All-In-One Skincare with MashK Tri Miracle Square

[dropshadowbox align=”center” effect=”lifted-both” width=”97%” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”1″ border_color=”#dddddd” ]I received complimentary samples of MashK’s through Sverve. My opinions expressed are based on my experience with the product.[/dropshadowbox] As I’ve gotten older my face’s skin texture has changed and so have…

It Hits the Fan for Mom Bloggers Everywhere – We're looking at you WSJ

Let’s start with the title. “The Mommy Business Trip” is the headline on Katherine Rosman’s piece in the Wall Street Journal and its tagline is the equally icky “Conferences Appeal to Women With A Guilt-Free, Child-Free Reason to Leave Home.” It gets worse from there. In 1,228 words, Rosman takes a real trend — the explosion of conferences for women with online businesses and a parallel surge in the numbers of advertisers who are courting those entrepreneurs — and turns it into a tale of desperate housewives who use the pretext of work as an excuse to escape from home and act like ninnies. A few questions: Is it possible that the reason a woman attends events like BlogHer and Mom 2.0 is NOT because she needs an excuse to “leave her husband and children,” but rather because those conferences provide her with the connection and know-how to do her job? Would Rosman ever describe Dad 2.0, which attracted hundreds of men who write about parenting, as a gaggle of Daddies “who need a legitimate reason to leave home”? Haven’t men been going to sales meetings and conferences for generations? Staying at lovely hotels and dining in fine restaurants — and sometimes acting really silly? Do you think there is a single article about men and work travel that oozes the same patronizing tone as this one? Find me one. I challenge you. Isn’t there a big ‘ol conference in Austin every spring , where the crowd is mostly male and the schmoozing and partying is considered far more of the draw than the actual sessions? Didn’t Rosman write about that conference two years back, calling South By Southwest a place where “Internet entrepreneurs, engineers, journalists, promoters, moneymen and web-savvy Hollywood types meet to discuss technology, brand and buzz”? […]

Hugo The Happy Starfish – The Secret To Happiness Book Review

[dropshadowbox align=”center” effect=”lifted-both” width=”350px” height=”” background_color=”#afeec2″ border_width=”1″ border_color=”#dddddd” ]I received complimentary product for the purposes of this review[/dropshadowbox] In light of the events of this week in Boston I thought it was appropriate to move up my review of the…

I'm Whole-Grain Crunchy – How #Crunchy Are You?

Is “crunchy” the new “hippie”? After hearing the term “crunchy” over and over again…I decided to educate myself as to what it really means to be crunchy. I had an idea of what it was about, but didn’t know the full realm of it all.   I saw these terms used […]

Huge attack on WordPress sites could spawn never-before-seen super botnet

Security analysts have detected an ongoing attack that uses a huge number of computers from across the Internet to commandeer servers that run the WordPress blogging application. The unknown people behind the highly distributed attack are using more than 90,000 IP addresses to brute-force crack administrative credentials of vulnerable […]

Networking To Wealth Book by Shane Jeremy James

[dropshadowbox align=”right” effect=”lifted-both” width=”130px” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”1″ border_color=”#dddddd” ][/dropshadowbox]Blogging began as a way to have a journal online that you could share with friends and family and the occassional stranger.  You’d blog about your day, your likes and dislikes, your…