This is the ninth entrant in The Blogging Essay Contest from WeblogToolsCollection.com If you would like to participate, please email me your entry at mark at wltc dot net. Please rate this article using the star system below. The competition will be judged primarily on the input from readers like you. Thank you. This is written by The Simple Dollar Also, please read about their favorite charity, The Child Abuse Prevention Center The film The Shawshank Redemption has become something of a Western pop culture touchstone, mostly because it is the story of an individual human spirit refusing to break and, in that refusal, rising up to inspire others. In the end, isn’t that the story that we hope that our blogs will tell, one that rises above the morass of other blogs to inspire and entertain others? It turns out that the film contains an abundance of lessons about […]

This is the seventh entrant in The Blogging Essay Contest from WeblogToolsCollection.com If you would like to participate, please email me your entry at mark at wltc dot net. Please rate this article using the star system below. The competition will be judged primarily on the input from readers like you. Thank you. This is written by Tim from ptvGuy Worthy of note is that this essay was written before my last post on comment spam floods and was submitted a few days ago but was lost in my spam-can. I just couldn’t pass up this opportunity to publicly acknowledge the incredible spam community out there for their unbelievably huge investment of time and thought and innovation in their efforts to spam my blog. I am absolutely in awe of the shear willpower of these people in the face of such widespread rejection. And, quite frankly, I just want them […]

Since there have been only six entries in the Blogging Essay Competition and I have received numerous requests to extend the competition due to the holidays (my MBA professors are being extremely kind as well), the Essay Competition deadline will be extended. Last date for sending in an entry to the competition is the 14th of January, 2007. If you are sending in an entry and it needs to be formatted with bullets and paragraphs, please do me a favor and copy and paste the HTML into a text file and attach it to your email. In addition, if anyone is willing to sponsor the competition or add some money/gifts the <sarcasm> already huge pile of prizes </sarcasm>, it would be much appreciated. Just send me an email if interested. For those interested in metrics, approximately 10,000 people have viewed the various entries in the competition and about 120 votes […]