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Meme Week: Thinking Blogger

Started by goodwordediting · 9 months ago

This week, I’m doing my meme homework.

MEME the FIRST:
The Thinking Blog Meme 

I first learned about this meme from Jenn With 2 Ns. She’s a good sort. Tells a mean zombie story. And even has a book contract—go Jenn! Then Jul ... Continue reading »

19 comments

  • Llamamomma

    2 years ago

    Erika Haub over at The Margins gets the top spot of my "thinking" list. Check her out at http://erika.haub.net/

    (Okay, editing question. How do you handle punctuation after a URL? If I add a period after Erika's blog address, won't that screw people up if they try to cut and paste her address? I have been wondering about this for quite some time.)
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  • Karin H.

    2 years ago

    Hi Marcus

    I like your question, so my contribution is:
    Kent Blumberg (most of his posts on managing and leadership makes you stop and think)
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  • Eve Nielsen

    2 years ago

    OOO! LL's name is Laura!! (just gave away her trade secret there, Mark :)
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  • Craver-VII

    2 years ago

    I thought it was Lolita Lulu.
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  • Eve Nielsen

    2 years ago

    *snicker*
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  • Robert Bruce

    2 years ago

    Thank you Mark.

    I'm thinking you're too good to me brother.
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  • L.L. Barkat

    2 years ago

    Craver, how did you know? Mark's just running cover for me (how kind after I was roped into hijacking his blog by a mischievous one who likes to snicker!)

    And, Mark, thanks for the tag. Methinks me's been tagged on this before...

    http://greeninventionscentral.blogspot.com/2007...

    And that was my answer.
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  • Every Square Inch

    2 years ago

    I concur with your nomination of LL's blog. Since you mentioned "Laura" (anonymity is a hard thing to hold onto!) already, let me put a word in for Ted Gossard's blog.

    He's not only thoughtful, he's prolific...posting everyday!
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  • Every Square Inch

    2 years ago

    Here's the link to Ted's blog - Jesus Community

    http://www.communityofjesus.blogspot.com/
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  • Eve Nielsen

    2 years ago

    ESI, that what we call obssessed, around here :)
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  • Marcus

    2 years ago

    You all are the best. I had a meeting out at the Canyon yesterday. (It was tough, but someone had to do it.)

    Let me start with Llamamomma. She asks, "How do you handle punctuation after a URL?"

    Good question.

    There are lots of style manuals to look for the answer. I suspect each one will give you a different answer. CMA (Chicago Manual of Style) is pretty much the publication industry standard. I always go to it first.

    In section 17.10 on "URLS and punctuation" it says, "A 'trailing slash,' the last character in a URL pointing to a directory, is part of the URL. Other punctuation markes used following a URL will readily be perceived as belonging to the surrounding text."

    So use the period if it is at the end of a sentence.

    Or better yet, don't show the URL at all. Since you made Erika's site into a hyperlink with an "a href" tag, I assume you know how to do this. Just create an appropriate noun phrase. Like Karin H. did in her comment with Kent's name.
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  • Marcus

    2 years ago

    Karin, I like Kent's blog a lot. In fact, I found it through you originally.

    And he did the best thing. When I commented there, he emailed to thank me. Not a big thing, but man did it get my attention.
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  • Marcus

    2 years ago

    L.L., I actually messed this up. You were supposed to be a blog I liked. But somehow the annotation about you got lost. I knew you and others had been tagged, so I tried to deflect all tags into the comments section.

    And ended up confusing people. Oh well.
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  • Jenn

    2 years ago

    Thanks for the props, Marcus!

    And good choices on the thinking blogs. I already listed five (including, obviously, this one) in my own blog, so I'll leave it at that.
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  • Robert Bruce

    2 years ago

    Thanks Marcus. (Tried to leave this yesterday but didn't get through...)
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  • Llamamomma

    2 years ago

    Mark,

    Do you prefer to be called Mark, or Marcus?

    Thank you for the information! I've got that book on my shelf, but I didn't even think to look it up myself.

    (Yeah, just what you need. A lazy blogger hanging around your site!)
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  • Eve Nielsen

    2 years ago

    Llamma..."Hey you!" Work in a pinch *grin*
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  • Marcus

    2 years ago

    Sorry comments are so slow from me this week. I'm scrambling to get ready for a blog convention. But I appreciate all of your thoughts! I hope to answer everyone individually soon.
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  • Marcus

    2 years ago

    Robert, ach! You got stuck in Akismet for a few days. I dusted off your comments and rescued them though. Strange that you landed there. It's a dark dank place, with too many links to other dark dank places.
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