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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" media="screen" href="/~d/styles/rss2full.xsl"?><?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" media="screen" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~d/styles/itemcontent.css"?><rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:feedburner="http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0" version="2.0"><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17837940</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:27:54 +0000</lastBuildDate><title>Squidoo City Guide</title><description>Official blog of the &lt;a href="http://squidoo.com/groups/cities"&gt;Squidoo City Guide&lt;/a&gt; - Cities Towns and Villages From Around the World</description><link>http://www.squidoocityguide.com/</link><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (Big Jim)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>25</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="self" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/SCG" type="application/rss+xml" /><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com" /><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17837940.post-972078476093944620</guid><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:50:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-08-05T20:12:18.223-05:00</atom:updated><title>New Squidoo City Guide Members</title><description>I just admitted another great new group of SCG members.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://notebook.zoho.com/nb/public/squidoocityguide/book/168076000000003373?nocover=true"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 144px; height: 115px;" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_3BMLgOkWMzc/SnoGN6LQS0I/AAAAAAAAA4Q/0CcNm51MCfE/scgnotebook.jpg" border="0" alt="Squidoo City Guide New Members" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There's several great lenses on US cities, including more about Pendleton SC from OhMe on up to the spinning restaurant in the sky in Niagra Falls, Ontario, Canada and over Bristol in the UK.&lt;br /&gt;I'm using &lt;a href="http://notebook.zoho.com/nb/public/squidoocityguide/book/168076000000003373?nocover=true" target="_blank" title="Squidoo City Guide New Members"&gt;Zoho notebook now to showcase our new members&lt;/a&gt; as I admit them. (Google stopped supporting their Notebook app.) So be sure to bookmark the notebook to keep up with all the great new cities joining the Squidoo City Guide. As always &lt;a href="http://tagfoot.com/bigjim/bookmarks/squidoo+city+guide" target="_blank" title="SCG on tagfoot"&gt;Squidoo City Guide lenses are bookmarked at tagfoot&lt;/a&gt;. You can easily find any city, state country that you're looking for. The old &lt;a href="http://tagfoot.com/bigjim/bookmarks/notebook" target="_blank" title="SCG New Members Notebooks"&gt;Google Notebooks of new members&lt;/a&gt; are there too. Thanks for supporting these authors and their city lenses and the Squidoo City Guide.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BigJim&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://squidoo.com/groups/cities" target="_blank"&gt;Squidoo City Guide&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=ur2&amp;amp;tag=thebuspodcast-20&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=9325&amp;amp;path=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2F0060875410%2Fqid%3D1133896518%2Fsr%3D2-1%2Fref%3Dpd_bbs_b_2_1%3Fs%3Dbooks%2526v%3Dglance%2526n%3D283155" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Read The Fair Tax Book&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17837940-972078476093944620?l=www.squidoocityguide.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SCG/~4/whWn7McHLUc" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SCG/~3/whWn7McHLUc/new-squidoo-city-guide-members.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Big Jim)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">4</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.squidoocityguide.com/2009/08/new-squidoo-city-guide-members.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17837940.post-7150120115610400083</guid><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 18:12:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-07-19T11:43:28.478-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">attractions</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Rocket Moms</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">New members</category><title>SCG Welcomes Rocket Mom's!</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_3BMLgOkWMzc/SEBn9SeC2jI/AAAAAAAAABo/anLeEhvygCM/scgbadge.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 116px; height: 83px;" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_3BMLgOkWMzc/SEBn9SeC2jI/AAAAAAAAABo/anLeEhvygCM/scgbadge.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.squidoo.com/rocketmoms/hq" target="_blank" title="Rocket Mom's HQ"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Rocket Moms&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is fairly new project over at &lt;a href="http://www.squidoo.com/lensmaster/referral/BigJim" target="_blank" title="Squidoo.com"&gt;Squidoo.com&lt;/a&gt;. It's &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;"an invite-only gathering of the smartest women on the web..."