Since October 28, 2003 a lot of things have happened. My wife and I have settled into our new house, we have had a baby, and we are waiting for a second baby. I have started and continued working as a teacher, while my wife has worked with computers and in a coffee shop. I got a car, I have raised two nice gardens, I have covered three seasons of "American Idol" on my weblog (as well as "WB Superstar"). -My articles about TV shows seem to be my biggest "draws". (I supp...
My points, home visits, and comments counters haven't been increasing. I can't tell whether I have new comments on a particular article without clicking on the "0 comments" link. What's up with that?
As some of you know, I write frequent blog entries on the "American Idol" television program. I recap shows, and give opinions of each program. My "Idol" articles are among the most widely-read ones that I post. In order to keep my forum discussion timely, I place a link to my latest article on each entry. Regardless of that, I have recently found responses to my American Idol articles in all sorts of different articles. I have found some replies to the curre...
If you're reading this and looking to the right of the screen, you'll see that at one time I was able to add links to my friends' and my favorite websites. Between the time that I entered those names and now, I have forgotten how to do it. I have a new name I want to add to my "friends' blogs" list. What do I do?
On October 28th, 2003 I began writing Jamie Burnside's Weblog . Tomorrow that weblog will be one year old. In the past year I have written about of a number topics: my family, my house, TV shows, current events, sports, and a variety of other issues/ musings/ ideas. Over the past couple of days I have been looking back at my articles in order to compile a list of my "favorites" from the past year. Here is what I came up with: Thanks for reading! ...
I have heard from three individuals (who aren't JU members) that they are unable to post comments on my articles. Have I inadvertantly changed a setting, or are outside comments no longer allowed?
I am a regular blogger here on JoeUser. I write fairly often, and I read about ten-or-so blogs each day. A lot of blog entries feature poetry. I see that the poems are well-received and commented upon. That is good for the poet and his or her audience. The deal is that personally, I just don't "get" poetry. There aren't many poems that I can read from beginning to end without getting immediately disinterested. Sometimes it amazes me how popular written poetry ...
Here it is: article number 200. Thanks to those of you who have been faithful readers of my weblog. I enjoy seeing that people read what I write, and that they occasionally place comments. For this entry, I am reprinting my top-five articles as of April 21st, 2004. The first article about the last episode of "Friends" has been referred many times. I seem to have written a pretty topical article. The second article was about the purchase of a new picture phone. It has certainl...
Hello friends. I love blogging on JoeUser. I enjoy seeing "hits" and "comments" go up whenever I write a compelling article. For about as long as I have been using JoeUser, my blog has been in the top-ten. I really like being in the top-ten. Being there means that a lot of people who wouldn't normally read my articles can read them. With the ranking however, comes responsibility. If I want to maintain a top-ten ranking I had better not miss a day of blogging. All day long I am co...
**Below is the original blog entitled: "I have been nominated for 0 JoeUser Awards." After posting it, I had learned (thanks to SPM) that I qualify under the "annoying" category.** GemCityJoe had a great idea. Make a sort of "academy awards" for our blogging community. People's blogs were nominated, and now the voting is taking place. It seems that my weblog is flying under the radar. I am nominated for nothing, yet I have reasonably good readership. (Possibly due to my non-bl...
One of our fellow bloggers who likes to call himself imaginit had a nice idea. He suggested that users of this weblog show what "the source" of their weblog looks like. I thought that was a pretty good idea. It is possible to learn a lot about a person by looking at how he or she decorates the workspace. This is where the Jamie Burnside blog comes from:
One of the day's top articles was written by a fellow who calls himself "JeremyG." In JeremyG's article, "The Quest for the Top Begins," the author bemoans falling out of the top-ten most popular blog sites. In his weblog entry, JeremyG gives his opinion on the top-ten weblogs on the site. Mine -being number four- was not exempt from critique. I don't think that that guy appreciates my weblog. Apparently he sees it as being boring, uninspired, and simple. It is quite possible that ...
Hello there. Lunch time! I was reading other people's blogs here on my computer. Someone wrote an article for his "Quest for the top..." He critiqued all of the top-ten weblogs (point-wise.) Apparently my weblog didn't fare so well. It was written that: #4 JamieBurnside. Wow, what a scam. It's my direct suspicious that this guy has about 30 family members who read his blog every day and vote "insightful" for every post because they love the cute baby pictures. It's sort of li...
According to the counter on the top of my page, this will be the forty-seventh weblog article that I have written. Scrolling down to the bottom of the page, I can see which search engines have lead the various readers to my weblog. Looking at the "search" section of the weblog is really interesting. It is sort of a barometer of what people are searching the internet for, and how that relates to my own life experience. The following items are topics which have brought the most viewers to ...