January 15th, 2008 by ThunderDragon
Blogpower’s best posts from 2007.
Archive for the 'Blogpower' Category
Blogpower Round-up #4
December 2nd, 2007 by ThunderDragon
The fourth Blogpower Round-up - the Advent edition - is now up at Nobody Important. As JMB suggests “before you head over to see if your post is mentioned, grab yourself a cup of coffee or tea, or a gin and tonic if you’d rather, and put up your feet. Fifty posts are included, each accompanied by a nattering editorial comment. So it is rather long.”
Today I [JMB] am presenting a round-up of posts of Blogpower members which have been submitted as being what others considered worthy of special mention and many of them are reflective, anticipatory and even joyful…
These posts highlight the fact that this is an exceptionally vibrant group of bloggers, to which I am proud to belong and pertinent facts about Blogpower can be found at Defending the Blog.
These posts highlight the fact that this is an exceptionally vibrant group of bloggers, to which I am proud to belong and pertinent facts about Blogpower can be found at Defending the Blog.
It is indeed a superb round-up, and you can read it here.
Blogpower Round-up #3
November 4th, 2007 by ThunderDragon
The Halloween Blogpower Round-up is up over at Westminster Wisdom. It is fantastically written, as you would expect from Gracchi. So go read it here!
Blogpower Round-up Nominations Needed
September 23rd, 2007 by ThunderDragon
The Blogpower Round-up got off to a fantastic start in August, with the first edition by Matt M, but since then has languished somewhat. But now it is to be revived in a monthly format. Ian from Imagined Community posts on the Blogpower blog:
I would like to invite your nominations for Roundup #2: I’m looking for the Blogpower members’ posts that you have most enjoyed during September, not least because I didn’t have chance to do much visiting while I was away, so there’s a lot of bloggy goodness I will have missed over the month. You don’t have to be a BP member to nominate a BP post.
Please send your chosen URLs to blogpowerroundup AT gmail DOT com by 5pm, London time, next Sunday, ie September 30. I hope to bring you the results at the start of October.
Please send your chosen URLs to blogpowerroundup AT gmail DOT com by 5pm, London time, next Sunday, ie September 30. I hope to bring you the results at the start of October.
Any post from any Blogpower blog can be submitted, and by anyone. So get submitting! [Feel free to submit any of my posts...]
Blogpower Round-up #1
August 16th, 2007 by ThunderDragon
The first Blogpower Round-up is now up over at An Insomniac.
What is the Blogpower Round-up, you ask?
The Blogpower Round-up is intended to highlight the best and the brightest comment that Blogpower has to offer. If any post on a BP blog has caught your eye in recent weeks then just send the link to blogpowerroundup[AT]gmail.com, and whoever is in charge of the round-up will then publish a list of these posts along with a brief and witty (well… brief at least) commentary on his or her blog. (We’re hoping that this will happen about once every couple of weeks).
The idea behind all this is two-fold: One, to highlight posts you might otherwise have missed, and two, to raise awareness of Blogpower among casual visitors to the blogs involved.
The idea behind all this is two-fold: One, to highlight posts you might otherwise have missed, and two, to raise awareness of Blogpower among casual visitors to the blogs involved.
The first one is excellent [even though it doesn't have any of my posts in it], and includes this post by Onyx Stone on the Ambidextrous Mind.
The Blogpower Awards Ceremony!
July 1st, 2007 by ThunderDragon
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The Blogpower Awards ceremony was finally held in Second Life today, with a good turn out of bloggers, both Blogpower and non-Blogpower members. We only crashed SL once! After the ceremony, ran by the excellent Tom Paine [who organised it all as well], we retired to Tom’s magnificent Liner Limoncello and had some fun, and were joined by various other bloggers over the next few hours.
All in all, it was a great success!
Blogpower Awards Ceremony Tomorrow!
June 30th, 2007 by ThunderDragon
Click to enlargeThe Blogpower Awards ceremony will be held in Second Life tomorrow! In less than 24 hours it will be under way! You can click on the image in the sidebar to go straight to the venue.
In the picture above, you can see a few of us in Tom Paine’s Liner Limoncello, named after Welshcakes who graced us with her presence later in the evening. Tom was sitting looking very James Bond at the bar, whilst I can be seen wearing my nice and colourful tie-dye shirt, dancing and drinking! James Higham was making his debut in the SL, and had a merry old time busting a groove and falling through floors. And of course, who could forget Count Bag himself. Many thanks to Free Jersey for snapping and captioning the pic.
It’s not long now, so remember - 1st July at 2pm in SL! Be there or be, well, elsewhere…
Blogpower Awards Ceremony
June 26th, 2007 by ThunderDragon
As I am sure most of you already know, the Blogpower Awards Ceremony will be held in Second Life, hosted by the marvellous Tom Paine. It will be taking place on Sunday 1st July at 1400 London time. Tom has really set everything up very nicely, such as the Liner Limoncello [named after our very own Welshcakes], the bar of which I am propping up in the picture above - whilst wearing the rather dapper tux provided by Tom and his SL neighbour Zhu.
It certainly promised to be a fantastic success - even though we may cause the SL server Tom’s land is on to crash! To get to the ceremony, you can click on the picture above or the same picture in my sidebar. That will take you directly to the event. I hope that I will see as many of you as possible on Sunday!
Second Life and the Blogpower Awards
June 17th, 2007 by ThunderDragon
I have just had a great time in Second Life, where Tom Paine gave me the grand tour of his land, from the blimp, to his apartment tower, beach house, main residence, pool, and sky boxes - one of which will hold the Blogpower Awards ceremony on 1st July at 1400.
During the time I was there, we were joined by Not Saussure, Theo Spark, Devil’s Kitchen, and Ian Grey.
The picture above is of DK, Tom, and myself when we were discussing the Blogpower Awards ceremony, to which I hope as many people as possible will attend. It is looking like it will be a great event!
