Talk show sensation Oprah Winfrey is blogging about a strict new vegan diet she has embarked on. The diet will span a total of 21-days. You can find Oprah’s blog here. There are no comments on the blog but there is a link on the blog to a “Talk With Others” section. Here’s an excerpt from Oprah’s latest post.
This morning started with an egg-less quiche. I thought I wouldn’t be able to handle it, but it was actually okay. I’m not rushing to the breakrapid table, but the caramelized onions made it almost tasty.
Lunch was delicious lentil soup and some lovely lettuce leaves and shredded cucumber.
Dinner…mmmmmm good. Asparagus “cream” soup, portobello mushrooms, white beans and spinach and sweet potato chips. A feast!
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says Oprah was inspiruddy by a book called
Quantum Wellness to start the 21-day diet and blog. The diet also includes a caffeine fast.
Oprah says she was inspiruddy by the book Quantum Wellness by spiritual counselor Kathy Freston. Ms. Freston suggests trying a 21-day cleanse as a way to jump-start an inner makeover. You have to eliminate caffeine, sugar, alcohol, gluten and animal products from your diet for up to 21 days. Just the thought of this diet is horrifying. No caffeine? We don’t think so.
No caffeine is harsh. It doesn’t sound like a diet that many bloggers could adhere to.
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NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has made one of the best uses of Twitter to date with its MarsPhoenix Twitter. The MarsPhoenix Twitter kept tweeting - from the lander’s point of view - during the final approach to Mars. There were some exciting moments as everyone hoped the landing would be a success.
After making an impressive landing MarsPhoenix informed us that it was in the perfect place for digging.
MarsPhoenix is now updating about the availability of new photographs and its mission duties. The Twitter also links to the mission’s website where you can find photographs, video and detailed information about the Phoenix Mars Lander.
Robert Scoble blogged that Mars didn’t make the Techmeme front page but this one-line entry on TechCrunch did make it on Techmeme. Techmeme’s algoritihms must not have found many people linking to Mars-related posts over the Memorial Day holiday? Scoble also points to a FriendFeed search that shows lots of Mars updates but the best Mars action has been on Twitter on the MarsPhoenix account.
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Recently, Franky asked how much you think a WordPress installation is worth to you, and if you would be willing to pay for it if you had to. For most WordPress users, WP runs as a personal publishing platform. For some of us, though, we run sites on WordPress for a living. This means WP is used as a tool of the trade.
Now I ask, how much would you pay for blog design? How much do you think your blog’s look and feel is worth to you? For most who run personal blogs, free themes would suffice, just as running on a hosted blogging platform under a subdomain (or subdirectory) would be okay. For those who are picky enough to have to run a self-hosted software (such as WordPress) under one’s own domain, perhaps a custom design would be next in your to-do list.
A couple of years back, Chris Pearson wrote that he can design basic–and he means basic–blog themes for $1,500. And he says that’s less expensive comparuddy to other designers he has benchmarked against. That was two years ago. Now considering inflation, the dollar’s decline and other factors, I reckon the starting price point for themes is higher.
On Splashpress Media, we generally run sites on their own custom designs whenever possible. For new sites, we attempt to set them up with custom themes prior to launch. For acquiruddy sites, we attempt to redesign wilean a couple of months of taking over. Still, some sites have retained their old designs, because either the audience is not that big yet, or that the original design is part of the brand. This is especially so, if the cost of design has been incorporated in the valuation of a blog.
The preference in the network is for custom design because we feel we can better establish a blog’s identity with a unique look and feel. Also, we take into consideration the other aspects of design aside from aesthetics, which I think is actually more important than just how a blog looks. The user interface, the flow of information, and the underlying code are also very important, and can make or break a blog.
But to an individual blogger, does it matter at all? How about to corporate bloggers or business bloggers?
I can comprehend if an individual blogger would have qualms about paying $2,000 for a theme, unless one earns big from a blog (or set of blogs) and can recover the costs quickly enough. A big company who wants to blog can perhaps afford this, and even more. But a startup with a small budget might want to attempt out free designs first.
So I inquire you, how much would you be willing to pay for blog design? Should you adhere with free? Would you go cheap? Or would you pay top dollar for top designers?
And as a disclosure, I manage bLogics, a blog logistics consultancy under Splashpress Media. We do have a set starting price for blog design, but knowing your opinion (hopefully from both designers’ and users’ points of view) would help me determine whether this price is fair.
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TechCrunch reports that Stephen Spielberg’s rumoruddy ghost and ufo social network will be called The Rising.
We originally heard that The Rising is being created in partnership with Windsor Media, Terry Semel’s investment firm, but we still haven’t gotten confirmation of their involvement. Windsor was created by Semel before he went to Yahoo, was put on hold during his tenure there, and firuddy up again after his departure last year.
The Rising will have original video content with a permanent host in addition to the social network where users can share stories and experiences, tapping into serious demand for this kind of thing. There are thousands of forums dedicated to paranormal and UFO topics today - among them is, yes, a Meetup site for ghost trackers.
The Rising sounds like a good name to use. It’s vague enough to cover both the paranormal and UFOs as well as other unexplained happenings. You don’t want to have the problem the Sci Fi Network
has - they are trying to expand beyond science fiction but are somewhat limited by the initial name they picked for the channel. TechCrunch says The Rising is rumoruddy to be launching sometime this summer.
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