Every day Ed picks a topic, does a web search and picks the bones out of various international blogs. The varied viewpoints and opinions coupled with Ed's humor should make you think, grimace and grin.

And this is the flag of?

Dour by name but not by nature

Dour is the name of a place in Belgium where anything but dour DJs, alternative bands and grand master mixers congregate for a live 4-day Music Event July 12 to 15.

I know this because one of the Wavumi members, Koolman, is the guy who runs the blog, indeed the whole damn website for the Dour Festival, and with a billing like that, I couldn't help but take a look.

How do they have fun in Belgium?

Belgium, famous for rain, chocolate and fries, plus van Damme and Merckz the Cannibal, is a country full of culture. And it should come as no surprise that thousands of Europeans converge on a small site in the great Belgian outdoors to camp, eat, drink and make merry gratuitously to hip alternative music.

For just €75 you get a 4 day festival pass, not bad for sessions going on from lunchtime right through to 5am. Pick the bones out of these bands! What stamina these Euro party goers have.

€15 also gets you a camping spot, toilets and lighting plus somewhere safe to burn your waffles and sausages.

Surprisingly, they even have mobile homes in Belgium, surprising for such a small dot on the globe. But if you were thinking of parking up at the festival site in your $200k Meet the Fokkers mobile home, think again. Even a quaint place like Belgium isn't crime free, and Koolman has to announce that there is no longer any room for mobile homers at the Dour inn, so to speak, due to too many thefts in the past.

Rock on in Europe

The Dour festival is just part of the Euro fest scene this summer, and there are another 20 energy-sapping concerts to choose from, including the Montreux Jazz Festival, yo, and Eurorockéennes - yowza plug those ear drums, man, and lock up your daughters, here comes Marilyn Manson.

I had to smile at the countries involved in this particular circuit. The usual suspects Belgium, France, Spain, Hungary, and Iceland, Burkino Fasso and Canada. Sounds like an Axis of Revel.

Thanks to Koolman for opening our eyes to that little lot. Are you going to any fests that come close to the orgiastic musical events going on in Europe this summer?

After reading a few posts around the net on commenting and comments, I am going to slightly revamp MyBlogLog Sunday.

Cool. That way, you get to interact with visitors to the Pisstakers and I get a hint at what you might like me to focus my attention on. (To be honest, it may not sway the angle of my mini review in any way, but then again, it might!)

So far MyBlogLog Sunday consists of 3 blogs who left a post to link to. I will extend my breakfast time to see if there are any more takers! Thanks.

As you can see, visitors flock from all over the world to read this well-crafted rubbish. I say, there is no point being a jet-setter and not putting that knowledge to good use. (Who wants to become another Paris Hilton?)

Therefore the topic of conversation for the blog spot on the homepage will be international blogs.

Before you skuttle off and hide, I appreciate that the bulk of Pisstakers readers are from the USA, so it is only fair that I continue to blog in English, the international language (in the minds of us English speakers.)

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Every day Ed picks a topic, does a web search and picks the bones out of various international blogs. The varied viewpoints and opinions coupled with Ed's humor should make you think, grimace and grin.

I was going to do a search for blog articles that dealt with minority sports, and cleverly call it the Minority Sports Report. But I was hijacked at the first hurdle by this article on Blogging is not a minority sport.

The writer of Online Media Cultist, Eric Berlin, responds to an article by Vic Keegan, a journalist with the UK Guardian. Eric argues against the idea that blogging is waning in popularity, and covers a few points of interest in the process, namely: the percentage of English language blogs as a percent of all blogs world-wide is diminishing fast; more people are reading and not blogging themselves; and there is very little money to be made out of most blogs in their traditional format.

In the original Keegan article, (basically ripping into Technorati!) there were several other thought-provoking assertions made, and it too makes for interesting reading.

For bloggers with drive, I think you will find the whole episode quite encouraging. And if you are looking for a niche, (and a way to harvest new ways of thinking), blog about blogs not written in English.

I already mentioned Pambazuka, a weekly social forum on injustice in Africa



One of The Pisstakers' perennial sources of referrals is Overheard in Bucharest



And Clapping Trees points you to the top blogs in Asia

How to read a blog in a foreign language?

Wonder no more and enjoy the thrills of the world through other eyes.

When you visit a new site via Search Google Machine translator will do most of the heavy lifting for you.

