Pinging
Pinging a post on another blog from your post is very easy. All you do is link to it. The link in this screenshot goes to the post above.

Using the above url, if Matt wanted to link to that post in a later post he would use this as a link:
<a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2006/04/wordpattern/">
That should send a ping.

If Matt did not want to ping his own blog though, he could link to it like this:
<a href="/2006/04/wordpattern/">
This relative url will still link if you click it, but will not send a ping.

Now you would go to the post on the blog and look for the 'Trackback URI' or somewhere that Trackback is written.

Once you have that link you need to find it's location. In Firefox this would be Right-click on the link and 'Copy Link Location'

Back on your blog, scroll down from the Write area to the 'Trackbacks' box and paste the whole link location into that box. It MUST start with http:// and it MUST end with /trackback/.

Now post and the trackback will be sent.

2. I can't send trackbacks?
- your trackback might be sent but the receiving site may choose not to show it.
- check you have sent it correctly
- use this Test Blog to test sending and receiving.
- check your webhost's forums to see if others have this problem.
- post to the WordPress Support Forums and give details of what you have tried, who your host is.

Boah ey ... man reiche mir ein brutales Schimpfwort für die verantworliche Spacke dieser Seite und dem Trackback ins Blog. Mögen ihm/ihr sämtliche Schließmuskel versagen! Ich bin zwar mit meinem AVG-Antivirus immer up to date, aber vorsichtshalber mache ich doch einen Scan meiner Festplatte. Danach werd ich sie nochmal mit dem Stinger prüfen. Ich werde berichten, wenn sich da was auf meiner Festplatte findet.

(Nachtrag: Leryn Franco ist eine Speerwerferin aus Paraguay, wie ich grad durch Google erfahren hab)

[update: AVG, Stinger und SpyBot haben keine Malware gefunden]

Nur Wissen kann Unwissen beherrschen: Bernd-Olaf Küppers’ große Studie über Macht und Verantwortung der Wissenschaft.

[…]

Bernd-Olaf Küppers … hat mit dem vorliegenden Werk eine große Summe langer Befassung mit den Grundlagen wissenschaftlichen Wissens gezogen. Er beschreibt die Geschichte der Philosophie der Erkenntnis und ihrer wissenschaftlichen Entwicklung seit ihren vorsokratischen Anfängen bis in unsere Tage, […] (S. 2)

Von Hubert Markl

Philosophie - Zuwachs an Kenntnis ist Zuwachs an Unruhe - Wissen - sueddeutsche.de.

Soweit zum Wissen.

Jetzt zum Nicht-Wissen.

Dieser Weblog-Beitrag ist meine Hausaufgabe zur Übung Intermezzo zwischen Lektion 12 und 13 von Lernen 2.0. Wie sich vielleicht einige noch erinnern können, enstand dieser Weblog aufgrund der Teilnahme der FobiKom am kostenlosen (!) E-Learning-Angebot eines Selbstlernkurses nach dem Vorbildprojekt Learning 2.0.

Und ab und an schaffe ich es, zu diesen Wurzeln zurückzukehren, und wieder die eine oder andere Lektion auszutesten. Wir Expertinnen der Fortbildung stehen selbstredend in der Pflicht, uns ebenfalls in Fortbildung zu üben. Aber eisern!

Diesmal Bookmarklets.

Edlef Stabenau kokettiert ein wenig, wenn er meint: "… ein sogenannter Screencast, in dem ich hoffentlich halbwegs verständlich die Nutzung demonstriere". Danke, ES, war prima erklärt bzw. übersetzt! Alles ging gut. Alles?!

Na ja, FAST alles.
Getreu den Anweisungen habe ich das Bookmarklet von Wordpress in meine Lesezeichen-Leiste gelegt. Da sich dort jedoch bereits einige versammelt hatten (wo die bloß immer herkommen?!), drückte ich erst auf das Pfeilchen, um zur restlichen Liste bzw. zu besagter Bookmarklet-Taste zu gelangen.

Dieser Klick alleine genügte, dass die vorab von mir markierten Textzeilen aus der Süddeutschen Zeitung eleminiert wurden. Fazit: Nach Markieren des Textes bloß nichts anderes dazwischen kommen lassen!

