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I think I must make a new category with rhetorical questions.
I’ve submitted my blog to Blog Explosion for about 4 months ago. I understood that there were some changes and the new team has to review a large amount of blogs submitted. But I didn’t expect, not for a minute, that my blog will be declined. And the reason?
Sorry your blog has been declined at BlogExplosion as we are no longer accepting blogs that primarily contain advertising, or promote business opportunities.
Did I miss something? If I search deeper in my blog, I have 7 paid posts out of 105 posts and a few affiliate links on my sidebar.
Another one:
Three months ago, someone has reviewed my blog on LinkRefferal. He said:
This was an okay Blogger. I like the name you have, and also that you made your own header graphic for it. Do you work for blogger? I got the sense that your blog was about advertising for them, as opposed to your “personal” blog. Why do you want traffic to your personal blog? other than your personal friends and what not? what is there on your blog (other than ads and promotion of blogger) that would want someone to come back to read? whats the theme? Just a question I had. Good luck with your blogger..
He didn’t even bother to read more carefully my blog to see that I refer to blogger as a person who writes on a blog. And until this review, I didn’t even hear about Blogger.com 
I hate when someone superficially misjudges my work!
Has something like that happened to you? What did you feel about that?
January 28th, 2008
Ok guys and girls, sorry for missing so much. I’m back now, after two hard weeks.
- My son and I where ill: big fever, headache and so on.
- I had some programming issues to one of my sites and the problem isn’t solved yet.
- I’ve upgraded my blog with the latest wordpress.
- I’ve finally added the Brian threaded comments plugin, so now, I’ll be able to answer to each of you, right after your comment. I think this is a very useful plugin, because if I have no time to answer quickly, it is pretty hard to follow my answers to you after n comments. Besides, you can comment to my commentators comments so you see, I think this is a good thing.
- I’ll make some other changes to my blog’s design, but for now, that’s it.
And last but not least: I have a surprise for you; I’ll announce it the next week, so stay tuned!
Now, I must go and give some answers
January 25th, 2008
In our daily “gold rush” and our daily duties fulfilling, we often forget about less fortunate people around us. They are all over the place and we meet them every day. Every so often we drop them some bucks and rush away to our routine work.
How many times do we have the patience to stop by and find out what drama are behind the people’s poverty? Why are they in the situation to have no home? Or to live in a poor house? Or to live in a box? How did they manage in the cold days? What did they eat?
Today is Bloggers Unite Day for Acts of Kindness, a campaign hosted by BlogCatalog, trying to put “a human face on bloggers who are responsible for so much good in the world.” So I’ve decided to write about poor people living in a box.
Four years ago we (my husband and I) meet a family who lives on the street. The man’s mother banished him from her home when he was a teenager and she never accepts him back. Now, I don’t want to discuss how kind of mother she was if she was able to do such a thing. I don’t now either what happens in that family or I don’t want to judge anybody. So what could the boy do without any help? He lives on the street. He appeals for help to people who rush everyday near him. He works sometime for people who gave him a little job. The time pass over him and now, they have a little son, about my son’s age and they live in a box, because I cannot call that place a home. Of course they call it their home. But it’s a box made by sheet metal and planking. We often ask them how they managed on cold days. They always say that it’s ok: shock:
The man can work. But nobody is hiring him because he has no stable home. And no address. So he is hired occasionally, for unqualified works. I’ve asked him once, what he’s like to do? I like to cook. And why don’t you try to get a job as a cooker? Nobody is hiring me because I have no home.
Some years ago we gave them a blanket. It was a very cold day and I couldn’t stop thinking about them. We often gave them winter clothes, food, candy for the little boy. Last night I’ve made again a large packet with some winter clothes, meet and something for the child. I’ve never spoken about this but today is a special day so I’ve decided to step over my heart and to write about them.
When you meet poor peoples, try to stop some minutes and talk to them. You will be amazed how many things you can find out and how sad could be someone’s life, just because he/she is less fortunate as we do. When I feel sorry for myself, for one reason or other, I often think to people ho live like the family above and I think that my motifs are really stupid. I should be grateful for my life, for having loving parents, for having a home, for having food, for having…
I’m sure most of you have made an act of kindness at some point. Why not to write about it today? Maybe we can change something. And if you write about this, please leave here a comment with the link to your post. I’ll be glad to make an article with link love for all of you who show your kindness.
December 17th, 2007
What I appreciate most about people is kindness. I really don’t care if anybody is reach, or is beautiful, or is very smart (well, maybe a little 
), but I do care if someone is kind. People can show their kindness in many ways: by carrying other people, by carrying some animals, by trying to save the environment, by donating to a children’s home…
On December 17th Bloggers Unite challenges bloggers everywhere to do an act of kindness, something good offline and then write about it on their blogs, using words, pictures, and/or videos to tell the story. The goal is to expose their kindness and generosity as well as serve as an example to non-bloggers that volunteering for a charity, donating to a cause, or simply doing something kind for another person has a ripple effect around the world.
Let’s do something for this world, let’s do something for those who aren’t as lucky as we are, let’s show everybody that we do care.
First of all we can make someone happy on December 17 and second, maybe our acts of kindness will determine other people to do the same.
Over the years, I and my husband make some acts of kindness, like feeding some poor families, giving money to poor people, feeding and carrying some abandoned dogs, but I never write or talk about this, because it sounds pretty weird to me to talk about my own acts of kindness. Anyhow, if I think deeper, I’m convinced that a large number of loggers talking about their acts of kindness can make a difference.
I know that all of you who read this blog are kind people. So why not to join the movement and do something good and blog about it? Please leave a comment and say what act of kindness do you intend to do on December 17th?
Let’s be unite in acts of kindness 
December 7th, 2007
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