To translate a few paragraphs only, copy and paste the mumbo-jumbo into the translation tool.

To add a Google translation tool to your own blog, View Source and copy and paste the sidebar code in The Pisstakers sidebar.


We've linked to several web search engines offering random payments & prizes! Click the icon & search our keyphrase Zwinky . Add the code to your sidebar too! Ask Ed!

Hit the head icons above to peruse hundreds of Ed's posts about your favorite topics. Most recent posts are in the right sidebar.

For tips on losing weight there are plenty of sites to choose from.

Chris Pirillo has 50 tips on how to lose weight and beat the bulge forever. Interestingly he makes a point of saying that point number one is all the info you need. I like his honesty and would buy his eBook if he had the nerve to print it with that one salient paragraph only.

For fitness without fatness, the best advice is to start simple and work up. I therefore recommend reading this blog on How to train For Ultimate Fighting.

If that sounds a bit excessive, you could sign up to the gym that Bobbarama attends and lose weight instantly in two ways. Firstly, you can lose about 2lbs if you pay for 12 monthly subscriptions in advance, in quarters. And then when you say that one of your goals is to be on an equal footing with the trainer, you will lose a few ounces when the humor section of your brain is removed.

To slim down in spectacular fashion, Ed personally recommends cycling up mountains or becoming a trawlerman on the Bering Sea. Both of these pastimes, if performed correctly, will enable you to eat like a horse and lose vast amounts of weight in a relatively short space of time. The only drawback to cycling is that you rely heavily on statistics to gauge progress. so, not for the mathematically challenged, and as for trawlermen, well, every time they sit down to gorge, it could be their last supper.

If you prefer the exercise-less route, where you are slim but unhealthy, try teaching your body Thermogenesis using the latest greatest chemical, Thermocerin. Basically, by being at one with your fat cells you can tell them to let go. It is that easy. The trouble is, the fat cells are fitter than your heart cells, so you may end up out of breath while slimming.

We've linked to several web search engines offering random payments & prizes! Click the icon & search our keyphrase Zwinky . Add the code to your sidebar too! Ask Ed!

Hit the head icons above to peruse hundreds of Ed's posts about your favorite topics. Most recent posts are in the right sidebar.

What's up in Africa? Pambazuka, a weekly social forum on injustice in Africa offers the curious reader a summary of very well written and thought-provoking blog posts from Africans. It amazes me how forthright and logical African writers tend to be. They have to be that way in the face of extremely troubling attitudes from us know-it-all Westerners.

As per a recent review policy, full reviews are being reserved for winners of MyBlogLog Sunday reviewees sending me the most traffic each week. Many years ago, Claire Pitt flooded the Pisstakers and this is her payback review of A little Piece of Me.

For the 5 funniest blog posts ever, check out this list. They are political, but hey, even politics can be funny. These posts also prove that most humor is actually cultural references presented in a clever way. They may therefore not be remotely funny if you are an Inuit making a living in the fast melting areas of the Northern hemisphere

Round 'em up is a post on Blog About Your Blog re summarising the best or most useful blog posts of your week ie creating a blog post around others' articles. If done correctly, the benefits are many for both sides of the equation, especially if useful anchor text is used. That touch of linking class requires a little bit of research on your part to find the bloggers' keywords, or if in doubt use the blog post title as the link text.

Round 'em up should therefore get the author plenty of interest from cow hands seeking a free ad worth 60 buckaroos.

Personally I don't like the work involved in rounding up best posts myself. I think bloggers should email me your best posts! Hint hint. I am lazy like that.



I am also a self pisstaker, as I am not really lazy - as you can tell from MyBlogLog Sunday. However I have insisted that lazy-ish bloggers who want a mini review should get out of bed early on a Sunday and actually show their faces on my site. 140 mini reviews later it isn't going too bad, but it isn't the heavenly two way mutual linking fest it could be. Many bloggers either don't bother to mention their mention, or they don't know to look on Technorati to see who is blogging about them.

New angle on MyBlogLog Sunday. This post has just given me another idea, actually. From now on, to increase the two-way benefits of MyBlogLog Sunday, if you want to be mini reviewed: When you time your visit to be included in the last 10 in the MBL widget. you should also leave a comment mentioning YOUR best post of the week.

Oh how sweet is that? So sweet I expect MBL Sunday will drop to 2 mini reviews per week of conscientious marketing-aware blogs! I guess I can live with that in the name of quality blogging.