Wer das grad nicht verstanden hat - einfach selbst ausprobieren. Sorry, ich muss das jetzt hier beschreiben, weil … nun, es wird sozusagen von uns VERLANGT. Denn sonst gibt's keine neuen Lerneinheiten mehr. Ja, das wurde uns tatsächlich schon angedroht! Und das wäre doch jammerschade, wenn auf meinem Rechner wieder Ruhe einkehren würde. Denn: Zuwachs an Wissen ist ... na? Genau! Zuwachs an Unruhe. Manche Menschen brauchen das einfach ;-)

Und das mit dem Trackback probiere ich auch jetzt gleich aus, bisher habe ich's noch nicht so recht als notwendig gesehen.

Eine Antwort hinterlassen

I highly recommend you read and savor it.

which it's really cool as usual and so romantic. If you had to lose one of you senses, just to be with the one.

I said "I'd give her my eyes =]
u know why?
I'll be seeing things beyond the obvious - with the Heart. Her laugh will caught my blind eyes. And her voice will be all I want to think about. She will open up my eyes onto a beautiful world, through words as I can see. That's what I really want in this life"

check this:

this commercial is so meaningful, I consider it as the best commercial ever.

Ceci est un test grandeur nature mené sur 3 blogs dont 2 utilisent une technologie Wordpress. De ces 3 blogs, en mode rédaction, Nuage de blog sur Argentine-News, permet de déclarer les url rétro-liens des blogs signalant en avoir. Nuage2blogs sur Wordpress, idem. Mais pas Oxymoron fractal sous Blogger.

Cette dernière version du test va plus se faire avec les blogs ayant participé aux deux études précédentes : car vous devez être fatigué de lire ce même article et, moi, je fatigue à refaire chaque fois tous les liens, en double, donc, forcément (le permalien et le rétrolien).

Blogs - liés au Monde (Bloguer ou ne pas bloguer) - avec Trackbacks (rétro-lien) déclarés (dans les billets avec les commentaires) : A mi-chemin. Argentine-News. dubleudansmesnuages. atortouaraison. Cybercarnet. Flopy. Zintzen. LostinBrittany.

Merci !

Ok, maybe this is not so annoying after all. If it's a pingback from a different site, that could even be useful. But if it's a pingback from my own site? Hmm...does this look nice?

I'm not sure I should send a ping to my previous post, but I will, so you can see how it looks like.

In the end, I can only hope that my readers will understand, and besides, it may actually entice my readers to look at my other previous posts not already listed in the "Recent Comments".

TypePad does not have this behaviour. There, a trackback is a trackback, and the only way to turn off this behaviour in WordPress would be to a) not send pingbacks, or b) disallow pingbacks from other blogs in the "Comments and Pings" settings when writing a post or page, or c) simply delete the self-pings from my comments.

Not sure what to do here, so for now, I'll just leave them on.

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On researching further, I realized that content thefts are rampant especially when it comes to blogs. Having discovered that I’m not alone in this boat, I set forth to tackle this issue. I tried contacting the blog author by leaving a comment on his/her blog. I am guessing this person moderates comments so my comment never showed up on his/her blog post. But I am sure my message must have gone through. I waited for a few weeks for a reply. What was I thinking? Obviously I didn’t get a reply.

Next step I contacted the guys at Wordpress directly. Within an hour of reporting this case, I got a reply:

Hi,
Thanks for the report. That blog has been flagged and frozen accordingly. The author will be forced to get in contact with us.

Best,
Anthony
Automattic | WordPress.com

It feels great to know that Wordpress is quite serious about dealing with this issue. If you are a  blogger and would like to know if your blog content has been stolen or if you are a victim like me then follow these steps:

• Use any online tool for detecting copies of your blog content. I used Copyscape: www.copyscape.com. It’s neat and simple. Or as Mark here suggests you might also try Copy Alerts: www.copyalerts.com.
• If you find that your blog has been copied then the first conventional thing would be to contact the blog author. If the author’s email address is not mentioned in the blog then leave a comment in his/her blog. Now wait for a reply.
• If the author refuses to acknowledge your original content or doesn’t even reply, then get in touch with the blog hosting authorities like Wordpress.com or Blogger. If wordpress.com is the host, then you can report the blog as spam or “splog” by clicking on the “Report as Spam” link on your admin bar (Blog Info -> Report as Spam). Note that you need to be signed into your wordpress.com account to do this.

Have you been a victim of content theft? How did you tackle it? Share your experiences and solutions here. Your inputs might help other fellow bloggers.

The problem with music these days is that it has lost track of its most powerful pull; the ability to relate and be related to. You see, when 2pac was talking about the "Rose that grew out of the concrete" we all knew what he was talking about. On the other hand, I have never made it "rain on any hoes" a la Fat Joe and I can't dream of owning a Maybach (shout out to Rick Ross). Hip hop may not be dying but it is definitely on life support. This goes past hip hop though. Lets take a look at some award winning lyrics from a recent R & B hit by Ray-J "Sexy Can I".

