Life is Healthy

A while back, Jen Garrett made a pledge to visit 100 blogs in 100 days. That is a bold endeavor and only the most stubborn among us could possibly honor the commitment. So, I thought we should check in on her. So far, this is the impressive list she has so far come up with.

1. The Complex Mind by Mr. Ortiz
2. Pencil Revolution
3. Number 4 of 5
4. The Swashbookler
5. Pamie: Pop Culture Princess
6. Las Fashionistas
7. A Strip A Day
8. Watch Out for Falling Debris
9. The Call of the Green Monster
10. Absolutely Ordinary
11. It's Raining Noodles!
12. Foreign in Frankfurt
13. Life Is Sweet, Baby
14. Journal of the Unintelligent
15. A ... my name is Allison
16. All Out of Angst
17. Edify

MobMov is a grass roots guerilla drive-in movie event type of thing. They represent the future of going out to watch movies with friends. Do they have a blog? Of course they do, they're revolutionaries.

Matt Haughey has inspired other bloggers to organize an official day to help us find spam blogs. This is such cool idea! In addition to helping Blogger find and delete spam this will also help us fine tune our spamless nextblog algorithm. Ultimately and hopefully, finding spam blogs by clicking nextblog will be a challenge. Please note that flagging a blog doesn't mean we'll delete it. Spam blogs are unique in that we have no qualms about rooting them out and bringing them to a desperate and violent end. Maybe we should attach a bloodcurdling scream to our spam-deletion scripts? Something to think about. If you're not sure what the flag button does, you can read more about it here. Thanks Matt!

Check out these Writing and Blog Prompts, Topic Generators, and Photo Inspiration: "Need an idea or a writing prompt or two to get you going? Try out these resources and generators featuring free writing prompts, photo inspiration, daily writing exercises, journal and blogging prompts, visual art prompts, and other imagination prompts." The Next Prompt Button is kinda neat too.

Michael Homan shares his personal account, One of the Millions of Hurricane Katrina Stories. "There was a group of officials going around and taking people’s animals away. It was then that I decided to try to escape." He's safe in Omaha now after sneaking out of a refugee camp to escape New Orleans with his dog.

I am sure that many of you enjoy clicking the "Next Blog" button on the Blogger Navbar and browsing the fascinating blogs of fellow bloggers. As of late, annoying spam has managed to spoil this experience. The more you clicked "Next Blog" the more you saw automated zombie-like blogs often filled with link spam. Today, we put some artificial intelligence to work in an effort to make "Next Blog" fun and useful again for readers of blogspot blogs. This is the first of several steps we are taking to root out spam blogs from
Blogger and blogspot. What we learn from cleaning up "Next Blog" spam can eventually be applied to other areas such as our changes file so that services which depend on this file will also enjoy less spam. Okay, back to my nextblogging.

Eugene Smith is posting a monster a day over on his new blog, Monstercake.

Spooky.