Burning Man GIANT BRA interrupts BLOG
Yes that is a GIGANTIC BRA from Burning Man 2006 which you can see more of here.
Should you happen to have video, Amy is searching for some of it BEFORE she burned it. (I imagine she removed the valuable solar paneled shoulder straps first. Since I wasn’t on the Playa that year, I missed seeing it in the flesh, er, in person, er whatever; anyway, I wonder how it looked lit up?)
Burning Man Tarot Deck
Miss Magdalen is putting together a Burning Man tarot deck just in case you have any BMAN pics which might work. Or you might just want to check out the deck in process.
Need more Burning Man? Go see the photos of Gabe Kirchheimer some of which are on the Burning Man website (http://images.burningman.com), but his site has a larger selection: http://www.gabekphoto.com/portfolio/bm/burningman2008photos.htm including:
According to the latest edition of Jack Rabbit Speaks,
Our pre-sale of Burning Man tickets continues, so act now to get your favorite giftee a ticket to Burning Man for the holidays. Whether you celebrate Solstikwanzannakahmas … orrrrr just because it’s nice to gift things to people, it matters not. Get yours now, here: http://tickets.burningman.com Also, keep an eye on that very same web page, for this Friday, it will be populated with all the nitty gritty details of our impending full blown ticket launch, coming your way January 14, 2009. Yep.
Here’s more about this year’s theme, Evolution.
Now before we return you to your previously scheduled programming, the last two installments of STUNNING STATS about the STATE of the BLOGOSPHERE 2008–monetization and brands– I invite you to participate in a poll:
More Blogosphere Stunning Stats from Techonorati
Did you know 1 in 4 bloggers spends 10 or more hours each week blogging?
This section of Technorati’s September 2008 Report on the Blogosphere discusses the “HOW” of blogging: how much time we spend each week, what tools we use, how we attract visitors, how we track them, and how we keep them. You can find excerpts from the report below or read it all here.
How much time do you spend–more or less than average? How many posts do you put up a week? How do you get and keep readers on your blog? How do you fit into this picture?
I spend more time than average (I have no TV! and this includes time reading and commenting on other’s blogs), I try to post daily, I read and comment as much as possible and reciprocate with comments when people comment on my blog both for pleasure, interest, duty, and development of my readership, and I try to post a varity of items which I think will interest my readers and keep them coming back.
The following text, analysis, graphs and charts are from the Technorati Report. I will add at least one more post about the report soon.
Time Spent Blogging Each Week
One in four bloggers spends ten hours or more blogging each week, and about half spend more than five hours weekly on their blog. Only 15% of active bloggers spend less than one hour per week on their blog. Read more…
State of the Blogosphere 2008: Who Blogs? And Why? Do you see yourself in these stats?
- comScore MediaMetrix (August 2008)
- Blogs: 77.7 million unique visitors in the US
- Facebook: 41.0 million | MySpace 75.1 million
- Total internet audience 188.9 million
- eMarketer (May 2008)
- 94.1 million US blog readers in 2007 (50% of
- 22.6 million US bloggers in 2007 (12%)
- Universal McCann (March 2008)
- 184 million WW have started a blog | 26.4 US
- 346 million WW read blogs | 60.3 US
- 77% of active Internet users read blogs
ACCORDING TO TECHNORATI:
As the Blogosphere grows in size and influence, the lines between what is a blog and what is a mainstream media site become less clear. Larger blogs are taking on more characteristics of mainstream sites and mainstream sites are incorporating styles and formats from the Blogosphere. In fact, 95% of the top 100 US newspapers have reporter blogs (see The Bivings Group).
The info above came from the Technorati State of the Blogosphere Report which came out in September 2008 and is based on info from 1000 bloggers. Do you see yourself in these stats? The complete article is here. Excerpts from the report follow.
Sincere, Conversational, Expert and Humorous are top blogging styles
We asked bloggers how they would describe their blogging styles. Although there is a perception of blogging as a means for writing a tell-all or gossiping about others, snarky and confessional were at the bottom of the list in terms of blogging styles. Half of bloggers consider their style to be sincere, conversational, humorous, and expert in nature.
Some differences emerged across all segments. International bloggers tend to be less conversational and snarky. Asian bloggers tend to be more motivational and confessional, while European bloggers are more confrontational. Women tend to be more conversational in their blogging style, while men tend to be expert. Finally, those under 34 are more confessional in their blogging style, while those over 35 are more expert in their style.
Fewer than one in five bloggers consider themselves snarky or confessional.
Blogging Style (% top 2 box agreement)
Self expression and sharing expertise are the top reasons for blogging
Self expression and sharing expertise are the top reasons for blogging followed by networking and gaining entry into the traditional media world. Career advancement and monetary reasons are cited by one in four bloggers as their motivations for blogging. “Other” reasons include: activism, book publicity, personal satisfaction, self promotion, share my passion, to become known as an expert, and our favorite: “to bake half-baked ideas.”
Why do you blog?
Personal satisfaction is the key success metric for three out of four bloggers Read more…
More Stunning Stuff: Where are Blogs Going?
