Virginia Breeze

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Well I have installed a StumbleUpon Button. Don’t be cautious about using it! And why not get one yourself? We don’t have to go through the SU toolbar to do these things.

Let me know if you write a post about Halloween. Then we can trade links via our Halloween posts. That’s what I’m trying to describe in my AHDH way.

If you post a photo about nature let me know. We can exchange links about things we photograph in nature.

And then we can Stumble some things too.

Here is a photo that tells a story. Have a nice evening.

And check THIS out.

, originally uploaded by Davidlind.

Boo at the Zoo from October 23-26. The National Zoo In Washington DC.

Come on by if you don’t think you will be too SCARED

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, originally uploaded by Davidlind.

When we were up in Washington I was impressed by the bridges we passed through on our way to the zoo. Some of them are quite grand. This one had a shiny orange/red interior.

I don’t know if this photo is any good or not. But I like it. So here it is.

Also. . .I wrote in a recent post HERE about a different strategy to increase readership involving increasing Page Rank by internal post linking.

Example:   Bernie has written some very encouraging things today here at VB.  You can see in the comments here that he feels this photo is alright.  I appreciate that very much because I really didn’t have a clue.  I just “thought” it looked interesting.

I’m going to add some NextGen stuff about bridges we saw as we drove along this route.  One of them I think is really cool.  Can you tell which one?

I went over to Bernie’s to see what he was doing and he also is fooling around with bridges!  What a coincidence!   So here is the Link to Bernie’s Bridge.  . .

http://sindianavisions.wordpress.com/2008/10/17/madison-indiana-sunset/

If we are going to be successful bloggers  (and I believe we are going to succeed) we need to try new things and find new ways to grow.

I guarantee you that this post will be gathering readers who will shoot over to Bernies Bridge long after a StumbleUpon link has fizzled out. I feel like we were seduced by SU in the early stages of our blogging experiences.   “It’s all about Plastic” as Mr. Robinson used to say.  (But Mrs Robinson had a different story).   Don’t get me wrong.  I like SU a lot.  But I understand now why it’s not really there to promote individual blogs.  It promotes cool posts.  Growing a blog requires a helping hand from Google.

Because links like these help to increase PR and Google is a LOT bigger than StumbleUpon.  See?

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My camera returned yesterday and I have been having a great time going through a bunch of photos . Picasa3 is out in beta and this has added to the fun. I had not realized until this weekend how beautiful lizards can be. I’m not kidding. They really have some amazing features.  This Asian Water Dragon is particularly lovely.

Here are some of the other photos on my Picasa Web Page.   I really like the changes they have made in this beta model.

http://picasaweb.google.com/davidsaidit

http://picasaweb.google.com/home

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