The Fearless Blogger

I’ve been having a blast doing Inside the Bloggers Studio – hope you’ve been enjoying it too!

The next round of folks who’ll be stepping into the hot seat are an eclectic crew and I’m excited to share their answers with you.

Coming up over the next few weeks will be

• Lucretia Pruitt – Geek Mommy
• Johnny Truant – The Economy Isn’t Happening
• Tony Hsieh- Zappos
• Brandon J. Mendelson – The Brandon Show 
• Amber Naslund- Altitude Branding 
• Monica Hamburg 
• Ryan Five – Oktober5
• Rosemary Bystrak – sddialedin.com
• Ahmed Naguib – TechnRolla
• Susan Murphy – SuzeMuse
• Michael Carrasquillo

Who would YOU like to see on this list? 

I can’t guarantee they’ll be brave enough to step into the Studio – but I can always extend the invitation!

Chris Blake is an example of why I love sites like Twitter. 
I’m not sure how our tweets crossed paths, but I am glad they did.

95.5 KLOS-FM Battle of the Fans finalist Chris Blake writes passionate alternative pop/rock songs about relationships, the environment and life. His music and videos have been featured on VH1’s Best Week Ever, BoingBoing, Chris Brogan, Mothering, Huffington Post, GigaOm, Cosmopolitan, ShinyShiny and hundreds of other sites around the world.

Chris is a talented musician.  I love his music, but music reviews are not what I do best.  Instead, to give you an idea of why I <3 Chris, I’m “borrowing” from another TV institution.  Today’s installment of Inside the Bloggers Studio will be prefaced by my own “Top 10 List”. read more

I’ll be honest with you.  I’d planned to write a riveting mini-bio on today’s featured guest, Mitch Wagner.

See, Mitch is an incredibly interesting guy.  It’s only fair to write something incredibly interesting about him then, right?

But Mitch had to go ahead and – *gasp!* – upstage the blogger.

That’s right.  You heard me. Upstaged. Me.   I can’t compete with Mitch’s answers .  Anything I could write would pale in comparison.

Which really is to be expected.  After all, Mitch not only is Executive editor at InformationWeek.com, he writes two other blogs, so he has lots of practice.   Even his tweets are witty.  Mitch makes me almost curious enough to explore Second Life – even though I secretly fear that once I go there, there’ll be no coming back (I tend to sometimes – um-”fixate” on things, especially when they involve a computer.  “Fixate” sounds so much nicer than “obsess”, doesn’t it?).   ‘Nuff said?

All of which is why I heart Mitch!

Rather than detain you much longer from reading his answers, I’ll quickly step aside and let him take the stage.  But before I do, I would feel I let you down if I didn’t share some ways to get an additional Mitch fix outside the Bloggers Studio read more

I’ve previously shared my crush on a blog.

Now it’s my turn to share my crush on a company:

MOO.

I swoon over their MOO cards. All of them.  Greeting cards, postcards, business cards . . . the MiniCards make my heart skip a beat or two!   Show me the MiniCard holders and I can’t make any promises to maintain a lady-like demeanor.  My passion for MOO is hard to contain.

My beau patiently puts up with this.  He knows before him, there was MOO. Love me, love my love of MOO. (Plus my sweetie knows I save all my – ahem – sMOOches just for him.)

What kind of hussy would give her affection so freely when she has a wonderful man in her life, you ask? Relax, MOO is a company, not a person.  So your point is MOOt. (I’m on a roll here!) read more

TheBusyBrain Wisdom: If you do stupid stuff, stupid stuff happens!

“TheBusyBrain” is Mike Johnson, self-described “Proud Father, Husband, and Family guy.”   A US Postal Service Letter Carrier by day, blogger and web entrepreneur by night, TheBusyBrain provides his readers with an an eclectic mix of “web, tech, & gadget related content”.

“Veritable Smorgasbord” aptly describes the variety of topics covered.  Travel, web design, money savers, video gaming and technology news are just a few of the categories Mike writes about.  My personal fave is the “Did You Know?” category, filled with a smattering of useful suggestions and tips representing a cross-section of the aforementioned topics.