Win $50,000 in Casino Bux

[Chuck]

Yes you can win up to $50,000 and earn an additional $25,000 in Maysville BBS Casino Cash (http://www.maysvillecasino.com). The cash can be used at any table or in any slot machine at the http://www.maysvillecasino.com.
Here is all you have to do.

Start a blog in the Maysville Blogger (http://www.maysvillekybbs.com/forums/blog.php?) with Mason, Bracken, Fleming, Lewis, Brown or Adams County content and maintain that blog for at least 30 days.

The blog can be any family oriented theme, topic, event or basically about anything.

Here is the kicker. I will award $25,000 to as every person that take on this project and starts a substantial blog.

The best 10 blogs will be selected by me and 4 other people. Of those 10 Blogs the members will vote on the winner and you can vote as many times as you like or can figure out how to vote on your favorite blog.

Thats a possible $75,000 Casino Bux all for a little typing about your favorite topic.

Any takers on this challenge?

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[annie]

Chuck....this is a wonderful idea! Count me in!

[wmjsmallwood]

srarted mine today

[jess41056]

I'll give it a try....

[glenda]

Sound's great!

[mom36]

Ok I don't wanna sound stupid or anything but who invented blogging and what the heck is it?

[Mrs. D]

I don't know who started it- but it's like an on-line Journal that the whole world can read, unless you know what your actually doing and can figure out how to make it private ?????? That's my guess anyway.

I started one- at first I did think I would to try for the casino cash, then I thought I was gonna delete it- but then I got a hint of encouragement and now I am kinda thinking (me & my 2 big posts and all) that it's kinda cool and if I don't feel like posting anything ,then I won't. :Banane37:


*** few minutes later:

google 'who invented blogging' and some dude and his story comes up-I couldn't post the link , sometimes I am computer literate and sometimes not

apprently blogging is short for 'web logging'
doesn't that mean we are ALL bloggers since we all log onto the web ?

[Chuck]

LOL, Google did not invent web logging or Blogging. Those of us that can remember life before the Internet and 300 baud modems can attest that it has been going on since the 80's.

Before the Internet you would dial in to different Servers around the world Called a "BBS" (Bulletin Board Service). There you could type messages, play games and leave information about yourself for the whole world to see.

The Internet made it bigger but Blogging took a back seat for awhile. Many of us old timers keep the BBS's alive till about the mid 90's with Fido Net and a few other Net's.

You could do email originally through Fido net and a host of other services. I ran a Server on that net from about 1984 till about 1991. It used Wildcat Software.

Email would generally take about 24 hours to deliver anywhere around the world with a reply in only a couple of days. Compare that to regular mail that could take anywhere from a week to a month or longer.

Wordpress, PHP Nuke, vBulletin, many other BBS software and still exsisting Wildcat Software has been around longer than Google and some longer than Yahoo. A name that come to mind was Prodigy.

The Internet and Blogging is what it is today because of everyone ever involved with computers since the beginning of the Personal Computer concept.

Back when Bank of America used the Timex Sinclair 1000 to be the first online bank. When Radio Shack put out the TMS 7000.

The people that bought these 10 to 30 thousand IBM's that came out and looked for better ways to get information around the world created what we have today. Many of them never made much money from their ideas and work.

The 1st DOS (Disk Operating System) that went main stream on Personal Computers was sold to Bill Gate for only a couple of hundred bucks.

Any large Company can come along now, get a patient on it and call it theirs and many did in the 1990's.

Truth be told it is all of us together that makes all this what is today. Everyone down to the last person that types on a keyboard to add content to the web. Every last one of us.

Mainly cause without you, this site is nothing more that colors and picture sitting on a computer eating up electricity.

[mom36]

Ok when Blogging what topic is used the most? LOL I am just trying to get a general idea of how it works.

[Chuck]

Usually it would be like something that interests you. Crafts, Wood working, Kids, Dogs, frogs, or any topic you like.

Music, Sports, anything.

How to cut hair, make tacos or food in general.

Thing stupid drivers do but leave me out of it,,, lol

The economy, politics, religion.

I think you get the hint. Covered a little bit more to help trigger everyones creative interest. (Not to be a pest) LMBO,,, OK to be a pest....

[Mrs. D]

I don't know who started it- but it's like an on-line Journal that the whole world can read, unless you know what your actually doing and can figure out how to make it private ?????? That's my guess anyway.