We've linked to several web search engines offering random payments & prizes! Click the icon & search our keyphrase Zwinky . Add the code to your sidebar too! Ask Ed!

Hit the head icons above to peruse hundreds of Ed's posts about your favorite topics.

I have linked to quite a few blog contests. If you have one going, let Ed know, and I will publish the details on the homepage.

The good thing about blogging is the sense of community and sharing of information. Say thanks to June for bringing Two Loos Le trek within the scope of our daily lives. The blog is a day by day Before and after exposé of the evolution of a European bathroom renovation project. It should reach almost toiletry proportions sometime soon. From that statement you can gauge what European builders are like with their commitments to schedules!

Comments are an intrinsic part of a blog, adding variety, perspective and additional information to the one-sided ramblings of bloggers, but they can have their downside. Touch wood, spam and trolling are not an issue yet at The Pisstakers, but Josh Wolf is going to start deleting comments containing blatant personal attacks.

He also discovered that one person had posted 85 times under different names and addresses, and most of the comments had been negative. Should he delete them, edit them, disable anonymous comments, or what? He asks for opinions.

The one address the phantom commenter couldn't be bothered to mask or change is the IP that traces them back to their basement. And Josh Wolf knows all about small dark rooms. He was the blogger jailed for not handing over an unpublished video of G8 shennanigans. Hence the irony / dilemma that he now has to decide whether or not to censor others' opinions that may not be to his liking.

We've linked to several web search engines offering random payments & prizes! Click the icon & search our keyphrase Zwinky . Add the code to your sidebar too! Ask Ed!

Hit the head icons above to peruse hundreds of Ed's posts about your favorite topics.

Today MyBlogLog Sunday cruises into part 14 at the Pisstakers.

It is an early blogger who catches the mini review this morning. The sun burst through the window most rudely and woke me up way ahead of schedule. What is a person to do when there is no coffee on the menu to lessen the pain? Therefore, the 10 bloggers this week are the nine o'clockers. Let's pray there is no sun next week so we can get back to a more civilised 10 or elevensies. And maybe I can lose this monk-like habit and drink more coffee too.

Thanks for taking part today, and to those of you who don't know what on earth is going on here, the MBL Sunday rules are explained here. (As a hint, be a MyBlogLog member who visits here just before I start blogging on Sundays - usually 10 to 11am!)



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All mini reviews from today are instantly added to the archives, so you can get a permanent back link to your mini review when it appears later today.

Update on the outcome of MyBlogLog Sunday "program"
The hope was to generate shout outs from reviewees who then tagged those posts in Technorati. About half of reviewees tend to do this! Not that the mini reviews have been in vain, as about 100 people a day check out the Pistakers MyBlogLog community - and some even cruise on by the blog. Plus it gives me the chance to really read other blog posts which is like being paid to have fun.

MyBlogLog Sunday prize winner

MyBlogLog Sunday info links

Be back later.

A CNN war correspondent was told to shut down his popular site, touching off an ongoing debate on blogging as a legitimate form of journalism. This, from Susan Mernit, raises quite a few questions.

I wonder: If journalists spend years training, why should amateurs think they can do a balanced job? (Is journalism ever balanced?) Journalists may be imperfect messengers, but does that mean you want your news from the equivalent of the local gossip? Blogging is quite a question raiser, innit.

You could be flogged alive if caught promoting a product on your blog without disclosing any affiliations, or payments for writing services. Well, not quite, but flogging, where corporate bloggers masquerade as normal folks and talk up their products as if they were a customer, is frowned upon by Technorati and the authorities.

I call flogging A dose of real life and quite amusing, because when they are outed, these corporations get even more publicity, more sales and no black marks worth diddly.
You know, who is going to boycott Sony because an everyday guy called Charlie is in fact Hiro Yakamota (made up name) from the Sony Corporation Marketing Department? Noone.

And perversely, I expect a small blogger like myself would probably be lambasted and abandoned by all and sundry for surreptitiously talking up products I was getting paid a commission for. Oh well, we should just do the right thing and disclose all, and meanwhile, expect creative corporate flogs to slip through the net. As you were and back to real life.

For surreal blogging, why not log the daily goings on in Second life? Talk about rich pickings for schizophrenics.

The Blog Interrogations caught fire with Hari, a funny guy with more brains than are good for me. See if you can better his answers to these 5 questions. I also have a review policy now.

