Social Media

Help a blogger out

The ads on butterscotchsundae.com don’t bring in loads of dough, but they do net enough to pay for the Web site. I hadn’t really thought about the effect that reading via RSS feed has on a bloggers’ ad revenue until I read about Kristen’s “Blog the Recession” idea at Motherhood Uncensored. Basically, unless you click through to the site, the blog owner doesn’t get “credit” for your page view. Kristen thought it would be nice to help one another out, which leads us to Blog the Recession:

The premise is simple. If you read blogs, then for the month of August, make the “pledge” to click through from your feed reader. … Just click through to the blog (not on ads unless you are so led) and if you’re feeling generous, click around to their older posts. Just those extra page views can make a big difference for bloggers who could really use the help.

I’m in. I’m going to try to keep it up after August, too. Every little bit (and every little click) helps.

Check out Motherhood Uncensored for more details about Blogging the Recession and to win prizes!

Flotsam / Jetsam

Housekeeping

Sometime after Pete was born, I decided to actually put some effort into keeping the house clean. I made six to-do lists and put them in the front cover of one of those plastic-front notebooks, and I put the notebook in a cookbook stand on the kitchen counter, where I couldn’t miss it. And I did pretty well at crossing things off the list, for longer than I figured I would. But I’ve gotten a bit slack lately, and I’m thinking about revamping things and maybe even checking out the cult of the Flylady.

Do you have a cleaning to-do list? What’s on it, and how do you keep yourself motivated? If you don’t have a list, how do you tackle keeping the house clean?

Prayer

Judah

My friend’s nephew is in a coma. He’s 6 years old.

He fell a few days ago and hit his head. The initial CAT scan showed that there wasn’t much damage. The results were comforting. When the doctors opened his head to release some of the fluid, though, they found that things were worse than the scan had suggested.

He’s being transfered early next week to a children’s hospital in a larger city. Please pray for him, for his doctors and for his family.