I started one- at first I did think I would to try for the casino cash, then I thought I was gonna delete it- but then I got a hint of encouragement and now I am kinda thinking (me & my 2 big posts and all) that it's kinda cool and if I don't feel like posting anything ,then I won't. :Banane37:


*** few minutes later:

google 'who invented blogging' and some dude and his story comes up-I couldn't post the link , sometimes I am computer literate and sometimes not

apprently blogging is short for 'web logging'
doesn't that mean we are ALL bloggers since we all log onto the web ?


No No No -if you put a question into a search engine ,(I use google ), ' who invented blogging' it will give you a link . I just couldn't cut and paste properly.

Ok for some reason I happened to do it correctly- not the link but I copy & pasted correctly- this is the story , I asked who invented blogging.......

Invented Blogging, didn't get a dime

18th July, 2005

Previous Article | Next Article

There is apparently one good book inside us all, just waiting to be written. But few of us ever put pen to paper and fewer still become JK Rowling.

However. an increasing number of us muggles have found a modern vent for our literary aspirations by turning our hand to blogging.

For those unfamiliar with the Internet, like students at Hogwarts - which seems very backward on ICT - web logging or “blogging” is the term we use for publishing our comments chronologically on a website.

Search for any subject on Google and you’ll be bombarded with opinions from dozens of these on-line soap boxes.

Bloggers come in many shapes and forms. Self appointed pundits, wannabe journalists and people whose friends clearly left them in search of interesting conversation.

Some use their blogs as cathartic cures, others to postulate conspiracy theories. We have a term for the latter on the Internet too - “nutters”.

Many people feel that to self-publish is rather sad, if not a little narcissistic. But among the bores and the nutters valuable opinions can be found. The virtual world offers the freedom to publish without censorship, even for those living in the less free parts of the real one.

The smarter marketing and PR professionals have already worked out that bloggers are a powerful viral communication channel. Get the right bloggers, blogging about your products or company, and you can expose your brand to a global audience.

The man who invented the term weblog was Jorn Barger. He was discovered begging on a San Francisco pavement last autumn. His cardboard sign - which is mandated under international begging laws - although a little dog is optional in the US, said: “coined the term weblog, didn’t get a dime”.

He was wearing a Google baseball cap. The irony that a man whose words where so often found via Google could now be found under a hat bearing the same name was wasted on his fellow countrymen.

Jorn’s blog (www.robotwisdom.com ) was full of comments and links to bizarre and fascinating nuggets of information that only a professional full time surfer could dig up.

As Jorn found out, there is no money in professional surfing, leading instead to his current occupation. Although most companies do employ professional surfers, they are usually being paid to do something else!

He had to let his site lapse as funds were need for more pressing projects, such as eating.

However, his luck must have changed, as last week his blog remerged on the web.

The site is now a list of links and the most eclectic collection of articles you are ever likely to find anywhere on the web. There is a button to press if you want to leave him a donation too, but still no dog to pat.

If he had coined the term “Harry Potter”, things might have worked out financially very different for Jorn. But thanks to him, many literary masterpieces will get published, if only on the web.





Blogging definition-

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&defl=en&q=define:Blog&sa=X&oi=glossary_definition&ct=title

(again, I used google and I asked 'definition of blogging'

[Chuck]

Nice modern day definition I guess. When you say Blogging the name Ann Handley come to mind as possibly being the first. Google just bought a Blogging company and software only a year or so ago.

I love a good debate...

Saying Google started or invented it is like saying Bill Gates wrote the 1st operation system. All he did was buy it.

[Mrs. D]

Nice modern day definition I guess. When you say Blogging the name Ann Handley come to mind as possibly being the first. Google just bought a Blogging company and software only a year or so ago.

I love a good debate...

Saying Google started or invented it is like saying Bill Gates wrote the 1st operation system. All he did was buy it.

It was NOT GOOGLE - from what I read it was Jorn Barger. see previous post

[Brian K Beckett]

LOL,

Before the Internet you would dial in to different Servers around the world Called a "BBS" (Bulletin Board Service). There you could type messages, play games and leave information about yourself for the whole world to see.



Back when Bank of America used the Timex Sinclair 1000 to be the first online bank. When Radio Shack put out the TMS 7000.

The people that bought these 10 to 30 thousand IBM's that came out and looked for better ways to get information around the world created what we have today. Many of them never made much money from their ideas and work.

The 1st DOS (Disk Operating System) that went main stream on Personal Computers was sold to Bill Gate for only a couple of hundred bucks.

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So thats what BBS stands for. I thought it stood for (Brians B*** Site)

I remember my first computer, I think I got it in 1986. It was a Tandy that hooked up to the TV and had a cassette tape for a hard drive. I think I still have it at my parents house. Wonder how much it sells for on E bay?