Sexy can I, just pardon my manners. Girl how you shake it, got a playa like (ohhhh) It's a kodak moment, let me go and get my camera All I wanna no is, sexy can I. Sexy can I, hit it from the front, then I hit it from the back. know you like it like that. then we take it to the bed, then we take it to the floor then we chill for a second, then were back at it for more.

Ladies, you swooning yet? Someone should tell my man Ray that R & B stands for Rhythm and Blues. I am just tired of waiting for someone to make something that is well thought out and shows more than minimal effort. I miss the days when rap, hip hop, and rock tried to change the world. Those days when musicians held a mirror up to society and raged "against the machine". Maybe I am just getting old but that was music. These days music like that is only found deep, deep, underground and I am not in the mood to dig. Well, maybe I'll make a record.

When importing a blog from TypePad to WordPress, the trackbacks are kept, but turned into comments. So posts with  trackbacks end up being posts with comments in WordPress. Not sure I like that. I want comments to be comments and trackbacks to be trackbacks. A trackback is not a comment.  Well, the good is that the trackbacks are kept at least, but for the reader it is hard to tell whether this is a "real" comment or a "trackbacked" comment.

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2. Eine Suchanfrage in allen 3 Diensten zu stellen, führte - oh Überraschung! - zu 3 verschiedenen Ergebnissen. Toll. Wär ich alleine nie drauf gekommen ...

Welcher Suchdienst war am nützlichsten? Biblioblogsuche ist sympatisch, weil es deutschsprachige Blogs beinhaltet. Bei Libworm finde ich die Möglichkeit, die Suche als Feed zu abonnieren sehr gut. Ich habe gleich, was ich interessant fand, bei Bloglines hinterlegt.

3. Bloggen Sie über Ihre Erfahrungen! Tue ich gerade ...

Zusatzaufgabe: Sämtliche Begriffe werden bei Libworm beschrieben und erklärt. Das soll man reichen ...

Was die Tags betrifft, so stimme ich doch sehr mopumasi zu. Zitat:

Wirklich hilfreich finde ich diese Art der Informationsvisualisierung allerdings nicht. Wen interessiert schon, ob ein Tag 100 oder 1000 Mal vergeben wurde? Die am häufigsten vergebenen (und diese Zuschreibung würde ich der Zuschreibung ‚populärsten’ immer vorziehen) sind stets solche von hoher Allgemeinheit und geringer Aussagekraft. Als Navigationsinstrumente und Suchfilter machen sie doch eigentlich nur Sinn, wenn man sie mit weiteren, nach Möglichkeit spezifischeren Tags kombiniert. Das muß ein System aber überhaupt erstmal zulassen… Und die spezifischen Tags sind natürlich die selten vergebenen, ergo die in der Social Software-Logik ‚unpopulären’. Aber gerade diese ‚Babytags’ (nicht meine Wortschöpfung) täten mich interessieren.

Ich finde es zum Beispiel sehr schade, daß auf den Blogseiten von wordpress laut eigener Aussage nur maximal 45 tags vergeben werden können. Die, die am häufigsten benutzt werden, zuerst. Alle meine kreativen "Einzelstücke" gehen völlig verloren. Das wären für mich persönlich aber oft die brauchbarsten tags ... Da beißt sich irgendwie der Hund in den Schwanz. Sollte nicht gerade getaggt werden, um das Ganze so individuell wie möglich halten zu können? Und dann sortiert man wieder nach Häufigkeit? Hallo?

I bring  a unique and different voice and dare I say; a breath of fresh air. A little bit about myself. I am a harsh critic about everything including myself (it's a cultural thing). I have an opinion on everything and I am not afraid to use it. I am looking forward to sharing my stance and in the process learning about yours.

Sebelumnya kedua tim sudah pernah bertemu di Babak Penyisihan Grup D, dan Spanyol berhasil menghajar telak Rusia 4-1! Tapi itu dulu... sekarang tidak mungkin lagi rasanya Spanyol bisa dengan mudah mengalahkan Rusia dengan Skor yang 'mencolok' seperti itu... Katroboy jamin pertandingan kali ini akan lebih ketat, seru dan menegangkan! Spanyol dengan kekuatan tim dan skill individu para pemainnya (secara gitu loh ada Bang Villa, Bang Torres, Mas Xavi, dll) akan menghadapi semangat pantang menyerah dan racikan strategi dari Ngkong Gus Hiddink yang sudah terbukti selama ini, kalau Rusia mampu mempertahankan cara bermainnya sama seperti saat melawan Belanda, maka Rusia setidak2nya mampu meladeni permainan Spanyol bahkan bisa mengalahkannya.

