hi all. yeah I sometimes literally spend hours on posts, getting the fmtting, html, pictures right. for what? not a lot. the payback for a blogger is pretty )( small at times. about the best that one can hope is that one might get an EP or a post getting lots of comments, ratings, or going viral. after a year of pretty heavy blogging, none of those things have happened to me.

[yeah, I know, some of you are saying, "crocodile tears" haha. oh yeah, though, I do get lots of favoriting & message. thanks for that. & my hits are pretty good by open salon standards.]

so, sometimes, maybe when you're just not totally in the mood, its time for a "quickie". a post that you whipped out in maybe 5 minutes. coincidentally, jenny' mccreight, the originator of the "boobquake" concept, whipped her post out pretty fast. sometimes, the ends outweigh the means, significantly, so to speak. the returns explode far beyond the effort.

it seems like OS helped her post go viral, because one of the toprated posts on OS was beth manns commentary against boobquake [see below]. as they say in hollywood, there's no such thing as bad publicity as long as they spell your name right. as for beth, I think I understood her point more until she started bragging about her BJ skills in the copious comments, at which point I got a little confused-- but in a good way, Im sure =)

heh heh, yeah I guess its a quandary that goes way back. I liked one of the comments. "it was eve and that damn apple". or reminds me of that line in Good Will Hunting. "do you like apples? how about those apples!!".

as for trivial/superficial stuff going viral, even in the MSM [as jenny's concept did-- her post below is also on Abcnews site], I guess it also especially helps if its a slow news cycle.

as for EPs, I think it would be cool if there was a random EP that went out occasionally. so that if you've been blogging a long time, you would get an EP. or here's an idea. maybe the wheel would spin on a random "blogger of the week" and the editors would be forced to pick one of their posts for the cover.

I certainly have nothing to lose under any other system. I hate to admit this but Im currently at about zero out of ninety. or maybe they could have a column of "oldest bloggers" or "most prolific".

so, sometimes, feelin the cyber-love, other times, not. sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug.

How I Started a Boobquake
After an Iranian cleric declared that scantily clad women caused earthquakes, a science student called on women to show some skin yesterday. Jennifer McCreight on the aftershocks that followed.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-04-27/how-i-started-a-boobquake/?cid=hp:mainpromo9#

Boobquake 2010: The 6 Best Protest Videos
An Iranian cleric is blaming immodest women for causing earthquakes—so protesters are taking to the streets and to YouTube to bare their cleavage and prove otherwise. WATCH VIDEO of the liveliest protest since the Boston Tea Party.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-04-26/boobquake-2010-the-6-best-protest-videos/

Boobquake and the Cutefication of Feminism
http://www.open.salon.com/blog/beth_mann/2010/04/22/boobquake_and_the_cutefication_of_feminism