Las estadísticas de WordPress me dan una sorpresa: Alguien accedió desde el sitio de los Growing Blogs of the Day. Me desayuno así que el día 23 de noviembre de 2009 fuimos el 5to blog que reportó mayor crecimiento en la comunidad WordPress.

Voy corriendo a testear Google. Una búsqueda de “tomar la palabra blog“ muestra el blog  en la segunda página en la posición #20 mientras que “¨tomar la palabra wordpress“ nos saca en la #4.

Es difícil precisar las causas exactas de tal despegue, pero me atrevo a especular que el efecto Elaine tiene parte de la culpa. Y no solo por el debate sobre ella que se ha disparado recientemente, sino porque los blogueros –ya nos podemos llamar así- de Tomar la Palabra nos encontramos en La Polémica Digital. Diferentes ideas, diferentes generaciones, diferentes orígenes, diferentes exilios coincidimos para hablar sobre Cuba “como en una esquina”, de acuerdo con  Rudy.

Al parecer Elaine inspira blogs más allá del oficialismo.

De hecho, tomando como referencia sus posts sobre la democratización de la información y el intercambio de roles, Tomar la Palabra estrenará estrena una nueva iniciativa. Cualquier visitante podrá puede publicar un post* sin importar la posición política. Daremos a conocer los detalles más adelante. Para más información visite nuestra nueva página Participar.

Mientras, a enfocarnos en lo que vale: publicar. Y quizá podamos sostener el impulso del arranque.

Aaron

Miami

* Ciertas restricciones aplican.

UPDATE Diciembre 02:
Estamos ocupando los siguientes lugares en los motores de búsqueda:
- #10 en google si se busca “tomar la palabra”
- #1 en google si se busca “tomar la palabra wordpress”
- #1 en google si se busca “tomar la palabra blog”
Además, estamos de nuevo entre los blogs que más han crecido hoy en wordpress http://botd.wordpress.com/growing-blogs/, esta vez somos el #71 en español. Quizá no tan impresionante como la primera vez que pasamos de 0 a 1200 visitas en 2 dias y quedamos en 5to en todo wordpress, pero algo es algo.
For the records, una imagen del #71 de los Blogs of the Day Growing Blogs de wordpress.com en http://tomarlapalabra.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/tomar-la-palabra.jpg

Copyright (c) 2009 Derek Clontz/Your World Report. All rights reserved.

In the Q & A that follows Michael Jackson confidante Cassandra Gretchen-Sims answers the Top 10 Michael Jackson Questions that every fan wants answered – and she does it in a format that is easy to read and respond to.

Michael Jackson is alive and well, says close friend.

As visitors to this blog already know, when Ms. Gretchen-Sims originally offered to answer questions from MJ’s fans, she was flooded with thousands and thousands of letters, many asking the same questions repeatedly.

To help readers cut to the chase, here are 10 frequently-asked questions that we think are important to all fans based on our review of letters sent so far:

1. Is Michael REALLY alive? Cassandra says: “Yes.”

2. Why did Michael fake his death? Cassandra says: “Michael was under enormous pressure at every turn: from fans, from hangers-on, from business associates and also, sadly, from his many enemies and haters, both inside and outside the media. After 50 years, he was exhausted, weak and, as everyone knows, had turned to prescription drugs. He realized he couldn’t go on that way and needed time and space to rest and recover.

3.  Does MJ’s family know he faked his death? Cassandra says: “Michael does not want to discuss his family in public. But all fans know he is a wonderful son and a wonderful father – he would never do anything to hurt his family. If you think about that, the answer to this question will be clear to you.

4. Did Michael plan his death hoax for a long time? Cassandra: “Yes, Michael made his plans well in advance.

5. Will Michael return or stay in hiding? Cassandra says: “Michael’s intention is to come out of hiding in June 2010 and embark on a world tour that will  eventually will include every inhabited continent and many, many countries. The tour will last for years, unfolding at a pace that doesn’t exhaust Michael or threaten his health.

6. Are there 33 clues in his This Is It movie that explain why he faked his death and went into hiding? Cassandra says: “Michael says ‘yes’. Fans have already found many of the clues, and I’m just another fan. Michael won’t even give me hints! But he does say, ‘If you look you will find them.’”

7. Did Michael attend his own funeral? Cassandra says: “Not in person, but he watched it via closed circuit.”

8. Did Michael help with the production and edits of This Is It? Cassandra says: “Yes.”

9. Isn’t Michael concerned about how much sadness his death hoax has caused fans? Cassandra says: “Michael loves his fans and would never do anything to hurt them. He is aware of the sadness, but as he puts it, ‘There was no alternative. If I hadn’t done this, I really would be dead. This way, I”ll be back.’”