Spanyol melalui pelatihnya Mbah Aragones sudah mengatakan bahwa mereka tidak bisa lagi mengharapkan kemenangan besar seperti sebelumnya dan mengingatkan para pemainnya untuk tidak menganggap enteng dan meremehkan lawan2nya.. pertandingan semifinal nanti malam akan jauh berbeda, baik jalannya pertandingan maupun aroma/'rasa'nya.. hehehe.. Dan lagi di kubu Rusia ada seorang bintang yang sedang 'naik daun' (ulet kali ya.. :D ) yang diperebutkan oleh klub2 top eropa yaitu... Pak Le Arshavin... :-P

Ok, sekarang ramalannya... sampai hari ini si Suhu Ngacay belom juga menghubungi Katroboy, ya sudahlah, Katroboy akan coba meramal sendiri, agak susah memang, kalau mau mengikuti kata hati pasti Katroboy pegang Spanyol karena walau bagaimanapun Spanyol adalah tim Favorit Katroboy gitu lohh... :D tapi menurut ku Rusia akan memberikan perlawanan yang jauh berbeda, maka dari itu Prediksi Katroboy tetap menjagokan Spanyol melaju ke Final tapi dengan kemenangan yang tipis saja... 2-1 untuk Spanyol... ayooo... Spanyol buktikan kalau kalian mampu membuat sejarah setelah 24 tahun ga bisa memenangkan turnamen apapun...

Kalau menurut teman2 siapa yang bakalan maju ke Final dan akan menghadapi Jerman?? (baca hasil Jerman vs Turki disini) Ayo prediksinya... :-)

** News Update: Hasil Pertandingan.. Spanyol ke Final, baca disini.

Warum nutze ich keine Dienste wie del.icio.us? Weil ich meine 
Lesezeichen gerne mit 1-2 Klicks abrufe (ich nutze die Lesezeichen
Toolbar oberhalb der Tabs) und nicht erst auf irgendeinen Dienst warten
möchte. Es geht einfach schneller, wenn die Lesezeichen lokal liegen,
und die Tools, die Lesezeichen aus del.icio.us und Konsorten in den
Browser einblenden, sind mir bisher zu unpraktisch oder zu langsam 
gewesen. Ich bin aber gespannt auf Hinweise und Argumente, die mich vom
Gegenteil überzeugen  ;-)

Ich auch ...
Was gut ist, wenn man sich mit solchen Diensten beschäftigt, ist,
daß man auch über andere interessante Sachen "fällt". Finde ich sehr spannend!

Um jetzt auch das "Social" hier ein wenig hineinzubringen, werde ich 2 Beiträge von "Mitmacherinnen" dieses Kurses zu der Lektion 8 von lernen 2.0 verlinken. Das sind einmal Büchereierlei und dann noch Mopumasi. ( Toll, 2 Trackbacks!) Mal einfach schöne Grüße! ;-)

I love books. I have crates and crates of books. Most are unread. I buy books that intrigue me everywhere....bookstores,flea markets, yard sales, library sales, used books stores, Wal-Mart, etc. I have quite a collection of really good books. My 6 favorite books that I own (and have actually read) are:

"Your Life Sucks and What You Can Do About It" ( a really great mental self-help book)...This book taught me how to say "BITE ME!" louder than a whisper.

"One More Day" by Mitch Albom....This is one of the rare books that I have read more than once. I cry everytime.

"Bridges of Madison County"...only love story that I have ever liked. Poor Francesca! "Sofie's Choice"....I can't believe that she has to make a choice of which child lives and which child dies! But, truthfully, one of my favorite parts is when she tells the guy that she likes his seersucker jacket. Only, she doesn't speak English all that well and says, "I love your cocksucker jacket."

"Verses That Hurt"....poetry meets self-mutilation and pain. Actually, I bought this book as a joke for Trailerparkskipper. We have a ball making fun of it. Sometimes, we pretend to be onstage doing interpretive dance to it. I think our fav is:

"There's a spider.

There's a spider.

Step on it! Step on it!

Get a shovel!!!!" We hoot and holler and make devious plans to offer to do something for the Christmas play at church. Then, we would dress up in black turtlenecks and black jeans and do "The Spider".

