Wednesday, April 23, 2008

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Tuesday, April 22, 2008

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Yesterday shall have been the day for my blog to break Alexa’s Top 50,000 rank, if… yeah, if Alexa wouldn’t have changed its ranking algorithm! LOL

"While I was eagerly checking and waiting for my blog to break Alexa’s 50,000 mark (so I can celebrate this with you,) I found out Alexa just changed its Ranking algorithm (04/16/2008)…
http://www.alexa.com/site/company/announcement
My blog’s Alexa Rank now dropped from 51,059 down to 174,666!"


That means, NO ranking report, NO “showing off” of Alexa’s formerly sky-rocking hochstadt.com ranking graph, NO big numbers—nada of these—and therefore NO “Alexa Top 50,000 In 107 Days” title – BUT…We will simply change the tag and party anyway!

(Business Lesson: Never ever be dependent on any 3rd party resource!)

You probably remember the astonishing party I held when my blog broke Alexa’s old 100,000 mark? OK, as a reminder…http://www.hochstadt.com/alexa-top-100000-in-66-days

Now, because of the Alexa thing, now it is…The Hochstadt.com Party Contest!

I invited a select few Top Entrecarders and Internet Entrepreneurs to join our one-of-a-kind Hochstadt.com Party Contest and celebrate together that it is indeed possible to catapult from no man’s land to popularity in 107 days!

Without further ado, let’s get to the “Party Contest Meat”—or in other words, what YOU can WIN at this Hochstadt.com Party Contest!

NOTE: This is none of those Internet Marketing niche contests… The Hochstadt.com Party Contest features prizes from a broad range of industries and categories. Meaning, there is something for EVERYONE:

Men’s Interest, Women’s Interest, Sports, Internet Marketing, Make Money Online, Technology, Hobbies, Marketing, Self Improvement, Computers and Internet, Art, Environment, Finance and Investing, Web Development, News and Media, Entertainment, Graphic Design, Religion and Spirituality, Blogging Resources, Parenting and Family, Technology, Mixed Bag, Home and Garden, Health and Medicine, Trends, Personal Diary, and Writing and Literature!

Now, take a look at these amazing and unbelievable contributions… the Who’s Who of Entrecard and other friends of mine:

Consultations, Products & Services

Max from SiteHoppin gives 10 Beer Stock Pages worth $20-$100 each = $200-$1,000 PLUS 50 One Buck Wiki pages worth $20 each = $1,000, altogether making it to a whopping $2,000!
Martin Russell from Word of Mouth Marketing gives 50 (!) accounts of 10 cards each at SendOutCards.com worth $25 each = $1,250! Gary Evans from Law of Attraction Secrets gives 10 (!) of his Manifest A Miracle systems worth $97 each = $970! Marcus Hochstadt from Internet Business Guide For First Class Progress gives respectively 1 of each of his 4 DVD products worth $100 each = $400 PLUS one 2-hour Multimedia Coaching Session worth $300, altogether making it to a $700! Debbie Lane from Wisdom Hypnosis gives 7 of her Living The Lucky Life! audio CDs worth $23.77 each = $166.39 PLUS a personal 1.5 hour Hypnosis Session by phone worth $250, making it a total of $416.39! Pat King from FitnessLifeClub gives 1 month of his Premier Health Coaching Package worth $357.98! Keith Goodrum from On Becoming a 2%er gives 2 of his DVDs 10 Minute Blog Post worth $100 each = $200! Andreas from XavierMedia.com gives 5 one-year VIP memberships to CreateBanner.com worth $35 each = $175! Larry Brauner from Online Social Networking gives a personal 1 hour consultation worth $150! Jason from The University Kid gives two 60 minute Blogging Consultations worth $60 each = $120! Leisa Watkins from Dream Act Plan Believe gives 3 Robert G. Allan books that are personally signed by Robert (!), as well as 3 Richard Paul Evans books, also personally signed by Richard himself! Karl Gechlik from Ask The Admin gives a professional technical e-mail support session worth $50! Wayne from Ez DIY Electricity gives $50 in hard earned PayPal cash!
Borzack from Making Myself Extra Money gives 5 of his Page Peel Ads scripts worth $8 each = $40! Stephan Miller from Stephan Miller gives one copy of Confessions of a Lazy Super-Affiliate worth $29.95 PLUS a Special Report he wrote specifically for the person who wins this e-book!
Crystal from Ubiquitous gives a Site Review worth $20 PLUS a link on her Blogroll for one month worth $10, making it a total of $30! Sam Freedom from Internet Marketing Controversy Blog gives a 2-month membership to a large Private Label Rights (”PLR”) membership site worth $30! Kelly Naylor from Aerten Art gives one of her unique art work Acid Rain, an original water color painting worth $25! Dwayne from Pro Blog Reviews gives a Blog Review worth $25!
Frank from Technology Blog and more gives a StumbleUpon advertisement campaign worth $20 (400 targeted visitors)! Kacie from Sense to Save gives a StumbleUpon advertisement campaign worth $10 (200 targeted visitors)! The Fool from Foolsville 2.0 gives $10 in hard earned PayPal cash! Lightening from Lightening’s Blogworld gives 2 Blog Reviews worth $5 each = $10!
Constantin Codreanu from INconstantIN gives a one year .com domain registration worth $10!
Iris from thebuzz gives a link on her Blogroll for one month worth $10! Layne from Reward Rebel gives 1 copy of Reward Rebel LOOT worth $7! Fitz Villafuerte from Ready To Be Rich gives 2 stumbles & diggs per week for one month! Theda K. Rogers from Crayon Writer gives a full-blown site review on her blog which will certainly increase the buzz for her winner’s blog!
Mert Erkal from Search For Blogging gives an Invitation to the May issue of ww.bloghology.com, which has more than 3,000+ subscribers! Alexys Fairfield from Soul Meets World offers to interview her winner (about his/her product, service, Web site, life, etc) PLUS providing a link from her site to his’/hers! (She used to interview celebrities, so this one is PRICELESS!)

