February 11, 2008

• Internet Island Topic Post #31: New Year’s Potpourii

  

  Internet Island Topic Post #31: New Year’s Potpourii

  As I did last time out, each topic below has it’s own introduction. I’ve chosen nine different topics from which to choose. Hope to see a lot of posting. If you have any other ideas for topics, I’m always open for suggestions, and throughout 2008 I will ask you Islanders for topic suggestions as well as using my own. Hopefully this will spur even more interactivity and visits amongst us. Only 13 sites participated last time (including me), and I left the topic up for almost two months! I give you an opportunity here with a mix of both serious and not so serious topics. Let’s see some action here on the Island in 2008! A special thanks to all who do participate, and who visit the other topic entries with comments and 5 star ratings!

  31.1: A New Year, A New Page: Each passing year is literally a “page” on your blog. You can go back and “relive” your “Xanga life” if you haven’t deleted the posts. What is different or similar about the “page” that is turning now, in Jan. 2008? Are you writing a “new book” or is this year just another chapter in a long, meandering novel? Be creative.

  31.2: The Internet Island: Why did you join this blogring? Are you satisfied with the topics? Do you have any advice for me why there isn’t lots of participation among over 130 blogring members? Do I write too many topics? Too few? Let it all hang out.

  31.3: Pet Peeve: When I edited our high school newspaper, there was a feature called “Senior Celebrity”, in which the reporter asked prominent seniors a series of questions. One was always “what is your pet peeve?” What really peeves you the most? (it can be about anything)

  31.4: Happenstance/Predestination: Do things “just happen” or do they happen for a reason? Are we on a rollercoaster which seems to be a crazy ride but is definitely on “track” or are we on the bumper car ride, with no direction at all save what happens when we turn the wheel?

  31.5: Write a “Dear Xanga” letter: Communicate with the “Xanga Gods”. I know you can actually contact John or other members of the Xanga team through their blogs, but compile a list of your likes and dislikes. Do you really like “Themes”? Do you have suggestions or criticisms of how the site works?

  31.6:Politics: If you were running your country, what would you do to insure that things get better instead of worse?

  31.7: Financial Straights: I recently read that I’m not the only one whose income doesn’t cover his monthly bills. Talk about your personal financial picture. Do you have advice or fears about the future, the falling value of some currencies (like the American dollar), recessions, the downward spiraling housing market, the fluctuations of the stock market, etc. Are you able to do anything to make your life better or to maintain your lifestyle in these seeming perilous times?

  31.8: Popular Xangans: I’ve been reading about how services like MySpace and YouTube are now being bombarded with “professionals”. Television stations, movie studios, stars, prominent writers all are establishing webpages on other services, and the established entertainment giants are getting lots of hits. I’ve even seen some “big stars” with blogs on  Xanga. I like the fact that “regular folks” can become extremely popular if they write or present something interesting and entertaining. Who are your “popular Xangans”. Whose blogs do you read because you want to read them, not just because you’re “exchanging comments?” If the commenting feature “disappeared” who would you still visit and read?

  31.9: Pick a topic, any topic: Go throughout the entries listed on this blogsite, or in the group of links below this page from when the blogring topics were presented on my personal blogsite, and pick one. I’m always hearing that people skip writing for the Internet Island because they are waiting for different topics. I’ve written a lot of topics and subtopics over two years. If you can’t find one here, then pick one from the past, identify it, and write about it.

  The Topic Post will last about a month. Please enter the link or date of your Internet Island Topic Entry for this post in a comment here. If you are creating a link, make sure you link to the page with the “comments” box and not the page with five entries. (HERE IS A TUTORIAL ABOUT HOW TO MAKE LINKS.) The purpose of Internet Island Topic Posts is to help get the members of the Internet Island Blogring to exchange comments and get to know each other. Please check back periodically for new entries throughout the posting period.  If you post a topic entry, please make an attempt to visit the other Islanders who do so as well. It is also a good idea to post the link to the Topic Entry in your own entry so that other interested parties can come here. You can copy/paste the Topic Post links right here in this entry into your own weblog entry box.

  Topic Entries:

  phil leafman 31.8 01/12/08

  screaminginmyhead 31.2, 31.4 01/12/08

  edlives 31.2 01/13/08 (new member)

  baldmike 2007 31.1,3,6,8 01/13/08

  harmonyOstars 31.1-8 01/13/08

  prettynosyarentu 31.3 01/13/08

  Jeri Dee 31.3 01/13/08 (new member)

  Zeal4living 31.4 01/14/08

  phil leafman 31.2 01/14/08

  Zeal4living 31.1 01/16/08

  sherrytwinklz 31.3 01/16/08

  phil leafman 31.9 (9.3) 01/20/08

  phil leafman 31.3 01/26/08

  writergoddess 31.3,4 01/27/08

  boureemusique 31.1-4,6-8 01/29/08

  ElectricBlue eyes 31.9 (30.4) 01/30/08

  phil leafman 31.9 02/11/08

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  YOU ONLY HAVE TO WRITE ONE TOPIC. OR MORE IF YOU WANT.  IT’S ALL UP TO YOU!

  Remember, the tabs at the top of theInternet Island Blogring Page will “sort” the members by latest post, date joined,  and alphabetical Username. Use the ring page to find new Islanders, or older ones you might not have visited in a while. It’s OUR Island, and we’re a great group of people with different interests, fantastic stories, and wonderful lives, and we have a great deal of love for our fellow man.

  There are no “right” or “wrong” responses to any Topic Post for Internet Island. All responses are just as valid as any other response.

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  NOTE: Please limit the posts you “send to blogrings” for the Internet Island to actual Internet Island Topic Posts. Thank You.

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