Well, the start of my Bloggiesta started out with work and a siesta, but now I’m ready to go! For part of this afternoon and tomorrow I’ll be participating in Maw Books Bloggiesta, “a blogging marathon with a fiesta flair.” You can follow at the blog, or follow @bloggiesta on Twitter. I’ll be updating my [...]
Challenges
The BIP Week #11 project was to dissect some book reviews by the numbers. I was (and still am) excited about this idea, but so far response has been pretty low. So I decided to extend Week #11 one more week — you now have until Friday, June 19 to complete it. BIP #12 will [...]
Oh man, am I excited for this week’s BIP topic! This week’s task is a content analysis of book reviews to get some info about reviews. How long are they? How personal are they? How many paragraphs does the average book review have? By comparing book reviews written by bloggers to reviews written by professionals, [...]
First of all, thank you all so much for your flexibility about BIP Week #9: Help Another Blog — I did not expect Mr. Linky to go down, which threw everything off. It was a learning experience for me and I appreciated your flexibility. There is still at least one person who wants to participate [...]
Since the Mr. Linky on the original BIP Week #9 post is being a pain, if you are interested in partnering up for the Help Another Blog project, please sign up here. IMPORTANT! If you’ve signed up on Mr. Linky and been contacted by your partner, please do not sign up here. This is only [...]
When I think about why I love blogging, the first reason that comes to mind is the relationships I’ve built with other bloggers. So I think now is a good time to spread our blog improvement a little bit and try to help each other out. Week 9 for the Blog Improvement Project is to [...]
I am so sorry to be posting this late! I’ve been playing catch-up from the Read-a-Thon and end of the semester and an interview today and just plain forgot. I hope you’ll forgive me! Last week in the BIP we focused on trying to make our blogs more comment-friendly (wrap-up coming later this week). This [...]
Welcome to my Mini-Challenge for the Read-a-Thon! Comic books have become very popular lately, so I wanted to try and honor that with my mini-challenge. The task, should you choose to participate, is to create your own comic inspired by the Read-a-Thon! Logistics For the next three hours, Readers and Cheerleaders are challenged to create [...]
Hello and welcome to BIP Week #7! I hope that Social Media Month went well for everyone. I haven’t been as social as I’d like to be — school is kicking my butt lately — but it seemed like it went well. If you have any comments about how the last month went, feel free [...]
The Spring Reading Thing 2009 hosted by Katrina at Callapidder Days. The challenge is pretty simple: write a list of books you want to read between March 20 and June 20, try to read and review all of your books, then post about your experience during the challenge sometime in June. I participated in Katrina’s [...]