Ad Space

KiwiPulse from KiwiPulse gives 3 x 125×125 top ad space for one month worth $15 each = $45
Deimos Tel´Arin from ahkong.net gives a 468×60 top ad banner box for one month worth $36
Anna from My Cornerstone Trio gives a 125×125 top ad space for one month worth $35
Turnip from Turnip of Power gives a 125×125 top ad space for one month worth $35
Wayne from Ez DIY Electricity gives a top ad space (125×125 or 468×60) for one month worth up to $30 Caleb from environmentastic! gives a 125×125 top ad space for one month worth $25
Kathleen from Entrepreneurs Only gives a 125×125 top ad space for one month worth $25
Marty from Money Maker Times gives a 125×125 top ad space for one month worth $25
Constantin Codreanu from INconstantIN gives a 125×125 top ad space for one month worth $15
Mirjam from Me Myself and I gives a 125×125 top ad space for one month worth $10
Lee Doyle from Lee Doyle - Contains Nuts gives a 125×125 top ad space for one month worth $10

Entrecard Credits

Marcus Hochstadt from Internet Business Guide For First Class Progress gives 12,966ec
Layne from Reward Rebel gives 5,000ec
Caleb from environmentastic! gives 3,000ec
Constantine Balbozar from Ideas and Money gives 3,000ec
Kacie from Sense to Save gives 3,000ec
Larry Brauner from Online Social Networking gives 2,500ec
Joan Joyce from Joan Joyce Dot Com gives 2,000ec
Tim from Yimto Affiliate Marketing Blog gives 2,000ec
Crystal from Ubiquitous gives 2,000ec
Lee Doyle from Lee Doyle - Contains Nuts gives 2,000ec
Art from Article Specialist gives 2,000ec
Jonathan from Archon Digital gives 2,000ec
Jonathon from Tech News Source gives 1,500ec
Gary Evans from Law of Attraction Secrets gives 1,000ec
Suzanne from Dot Com Mogul gives 1,000ec
Dwayne from Pro Blog Reviews gives 1,000ec
Michael Aulia from Michael Aulia’s Tech Blog gives 1,000ec
Stephan Miller from Stephan Miller gives 1,000ec
Dave from Is A Man’s World gives 1,000ec
Scott Main from Scott’s Space gives 1,000ec
Kumo from Toast & Egg & Me… gives 1,000ec
Mirjam from Me Myself and I gives 1,000ec
Jasmine from Pixelated Thoughts gives 1,000ec
Lincoln from Canucklehead gives 1,000ec
KiwiPulse from KiwiPulse gives 1,000ec
Lightening from Lightening gives 1,000ec
Wangbu from Hulag gives 1,000ec
Juliana from Juliana’s World gives 1,000ec
Juliana from Juliana’s Lair gives 1,000ec
Juliana from My Library gives 1,000ec
Iris from thebuzz gives 1,000ec
Anna from My Cornerstone Trio gives 1,000ec
Wayne from Ez DIY Electricity gives 1,000ec
Collin LaHay from Mixed Market Arts gives 600ec
Shelia from Black Tennis Pros gives 500ec
David Thorne from Media Morgue gives 500ec
Stan from Fantasy Baseball gives 500ec
Borzack from Making Myself Extra Money gives 500ec
The Fool from Foolsville 2.0 gives 500ec
Marty from Money Maker Times gives 300ec
Fitz Villafuerte from Ready To Be Rich gives 300ec

Phew! Wanna count? OK, I made it easy for you…

These are contributions for 200+ winners (!) with a monetary value of more than $7,000+ (!!) and exactly 66,666ec (”ec” = Entrecard Credits)!!! This is by far the BIGGEST Party Contest in Entrecard’s History!