"

And of course, after posting that, I have to say the next book is:

THE BIBLE...it really is. But, I find it hard to understand. So, I have one of the newer additions. I, also, have an original slave Bible which is really cool.

I was surfing the net looking for books when I came across a site with the following books listed. And, they are REAL books.

ARTS and CRAFTS:( Creative activities you may not have considered.)
The Art and Craft of Pounding Flowers: No Paint, No Ink, Just a Hammer!; 2001 (QVC)

Knitting with Dog Hair: Better a Sweater from a Dog You Know and Love Than from a Sheep You'll Never Meet, by Kendall Crolius; 2005 (St Martin's Griffin)

Build Your Own Hindenburg; 1983.

ANIMALS:( Discover the amazing world of other species!)
Gymnastics for Horses; n.d.

A Letter to the Man Who Killed My Dog; 1956

Optical Chick Sexing; 1954

Anarexia Nervosa in Bulgarian Bees; n.d.

227 Secrets Your Snake Wants You To Know, by Paulette Cooper; 2004 (TenSpeed Press)

Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Nude Mice (various authors);

The Joy of Chickens, by Dennis Nolan; 1981 (Prentice Hall);

The Big Book of Lesbian Horse Stories, by Alisa Surkis & Monica Nolan..2002

Bombproof Your Horse, by Rick Pelicano & Lauren Tjaden; 2003

Fish Who Answer the Telephone; 1937 Alexander Graham Bell meets Flipper?

Outwitting Fish (Adams Media Corporation); 2001

FOOD:
Pernicious Pork; or, Astounding Revelations of the Evil Effects of Eating Swine Flesh; 1903 (anybody up for BBQ?)

Our Lady of the Potatoes, by Duncan Sprott; 1995

Life and Laughter 'midst the Cannibals; 1926

Tea Bag Folding; 2001 (Search Press)

CURRENT AFFAIRS: Keep informed so you can hold your own in conversations at your next social mixer. Who's Who in Barbed Wire; 1970.

Weeds in a Changing World (British Crop Protection Council Symposium Proceedings No. 64); 1998; *Diagram Prize Winner!

RELIGION: Our society's most taboo subject!
My Invisible Friend Explains the Bible; 1971

Thirty-six Reasons for Believing in Everlasting Punishment; 1887

The Baby Jesus Touch and Feel Book, by Linda Parry, Alan Parry (Illustrator); 1995

HISTORY: Learn about events that have shaped our world.

How Green Were the Nazis?:Nature, Environment, and Nature in the 3rd Reich, by Franz-Joseph Brueggemeier (ed.); 2006

Highlights in the History of Concrete, by Slough; 1998 (Cement & Concret Assoc.); *Diagram Prize Winner!

TREATISES: Scholary works on a myriad of topics.

The Coming Disaster Worse Than the H-bomb, Astronomically, Geologically and Scientifically Proven. The Coal Beds, Ice Ages, Tides, and Coming Soon, a Great Wave and Flood Caused by a Shift of the Axis of the Earth From the Gyroscopic Action of Our Solar System; 1954. Washington, DC
Sounds like good, light reading material to help lull you to sleep.

Old Tractors and the Men Who Love Them: How to Keep Your Tractors Happy and Your Family Running, by Roger Welsch; 1999
One reader states, "This has been one of the most entertaining books I have read in a long time."

Constipation and Our Civilization, by James Charles Thomson; n.d.
A Sociological History of Excretory Experience: Defecatory Manners and Toiletry Technologies, by David Ingliss (Edwin Mellen Press); 2001

INTERNATIONAL: For the jet-set and the worldly.

Gay Bulgaria; 1964

Greek Rural Postmen and Their Cancellation Numbers, by edited by Derek Willan; 1995; *Diagram Prize Winner!

New Guinea Tapeworms and Jewish Grandmothers: Tales of Parasites and People, by Robert S. Desowitz; 1981
"Parasites are not only an interesting study objects, but you can write very funny stories about them as well."

DEATH: Along with taxes, life's only certainty.
The Practical Embalmer; 1900

Sex After Death; 1983

Public Performances of the Dead; 1865

The Living Dead: New Identities In The New Age, by John Q. Newman; n.d
People Who Don't Know They're Dead: How They Attach Themselves To Unsuspecting bystanders and what to do about it, by Gary Leon Hill; 2005 (Weiser Books); *Diagram Prize Winner!