&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.squidoo.com/bdkz" target="_blank" title="bdkz"&gt;Lensmaster bdkz&lt;/a&gt; is the leader of the project and designated 'Travel' as one of the topics for the participants to construct lenses on. I ran across bdkz's &lt;a href="http://www.squidoo.com/rocketmoms-travel-lenses-" target="_blank" title="Rocket Mom's Travel Lenses"&gt;"Showing Off The Rocket mom's Travel Lenses"&lt;/a&gt;, and fell into a gold mine of great new city lenses.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's a list of the new Rocket Moms SCG members:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.squidoo.com/learn-spanish-guatemala" target="_blank" title="Squidoo City Guide and Rocket Moms"&gt;San Juan del Bispo, Guatemala&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.squidoo.com/Travel-40" target="_blank" title="Squidoo City Guide and Rocket Moms"&gt;Anaheim, California - Disneyland Adventure&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.squidoo.com/lebo_kansas" target="_blank" title="Squidoo City Guide and Rocket Moms"&gt;Smalltown America - Lebo, Kansas&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.squidoo.com/jonesboro_ga" target="_blank" title="Squidoo City Guide and Rocket Moms"&gt;Jonesboro, Georgia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.squidoo.com/latinquarter" target="_blank" title="Squidoo City Guide and Rocket Moms"&gt;Paris - The Latin Quarter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.squidoo.com/thames-river-ride" target="_blank" title="Squidoo City Guide and Rocket Moms"&gt;London, England - Thames River Ride&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.squidoo.com/topeka-kansas" target="_blank" title="Squidoo City Guide and Rocket Moms"&gt;Topeka, Kansas&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.squidoo.com/SeasideOr1" target="_blank" title="Squidoo City Guide and Rocket Moms"&gt;Seaside, Oregon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.squidoo.com/SanDiegoSurfingPlaces" target="_blank" title="Squidoo City Guide and Rocket Moms"&gt;Best Surfing Beaches In San Diego, California&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.squidoo.com/Savannah-GA" target="_blank" title="Squidoo City Guide and Rocket Moms"&gt;Savannah, Georgia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.squidoo.com/Malacca-for-Kids" target="_blank" title="Squidoo City Guide and Rocket Moms"&gt;Malacca, Malaysia For Kids&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.squidoo.com/forks-washington" target="_blank" title="Squidoo City Guide and Rocket Moms"&gt;Forks, Washington&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.squidoo.com/egg-harbor-wisconsin" target="_blank" title="Squidoo City Guide and Rocket Moms"&gt;Egg Harbor, Wisconsin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.squidoo.com/marblehead-ohio" target="_blank" title="Squidoo City Guide and Rocket Moms"&gt;Marblehead, Ohio&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.squidoo.com/stornoway" target="_blank" title="Squidoo City Guide and Rocket Moms"&gt;Stornoway, Scotland&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.squidoo.com/my-sanantonio" target="_blank" title="Squidoo City Guide and Rocket Moms"&gt;San Antonia, Texas&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.squidoo.com/bornandraised" target="_blank" title="Squidoo City Guide and Rocket Moms"&gt;Knoxville, Tennessee&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So be sure to take a look at these and help me welcome &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Rocket Moms&lt;/span&gt; to the Squidoo City Guide. best of luck with your project and I'm looking forward to many more of your great city lenses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Be sure to take a look at our Google Notebook for all of the &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/notebook/public/05778499048853381789/BDRuASgoQ_d7-9Zkk" target="_blank" title="SCG Notebook of Newest Members"&gt;latest additions to the &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Squidoo City Guide&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://twitter/bigjimj" target="_blank" title="BigJim on Twitter"&gt;Follow me on Twitter.&lt;/a&gt; Retweets are appreciated.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BigJim&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://squidoo.com/groups/cities" target="_blank"&gt;Squidoo City Guide&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=ur2&amp;amp;tag=thebuspodcast-20&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=9325&amp;amp;path=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2F0060875410%2Fqid%3D1133896518%2Fsr%3D2-1%2Fref%3Dpd_bbs_b_2_1%3Fs%3Dbooks%2526v%3Dglance%2526n%3D283155" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Read The Fair Tax Book&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17837940-7150120115610400083?l=www.squidoocityguide.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SCG/~4/vjdZuypF7P4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SCG/~3/vjdZuypF7P4/scg-welcomes-rocket-moms.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Big Jim)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">3</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.squidoocityguide.com/2009/07/scg-welcomes-rocket-moms.