I found these quotes on Technorati’s 2008 Report and since I thought others would be interested too, I share them here:
The Blogosphere is Continuing to Evolve
Technorati asked some of the leading minds on the Blogosphere to give their thoughts on where blogging is headed:
“In 2004 when Technorati started, the typical reaction to the word ‘blog’ was ‘huh – can you repeat yourself?’ Today, blogs are everywhere —even presidential candidates have blogs. The blog has forever changed the way publishing works —now anyone can be a publisher. The issue is no longer distribution; rather, it’s relevance.”
- Brad Feld
- Managing Director
- Foundry Group
- www.feld.com
“The idea of blogging will never disappear, but the process by content is created for one blog or a series of blogs will continue to undergo radical upheavals. This past year, we saw the introduction of countless “microblogging” platforms, to the point where they (themselves) have become a commodity —further pushing individual voices to the Blogosphere’s melting pot. Brand will continue to decentralize, and micro-communities will form within any one of the loosely-structured services (like FriendFeed, which values the continuation of conversation as much as it does the initiation portion).”
“Video will also become increasingly important to convey complex messages that are often lost in text – while audio will continue to fall away to this new medium, save those ‘casts with high production values. YouTube will continue to be the place where most people will view their on-demand Internet video. Live video events will soon saturate the landscape, and our attention will become even further fragmented —lending more credibility for the need to archive and index certain video clips and wrap them with text for Google and other search engines to discover.”
- Chris Pirillo
- Internet Content Producer (Since 1992)
- chris.pirillo.com
“I blog in Spanish and English for different reasons. In English I blog to communicate my ideas and views, in Spanish, where for some unknown reason many more people comment, I write to learn. The collective intelligence of my commentators is greater than mine.”
- Martin Varsavsky
- Founder and CEO
- FON
- english.martinvarsavsky.net
- spanish.martinvarsavsky.net
“Blogs will fill every niche in the ecology of public writing. They’ll be good examples of blogs and a far larger range of sites that are sort-of, kind-of blogs. This is as it should be. It’s also as it already is.”
- David Weinberger
- Writer
- Fellow, Harvard Berkman Center
- Johotheblog.com Read more…
3:15 Experiment Poem August 29, 2006: no there is not
Blank my mind draws
no conclusions of
something to write
no ? no titles no
teasing images
no engaging device
no tricky line or divine
instead the great
yawning blankness
urges slackness,
retirement
sleep.
There is always tomorrow
the thinking goes. But
really there is not
c. Art Predator aka Gwendolyn Alley
Written as part of the 2006 3:15 Experiment.
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Some Stunning Statistics about the State of Blogsville
Sometimes it’s good to get some perspective. So here’s Some Stunning Statistics about the State of Blogsville. For most sources go here or hover and you’ll see the links:
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Santa Baby: Let It Snow!
That’s right, it’s snowing at Burning Man in the Black Rock Desert and all over the poetry and everything else on my blog, thanks to the Automatticians at WordPress! If you’re on WordPress, here’s how to get snow on your own blog!
Eartha Kitt and her friends (!) can have all that stuff! The snow is great and making me happy! (OK, maybe an iPhone would be nice…and okay, I’ll take an aquamarine surrounded by brown diamonds if you insist…)
Happy Holidays from sunny, warm coastal southern California!
(PS Let me know if the snow overly taxes your machinery–I heard last year some people complained that it caused slowdowns on some blogs but I never noticed a problem…)
Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse Santa Barbara: better than home?
If the Big Monkey had a blog, it would be called Beer, BBQ & Bruce (that would be Springsteen).
But he’s too busy barbecuing for a blog.
While I tend to stick my nose in a collection of poetry and browse around, he’s likely to daydream his palate away in a cookbook.
We BBQ’d a ham for Thanksgiving last week, and I salivate just thinking about the duck eh made a few months ago. He cooks salmon perfectly, and the fine art of cooking a steak comes out just right every time.Two weeks ago, we were both ecstatic over some filet mignons which we enjoyed with a bottle of Teusner Barossa Valley Shiraz.
That night, we both agreed as we usually do, that we just couldn’t get a meal like this out that was as good as home. After all, how could you improve on perfection?
Turns out, you can. At least in the steak department.
Last night, with the Big Monkey at one end of the table and his boss at the other, celebrating the best month of sales they’d ever had, the Big Monkey proclaimed that the porterhouse steak here at Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse was not only better than any steak he’d ever had in a restaurant, but the best steak he’d ever had. Period. And that it was worth every cent.
Now that’s saying a mouthful.
However, if we’d been dining at home, we wouldn’t have sat around for ages with no wine in our glasses. And we would have had the wine we’d ordered with the various courses we’d intended to drink them with.
That part was ridiculous. For a restaurant as expensive as this one, Read more…
poem: bee butterfly
through the kitchen window
an insect flies into a wine bottle
now a monarch chrysalis
attaches to the side
no no little one
you don’t understand
the wine fumes
may hurt you
you will be trapped inside
like a fine masted ship
gentle i shake you out will
put you careful someplace safe
in my hand you buzz
you are now a bee
anger stinger poised
flick you go out the window
i really wanted
to keep you in that bottle
For more poetry, check out Read Write Poem.
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