What? How you can win? I’m glad you asked…

Here is how to enter the party contest and belong to the lucky winners…

1. Subscribe to the Hochstadt.com Blog Announcement List (see the sign-up field in the top right hand corner of this page, right below my image? Yup, there it is.) Not only does it bring you 2 points but I may send you a cool gift when you do – 2 Points

2. Post a comment to this blog post - 1 Point (one point per person)

3. Stumble and digg about this contest and fav me on Technorati - 1 Point respectively

4. Use the below party contest image(s) on your site (linking to this party contest) - 2 Points

5. Write about this blog and this Hochstadt.com Party Contest on your blog, linking to both this blog and the Hochstadt.com Party Contest. Use your own wording, one that fits to your audience. (It shall be easy because the above prizes fit to ALL audiences!) - 10 Points

6. Write about this blog and this contest on your blog, AND link to ALL contributors (just like you see my list above including all the prizes) - 30 Points

*PSSST* When you write about this contest on your blog it may be a good idea you indicate which of the above prizes you would like to win most. Perhaps Santa is listening and your wish comes true, who knows…

Hint: Use the same e-mail address and Web site’s URL when performing the above contest actions. That way, I will be able to track your entries.

NOTE: I changed the point structure slightly because it turned out to be a bit unfairly weighted. Hopefully it is fair now so everyone can win something.

The more points you accumulate the higher your chances to win one of the BIG prizes worth up to $357 per single prize!

Draw of the winners will be held on MAY 1st!

Sunday, April 20, 2008


I just recently discovered the delights of Lilian Jackson Braun's quirky feline mysteries, while I was browsing at my favorite National bookstore. Then I discovered there were earlier books. Mine is the 16th but first time in paperback! I am hooked by the sleuthing Siamese, Koko and Yum Yum, and thier human, Jim Qwilleran, the quintessential reporter.

Qwilleran and the cats are visiting an island known by many names. Qwill has always called it Breakfast Island, but to the taciturn natives, it's Providence Island. To the rich summer residents it's Grand Island--and to the developers and tourists who are turning this once--peaceful place upside down, it's Pear Island. But when some odd "accidents" occur, including a fatal boat explosion, Qwill suspects sabotage and sets out to investigate--because murder by any other name is just as deadly...

Saturday, April 19, 2008

Friday, April 18, 2008



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In Collier Schorr’s latest project Gender and Identity make powerful bedfellows said Aaron Hicklin. “I think that often people look at male eroticism as homoerotic because women are not generally the authors of male eroticism,” says Collier Schorr, whose new limited edition monograph. At surface, Jen F. is a scrapbook-style photo diary of a young man’s coming of age. The fact that said young man is German, straight, and blond, and that Schorr is an American Jew and a lesbian, is just part of the subtle dynamic that gives the work its tension and intrigue. It’s nothing, however, compared to the central conceit of the work—that Jens is aping the feminine postures of a German housewife who is acting out the fantasies of a middle-aged American man. Confused? Multiple questions vie for attention in Schorr’s work, but the ambiguities conspire to thwart pat answers or perceptions. “It’s so fluid and confusing,” admits Schorr, who considers the project open-ended, despite the publication of Jens F., which replicates her work with painstaking attention to the texture and detail of the original elements.

It is, of course, a time-honored tradition for women to sit passively for male artists, but to have a man sitting passively for a woman, as Jens has, is thrillingly subversive. It is also a mark of self-assurance that Jens agreed to participate. Reminded of Prince William or Leonardo DiCaprio—there was a window in time, probably the last breath of ambiguity, when they all had this soft, pretty expression”—she asked if he would pose for some pictures. Some time later, browsing in a New York bookstore, she came across a monograph of Andrew Wyeth’s famous Helga series—portraits of a German model that Wyeth painted in the ‘70s and early ‘80s—and was struck by her likeness to Jens. “I immediately thought that Jens looked like Helga,” she says. Inspired, Schorr invited Jens to pose for her as Helga for Wyeth. Although long admired for her photographs of suburban Germans youths—among her earlier projects was a series of teenage Germans dressed in the uniforms of the Vernach—Schorr foresaw potential pitfalls in a project that substituted a young boy for a German housefrau. “I felt weird about copying someone’s poses, and Wyeth was not really the most revolutionary artist to take your cues from, and I wasn’t sure who would understand Jens as a subject,” she says. “I found myself in this spot that I’d never anticipated—photographing women—so that the pictures of Jens, which seem like a critique on femininity, or an artist’s view of femininity, are further complicated when Jens is contrasted by actual photographs of women who were, at the start, fictional characters for both of us.”

As for Jens, Schorr says his own transformation is complete, and that she doesn’t anticipate photographing him again.

