I’ve seen this asked a few times in forums, and I just want to point out two really good reasons why not to put your kids pictures up on the internet.
First is the case of 16-year-old Alison Chang. Her church counselor put a picture of her at a church car wash up on Flickr. Alison [...]

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I’ve not done a wholesale update of my websites in a while. Over the past few days, I’ve identified 6 blogs I will be maintaining, as well as the R.A.G.E. Media Store.
Yesterday I spent quite a while on Problogger catching up on the changes in the blogosphere and getting some essential plugins installed across all [...]

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I’m trying out some new blogging tools since I now have 5 blogs I am trying to keep updated.
First Impressions
The first one that caught my eye was the ScribeFire plugin for Firefox. Very convenient since it runs in your web browser, but unfortunately it seems to lack Wordpress keyword support and easy adsense insertion - [...]

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Interesting front-page news story in the Grand Rapids Press the other day about Maria Gajewski who is living on a food budget of $30 this month.  She’s donating the savings to a local nature center.
In part she’s foraging for food from the wild - so there’s plenty of resources on her blog for natural ways [...]

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Got our weekly Buyer’s Guide today, and had to laugh at the cover:

The “cover girl” for the eyewear company is none other than Kat Herding.
You probably still don’t understand why I found this so funny. You see, Kat Herding is seen as kind of a marketing “inside joke.” I believe she has become quite the [...]

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