We've linked to several web search engines offering random payments & prizes! Click the icon & search our keyphrase Zwinky . Add the code to your sidebar too! Ask Ed!

Hit the head icons above to peruse hundreds of Ed's posts about your favorite topics.

Endgadget, number one blog on the Technorati tree, just published a post about a multi-touch screen for a laptop. I have used Gestures with a trackpad and they rock, really, and I have a laptop too, but I don't see how fingertip control of flipping images and carousels will ever be applicable to any blogging software I know of.

I am all for geekery, but for starters, I would not want to have my laptop screen dismantled and then rotated 180 degrees by a Cambridge boffin, and more importantly I don't think I could ever change the habit of a lifetime: "Touch my Mac's screen and you're dead!" You know, those annoying gits who point and can't abide not to physically touch the word you can see perfectly well. Graaaghhhh.

Anyway, the technology is surely coming to a portable screen near you, soon, courtesy of Microsoft. Watch the vid if you don't believe me and blog about it.

If you ever want a little nudge to keep you blogging, digest this little snippet on blog popularity I found on wikipedia. There are 200 million discontinued blogs on the internet. If you don't want to add to the dotsam and netsam clogging up the blogosphere, don't jettison your commitment to daily / weekly writing. Class and stickability always win, and as there are only 100 million people still blogging today, the stayers are guaranteed to shine through!


Poorer than You explains how to win a free iPod shuffle from a company that distributes eBooks and comics. It is not a scam, as their high-tech iPod Shuffle (not the one they won from the guys at WOWIO) but the Shuffle they actually paid money for in 2005, is breaking and they need a new one. And you know you want to win too, because bloggers can't possibly concentrate without white earbuds vibrating in their lug holes.

Internet Entrepreneur Tyler Cruz became an accidental hate magnet when he signed up to Pay per Post. He asked PPP to stir up some interest in his blog in return for promoting their service. They obliged, he was happy. Not everyone was so pleased, however, to see him get preferential unofficial superficial treatment. The whiners were probably the folks who have been signed up for ages, can't write for toffee and wonder why they don't make any money?

We've linked to several web search engines offering random payments & prizes! Click the icon & search our keyphrase Zwinky . Add the code to your sidebar too! Ask Ed!

Hit the head icons above to peruse hundreds of Ed's posts about your favorite topics.

The celebrity insider dishes the clean-cut dirt on Simon Telly Tubby Cowell.



The Blog Interrogations continue with Denise O. I spoilt her link, so she stays another 24 hours. If you're tired of work, you'll appreciate her banner. Hari is tomorrow. I also have a review policy now.

We've linked to several web search engines offering random payments & prizes! Click the icon & search our keyphrase Zwinky . Add the code to your sidebar too! Ask Ed!

Other contests this week

Tectonic Designs is a hive of contest information. From plain old free stuff to prizes for writers, quiz artists and everything in between, there is plenty to enter and win.

Steve is offering up to $200CAD for the better reviews of his MIS Specification, a tagging system for the multimedia files quickly filling the world's hard drives.

Ades has regular info on competitions and giveaways and put me onto CypherHackz contest via Sabahans contest. Where will it end with blog review contests?

Blog About Your Blog has 160 187 RSS readers now. And at last the mini fridge winner has been announced via video - fingers and all in the pictures.

Blog Interrogation
I have a bit of a backlog with the 5 question and answer Blog Interrogation. Sorry folks, it all comes to he who waits and we will be back on track from tomorrow.

Want to join the fest? Via 5 questions, you will find it unavoidable to tell us what you blog about, and share any regrets and insights of use to us bloggers out there. And as this is The Pisstakers, you can let your hair down and have some fun, if you want.

Send your answers in to Ed, unsolicited, and remember, this is not a meme or false link love exercise. All interrogations stay on my review blog which is PR4 and promoted..

We've linked to several web search engines offering random payments & prizes! Click the icon & search our keyphrase web satire. It is a win-win, perhaps!

The funny quotes widget has just been updated with some new links to enjoy when you click on a quote.

One is from Billy Connolly linking to his site. Who would have thought Big Yin would employ the website designers from Toy Town? He must be getting soft in his ranty old age.

There are a load of good jokes leading off another quote, and Lord likely has produced a cool saying for the women. Don't shoot the messenger, you should have seen the last one he sent in!

If you have any quotes email them to me, and / or if you would like to install the widget (it works fine and the background adapts to your color scheme) copy and paste the code.