Thursday, April 17, 2008

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Tuesday, April 15, 2008

The Last Lecture

Randy Pausch is a married father of three, a very popular professor at Carnegie Mellon University—and he is dying. He is suffering from pancreatic cancer, which he says has returned after surgery, chemotherapy and radiation. Doctors say he has only a few months to live. In September 2007, Randy gave a final lecture to his students at Carnegie Mellon that has since been downloaded more than a million times on the Internet. "There's an academic tradition called the 'Last Lecture.' Hypothetically, if you knew you were going to die and you had one last lecture, what would you say to your students?" Randy says. "Well, for me, there's an elephant in the room. And the elephant in the room, for me, it wasn't hypothetical."

Watch Randy's famous "Last Lecture." Despite the lecture's wide popularity, Randy says he really only intended his words for his three small children. "I think it's great that so many people have benefited from this lecture, but the truth of the matter is that I didn't really even give it to the 400 people at Carnegie Mellon who came. I only wrote this lecture for three people, and when they're older, they'll watch it," he says.

From Randy Pausch's 'Last Lecture'

- Never underestimate the importance of having fun. I'm dying and I'm having fun. And I'm going to keep having fun every day because there's no other way to play it.
- Experince is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.
- No one is pure evil. Find the best in everybody. Wait long enough and people will surprise and impress you.
- Brick walls are there for a reason. They are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. The brickwalls are there to stop people who don't want it badly enough.
- It is not about achieving you dreams but living your life. If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself. The dreams will come to you.
- We can't change the cards we're dealt, just how we play the hand. If I'm not as depressed as you think I should be, I'm sorry to disappoint you.

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Monday, April 14, 2008

Action, Thrillers, James Bond, Daniel Craig


Well, it's official. After referring to the latest Bond movie as Bond 22 for what seemed like forever, BBC News reports that producers of the 22nd installment of the Bond franchise say the official title will be...wait for it...Quantum of Solace. To be honest, my first reaction was -- huh? Then, however, I found out that the title was taken from a collection of short stories published by Bond creator Ian Fleming back in 1960, so I guess it has some retro charm in spite of the fact that it sounds kind of awkward; don't you think? (Once again, Daniel Craig might have been messing with us all, just a little, with hints that "007" was the official title.)

The announcement came during a press conference at the new Pinewood Studios, where the film has begun shooting. Journalists were shown some clips of Bond swinging out of an explosion of an art gallery in Italy, as well as a meeting between Bond (Daniel Craig) and M (Judi Dench) in a snowy locale.

It was only a couple of weeks ago that they finally announced their new Bond Girl, Olga Kurylenko. So sure, the production has taken it's time assembling the cast around Daniel Craig; but now that it is all said and done, they have managed to put together a pretty interesting ensemble. There are some familiar faces from Casino Royale returning -- Giancarlo Giannini as Mathis and Jeffrey Wright as Felix Leiter. Plus, there are also some first-timers to the Bond franchise including critically acclaimed French actor Mathieu Amalric as our bad guy and Gemma Arterton as MI6 Agent Fields. We've gotten a couple of images from the film, but so far, most of the details about the story are still being kept under lock and key. So, if you can't wait for November 7th when Quantum of Solace hits theaters, stay tuned for any updates that come our way.
UPDATE: After the jump, you will find the film's synopsis, courtesy of Columbia Pictures. Read at your own risk!

Synopsis below:

QUANTUM OF SOLACE continues the high octane adventures of James Bond (DANIEL CRAIG) in CASINO ROYALE.Betrayed by Vesper, the woman he loved, 007 fights the urge to make his latest mission personal. Pursuing his determination to uncover the truth, Bond and M (JUDI DENCH) interrogate Mr. White (JESPER CHRISTENSEN) who reveals the organization which blackmailed Vesper is far more complex and dangerous than anyone had imagined.Forensic intelligence links a Mi6 traitor to a bank account in Haiti where a case of mistaken identity introduces Bond to the beautiful but feisty Camille (OLGA KURYLENKO), a woman who has her own vendetta. Camille leads Bond straight to Dominic Greene (MATHIEU AMALRIC), a ruthless business man and major force within the mysterious organization.On a mission that leads him to Austria, Italy and South America, Bond discovers that Greene, conspiring to take total control of one of the world's most important natural resources, is forging a deal with the exiled General Medrano (JOAQUIN COSIO). Using his associates in the organization, and manipulating his powerful contacts within the CIA and the British government, Greene promises to overthrow the existing regime in a Latin American country, giving the General control of the country in exchange for a seemingly barren piece of land.In a minefield of treachery, murder and deceit, Bond allies with old friends in a battle to uncover the truth. As he gets closer to finding the man responsible for the betrayal of Vesper, 007 must keep one step ahead of the CIA, the terrorists and even M, to unravel Greene's sinister plan and stop his organization.