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17837940.post-6417137402271584236</guid><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:02:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-06-02T08:15:01.841-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">tagfoot</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">squidoo</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Google Notebook</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">New members</category><title>New SCG Members</title><description>I just admitted a great new batch of lenses to the Squidoo City Guide. As usual, all new members are published in a Google Notebook and you can &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/notebook/public/05778499048853381789/BDRuASgoQ_d7-9Zkk"&gt;browse through them here&lt;/a&gt;. There's four of them now just chocked full of great cities from around the world. Be sure to check out SCG Notebooks &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/notebook/public/05778499048853381789/BDQ3gSwoQzIWb_qsj"&gt;#1&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/notebook/public/05778499048853381789/BDQJ1SgoQv92xqcsj"&gt;#2&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/notebook/public/05778499048853381789/BDRRV5goQ98Wku-oj"&gt;#3&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They are also all bookmarked, tagged and organized over at &lt;a href="http://tagfoot.com/_director/referrer?ref_member=bigjim&amp;amp;rdt=http%3A%2F%2Ftagfoot%2Ecom%2Fhome"&gt;tagfoot&lt;/a&gt;. It's another easy way to &lt;a href="http://tagfoot.com/bigjim/bookmarks/squidoo+city+guide"&gt;browse through our members&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17837940-6417137402271584236?l=www.squidoocityguide.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SCG/~4/052fdYLNu1o" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SCG/~3/052fdYLNu1o/new-scg-members.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Big Jim)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.squidoocityguide.com/2009/06/new-scg-members.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17837940.post-5845408697266238635</guid><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 14:13:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-05-28T10:35:37.742-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">tagfoot</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Cathedrals</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">SCG Featured Lens</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">London</category><title>Featured City: London - St. Paul's Cathedral</title><description>I really like lenses that feature a specific aspect of a city. We have lots of them in SCG. &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;And I really like cathedrals.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/1/59486_7e70cff2ae.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 250px; height: 167px;" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/1/59486_7e70cff2ae.jpg?v=0" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lensmaster &lt;a href="http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/Stazjia" target="_blank" title="Squidoo City Guide"&gt;Stazjia&lt;/a&gt; takes us on a tour and through the history of &lt;a href="http://www.squidoo.com/st_pauls_cathedral" target="_blank" title="St Paul's Cathedral"&gt;St. Paul's Cathedral in London, England&lt;/a&gt;. And what a history it is. Apparently, the current structure is the fourth, and one of the earlier ones took over 200 years to build! The existing cathedral was nearly destroyed in the blitz of WWII.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Videos, lots of pictures and links help you really get a feel for this magnificent structure. Please take a look and be sure to give Stazjia's lens a little love while your there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Update:&lt;/span&gt; I'm getting more of our &lt;a href="http://tagfoot.com/bigjim/bookmarks/squidoo+city+guide" target="_blank" title="SCG on tagfoot"&gt;members lenses bookmarked over at tagfoot&lt;/a&gt;. (over 350 so far.) This is the best way to find lenses about the city or area you're interested in. Use the tag box at the right side to find exactly what you're looking for. Not familiar with &lt;b&gt;tagfoot&lt;/b&gt;? It's a new no-nonsense bookmarking site. &lt;a href="http://tagfoot.com/_director/referrer?ref_member=bigjim&amp;rdt=http%3A%2F%2Ftagfoot%2Ecom%2Fsign%5Fup%5Fwizard%2Ebigjim" target="_blank" title="Tagfoot"&gt;Check it out.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BigJim&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://squidoo.com/groups/cities" target="_blank"&gt;Squidoo City Guide&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=ur2&amp;amp;tag=thebuspodcast-20&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=9325&amp;amp;path=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2F0060875410%2Fqid%3D1133896518%2Fsr%3D2-1%2Fref%3Dpd_bbs_b_2_1%3Fs%3Dbooks%2526v%3Dglance%2526n%3D283155" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Read The Fair Tax Book&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17837940-5845408697266238635?l=www.squidoocityguide.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SCG/~4/gvReig4aZgA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SCG/~3/gvReig4aZgA/featured-city-london-st-pauls-cathedral.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Big Jim)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.squidoocityguide.com/2009/05/featured-city-london-st-pauls-cathedral.