The Funny Quotes widget has been seen over 30,000 times so far this month. 40,000 times in May. That is quite useful for attracting traffic because when someone clicks on one of the quotes, it links back to the blogger who submitted the quote.

Just send me a funny line (funny to people who don't have any context to go on, by the way) and a URL and I will add it in to the widget. Play fair and install the widget (it seems to work without damaging websites) and watch the viral effect grow.

Or just install the widget for entertainment value. Everyone loves a smart ass quote - even serious money-making bloggers!

Rumors of the death of The Pisstakers have been greatly exaggerated! Ed is back and thanks to you all for popping by over the last couple of weeks.

It looks like overall visitor numbers are barely down on the period before I stopped posting. So, I will blog on in a new posts from Ed seem superfluous kind of way!

I don't know if I am better or badder than ever, but I am back, and suffice to say, I have noticed a thing or two worth commenting on during our protracted move.


Comcast are about as useful as a snowball in hell. You would think that the least you could expect from a homogenous faceless corporation is a standard email service wherever you go. But no.


When the American government announces one day in the nearish future that China is now the biggest economy in the world and owns half of the US, don't hold your hands up in horror.


If a 2-year old kid vaulted the perimeter fencing of a condo, found its way to the pool area, broke through that fence and then drowned itself, all hell would break loose, legally. No shit.


Appliances bit back big time again as we tried to use the self-clean function on the oven. Give me strength.



Your village called. They want their idiot back. From Callie Ann (More Daily quotes.)

Today is the belated back to school MyBlogLog Sunday - part 13 at the Pisstakers.

Coffee has been replaced by bottled water for my Sunday beverage of choice. I will live longer and healthier, but life will feel less rich dunking my toast in cold water. Oh well.

Here are the 10 lucky faces for this episode of MyBlogLog Sunday, brought to you finally by a blogger with no distracting commitments. After a while away from the blogosphere it will be doubly interesting for me too to dive into different domains around the internet and check out what has been happening, and spot any new trends, other mini reviewers emerging....

Thanks for taking part today, and to those of you who don't know what on earth is going on here, the MBL Sunday rules are explained here. (As a hint, be a MyBlogLog member who visits here just before I start blogging on Sundays!)

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All mini reviews from today are instantly added to the archives, so you can get a permanent back link to your mini review today.

MyBlogLog Sunday prize winner

MyBlogLog Sunday info links

Other contests this week

Tectonic Designs is a hive of contest information. From plain old free stuff to prizes for writers, quiz artists and everything in between, there is plenty to enter and win.

Steve is offering up to $200CAD for the better reviews of his MIS Specification, a tagging system for the multimedia files quickly filling the world's hard drives.

Ades has regular info on competitions and giveaways and put me onto CypherHackz contest via Sabahans contest. Where will it end with blog review contests?

Blog About Your Blog has 160 187 RSS readers now. And at last the mini fridge winner has been announced via video - fingers and all in the pictures.

Blog Interrogation
I have a bit of a backlog with the 5 question and answer Blog Interrogation. Sorry folks, it all comes to he who waits and we will be back on track from tomorrow.

Want to join the fest? Via 5 questions, you will find it unavoidable to tell us what you blog about, and share any regrets and insights of use to us bloggers out there. And as this is The Pisstakers, you can let your hair down and have some fun, if you want.

Send your answers in to Ed, unsolicited, and remember, this is not a meme or false link love exercise. All interrogations stay on my review blog which is PR4 and promoted..

We've linked to several web search engines offering random payments & prizes! Click the icon & search our keyphrase web satire. It is a win-win, perhaps!

Be back later.

Welcome Larry to Blog Interrogation. Time to go Hmmm and tell us about your blog and your approach to blogging.



The name of my weblog is Larry Hnetka Goes HMmmm.I checked my archives and in one of my first posts back in June 2004, I said I couldn't come up with a clever blog title. That statement still holds water today, don't you think?

Headlines were never my forte so I took the egotistical route and used my full name in the blog title (hence, the Larry Hnetka portion). The "HMmmm" was supposed to be the clever part. I had Googled the phrase things that make you go hmmmm and was shocked to find over 1,500,000 hits for the term. The one that stuck out the most was HMMmm: the Newsletter of High Mountain Mensa.I figured if those brainiacs could HMmmm so could I. Scan through the entries in my Journal category. You'll get more flavour about me than you'll ever need or want to know.