HOBBIES: How do YOU spend your spare time

Original Tricks with Cigars; 1927 (Bill Clinton must have read this one)

Pranks With the Mouth; 1879.

Explosive Spiders and How to Make Them; 1881
Pyrotechnicist Scoffern shows how to make an artificial spider that, when touched, should go off with a bang.

Levitation for Terrestrials - Robert Kingsley Morison, Ascent, 1977
The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification, by Julian Montague; 2006 (Abrams Image); *Diagram Prize Winner!

CAREERS: Are you bored with your 9-to-5 grind?

How to Pick Pockets. A Treatise on the Fundamental Principle, Theory and Practice of Picking Pockets; n.d.

The Madam as Entrepreneur: Career Management in House Prostitution, by Barbara Sherman Heyl; 1979; *Diagram Prize Winner!

Amputee Management - A Handbook; n.d.

A Toddler's Guide to the Rubber Industry, by D. Lowe; n.d.

Careers in Dope, by Dan Waldrof; 1973 (Prentice-Hall)

HEALTH ISSUES: Things your HMO doesn't want you to know!

The Benefits of Farting Explained; 1727

Living With Crazy Buttocks, by Kaz Cooke; 2001; *Diagram Prize Winner!

Old Age: Its Cause and Prevention; 1912

Scurvy Past and Present, by Alfred Hess; 1982

Simply Bursting: A Guide to Bladder Control; 1998

The Golden Fountain: Complete Guide to Urine Therapy, by Coen van der Kroon; 1996 (Amethyst Books)

Nasal Maintenance: Nursing Your Nose Through Troubled Times by William Alan Stuart; 1983

The Do-It-Yourself Lobotomy: Open Your Mind to Greater Creative Thinking, by Tom Mopnahan; 2002 (Wiley)

Psoriasis at Your Fingertips; n.d.

ANATOMY: Learn about your body.

The Inheritance of Hairy Ear Rims, by Reginald Ruggles Gates; 1961

Whose Bottom Is This? A Lift-the-Flap Book, by Wayne Lynch; 2000

HOW-TO: Valuable instructional manuals - get yours today!
Teach Yourself Alcoholism; 1975

How To Become a Schizophrenic, by John Modrow; 1992

What To Say When You Talk To Yourself, by Shad Helmstetter; 1982 (Grindle Press)
The two above titles could make a nice boxed set...

How to Sh*t in the Woods: An Environmentally Sound Approach to a Lost Art, by Kathleen Meyer; 1988; *Diagram Prize Winner!

MEMOIRS: Some people lead interesting lives...

Recollections of Squatting in Victoria; 1833

Three Weeks in Wet Sheets; 1856.

Preserving Dick - Mary D.R. Boyd. Philadelphia, Pa. (Presbyterian Board of Publication); 1867.
Richard's dogged determination does not go unrewarded.

Camping Among Cannibals - Alfred St. Johnston. Macmillan, 1883.
Dangerous exploits by an eccentric explorer

Mated With A Clown; 1884

SEXUALITY: What would life be without it?

Teach Yourself Sex; 1951

Wrestling for Gay Guys; 1994
For anyone looking to perk up their fitness routine, self-defense, or erotic prowess.

Lesbian Nuns, Breaking the Silence, by Rosemary Curb, Nancy Manahan; 1985

Lesbian Sadomasochism Safety Manual, by Pat Califia; 1989; *Diagram Prize Winner!

Jilling Off: Women's Masturbation Stories, by Rachel Bussel; 2001(jilling off...LMAO)

ACTIVITIES: Fun games and other ways to spend your time.

Hand Grenade Throwing as a College Sport; 1918
The British Library's only copy was regrettably "destroyed by bombing."

Heave Ho, My Little Green Book of Seasickness, by Charles Mazel; n.d.
Why Bring That Up? - A Guide to Seasickness, by JF Montague; 1936

Games You Can Play With Your Pussy - Ira Alterman, Watertown, Mass.: Ivory Tower Pub. Co 1885 (cats...you dirty minded people!)

The Theory of Lengthwise Rolling, by A.I.T. Sielikov, G. S. Nikitin & S. E. Rokotyan; 1982; *Diagram Prize Winner!

Big and Very Big Hole Drilling; n.d.

CONTRARY VIEWPOINTS: You can find controversy on almost any subject.
The Romance of Leprosy; 1949

The Romance of Proctology; 1938
"The history and development of this much neglected branch of surgery from its earliest times to the present day."

The Bright Side of Prison Life; 1897

The Sunny Side of Bereavement; n.d.

