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Love and Light from HEALING Creek


 Advanced Blogstream Surfing
 

 
 
I couldn't help but look at those categories closer ...

Wonder what would happen if I searched MOST ACTIVE in each category?  Who will I find?


All   -   LUCY. by Lucy.
 
 
 
Alternative   -    LUCY'S LOONEY TUNES by Lucy.
 
 
Armed Forces   -   Never thought it was possible by melfyre  (this category looks like a lot of active servicemen who might like hearing from us and giving them our support)
 
Art   -   LaLePoP' by lalepop'
 
 
Board Games   -   its a fine day! by dude3683
 
 
Broadcasting   -   Angel Radio Isle of Wight by Annie Angel   
 
 
 
Card Games   -    Trying not to go BROKE by Kyle
 
Celebrities   -    Criss Angel Loyal Fans by LoyalKK
 
Children   -   Angel's Lullaby by Chells
 
Clubs   -    (This category has a few blogs, but none have posted in a while.)
 
Collectibles   -   Ex Rudis Jewelry by ExRudis
 
 
Construction   -   Woodworking Today by Iwood 
 
 
Current Events   -   Here's the latest... by Curious
 
 
Decorating   -   (sorry but the first four were companies advertising and the fifth was in Spanish ... lol ... which means if you like to decorate or you have something to say about decorating trends, you could start a blog in this category and with a dozen posts, a hundred comments and 200-300 visits, you could lead this category)
 
 
 
Environment   -   Critters by Britty by truebrit
 
 
 
 
Fiction Stories   -   a good writer but he prefers not to be mentioned so I will honor his wishes. 
 
Finance   -   Easy Money by Jessica Doll  
(this category had several bloggers listed before Easy Money but none of them had posted in over a year or they were advertisers ... again, what that means is that if you have some financial savvy, you could write a blog and lead this category also) 
 
 
Food   -   POTS AND PANS by Ruby13
 
 
 
General Discussions   -   Life After The Hollow by Randy
 
Golden Years   -   Catradio by Ignatious 'O
 
 
 
 
 
Hobbies   -   FLINTKNAPPING by extrememice
 
Holidays   -   (there are no new blogs ... Has anyone gone on a vacation in the past six months?  Here's your chance to tell us about it!  Pictures please!) 
 
Hot Topics   -   (the lead one had deactivated and some goof calling himself Lucifer came up second.  I draw the line at linking anyone to Lucifer!  lol ... That's one "hook up" I'd rather not do!)
 
 
 
 
International   -   Gaza Dreaming by Dr.Mary
 
Internet   -   Blogstream Help by Pioneer
 
Jilted   -   Kat's World by kitkat87110 
 
 
Liberals   -   davesdigs by davesdigs
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
News   -   Articles by A. Wallace
 
Night Life   -   (this category is wide open also!  All you have to do is post 30 times, get more than 23 comments and more than 605 hits and you are in the top!  No one in this category has even posted in the past 20 weeks!)     
 
Non-Fiction Stories   -   Winds Of Change by VEGAS
 
 
Parents   -   Journal Within by Abigail
 
 
Photography   -   The River Rat by River Rat
 
 
Politics   -   The Outlander by TheOutlander
 
Computer Programs   -   (this category is also wide open!  All you have to do is post 6 times, get more than 1 comments and more than 125 hits and you are in the top!  Nothing in this category is newer 20 weeks!)
 
 
Recipes   -   (there are only 4 blogs in this category with no post newer than 6 months ago!  All you would need is 7 posts, 10 comments and 100 visitors to shine really fast!  Can you cook?  Do you have recipes you would like to share?)
 
 
Random Thoughts   -   The Dog House by Biggie T
 
Real Estate   -   (every blog is advertising) 
 
Reality TV   -   (this was Pretty Rubble's category before she deactivated ... again, if you want to shine fast, do a reality tv blog!) 
 
