Showing posts with label bloggers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bloggers. Show all posts

Monday, August 13, 2012

"Love Marriage or Arranged Marriage"?

Sony has launched an eponymous blogging contest to promote its new TV serial. It is promoting it in association with Indiblogger, an Indian blogger community.
   
A brief introduction to the show's concept is that two best friends want a happy marriage but are on opposite sides of the love/arranged marriage debate.

Bloggers have been invited to share their side of the debate with absolutely cool incentives thrown in. There are three Amazon Kindle Fires, five Amazon Kindles, and 35 shopping vouchers to be won in addition to every participant winning a gift package from the channel.
 
As with all blogging contests on Indiblogger, a debate has already begun in the forum. Votes do not matter; creativity and originality are the only two factors to be judge. There is a rule that stories should have a link to the show's Facebook page, which is a recent trend in blogging contests at Indiblogger. More

Saturday, March 17, 2012

Pagan Blog Project 2012

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While taking some time to reflect on 2011 Rowan Pendragon began to think about what 2012 would bring. During this meditative period guidance came toward doing something for the new year, but it took time to figure out what it was.

Ideas were coming in bits and pieces with each feeling incomplete, as though it had a friend it were trying to bring. This is how The Pagan Blog Project 2012 came about.

What is it?
(The Short Answer) It is a way to spend a year dedicating time each week to studying, reflecting, and sharing your spiritual and magickal path.

The project consists of a single blog post each week posted on your blog each Friday for the year of 2012 that will involve a topic that relates to Paganism, Witchcraft, magick, spirituality, and so on.

Use your posts to share your views on a topic, to talk about your own personal experiences, or to act as a catalyst for research into a subject you want to learn more about then share what you learn and feel. Each week has a prompt from a letter of the alphabet to act as a common thread linking all participants.

Are there really Pagan-Buddhists (Pegabus)? Yes, anyone interested in the Earth and spirituality, the environment and the Dharma, fairies (devas) and reconnecting with our forests might be called to Buddhism and Paganism. Approached with the right intention, even Padmasambhava Guru Rinpoche, seen here in the mist, would bless it.

The Details
When? To build togetherness and community, we will all POST on the same day, Fridays, starting Jan. 6, 2012.

How do I know what to write about?
There is a structure to how the weekly blog posts will be done in order to help stay on track. The Pagan Blog Project is set up to keep posts and topics focused specifically on Paganism, Wicca, Witchcraft, Goddess spirituality, the occult, and so on. Rather than a specific topic to write about, we will be working with a letter each week. There are 26 letters and 52 weeks. That means using the same letter for two weeks. The first week could be about affirmations, altars, amulets, animism, Aradia, Alexandrian tradition, and so on. More

Friday, September 17, 2010

Blogisattva Award for Wisdom Quarterly?



A Blog is a Buddhist-log. A bodhisattva is a self-sacrificing "being bent on enlightenment." (A blog, lowercase, is simply a frequently updated "Web log" about anything -- conspiracies theories, for example). Take the two and you get the Blogisattva Awards in recognition of selfless service to the Blogosphere and, uh, humanity. *Fingers crossed* As The WoQ (Wisdom Quarterly) approaches a million hits, we ask: Will we ever win? Of course, we're still waiting to be nominated. Which brings to mind a story:

How To Win
A devout Buddhist went and placed offerings at the feet of Kwan Yin begging to win the lottery. Not winning, she returned with more offerings and prayers. Still not winning, she returned with choicer offerings and more ardent prayers. Kwan Yin was terribly moved by the display of devotion until finally she entered the statue and whispered to the woman, "Buy a ticket."

Monday, July 13, 2009

AP settles case over quoting news stories


NEW YORK (AP) — The Associated Press claimed today that it will collect undisclosed damages as part of its settlement with All Headline News, a website that quoted AP stories. The AP filed a the lawsuit to test the "hot news" doctrine. It claims this doctrine was established in another AP case in 1918 with the Supreme Court. The principle allegedlly holds that while facts cannot be copyrighted, news organizations can sue when competitors copy time-sensitive stories. The rule seems to be valid. AHN Media Corporation, the company behind All Headline News, agreed to stop improperly using time sensitive AP content, according to a joint release from the companies. A lawyer for AHN Media and its CEO, W. Jeffrey Brown, both declined to comment further.

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Free Burma!



Free Burma! The struggle for freedom continues. The release of Burma's democratically-elected leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, is up for renewal this month (May, 2009).