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17837940.post-6205533265780394148</guid><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 22:47:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-05-18T18:35:32.122-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">State Lenses</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">tagfoot</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">USA</category><title>Poddys' USA State Lenses</title><description>Periodically I run across things that I want to share here that aren't city lenses or directly related. I want to take this chance to let you know about &lt;a href="http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/poddys" target="_blank" title"Squidoo Lensmaster Poddys"&gt;Lensmaster Poddy's&lt;/a&gt; USA States series of lenses. That's right, he's doing a lens on every state in the USA. These are all great lenses, of course, Poddys is a very well respected Squidoo lensmaster. But they are also great places to add links to your city lenses! He's included plexos in each one for people with lenses related to the respective state.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He has six of them done as of this writing: &lt;a href="http://www.squidoo.com/usa-lenses-alabama" target="_blank" title="USA Series - Alabama"&gt;Alabama&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.squidoo.com/usa-lenses-alaska" target="_blank" title="USA Series - Alaska"&gt;Alaska&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.squidoo.com/usa-lenses-arizona" target="_blank" title="USA Series - Arizona"&gt;Arizona&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.squidoo.com/usa-lenses-arkansas" target="_blank" title="USA Series - Arkansas"&gt;Arkansas&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.squidoo.com/usa-lenses-california" target="_blank" title="USA Series - California"&gt;California&lt;/a&gt;. (What? No state with a 'B'? Who knew?) You can keep up with them from &lt;a href="http://tagfoot.com/poddys/bookmarks/usa" target="_blank" title="Bookmarked On tagfoot"&gt;his bookmarks on tagfoot&lt;/a&gt;, or you can &lt;a href="http://www.delovesto.com/2009/05/another-batch-of-fresh-lenses/" target="_blank" title="Off The Record With Debbie And Tony"&gt;subscribe to Poddy's blog&lt;/a&gt; to get updates. You'll get a lot of other cool posts too. So check out Poddys' state lenses and add links to your city lenses. Give him some stars, comments and all the goodies while your there too!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you're not familiar with them, check out &lt;a href="http://www.squidoo.com/lensmaster/referral"&gt;Squidoo&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://tagfoot.com/_director/referrer?ref_member=bigjim&amp;rdt=http%3A%2F%2Ftagfoot%2Ecom%2Fsign%5Fup%5Fwizard%2Ebigjim" target="_blank" title="tagfoot"&gt;tagfoot&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BigJim&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://squidoo.com/groups/cities" target="_blank"&gt;Squidoo City Guide&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=ur2&amp;amp;tag=thebuspodcast-20&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=9325&amp;amp;path=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2F0060875410%2Fqid%3D1133896518%2Fsr%3D2-1%2Fref%3Dpd_bbs_b_2_1%3Fs%3Dbooks%2526v%3Dglance%2526n%3D283155" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Read The Fair Tax Book&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17837940-6205533265780394148?l=www.squidoocityguide.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SCG/~4/hhb-kUwjBfg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SCG/~3/hhb-kUwjBfg/poddys-usa-state-lenses.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Big Jim)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.squidoocityguide.com/2009/05/poddys-usa-state-lenses.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17837940.post-3685777941646855637</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 12:48:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-05-13T08:31:25.974-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Pendleton South Carolina</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">SCG Featured Lens</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Festivals</category><title>Freedom Fest In Pendleton, SC</title><description>I think &lt;b&gt;Pendleton, South Carolina&lt;/b&gt; in the most Squidooed city on Squidoo. At least per capita if not in simple numbers alone. Do a &lt;a href="http://www.squidoo.com/search/results/pendleton%20sc/0" target="_blank" title="Pendleton, SC on Squidoo"&gt;search for Pendleton SC&lt;/a&gt; on Squidoo and it returns 27 lenses! Most all of these are from lensmasters &lt;a href="http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/Joan4" target="_blank" title="Lensmaster Joan4"&gt;Joan4&lt;/a&gt; and the author of our &lt;b&gt;Feature City Lens&lt;/b&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/OhMe" target="_blank" title="Lensmaster OhMe"&gt;OhMe&lt;/a&gt;. (They're sisters.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://static.squidoo.com/resize/squidoo_images/-1/draft_lens3884222module27210502photo_1239649785Freedom_fest_flyer_09.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 219px;" src="http://static.squidoo.com/resize/squidoo_images/-1/draft_lens3884222module27210502photo_1239649785Freedom_fest_flyer_09.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;"&lt;b&gt;Freedom Fest&lt;/b&gt;... is an old fashioned Patriotic community celebration that is fun for the whole family." And believe me, OhMe's lens lets you know all about it: The festivals organizers and sponsors, related activities, rules for visitors, food at the festival (Mmmmmm. Gimme a big ol' slice of watermelon!), where the proceeds go, and lots more. There's even a music widget filled with patriotic music. (It starts off with the Star Spangled Banner, so I had to view part of this lens standing up!