 
Republicans   -   Average Joe by JoeVet
 
 
I think this is an actual classroom ... this blog interested me more:  
 
Science Fiction   -   my rich inner life by annie roses
 
Space   -   Marc's other blog actually lead this category but I couldn't resist sending you to this "space" - You Know the Facts but Can You See? by Marc Rules in Contrast
 
Special Interests   -   Big Island Paradise Life by Gecko
 
 
Stock Market   -   (all advertising)
 
Tattoos   -   dirty lil secret by chi chi
 
 
 
 
 
TV Shows   -   (in this category, everything was really old or really new.  The MOST active blog hasn't posted for 60 weeks.  She had 29 posts, 30 comments, and 361 visitors)
 
 
Women   -   Lamb be Suz by Suz37
 
Work   -   (not much here but advertising)
 
Writing   -   young broke and republican by r.e.knowltoniii

this category interests me because we are all writers or learning to be better writers.  I think I'd like to check out some of the others in this category.  Maybe, you would like to also?

 
 
Pagans don't wear sandals!
http://thewaythingsare.blogstream.com
 
 
isotopic gene pool error
http://purplefly.blogstream.com
 
Don't Laugh, It Just Encourages Him
http://wildpiguk.blogstream.com
 
 
Dancing on the Edge of the Volcano
http://breathless.blogstream.com
 
 
 
Autobiography: Your stories
http://autobiography.blogstream.com
 
 
 

Some of those were no surprise.  I have been reading them for a long time!  Some of them are new to me and I look forward to new reads.

I tried to list the first blog that is current.  It seems silly to call a blog most active when they have been deactivated or they haven't had a post in almost a year.  

Other categories were WIDE OPEN.  I left notes in green, listing stats and letting you know what you would have to do to be number ONE in that category.  If being NUMBER ONE is important to you, go for it!  Good luck!

The one comment in red is because it represents an opportunity for each of us to support our troops.  It appears that most of the blogs are written by active servicemen.  What better way to make their day by stopping in to say hello?  Even a sparkle saying they are in our prayers would be welcome encouragement.

If you would like to promote your current blog, here is what Blogstream suggests:


What Does Blogstream Do To Promote Your Blog?

We promote your blog in many ways. First, when you update your blog it may be shown in various areas of our site as a "recently updated" blog. Also, if your blog becomes very popular it may appear in our list of popular blogs. These are both automated features.

We have a new area called "featured" blogs which is a manual process. We select blogs that are popular, well written, and varied in content.

As a part of our site, your blog may be automatically become index by major search engines, such as MSN, Google, and Yahoo. This usually happens within 1-2 days as those search engines "crawl" and locate your blog. This is automatic as well. Once you are in the search engines people can, for example, search Google for content in your blog and locate you. We cannot guarantee that your blog will be indexed or that it will appear even if it is. Every search engine works differently and has different rules and formulas for calculating the relevance of a site.

Lastly, we "ping" blog search engines. These are speciality search sites devoted to blogs. Pinging means that when you update your blog, we inform these services that you have made changes and they come and index your content. Currently we ping Blo.gs, Weblogs.com, and Technorati. We will be adding more over time.


What Can You Do To Promote Your Blog?

There are a few things you can do to help promote your blog.

First, we help people find your blogs by promoting them in various ways around the site. For example, we have the "recently updated blogs" list. When you post or a comment is left on your blog, it appears on the recently updated list, which makes it more likely to be seen and visited by others.

But just posting anything to your blog won't help... you need to have something useful for them to read. Blogs are not "message boards", you need to direct the conversation. Post something that others may find interesting. Your thoughts or views on something or teach someone something about an area of interest you have, for example. If your blog just says "this is my blog, write to me", people will just skip by your blog.

So, writing interesting content and "keeping it fresh" are very important. What we mean by "keeping it fresh" is to update it often. Once people find something they like, they will want to come back and read more. If you never update your blog, people will become less interested and move on. With 1,000s of blogs on our site alone, people only have so much time and can't possibly read them all.

If you have a website, you can link to your blog which will help visitors to your site find your blog, and will may improve your "ranking" in the search engines... meaning you will appear higher when searches are done.