10.  Isn’t faking your death illegal? Isn’t Michael afraid he will get into trouble? Cassandra says: I’m not a lawyer, but I can say this – Michael is a powerful man, a wealthy man. He doesn’t behave rashly or without thinking and planning. He did what he felt he had to do. If there are consequences, legal consequences, he will deal with them with accordingly.

Note to readers: Cassandra will answer your questions going forward, but there are restrictions to the way you can ask them.

Send ONE at a time, without comment, through this blog.

Ask your questions exactly as we have presented them above. Questions that don’t follow this format will not be answered. So, help us help you: Play by the rules and EVERY question will be addressed.

I love u , but I hate u Miyabi

Pagi ini saya membuka blog Foto Unik saya ini, saya melihat Alexa Rank Turun cukup drastis, setelah saya cek, ternyata statistic WP menunjukan peningkatan page view yang dramatis untuk blog yang umurnya baru 1,5 bulan  ini, mencapai 1970 views untuk tanggal 14 Oktober 2009.

Setelah tak cek lagi ternyata 50% nya disumbang oleh posting saya tentang Miyabi : Miyabi Lovers dan Foto Terpanas Miyabi , padahal samasekali saya tidak memasukan unsur pornografi dalam posting saya, bisa dipastikan karena judul miyabi nya yang memikat para porn chaser.

Copyright (c) 2009 Derek Clontz/Your World Report. All rights reserved.

Just days after fans claimed to have spotted Michael Jackson in Florida’s Miami International Airport (FULL STORY), a trusted Washington source says the King of Pop is set to visit President Barack and first lady Michelle Obama in the White House “before the year is out.”

President Barack Obama is said to be looking forward to Michael Jackon's visit.

Details, understandably, are sketchy.

But the source – who spoke on the condition of anonymity – went on to say that “a Jackson staff member contacted White House Chief of Staff David Axelrod to request a meeting with the president and Mrs. Obama late last week, and they wholeheartedly approved.

“No date has been set, but it is my understanding that Mr. Obama prefers sooner than later and certainly hopes to get with Jackson before the year is out.”

It is unclear exactly when the meeting will take place, or what, if anything in particular, Jackson and the Obamas will discuss.

David Axelrod brokered Jackson meeting with the president: REPORT

But it is thought by some that Jackson may offer to help the president win additional support for health care reform that would include a public option to help the poorest of the poor and their families get affordable coverage for basic health needs.

Whether that means Jackson – who is alleged to have died of a drug-induced heart attack late last June but may have faked his death – is, in fact, alive and set to “come out of hiding” remains to be seen.

For those who don’t know, it has been reported widely that the singer is recovering from poor health and drug addiction related to his inability to cope with the crushing presures of superstardom and life in a fishbowl.

Many are convinced that he will remain in a secret location or locations, out of the public eye, until June 2010, at which point he will launch a comeback tour with multiple concerts in hundreds of cities on every inhabited continent on earth.

Copyright (c) 2009 Derek Clontz/derekclontz . wordpress . com. All rights reserved.

Michael Jackson secretly donated semen to an astonishing 200 sperm banks on four continents between 1991 and 2009 in a sweeping and unprecedented bid to leave his genetic “mark” – and legacy of  love – on every race and ethnicity on the planet, sources close to the superstar have told derekclontz . wordpress . com exclusively.

Michael Jackson

And that means over a period of 18 years, the moonwalking super-singer, and, by many accounts, world-class dad, made, on average, a donation every 32.8 days, a task easily accomplished by any healthy male adult between the ages of 32 and 50.

For the record, Jackson was 32 in 1991 when the first donation was made and 50 in 2009 when the last donation was made earlier this year.

The fact that the King of Pop would have been a sperm donor doesn’t come as a shock.

His love of children – and inability to build a lasting romance with a woman of child-bearing age – would make in-vitro or mechanical fertilization a logical choice for fathering children.

The sheer number of donations – and the fact that he made them in North America, South America, Europe and the Far East – has, however, has raised some eyebrows, particularly among non-fans who believe Jackson  ”seeded the gene pool far and wide because he was a megalomaniac” or, in the blunt assessment of one Hollywood reporter, “because he was a lunatic who thought nothing of the consequences of providing hundreds or maybe even thousands of women the opportunity to raise yet another fatherless child in an incomplete family unit in a world that already has too many of them.”

A Jackson insider bristled at the comment, explaining: “Look at the good that just one Michael Jackson did in this world – and think about what hundreds of his children, thousands of his grandchildren and tens of thousands of his great-grandchildren – all carrying his genes – will be able to accomplish,” said one insider.