CHILD REARING: Dr. Spock, step aside for these experts

Children Are Like Wet Cement, n.d.

Waterproofing Your Child, n.d.

RELATIONSHIPS/MARRIAGE: Helpful words for the ultimate do-it-yourself project!

So Your Wife Came Home Speaking In Tongues! So Did Mine!; 1973

How to Cook Husbands; 1899

If You Want Closure in Your Relationship, Start with Your Legs, by Big Boom; 2007 (Fireside); *Diagram Prize Winner!
Sounds like good advice to me!

MISCELLANEOUS: Some books just defy classification...

Not Worth Reading; 1914

Girls of the Pansy Patrol; 1931

Keeping Warm with an Axe, n.d.

The Joy of the Upright Man; 1619

The Lull Before Dorking; 1871
My Poor Dick: 1988

Destroy all Goo-Goos, by Th. Metzger; n.d.

Reusing Old Graves, by Douglas Davies & Alistair Shaw; 1994; *Diagram Prize Winner!

OK...I'm off to the library!

These are tips specifically for new bloggers, those people who have next-to-no audience at the moment and want to get the ball rolling.

It helps if you work on this list from top to bottom as each technique builds on the previous step to help you create momentum. Eventually once you establish enough momentum you gain what is called "traction", which is a large enough audience base (about 500 readers a day is good) that you no longer have to work too hard on finding new readers. Instead your current loyal readers do the work for you through word of mouth.Top 10 Tips

10. Write at least five major "pillar" articles. A pillar article is usually a tutorial style article aimed to teach your audience something. Generally they are longer than 500 words and have lots of very practical tips or advice. This article you are currently reading could be considered a pillar article since it is very practical and a good "how-to" lesson. This style of article has long term appeal, stays current (it isn''t news or time dependent) and offers real value and insight. The more pillars you have on your blog the better.

9. Write one new blog post per day minimum. Not every post has to be a pillar, but you should work on getting those five pillars done at the same time as you keep your blog fresh with a daily news or short article style post. The important thing here is to demonstrate to first time visitors that your blog is updated all the time so they feel that if they come back tomorrow they will likely find something new. This causes them to bookmark your site or subscribe to your blog feed.

You don''t have to produce one post per day all the time but it is important you do when your blog is brand new. Once you get traction you still need to keep the fresh content coming but your loyal audience will be more forgiving if you slow down to a few per week instead. The first few months are critical so the more content you can produce at this time the better.

8. Use a proper domain name. If you are serious about blogging be serious about what you call your blog. In order for people to easily spread the word about your blog you need an easily rememberable domain name. People often talk about blogs they like when they are speaking to friends in the real world (that''s the offline world, you remember that place right?) so you need to make it easy for them to spread the word and pass on your URL. Try and get a .com if you can and focus on small easy to remember domains rather than worry about having the correct keywords (of course if you can get great keywords and easy to remember then you''ve done a good job!).

7. Start commenting on other blogs. Once you have your pillar articles and your daily fresh smaller articles your blog is ready to be exposed to the world. One of the best ways to find the right type of reader for your blog is to comment on other people''s blogs. You should aim to comment on blogs focused on a similar niche topic to yours since the readers there will be more likely to be interested in your blog.

Most blog commenting systems allow you to have your name/title linked to your blog when you leave a comment. This is how people find your blog. If you are a prolific commentor and always have something valuable to say then people will be interested to read more of your work and hence click through to visit your blog.

6. Trackback and link to other blogs in your blog posts. A trackback is sort of like a blog conversation. When you write a new article to your blog and it links or references another blogger''s article you can do a trackback to their entry. What this does is leave a truncated summary of your blog post on their blog entry - it''s sort of like your blog telling someone else''s blog that you wrote an article mentioning them. Trackbacks often appear like comments.

This is a good technique because like leaving comments a trackback leaves a link from another blog back to yours for readers to follow, but it also does something very important - it gets the attention of another blogger. The other blogger will come and read your post eager to see what you wrote about them. They may then become a loyal reader of yours or at least monitor you and if you are lucky some time down the road they may do a post linking to your blog bringing in more new readers.

5. Encourage comments on your own blog. One of the most powerful ways to convince someone to become a loyal reader is to show there are other loyal readers already following your work. If they see people commenting on your blog then they infer that your content must be good since you have readers so they should stick around and see what all the fuss is about. To encourage comments you can simply pose a question in a blog post. Be sure to always respond to comments as well so you can keep the conversation going.

