Just a brief note to say, I won’t be posting today. Hope to post tomorrow. I’ve been under the weather lately.
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Last Call
Alright. I’m up to 8 teams in my fantasy football league now, so this is the last call. I’m going to set our league’s draft for Thursday 8am.
It’s still open for new players (see link below), but you have to join by then. We are going to keep it with an even number of teams. And I will cap the league at 12 players. So either 2 or 4 more can join.
Thursday 8am, the draft will automatically happen. The computer will randomly select who gets the first pick and go from there. You can edit your pre-draft player rankings if you’d like. Otherwise you’ll get the Yahoo defaults.
Thanks for all who are playing, may the best team win!
Click here to join.
FR United
Okay people. It’s almost time. Next Thursday football season starts.
So far we have four teams in FR United, my fantasy football league. Getting desperate for more teams (at least 4), I’ve opened it up to any of my facebook friends too.
If you’d like to join the league, just click here. If that doesn’t work, leave a comment and I can send you the info.
The league is free, and due to the lateness in our getting started, we will have an automatic draft (but you can select your ranking order if you’d like). If enough teams lobby for a live draft I can change that.
And you guys who’ve already joined, could you leave your names with team name in the comments or email them to me (or use the league message board)? I like to get names and teams connected. Plus feel free to invite any of your friends to the league too.
A final and unrelated note: anyone want to join me and win with Blingo? It’s a free search engine powered by Google that offers free prizes just for your everyday searches. I’m not sure how that relates to football. Consider it a free tip.
My New Tumblelog
Just a quick post to introduce my new Huckabee blog: Go Huckabee!
I wanted to have a feed of just posts about Huckabee, rather than having them interpsersed throughout my blog finds. So Go Huckabee!, let’s me easily create such a feed (see it on my sidebar, now), while at the same time setting up a separate blog to help promote Mike Huckabe for president.
I just heard about Tumblelogs this week, and they are a great idea. Particularly for those who aren’t sure they want to commit to a full fledged blog, a tumblelog presents an excellent second option. They are designed to basically just be a steady stream of shared links, pictures, videos, quotes, etc. with little to no editorial comment by the blogger. Check out my new tumblelog, and read up on them at Wikipedia. This post on tumblr.com‘s blog is great on explaining the whole conecpt, as well.
The posting bookmarklet is so absolutely simple and easy. In a few seconds you can create a post for your tumbleblog. So now there’s no excuse to not be blogging! Larry Lawton, I’m talking to you!! 🙂
Facebook For Bloggers
I’ve taken the plunge! I’ve joined Facebook.
If you are a Facebook user already, you can add me as a friend by clicking on my mug shot to the left. If you are unfamiliar with Facebook, let me try to convince you to join!
Facebook is like instant messaging (IM), email, photo/video sharing, and blogging software all rolled into one application. You can have as much content or as little as you want. And best of all, it is extremely safe. You have the option to allow or disallow people to become your friends. And you can share all, some, or none of your information with various friends.
Facebook is also designed for people who already have friends. Sure you can meet new friends through Facebook, but it works best if you already have networks/community and friendships to begin with. For those you know, it makes it easier and more fun to stay in touch. And you can get in touch with old friends (I have already spoken to people I hadn’t seen/written to in over 10 years.)
Facebook is totally unique. Rather than multiple pages or posts, it is one simple home page–your profile. And you can add boxes, which have content to your heart’s content. You can easily edit the layout and remove anything you don’t want. And it is very user-intuitive (i.e. its easy to learn).
Facebook is also growing by leaps and bounds. It is up to over 100,000 new users a day! Yet the policies of Facebook are very careful to disallow any false identities. They don’t let you post pictures or videos you have not created, and are very protective of privacy. So for most of these users, Facebook is a legitimate safe way to connect with real live people they know.
For more insight into the idea that is Facebook, you may be interested in reading the company founders first interview with Time magazine.
Facebook For Bloggers
I’m sure a lot of you might care less about Facebook. Then again, if you are blogging and reading my blog, you are already internet savvy and so you might be interested.
But for you fellow bloggers, there is no reason to avoid Facebook. WordPress.com has a very nice application that brings your latest posts right into Facebook. Each time you create a new post, Facebook also posts a note about it with a link. I’ve already seen some friends view my blog which had not previously, just because I set up Facebook.
For other blogging platforms, there are a variety of blog applications you can add to Facebook. I use Flog, to input my mission blog posts. And through Facebook directly I import all my photo blog posts as notes.
Once you set it up, Facebook can work on auto-pilot, promoting your blog. And periodically you can search for people you know, to see if they’ve joined Facebook. Then again, they might be searching for you too!
And if you focus on Facebook a bit more closely, you can join causes and network with others around common interests. I’m promoting Mike Huckabee through Facebook. And I’ve joined other groups. Already I’ve had someone become a friend through one of my groups, and that might lead them to my blog.
Now granted, Facebook could steal more time away from family and other concerns. Josh Harris has an excellent post on prioritizing family time in relation to Facebook. But it doesn’t have to. I view it as basically an additional email program, with a few extras I can tinker with now and again. Interestingly, Josh also encourages those who are single to get busy and use Facebook as a tool to find a potential mate!
So now you can head on over and sign up, if only to check out my profile. You can always abandon ship if you think its not for you!
Note: the picture above is from the online version of “The Future of Facebook” by Time (Paul Sakuma / AP).
On a completely unrelated note, I’m still looking for a few more guys to join a Fantasy Football league. We probably have another week or two before we cannot do this, without more people.