“Michael was a visionary, and he understood that while he could get the ball rolling, it would take millions of fans and also many more ‘Michaels’ to change human history, not just in his lifetime, but once and for all … for all time – creating true and lasting peace on earth.”

Sources for this report declined to name the sperm banks Jackson used to make his donations, but confirmed all “drop-offs” were made anonymously.

Interestingly, say the sources, the “father’s description” that accompanied each batch of sperm referred to the donor as, “King, gentle, popular, good with children, musically talented, slender, tall, light-complected. I.S. 160.”

Jackson is said to have decided to donate sperm “after he had a dream in which God told him to spread his seed throughout mankind,” said a source.

“He took that as a sign that God had chosen him to be the vehicle – the genetic vehicle – through which He – God – would bring peace to earth. Michael was convinced that God had special plans for him far beyond those that made him the most popular singer and dancer in the world.

“When he talked of his love for children – and many people don’t realize this – Michael was answering what he believed in his heart to be a true calling from God, a calling that would spread pure, beautiful, unconditional love throughout the world on a scale unprecedented in modern times.”

It is unclear how many children worldwide, if any, have been fathered by Jackson’s donations.

A fertility expert familiar with the procedures involved and general medical statistics, however, told derekclontz.wordpress.com, “Based on the number of donations and the geographic reach, I would say 50 to 75 births would not be an unreasonable figure to date.”

Parabéns leitor

Graças ao grande número de leitores procurando por bons artigos sobre cultura e educação, nosso Blog já consta em boa colocação na lista dos Blogs que mais crescem de toda a rede mundial WordPress!

Obrigado pela visita de cada um de vocês e participem sempre com comentários que transformarão nosso Blog para deixá-lo ainda melhor.

Heldervictor’s Blog

Crescendo com conteúdo de qualidade para leitores de qualidade, sem apelar para nudismo ou violência como nossa querida rede de televisão brasileira.

For those of you who have been asking about Horiwood.Com’s blog audience, this one is for you.

Although internet traffic monitoring website services on google.com vary in their estimations and predictions of what Horiwood.Com’s audience numbers draw each month (with some saying Horiwood.Com attracts over a million viewers to it), here’s the official word from me.

Horiwood.Com has had a total of 700,000 users to this Hollywood based, entertainment news and celebrity news website,worldwide, in 7 months. Or, an average of 100,000 people a month. These are the official numbers as at Thursday, the 6th of August 2009. 

The success to date and future growth of Horiwood.Com is all thanks to you, the audience worldwide. Because you are horiwood.com really, my hope for you is that you all continue to: 

Be the celebrities you wish to see more of in the world in your own unique way in your communities. The world needs  your love, talents, vision, creativity, skills and care to make it through a global recession. Whatever it is that you set your hands to do, if you can do this with excellence, the best you can in your corner of the world each day, you’re a true star.

Thank you all for reading Horiwood.Com while having the courage to be uniquely you! You all keep me and this blog going with your daily interest.

The pic above is of a New Zealand native fern frond. Its unique spiral shape signifying growth and change is called a koru, which I wear carved into a sea shell in the form of a hori (Maori) pendant around my neck each day as I live here in Hollywood. 

To me, the best change is caused by visionary people who have hope to create a better world. I have noticed, that world changing people have a sense of purpose in their souls, that is perhaps best summed up by this Maori proverb.

He aha te mea nui i te ao? He tangata, he tangata, he tangata.

What is the most important thing in the world. It is people. People. People.

~So, tag! You’re it! See you all tomorrow. Big hugs, Sam~

[Special thanks to MB. RP. WK. LA of NZ, RE. EE for your constant encouragement and support since Horiwood.Com started. I appreciate you all, who you are, what you do and what you've given so graciously to me as Americans who believe in the better future of this great country and her destiny to bring joy and enhance the quality of life to all humanity in the world. You are team horiwood to me. Thank you].

Ligger bra till på WordPress lista över snabbt växande bloggar, som ni hittar HÄR! Längst upp, till och med! EDIT: Fast inte längre

Nå, det må gälla svenska bloggar, men det är ändå kul! =) Bildbevis är såklart säkrat, ifall Guinness rekordbok eller Aftonbladet skulle knacka på dörren..

Hoppas nu att jag kan behålla åtminstone två-tre trogna läsare som är intresserade av whisky, bra musik eller varför inte kognitiv psykologi? Puss på er, kära läsare!