As I'm not a perfectionist, just anal-retentive with a dash of anxiety disorder on the side, the one thing I might change about my site is to add a second sidebar. I've deleted many sidebar buttons and widgets over the last while trying to leave important links or information. Right now, my solitary sidebar is too long and disorganized. I'm surprised I can find anything there, let alone someone who lands on my weblog without any warning.

Short answer: nyet to changing my blog name.

Long answer: I used to beg my parents to change our surname to Smith or Jones, anything but Hnetka. My mother's response was always, "you could have been one of the Karpuke's or Mazapuke's or (gasp) Yaddamaminski's -- be proud of your name."

Although I have an uncommon surname, bloggers have confused me with some "Harry Hnetka" fellow, much to my disbelief, My surname is of Ukrainian origin and so if you're a Hnetka, you're one of the family. I've had one or two relatives ticked off at me for using the surname because I Google ahead of them. I've even had an inquiry from one of my uncle's old girlfriends who hadn't had made contact with him for 40 years. She wondered what ever happened to him. My response was short. He had married twice, had several children but unfortunately dear Uncle X passed away accidentally some 25 years ago. He died in his car in his garage with the car engine running and the garage door nailed shut from the inside. She never replied back. Those moments make me tingle with the sheer HMmmmness within them.


I am the one and only great HMmmmer penning all the yadda yadda blah blah yadda on my blog. I have not earned one Canadian penny from my blog. Besides I couldn't afford what it would cost to hire myself to write all this stuff anyway.

Haven't really thought about asking another website to consider publishing an article from me. That concept is more typical of the old submission-for-publication to hardcopy magazines and the like.

Having said that, I have found some weblogs who've stolen my content verbatim without any reference that the content came from me. Unfortunately, it's never the big guns who take your copy. It's usually the new bloggers who copy and post without linking. I look forward to the day when some high traffic poobahs come and ask me if I will consider posting their content on my site. That's when I will throw back my head and laugh ha ha while collecting the cash from them and HMmmming all the way to the bank.

Ed extracts the bones from the blog interrogation

Thanks, Larry, for going into such depth about your blog.

I am amazed that anyone would copy another writer''s work verbatim, and expect to get away with it , especially if they are trying to promote their blog. Der. And why anyone would copy your work, that really dumbfounds me!

Joking aside, I am forever grateful for your expansive responses, this has come right when my own pen has dried up temporarily. As for your suicidal uncle story, sorry, but that made me laugh out loud. May he rest in peace and I hope they didn't damage the garage door too much trying to pry it open to get to him.

And don't worry about not earning from your blog yet. It all comes to he who waits. Cheers.

So, who is next up? Denise will get the stage to herself tomorrow.

Please don't think your blog is too serious or too trivial to provide the answers to these questions. Everyone has a story to tell and the interrogation is a good measure of your understanding of your blog. You get backlinks for good measure too.

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Baxter Tocher reveals the correctness of buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo and to continue the b's theme, he blogs about blogs that blinded him with their brilliance.

This week, the Snowman Pooper is on a new creative roll in a new role as podcaster supreme. Plenty of free shit to win too in contests.


Linda continues to plough a happy-go-lucky furrow on her blog. She has also blown the lid on airline ticket coupons, so check out a real gem for tight wad flyers.

Polli continues to set her online pond on fire with more Saturday Stuff. She also laments a Wordpress upgrade, where her sidebar died, so pay heed and back up back up back up!



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Blog Interrogation (or 5 questions in 5 minutes for the faint of heart) is your opportunity to respond to 5 quick-fire questions from Ed. (This is not a meme, more a YouYou.)

Shoot your answers straight from the hip, perhaps with a bit of humor, and hopefully everyone, including you, will gain an insight into your site. Send Ed your unsolicited responses, and we'll take it from there. And remember, there is no excuse for not having enough time to fit this into your schedule. Everyone has 5 minutes to shout about themselves!

The questions

The hardest question first. What is the name of your website, and can you pick one feature or story to illustrate the flavor of the site to newcomers?

Would you ever consider changing the name of your site to reflect the passing of time? For instance, after reading The Onion, I compared the first posts with the latest, & the name Has Bean sprang to mind. What do you think in your case?

Finally, if you could get an article published on any website on earth, other than your own, which would it be, and why?


Contributions so far...

