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Good to the last commodities drop.
Ioannis Verdelis [blog] held raffle ticket 34156 and wins the coffee/tea gift at Java Global. Next raffle prize: Essential Blogging, written by a team of blogsphere heavyweights and published by every sysadmin's second best friend, O'Reilly. |  |
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Microbusiness opportunities available
Santa Cruz Tech has several research and commercial projects going on at any given time. Earn a resume' bullet point, BlogShares chips, or sometimes even cash by helping out. If you have skills and some spare time, email jay@blogshares.com and tell us what you're into. |
If you want to earn a small pile of chips, I'd like to talk to anyone familiar with HTML who speaks spanish as their primary language, and also someone to disburse chips weekly to the BSEC and other groups (for a cut).
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Hot Stuff Coming Through
Buy your raffle tickets now for Saturday's drawing: a $30 credit and free shipping at Java Global, official international coffee and tea supplier to the BlogShares crew. |
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No Paypal or credit card?
But you want the benefits of a BlogShares Premium Membership? Mail that $15 as a check or money order to: BlogShares / Santa Cruz Tech Coming up: Coffee basket raffle prize |
When you buy text-ads with chips keep these rules in mind:
No profanity
No mentioning other members of this community in a way that could be possibly be construed as negative.
Try to keep it PG-13
You're free to your political speech just keep it cool.
If an ad violates these rules it will just be shut down, no refund - if this becomes a problem we might start fining chips for inappropriate ads. We don't have time to play nanny here.
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Mishoko Sodwee won the 10,000 chip raffle with one of his 305 tickets. Somebody lost that #blogshares bet that someone would buy more than 10,000 tickets to win (1425 was the most). We're at over 100,000 categorized blogs in the hierarchy. Keep voting! |
| And a merry Friday the 13th it was.
The Olympic games are on. Chip salaries were distributed. Editors now have a a mailing list. SubWolf made a thousand fixes, improvements and tools. C and Aine are hammering hard on the Industries hierarchy. Dozens of other folks are pitching in to tighten this site up. Rock on. The first There (the virtual world) player to send me BlogShares mail will receive 20,000 TBUX (main server) that I need to get rid of. Are there any "Wind in the Willows" caliber children's book illustrators out there? I found you a job. |
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Jaime "Phoenix" Martinez won this week's raffle for 1,000,000 ad impressions.
We have no idea what he's going to post. The next raffle is for 10,000 chips. There's a running bet on #blogshares that someone will pay more than ten thousand chips to win. Thank you, everyone that volunteered to participate in the emerging documentation project. A new Table of Contents is forming and we'll have the code in place later this week to allow Editors to create and update the manual. |
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Vote!
We fixed the moderation bug. A 1000 blog "slush" will remain in the queue at all times to prevent the wonkiness we saw when the queue hit zero. So, go vote blogs into categories, secure in the knowledge your vote will soon be moderated and you'll earn karma (and chips). Random user-submitted BlogShares haiku: difficult, i think |
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We ... found a bug.
BlogShares members have been 'voting' blogs into categories ('Industries') and the backlog of votes awaiting approval had grown over the months to a daunting 60,000. A couple weeks ago we rolled out moderator incentives (chips) and today that queue hit zero. As a result, moderators got the same screenfuls of blogs repeatedly, and karma awards got screwy. I temporarily raised the karma level required to moderate to 10,000 so we can undo the junk votes and fix the moderation scripts. |
In the meantime, help improve the system (and gain some chips) by telling us what categories a blog belongs in. More on voting, courtesy the crack team over at the revived Unofficial BlogShares Strategy Blog.