Regarding the above, writing a lot of relevant content on a popular topic means you may start to appear in popular search engines and blog search sites on terms related to your blog. For example, I run the "Funny Captions" blog here on Blogstream (funnycaptions.blogstream.com). Some search engines have begun to locate my page and when people search the web for "funny captions", my blog appears. This brings more people to my blog from outside of Blogstream.


There are a lot of opportunities to write about a lot of things.  There are LOTS of ways to interact with other bloggers.  It's nice to have feedback and encouragement.  Blogstream allows for more interaction than most blog sites.  I have made some real friends here.  You may feel the same way too.

With over 20,000 blogs, the chances are very good that you will run into someone who thinks about the same things you think about or looks at the world in the same way you do.  The chances are also good that you will meet people who look at the world in a different way.  Seeing our world from another point of view is interesting to me.  It challenges me.  It broadens my mind.  The kinship and the diversity are two of the things I like about Blogstream.  Although they are opposites, they both present a wonderful opportunity for all of us, so to all my friends and friends I haven't met yet, I hope you have fun playing on our Stream. 

C'mon in!  The water's fine!
 
 
 
Posted by kktaylorcc at 9:32 AM - 21 Comments   Add a Comment  
 

 Surfing The Stream For New Blogs
 

 

Have you ever wanted to branch out ... meet new people on Blogstream?
There is are LOTS of fun and easy ways to do that.
You can visit the recently updated list on the Blogstream Main Page OR
You can SEARCH for some NEW BLOGS by:

Go to the Blogstream Main Page. 
On your right, you will see "recently updated" and right under that, you will see 15 of the most POPULAR (based on the number of visits to your blog). 
At the bottom of that list, you will simply see a link that says MORE.  Click it. 
A new page will open with 50 of the MOST POPULAR, but at the top of the page, you will see "Sort by", an empty box with and beside it, a down arrow. 
Click on the arrow and these choices will pop up:


Category - there really is something for everyone.  This is especially useful if you see a news story or read an article and you are curious about what other bloggers think about it.
All
Addiction
Adult
Alternative
Animals
Anything
Armed Forces
Art
Babies/Pregnancy
Board Games
Books
Broadcasting
Business
Camping
Card Games
Celebrities
Children
Clubs
Collectibles
Computers
Construction
Cooking
Current Events
Dancing
Decorating
Democrats
Doctor
Environment
Family
Fan Site
Fashion
Fiction Stories
Finance
Fitness
Food
Gambling
Genealogy
General Discussions
Golden Years
Government
Health Care
Health
History
Hobbies
Holidays
Hot Topics
How To
Industry
Infertility
International
Internet
Jilted
Jokes & Humor
Liberals
Legal/Law
Life
Love
Medical
Men
Music
Nature
News
Night Life
Non-Fiction Stories
Other
Parents
Pets
Photography
Poetry
Politics
Computer Programs
Public Interest
Recipes
Radio
Random Thoughts
Real Estate
Reality TV
Relationships
Religion
Republicans
Singing
Schools
Science Fiction
Space
Special Interests
Sports
Stock Market
Tattoos
Teenagers
Therapy
Travel
Trivia
TV Shows
Video Games
Women
Work
Writing

Author - You can search for a specific author


Blog Title - You can search for a specific title


Last Updated By Author - You can search for your favorite authors
HINT:  you will already know this if you bookmark your favorites and ask for notification when they update.
 


Last Date Of Activity - those who posted last. 


Most Active -
a combination of the most posts, the most interaction and the most visits ( all categories ).  This is, in my opinion, the truest picture of Blogstream.