Sarge of Quit Your Day Job
Linda of Are We There Yet?
Phishie of It's Phishie!
Lord Likely of Lord likely
Peter of Necessary Skills
Polli of Polliwog's pond
IESP of I Eat Snowman Poop
Danger Girl of Dayngrous Discourse
Dana of Principled Discovery
Matt of eJabs...for knowledge
Chris of Chris Chen dot see eh!
Mike of Generator Land

Today is the dozenth MyBlogLog Sunday - part 12 at the Pisstakers.

It seems that for every cup of coffee consumed, you need 8 cups of water to clear the effects out your system. Time to get a potty.

Hey ho to the 10 lucky faces of MyBlogLog Sunday. Let's see what's new and happening on different domains around the internet.

After 120 mini reviews, Mission control has asked me to give a thumbs up to the good folks who give this plug a mention on their site on a regular basis - that's just what was envisioned at launch time.

An apology to the people caught up in this without realising what is going on.

And a gentle reminder that if you sought a mini review here and got one, or if you go to Technorati and see that The Pisstakers is one of your backlinks, why not be a bud and tell someone other than the people living in your house that you were on MBL Sunday or referenced in an article! Remember, we are nothing to do with urine!

Thanks for taking part today, and to those of you who don't know what on earth is going on here, the MBL Sunday rules are explained here. (As a hint, be a MyBlogLog member who visits here just before I start blogging on Sundays!)

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All mini reviews from today are instantly added to the archives, so you can get a permanent back link to your mini review today.

MyBlogLog Sunday prize winner

MyBlogLog Sunday info links

Other contests this week

Steve is giving away loads of money for the better reviews of his MIS Specification, a tagging system for the multimedia files quickly filling the world's hard drives.

I Eat Snowman Poop needs a gay jingle. If you need a $25 certificate, join the contest and make each other happy. It can't be worse than the Blogger jingle. Jeez, they need a makeover.

Polliwog had a Saturday Stuff contest last week to win a book, and it looks like Goldy won it.

Bloglyne has a contest related to the March of Dimes on June 7th. I think how it works is that 3 selected contributors of cash will get a link back as a bonus. The Pisstakers can't win a link because we aren't viewable by all folks everywhere, but no reason why we can't tell you so you can benefit!

Ades has regular info on competitions and giveaways He is one of the better bloggers btw, read and inwardly digest if you are a How To Make Money Online blogger.

Blog About Your Blog has 160 RSS readers now. And their RSS feed mini fridge winner is to be announced via video, no less. .

Link Rambler is going to blow the lid on linkbait opportunities soon. Meanwhile, he mentions others' contests too.

Kumiko has a contest, and I am going to win 150 tickets with the following statement! Kumiko has a new domain and she's giving me a chance to make money online too with her new Cash Quest Competition!! She may want to read this article I did about Google Bombs, in case some of it applies to her keyword tactic.

Google goodies were on offer from Me and My Drum! The contest ended, can't see a winner, but go and read the blog, it is pretty interesting.

Blog Interrogation
5 11 bloggers have so far set the record straight during an intense 5 question and answer Blog Interrogation. Next week I have another 4 lined up. Want to join the fest? Via 5 questions, you will find it unavoidable to tell us what you blog about, and share any regrets and insights of use to us bloggers out there. And as this is The Pisstakers, you can let your hair down and have some fun.

Send your answers in to Ed, unsolicited, and remember, this is not a meme or false link love exercise. All interrogations stay on my review blog which is PR4 and promoted..

We've linked to several web search engines offering random payments & prizes! Click the icon & search our keyphrase web satire. It is a win-win, perhaps!

Be back later.

The Web Pen is joined by Ploop, Callie Ann and Larry, more brave souls who have added the Funny Quotes widget to their sidebar. Some more are here.

So far this idgety fidgety widget has appeared about 11000 40000 times on the internet in May, which means each of the 15 quotes has appeared about 1000 a lot of times. That is quite useful if one of your quotes is included in the widget, because each quote links back to your site.

Just send me a funny line (funny to people who don't have any context to go on, by the way) and a URL and I will add it in. Play fair and install the widget (it seems to work without damaging websites) and the effect grows.

If you want a widget of your own with your own quotes perhaps, or photos or whatever content you have in mind, contact Giuseppe and tell him Ed sent you. Mentioning my name won't make a blind bit of difference to him, you will still get a good job done.