4. Submit your latest pillar article to a blog carnival. A blog carnival is a post in a blog that summarizes a collection of articles from many different blogs on a specific topic. The idea is to collect some of the best content on a topic in a given week. Often many other blogs link back to a carnival host and as such the people that have articles featured in the carnival enjoy a spike in new readers.

To find the right blog carnival for your blog, do a search at http://blogcarnival.com/.

3. Submit your blog to blogtopsites.com. To be honest this tip is not going to bring in a flood of new readers but it''s so easy to do and only takes five minutes so it''s worth the effort. Go to Blog Top Sites, find the appropriate category for your blog and submit it. You have to copy and paste a couple of lines of code on to your blog so you can rank and then sit back and watch the traffic come in. You will probably only get 1-10 incoming readers per day with this technique but over time it can build up as you climb the rankings. It all helps!

2. Submit your articles to EzineArticles.com. This is another tip that doesn''t bring in hundreds of new visitors immediately (although it can if you keep doing it) but it''s worthwhile because you simply leverage what you already have - your pillar articles. Once a week or so take one of your pillar articles and submit it to Ezine Articles. Your article then becomes available to other people who can republish your article on their website or in their newsletter.

How you benefit is through what is called your "Resource Box". You create your own resource box which is like a signature file where you include one to two sentences and link back to your website (or blog in this case). Anyone who publishes your article has to include your resource box so you get incoming links. If someone with a large newsletter publishes your article you can get a lot of new readers at once.

1. Write more pillar articles. Everything you do above will help you to find blog readers however all of the techniques I''ve listed only work when you have strong pillars in place. Without them if you do everything above you may bring in readers but they won''t stay or bother to come back. Aim for one solid pillar article per week and by the end of the year you will have a database of over 50 fantastic feature articles that will work hard for you to bring in more and more readers.

This article was by Yaro Starak, a professional blogger and my blog mentor. He is the leader of the Blog Mastermind mentoring program designed to teach bloggers how to earn a full time income blogging part time.To get more information about Blog Mastermind click this link:

http://www.blogmastermind.com/affiliates/index.php?af=796214

Tapi, kalau menurut Katroboy, yang lebih berpengaruh pada babak2 akhir suatu Turnamen besar seperti Euro ini adalah Faktor Non teknis! Memang kita tidak bisa begitu saja menutup mata terhadap faktor teknis (skill dan kemampuan Teknis masing2 pemain dan strategi pelatih kedua tim) tapi dengan berhasilnya Jerman dan Turki sampai ke semifinal itu sudah membuktikan bahwa mereka memang punya kemampuan yang hampir seimbang, jadi tinggal Faktor non teknis lah yang akan 'berbicara', siapa yang maen dengan 'passion', semangat membara dan keinginan yang lebih besar untuk menang, merekalah yang akan merengkuh Kejayaan!! Asal jangan sampai meremehkan lawan saja... :-P

Katroboy yakin pertandingan akan berlangsung seru dan menegangkan, kedua tim akan main terbuka dan saling menyerang karena baik Turki maupun Jerman mempunyai pemain-pemain yang berjiwa 'petarung' dan menyerang, ada Pak Le Ballack, Mas Podolski, Akang Schawantatstanegier (ga tau lah bener apa ngga nulisnya.. hehehe.. :D ) dan Juga Pak De Klose, di kubu Turki ada De' Emre, Bang Tuncay dan Mas Nihat. Kita lihat saja siapa nanti yang akan jadi Pahlawan... atau bisa jadi Kiper Mang Lehman (atau Rustu Recber) lagi kalau sampai terjadi adu penalti...

Ok, sekarang ramalannya... sampai hari ini si Suhu Ngacay belom menghubungi Katroboy, mungkin dia udah malu kali yee... secara gitu loh tebakannya beberapa pertandingan terakhir salah mulu.. hehehe.. Ya dah, mendingan Katroboy ikutin feeling dan prediksi sendiri aja deh.. hmm... 2-1 deh untuk TURKI!!! Walau bagaimanapun Turki tidak akan mau melepaskan peluang masuk Final Euro untuk pertama kalinya sepanjang Sejarah sepakbola mereka bahkan kalau bisa menjuarainya!! Hidup Turki....

Kalau menurut teman2 bagaimana?? Share ya prediksinya... :-)

News update: hasil pertandingan klik disini.

Baca prediksi pertandinagan Semifinal II Spanyol vs Rusia disini.

** News update : Hasil pertandingan Spanyol vs Rusia, baca disini.