LUCY.
http://tryinotocomeundone.blogstream.com
 
Lucy.
Mon Jul 16, 2007 @ 19:27 2d
  556 Posts
21799 Comments
USA
Second Chances
http://coloconnect.blogstream.com
Category:  Life 
Coloconnect
Wed Jul 18, 2007 @ 23:40 11h
  479 Posts
18916 Comments
USA
Whit's Whittlings
http://bushsyndrome.blogstream.com
Category:  Government 
Whit's Whittlings
Thu Jul 19, 2007 @ 9:12 1h
  391 Posts
16411 Comments
USA
A good laugh is great medicine
http://keepsmiling.blogstream.com
Category:  Jokes & Humor 
Topaz
Mon Jul 16, 2007 @ 8:46 3d
  719 Posts
14540 Comments
USA
Prefers not to be listed 
Prefers not to be listed
   
Lou's World
http://lousworld.blogstream.com
Category:  Anything 
Miss Lou
Wed Jul 18, 2007 @ 12:53 21h
  796 Posts
11048 Comments
USA
The Dog House
http://doghouse.blogstream.com
Category:  Random Thoughts 
Biggie T
Wed Jul 18, 2007 @ 1:18 1d
  443 Posts
10550 Comments
USA
Life After The Hollow
http://hollowblog.blogstream.com
Category:  General Discussion 
Randy
Wed Jul 18, 2007 @ 7:27 1d
  479 Posts
10308 Comments
USA
INSIDE THE FLAME
http://redhot21.blogstream.com
Category:  Love 
^BELLE^
Mon Jul 16, 2007 @ 13:19 2d
  489 Posts
9921 Comments
USA
Theology for Dummies
http://simplegodstuff.blogstream.com
Category:  Religion 
Thomisticguy
Fri Jul 13, 2007 @ 11:43 5d
  191 Posts
10007 Comments
USA
Along The Spiral Path
http://dazeofmylife.blogstream.com
Category:  Life 
Daisy
Fri Jul 13, 2007 @ 12:35 5d
  302 Posts
9885 Comments
USA
Living and Dying in 5/4 Time
http://ridingwiththecaptain.blogstream.com
Category:  Adult 
Captain Morgan
Mon Jul 16, 2007 @ 4:14 3d
  556 Posts
9619 Comments
USA
Prefers not to be listed  
Prefers not to be listed
 
