Welcome to Crasstalk. Hope you are ready for an exciting week around here. Thanks to everyone who participated in the workshop last night. Please feel free to look through the thread for ideas or to add more of your own; I will check it throughout the day.
This weekend Crasstalkers competed in another battle to find the worst music the internet has to offer. Here are the winners of Country Music Wars:
There was a tie for runner up. The first contender was this wonderful selection from Daisy_Sage.
P_mouse tied her effort with this “classic.”
While both of these efforts were formidable, the championship went to Momof3wildkids for this winning(?) selection.
Good evening Honey Badgers and thanks for dropping by. Please start by reading this. Yes, I know most of you have read it, but just take one more look to humor me. The purpose of tonight’s workshop is for us to brainstorm and share ideas for post topics. Please post any ideas you’ve had or things you would like feedback on. To make this work it is essential that we give one and other feedback so please reply to each other. Here are a few suggestions to get people started:
Tech and Internet Culture (besides Gawker)
Music Reviews
Book Reviews or a Book Club
City Guides and Vacation Reviews
If you are new to WordPress or are having difficulty with it I highly encourage you to watch this video to help you get situated.
Oh, and here’s a few more tips:
When you’re done set the post status to Pending Review so we now it is ready to go.
Edit, edit, edit. Please check over your posts for grammar, spelling, and formatting before you put it in the pending queue. This will really help us out a lot and it will make me think you are a wonderful human being if you do it.
Your post needs to have an “image thumbnail” that is hosted on Crasstalk. Save the picture to your hard drive and then load it into the Crasstalk media library (it’s in the left side menu). Copy the url after it is uploaded and paste that into the thumbnail space back on your post page. People who insert their thumbnails properly are incredibly sexy. I am just putting that out there.
Don’t use HTML tags in the “Visual” editor. It shows up as text and makes us look like a Sarah Palin fan fiction site. Is that really what you want for Crasstalk?
When you embed a video you must be in the HTML mode of the editor and you must use the code under the embed button on You Tube. Pasting the url will not work.
Preview your post to see how it looks. Make changes and preview again. Then do it again. Make sure it looks pretty.
Spell check. Firefox has a built in spell checker.There is no excuse for you to leave this to us. None.
Make sure that you spread the word about your posts. When they are published send an email to BooBooKitteh at [email protected] and she will put you out on Twitter.
I want to say a big thank you to all of you who write for Crasstalk. We know that you all have busy lives and we appreciate the time and effort you put in to make Crasstalk fun.
Hello Crasstalk. Hope everyone is enjoying an easy day and relaxing a bit. Just a reminder that there will be a writer’s workshop at 5 PM EST tonight. Please help us win the internet by coming up with exciting new ideas for posts. Since we have been doing a little bad country in the other post, I thought I would put some of the good stuff over here.
Well good evening gang. Hope you have had a wonderful day. A quick reminder that there will be a writer’s workshop around 5 PM EST tomorrow night. Hopefully we can come up with some great stuff for the next month.
Tonight’s movie is 1965’s Bloody Pit of Horror. It involves a creepy castle, models, and a mysterious figure known as The Crimson Executioner. It’s badness is simply elegant. Hope you enjoy it.
Last week, we had a battle battle for Light Rock supremacy here at Crasstalk. After the dust settled and the weak were vanquished, it was suggested that our next battle involve both kinds of music.
So here you go warriors. Let the battle of the cheesy and terrible begin. Here are a couple to get you started.
Let’s mix in some obligatory patriotism.
This is why I never tell people I grew up in Nebraska.
All right warriors, you know what to do. May God have mercy upon your soul.
Happy Friday! Hope you have some great plans for the weekend. A quick reminder that there will be a Writer’s Workshop this Sunday evening for those who want to work on some ideas for new posts. Please stop by and share your inspiration. Continue reading →
Happy Friday. Hope you are ready to wind up the week and start a great weekend. Today is Flashback Friday so I am going to give you a little tease of what is too come later today. Continue reading →
Good evening Crasstalk. Hope you had a good day. We have couple of quick announcements this evening, please look them over.
We really need some more posts for tomorrow and the upcoming weekend. If you have been thinking about putting something together now is the time. A lot of people who asked for author accounts haven’t actually written a post yet. If you need help please just let me know and I can help you get started.
On a related note, there will be another Writer’s Workshop this Sunday to help people come up with and develop post ideas.
Please share the articles you like on social networkign sites. We have had some really neat articles around here lately so please give the writers some love by showing off their work.
OK, now that we have all that covered let’s have a little fun.