Sounds a bit like if you don’t watch out my blog will attack… like a weird jungle plant or a seemingly docile pet.  Fear not.  Really it’s the WordPress Growing Blogs report and today the Think Tank is at #23 on the list.  Not bad.  Think of all the blogs in all the wordpress stratosphere and there’s my little ol’ blog.  #23 on the growing list.  I don’t know who’s reading me, besides my family and friends, but… I like it.  And most humbly… thanks.

aura is thrilled to announce that mysticalmaven.com has reached a major milestone by being added to the blogs of the day, and making number 84 on the top 100 list of growing blogs on wordpress.com for June 12th 2009. Check it out here. On June 11th, 2009 we had 4159 visitors to our blog, making it our busiest day since mysticalmaven.com launched in March of 2006. I am very pleased that mysticalmaven.com is attracting more visitors and want to thank all those who visit mysticalmaven.com regularly, or who just happen to stop by, for helping us reach this important milestone. I’m grateful for your interest and welcome you to keep visiting and join in the conversation by adding your thoughts and comments to our posted topics.

thanks,

aura
admin@mysticalmaven.com

I was very happy to find out that Eating The Lotus has made the “Blogs of The Day” list at No. 40 on June 7, 2009 for Growing Blogs at WordPress!  And I’d like to thank all my readers for making this happen.  It’s great to know that the readership for this blog is steadily growing and gives me extra warm and fuzzy feelings that you actually are interested enough to also leave comments

We’ve jumped up the list from No. 57 (which was our placing in August last year), so I’m really pleased that Eating The Lotus continues to hold interest in this Wild, Wild Web of ours.

And in celebration, here is my collection of blogger t-shirts – just because I can

In my next couple of posts – “Zazzle: Is this the POD for you?” – where I’ll give you a run-down on my new adventures in Zazzle-land and some tips on how to maximize your use of Zazzle yourself, and “CafePress: Meet the REAL power behind the throne”.

Cheers ’til then!

But apparently not as awesome as the lady over at Beyond Homemaking.

We're Number 71!

With that said. This could’nt be possible without the good help of you, the readers of TUGC. Thanks for the support as we get this blog going.  And someday, we will be #1….upsurping Engine Yard Status.

…someday -looks longingly towards night sky-

~Sean

WordPress recently ranked The Underground Charge #71 in their “Growing Blogs” section. Thats right, children, that puts us slightly ahead of “Tuna Golf” (75), “The Alaskan Libraian” (85), and “Rūdas vīra neironu uzplaiksnījumi!” (95)–which was too frightening of a name to click on for fear that a Nazi virus would destroy my computer. Suck one.

-Casey

I know, number 91 is nothing to jump up and down about but let me just do it okay. Let me celebrate it with freshly brewed ice cold tea.

Charice’s name can really do magic. I have other blogs but they were never featured in the Word Press Growing Blog (that I know of).  Anyway I am just happy being featured and forgive me if I appear gloating.

Thank you all for stopping by and leaving comments on my humble abode, but most of all I thank you all for your continued support and appreciation for our Charice. I do not really care whether my blog is  featured somewhere or not, all I care about is I have contributed to the spreading  of Charicenism (I think I am the first one to use this word, ).

Let us all celebrate, not for my number 91 spot, but for the God-given talent Charice has shared all over the world.

GO Charice!!!

Jag har sedan wordpress uppdaterade sitt utseende och sånt (vid kontrollpanelerna) inte kollat runt mycket mer än nödvändigt där. Men nu skrollade jag ner till “Inkommande länkar” och min nyfikenhet väcktes:

Blogs Of The Day länkade hit och skrev, “UNEvolved & T3ch H3lp. Brandoon111’s Blog – By U …”

Jag fick ett glatt leende på läpparna när jag kollade vidare. Glad, fast jag inte riktigt vet vad det innebär… men att hamna på en internationell lista för växande bloggar hos wordpress är ju kul som tusan oavsett! Och detta, min bloggtorka till trots! Nummer 78… men GLAD ändå!

Rendo louros, jogo confete e estendo meu tapete vermelho pro Soruda Solda San, que abriu esta baiúca ao dar atenção pro texto que dá o título pra tudo o que vem desdantão.

E mais. Não bastasse isso, ele ainda me faz sentir importante, colocando esta voz-papagaia ao lado de grandes como Claudete Pereira Jorge, Torquato Neto, Zé Beto, Alexandre Nero, Rogéria Holtz …

Foto: Gilson Camargo

This week, Nonprofit Street was listed in WordPress’s list of top 100 growing blogs. I’m so excited and so proud of our team at JVA Consulting—Jay Lee, Katy Snyder, Lisa Cirincione and our other staff who occasionally blog on Nonprofit Street!

When we started Nonprofit Street, we hoped that it would become a resource to all of you about the latest news and what people are thinking in philanthropy, social change, community work, etc., and it has. Please continue to let us know what you think and what you want to read about.

Janine Vanderburg