Mr Ornery's Corner
http://mrorneryscorner.blogstream.com
Category:  Random Thoughts 
MrOrnery1851
Wed Jul 18, 2007 @ 17:57 16h
  405 Posts
8441 Comments
NZL
The Inner Sanctum...
http://innersanctum.blogstream.com
Category:  Life 
PolarB
Tue Jul 17, 2007 @ 15:46 1d
  394 Posts
8324 Comments
USA
The Paradox of the Prankster
http://theprairieprankster.blogstream.com
Category:  Life 
Prank
Tue Jul  3, 2007 @ 0:18 2w
  182 Posts
8085 Comments
ZZZ
MindPower
http://mindpower.blogstream.com
Category:  Random Thoughts 
Decorous
Mon Jul  9, 2007 @ 17:48 1w
  165 Posts
8053 Comments
USA
Momma Never Told Me
http://seeritarun.blogstream.com
Category:  Life 
Rita B
Wed Jul 18, 2007 @ 14:01 20h
  508 Posts
7694 Comments
USA
LIFE IS NOT ONE BIG JOKE
http://lifeslittlejokes.blogstream.com
Category:  Life 
Misty
Thu Jul 19, 2007 @ 8:32 2h
  192 Posts
7681 Comments
ZZZ
Bella's Gotta Brand New Blog !!
http://bellasbrandnewblog.blogstream.com
Category:  Anything 
Bella
Wed Jul 18, 2007 @ 15:36 19h
  386 Posts
7429 Comments
ZZZ
Love and Light from HEALING Creek
http://lovefromhealingcreek.blogstream.com
Category:  Life 
kktaylorcc
Wed Jul 18, 2007 @ 11:55 22h
  421 Posts
6743 Comments
USA
Life With Schnauzers
http://schnauzerlover.blogstream.com
Category:  Anything 
Puppy
Mon Jul 16, 2007 @ 20:55 2d
  342 Posts
5823 Comments
USA
The New Residencia
http://sagacity.blogstream.com
Category:  Anything 
icemelts
Sat Jul  7, 2007 @ 17:08 1w
  233 Posts
5731 Comments
USA
Railroad Street
http://railroadstreet.blogstream.com
Category:  Life 
E.M. Diesel
Wed Apr 19, 2006 @ 15:20 65w
  398 Posts
5473 Comments
USA
a common housewife in the fast lane
http://prisonerofhope.blogstream.com
Category:  Random Thoughts 
prisonerofhope
Sun Jul 15, 2007 @ 23:51 3d
  231 Posts
5494 Comments
USA
The Library Cat
http://librarycat.blogstream.com
Category:  Anything 
Bookworm
Wed Jul 18, 2007 @ 22:03 12h
  995 Posts
4616 Comments
USA
Crusty Middle-aged Woman
http://crustymiddleaged.blogstream.com
Category:  Anything 
Deby D
Thu Jul 12, 2007 @ 12:32 6d
  308 Posts
5150 Comments
USA
Mad Yankee Ranting
http://madyankeerant.blogstream.com
Category:  General Discussion 
BigChris
Wed Jul 18, 2007 @ 16:32 18h
  548 Posts
4867 Comments
USA
Stream of Consciousness
http://conciousness.blogstream.com
Category:  Anything 
wayfarer
Tue Jul 17, 2007 @ 13:35 1d
  315 Posts
4943 Comments
XXX
The Restoration of ME
http://lifemistakes.blogstream.com
Category:  Life 
MaryElizabeth
Fri Jul  6, 2007 @ 14:28 1w
  285 Posts
4905 Comments
USA
Strange Phrase Indeed
http://strangephraseindeed.blogstream.com
Category:  Anything 
Kristin
Sun Jul 15, 2007 @ 22:34 3d
  242 Posts
4893 Comments
USA
Midnight,Me and the Blues
http://twittledee.blogstream.com
Category:  Anything 
Cracker
Wed Jul 18, 2007 @ 10:29 1d
  565 Posts
4472 Comments
USA
Winds Of Change
http://lifewithsharman.blogstream.com
Category:  Non-Fiction Stories 
VEGAS
Sun Jul 15, 2007 @ 19:08 3d
  363 Posts
4660 Comments
USA
There's always Hope...
http://mymindurplace.blogstream.com
Category:  Anything 
Rosie
Tue Jul  3, 2007 @ 1:23 2w
  86 Posts
4876 Comments
AUS
Daily Changes
http://leftofcenter.blogstream.com
Category:  Random Thoughts 
HeatherScot
Wed Jul 18, 2007 @ 23:55 10h
  446 Posts
4508 Comments
USA
Whispered Promises
http://thisismyhome.blogstream.com
Category:  Life 
Whispered Promise
Sat Jul 14, 2007 @ 23:59 4d
  171 Posts
4750 Comments
USA
My Life On The River
http://bluebird.blogstream.com
Category:  Nature 
dixie
Thu Jul 12, 2007 @ 19:25 6d
  143 Posts
4374 Comments
USA
Looking for Truth
http://lookingfortruth.blogstream.com
Category:  Life 
Lookin'
Wed Jul 18, 2007 @ 1:41 1d
  232 Posts
4259 Comments
USA
To Go Beyond
http://celtic-mist.blogstream.com
Category:  Life 
Celtic Mist
Tue Jul 17, 2007 @ 22:31 1d
  122 Posts
4192 Comments
USA
The White Lodge
http://integervitae.blogstream.com
Category:  Random Thoughts 
John the Squabbler
Thu Jul 19, 2007 @ 5:35 5h
  289 Posts
3914 Comments
USA


Most Posts -
These people have put a LOT of work into their blog, writing their hearts out ( all categories )...
The first blog listed has almost 3,000 posts and only 37 comments. 
We can change that simply by stopping by and saying hello.

American Timeline: 1800 to 1900
http://oldwesternfanatic.blogstream.com
Category:  History 
Jim King
Tue Jul 17, 2007 @ 7:33 2d
  2950 Posts
37 Comments
USA
Dans Blog
http://dan92024.blogstream.com
Category:  Politics 
Dan's Blog
Wed Jul 18, 2007 @ 19:06 15h