Blog. Say that word. Its one of those funny sounding words. Blog
I wonder how many people I could offend if I started a Blog?

Thanks for the computer/ blog history lesson. I was kinda courious on how this all got started.

[Jeremy]

No one invented blogging. The term was coined to describe a growing trend in online posting that was appearing in multiple places at once, and was already in place when a term was devised to describe it. It's also a specific format that sets it apart from earlier trends, so it does have a fixed era of when it came about, the mid to late 90s. What sets it apart from earlier things like BBSes and forum systems is that those matched the metaphor of a "corkboard" that people could post to, whereas a blog matches the metaphor of a personal journal, and uses a reverse chronological order rather than the chronological order typically used.

Jorn Barger coined the term "weblog", but it was Peter Merholz who shortened it to "blog" as a joke, and that's the one that caught on. Neither Barger nor Merholz invented blogs, however. Dave Winer's "Scripting News" is one of the earliest blogs ('97), but they date back further and pre-date the term "blog". Some of the earliest are from 1994.

Google is the number one provider of blogs, but they didn't invent blogging either. The reason they're number one is that they bought a very simple and easy to use system from a company called Pyra Labs in San Francisco. Pyra Labs didn't invent blogging either, they just made easy, which led to its popularity. That and the fact that Google provides them for free is what really led to the popularity of blogging.

My main blog: http://www.jeremyparnell.com/blog/ (I have about five I regularly post to)

[Chuck]

Very good info Jeremy. Jorn Barger does come to mind after you mentioned it.


Brian, you are correct. I did name the site after you. It was all about you.
I had a Trash 80 (Tandy TRS 80) myself for awhile. I believe it was about 1984. Had 64 megs of ram, 2 360k floppy disks and a really cool dot matrix printer.

I got the TRS 80 in 1981 and had it only about a year before I sold it and buy a IBM 5150. This later housed my 1st Wildcat BBS.

My first PC was a Timex Sinclair 1000. Had 2k or memory and a cassette tape drive. Oh an a modem to connect to the Bank for my dad. My dad still swore his Altair would be the big thing.

My dad went off with Commodore and later to Apple. I wasn't much of fruit so I stayed with the IBM line, I could only afford the clones after all that.

Sorry I got all Techy Nostalgic on ya.

[Mrs. D]

(I have about five I regularly post to)

Whoa, that's alot to post too. I (already ) struggle with what to say on the 1 I just started.


Looks like some good info on the blogging - I apologize if I got a little righteous :(

[mom36]

Ok I wrote a blog but it is not comming up on the blog page, what is wrong with it? Do I need to do something else?

[Mrs. D]

Ok I wrote a blog but it is not comming up on the blog page, what is wrong with it? Do I need to do something else?

My only guess is- did you put in a title ?

When I wrote my first post I wasn't sure if I was doing it right or not either....hard telling not knowing

[Jeremy]

Whoa, that's alot to post too. I (already ) struggle with what to say on the 1 I just started.

Looks like some good info on the blogging - I apologize if I got a little righteous :(

Not at all :) It's cool you're even interested in the history. Most people just roll their eyes. Writing a blog is easiest when you have a topic to focus on. Originally "blogs" were literally web - logs, used to log interesting things found on the web. From that perspective it's easy to keep a blog, because you pick something you found interesting, link to it, and write about why you found it interesting.


My dad went off with Commodore and later to Apple. I wasn't much of fruit so I stayed with the IBM line, I could only afford the clones after all that.

Sorry I got all Techy Nostalgic on ya.

An old Atari at school (forget the model, but not the game console) was the first here. We were supposed to be learning or something, but all I remember was playing Montezuma's Revenge. The first one I ever did anything (somewhat) productive on was a Commodore 64, looping "Hello" down the screen.

10 Print "Hello"
20 GoTo 10

Them were the days. I thought it was the coolest thing in the world. The first real family computer was a Tandy 1000 from RadioShack. I still have an old PS/2 in storage somewhere, but then again I also have a 1950s portable typewriter I call my "first laptop" : )

[mom36]

I use to have a Tandy and Chuck even helped me get some programs for it years ago.

[Mrs. D]

Not at all :) It's cool you're even interested in the history.
:Banane44:



Writing a blog is easiest when you have a topic to focus on.

As usual I am gonna be all over with topics, I am just unable to only focus on 1 thing - and I can't have 5 different blogs , don't you get confused - even over just the passwords ?? :biggrin:

[Chuck]

You can have 5 different blogs.

On the right hand side you will see a button called categories. Make the different categories you want to blog about.

June 30th is the deadline for starting a blog for this contest. Don't be left out.