republicans do not speak up soon they are going to lose their party.  It looks like  the Republican party is going to become the new Nazi Party. 

Who invented blogging

  Someone did a search on Google for “who invented blogging.”   ShowMeBlog was number two on the list and they came here.

    The first link when you do the Google search is to Yahoo Answers.  They seem to say Jorn  Barger in December of 1997.  Sorry wrong answer. I was doing it in 1982! 
    The next link takes you to ShowMeBlog and what I wrote in 01/09/2006.  
    The next link take you to Cnet News.  That is a post that I have yelled and screamed about.  When it was first written they named three or four people and gave a date of 1995.  They have since gone in a number of times and edited the post.  They have softened their statements and left it open that others were doing things like it.  I still object to the post and expect better from Cnet.

Attend BlogWorld 2009 for free

  Here is some information on how you can attend BlogWorld 2009 in Las Vegas 2009.

                                   ”For the past 2 years, the BlogCatalog team has had an absolute blast hanging out with other social media professionals and meeting some of our members at BlogWorld & New Media Expo. The generous hosts of BlogWorld & New Media Expo 2009 want you to be one of the members we have the pleasure to meet there this year! We are going to give away a free 3-day, full access pass (valued at $1195) for this year’s event being held October 15-17, 2009 in Las Vegas, NV…PLUS 1 million ad impressions for your blog on BlogCatalog!…”

 

 

    Now how can I win a free trip to Las Vegas and attend the BlogWorld & New Media Expo?  First I have to be a BlogCatalog member and I am.  That was easy.  Did I win?  No, not yet I have to write a blog post and tell them why they should pick me to attend the event and that is what I am doing right now.
    OK well I am so good looking that I should attend the event to give some class to the event.  Look the other people are all going to be a bunch of tech geeks correct?  You are saying that Jim Howard is not going to win because of his looks and he IS a geek.  In fact look up geek and you will see a photo of Jim Howard.
     OK I think I should win because I got my first computer in 1978 and it had 4K of memory and the modem was 300 baud.  I could attend and talk about the old days.   You are saying that is a good reason for me not to win.  
     Dam..this is not easy.
     I should win because I started doing a bulletin board system in 1982 and it was online 24/7 until 1995 when the web was invented and then I moved my site to the web.  I could tell people how I invented blogging at the event. Oh come on now…Now you are saying that people will just point and laugh at me.  Well then I should win because I would bring some smiles and laughs to BlogWorld 2009.  
      What do you think?   Have I found something that will make them pick me?

       I guess we will just have to wait until September 19th to find out who will receive the 3-day full access pass.  Winner receives an event pass only.  Travel and lodging are not included. 
        Pray I do not win.  If I win I would have to start asking for donations for travel and lodging. 

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No Theme here … ???

Not sure what has happened here.  All of a sudden the theme is gone.  I even went in and picked a different one and still no theme.
  So you are seeing a very white…site with no theme and no formatting… It looks bad.
   I hope the problem is just some minor problem at TypePad…I hope they are working on something.
   I could go to bed and wake up and find everything back to normal.