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Proceeds from this lens go to &lt;a href="http://www.squidoo.com/fotp" target="_blank" title="Friends Of The Park"&gt;Pendleton's Veterans Park&lt;/a&gt;. (Yup, there's a lens about that too.) You can purchase some &lt;b&gt;Freedom Fest&lt;/b&gt; merchandise right from OhMe's lens. So grab a T-shirt or hat to help support them even if you can't go to the festival.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks for sharing your town with us in so many ways. And thanks for being a part of the &lt;b&gt;Squidoo City Guide&lt;/b&gt;. Here's the &lt;a href="http://tagfoot.com/bigjim/bookmarks/pendleton" target="_blank" title="Squidoo City Guide on tagfoot"&gt;Pendleton lenses in SCG bookmarked at &lt;b&gt;tagfoot&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17837940-3685777941646855637?l=www.squidoocityguide.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SCG/~4/qYkJMTiRprg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SCG/~3/qYkJMTiRprg/freedom-fest-in-pendleton-sc.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Big Jim)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">2</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.squidoocityguide.com/2009/05/freedom-fest-in-pendleton-sc.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Links for 2009-04-13 [del.icio.us]</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SCG/~3/slOi-S_yJ1o/bigjimj</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:00:00 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://del.icio.us/bigjimj#2009-04-13</guid><description>&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.greenlodgingprograms.com/?Codx=5779"&gt;Green Lodging&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
People are becoming more environmentally friendly. At home, at work and in their activities. And people are realizing more and more that traveling can be easier on the environment as well. Ecotourism has been an active and growing industry for awhile and now that concern is being more specifically applied to the area of Green Lodging. G...&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bluesfinder.com/"&gt;BluesFinder.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
Welcome to BluesFinder.com - A new and growing resource for all genres of Blues music.BluesFinder Search Engine - Our custom search engine, located just above, brings targeted search results making it the best way to find the Blues music results you&amp;#039;re looking for. Find your favorite Blues Artist or new ones you hadn&amp;#039;t heard before&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SCG/~4/slOi-S_yJ1o" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://del.icio.us/bigjimj#2009-04-13</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17837940.post-3318155833314894863</guid><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 02:53:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-04-06T07:44:46.901-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Fargo North Dakota</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">New members</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">SCG Featured Lens</category><title>Fargo and the Red River</title><description>I wanted to feature this lens because of it's timely subject. I'm sure most of us in the United States have been aware of the flooding of the Red River in Fargo, North Dakota and the surrounding area. &lt;a href="http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/Tipi" target="_blank" title="Squidoo City Guide"&gt;Lensmaster Tipi&lt;/a&gt; just submitted her lens &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;2009 Fargo And The Red River&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://static.squidoo.com/resize/squidoo_images/-1/draft_lens3650112module23779232photo_12382747632009Fargo.OxboxNationalGuardVolunteers.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:center; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 531px; height: 411px;" src="http://static.squidoo.com/resize/squidoo_images/-1/draft_lens3650112module23779232photo_12382747632009Fargo.OxboxNationalGuardVolunteers.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's an inside look at Fargo, the devastating weather and the spirit and resiliency of the residents. Tipi also has a couple more Fargo lenses, which are in the SCG as well. &lt;a href="http://tagfoot.com/bigjim/bookmarks/fargo" target="_blank" title="Squidoo City Guide"&gt;I have them bookmarked at tagfoot.&lt;/a&gt; All of the newest members are &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/notebook/public/05778499048853381789/BDRRV5goQ98Wku-oj" target="_blank" title="Squidoo City Guide"&gt;listed in the SCG Google Notebook&lt;/a&gt;. Please take a look at them too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks for the great lenses Tipi and welcome to the Squidoo City Guide.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BigJim&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://squidoo.com/groups/cities" target="_blank"&gt;Squidoo City Guide&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=ur2&amp;amp;tag=thebuspodcast-20&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=9325&amp;amp;path=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2F0060875410%2Fqid%3D1133896518%2Fsr%3D2-1%2Fref%3Dpd_bbs_b_2_1%3Fs%3Dbooks%2526v%3Dglance%2526n%3D283155" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Read The Fair Tax Book&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17837940-3318155833314894863?l=www.squidoocityguide.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SCG/~4/rjDKU3jo030" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SCG/~3/rjDKU3jo030/fargo-and-red-river.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Big Jim)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.squidoocityguide.com/2009/04/fargo-and-red-river.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17837940.post-8690922576247346772</guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:17:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-03-24T09:47:25.017-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">attractions</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">SCG Featured Lens</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">New York City</category><title>Featured Lens: Empire State Building</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://affiliates.allposters.com/link/redirect.asp?item=1649880&amp;AID=484869889&amp;PSTID=1&amp;LTID=2&amp;lang=1"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/KUN/05160.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ottoblotto's &lt;a href="http://www.squidoo.com/empire-state-building-new-york-city" target="_blank" title="Squidoo City Guide"&gt;Empire State Building&lt;/a&gt; is one of &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/notebook/public/05778499048853381789/BDRRV5goQ98Wku-oj"&gt;the latest batch of new lenses that I've just admitted&lt;/a&gt;. I'm featuring it because it's a really good lens. Lots of great pictures, short but informative sections that hold your interest and help it flow along well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The other reason is that it's a good example of focusing on a certain aspect of a city. City lenses can have such a variety of topics. There are nearly endless aspects of a city or town that can be the the subject and focus of a Squidoo lens.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another thing I really liked is that &lt;a href="http://squidoo.com/lensmasters/ottoblotto" target="_blank"&gt;ottoblotto&lt;/a&gt; has an ongoing series of these New York City attraction lenses. What a great way to tie things together and have an effective network of lenses. Be sure to check out the &lt;a href="http://www.squidoo.com/chrysler-building" target="_blank" title="Squidoo City Guide"&gt;Chrysler Building&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href="http://www.squidoo.com/brooklyn-bridge" target="_blank" title="Squidoo City Guide"&gt;Brooklyn Bridge&lt;/a&gt; too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BigJim&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://squidoo.com/groups/cities" target="_blank"&gt;Squidoo City Guide&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=ur2&amp;amp;tag=thebuspodcast-20&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=9325&amp;amp;path=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2F0060875410%2Fqid%3D1133896518%2Fsr%3D2-1%2Fref%3Dpd_bbs_b_2_1%3Fs%3Dbooks%2526v%3Dglance%2526n%3D283155" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Read The Fair Tax Book&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17837940-8690922576247346772?l=www.squidoocityguide.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SCG/~4/wYcDEWwQvwc" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SCG/~3/wYcDEWwQvwc/featured-lens-empire-state-building.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Big Jim)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.squidoocityguide.com/2009/03/featured-lens-empire-state-building.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17837940.post-1258865367032792447</guid><pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:11:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-12-30T14:39:47.035-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">New members</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">SCG Featured Lens</category><title>SCG's 500th Lens!</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://static.squidoo.com/resize/squidoo_images/-1/lens1961706_1210305834Wardsboro.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 116px; height: 87px;" src="http://static.squidoo.com/resize/squidoo_images/-1/lens1961706_1210305834Wardsboro.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Squidoo City Guide just admitted our 500th lens! Lensmaster &lt;a href="http://squidoo.com/lensmasters/evelyn_saenz" target="_blank"&gt;Evelyn_Saenz&lt;/a&gt; has this distinct designation with her lens &lt;a href="http://squidoo.com/parade" target="_blank" title="Squidoo City Guide's 500th Lens!"&gt;Wardsboro, Vermont's Small Town Fair&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Evelyn always makes comprehensive lenses filled with lots of information, history, pictures, relevant details and links plus lots more. And this extensive look at Wardsboro, Vermont is no exception. You'll want to jump in and walk right along with the July 4th Street Fair. And be prepared to get hungry. Mmmmm, fair food!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We want to thank all of our great member lensmasters and their fantastic lenses on cities towns and villages from around the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We've begun to bookmark all of our member lenses at tagfoot. &lt;a href="http://tagfoot.com/bigjim/bookmarks/Squidoo+City+Guide" target="_blank" title="SCG on tagfoot"&gt;Browse through them if you can.&lt;/a&gt; tagfoot is a great new site with lots of useful features and a very good community feeling. They're still in private beta but &lt;a href="http://tagfoot.com/_director/referrer?ref_member=bigjim&amp;rdt=http%3A%2F%2Ftagfoot%2Ecom%2Fsign%5Fup%5Fwizard%2Ebigjim" target="_blank" title="Join tagfoot"&gt;you can join here&lt;/a&gt;. Check it out, you'll love it. &lt;a href="http://tagfoot.com/_director/referrer?ref_member=bigjim&amp;rdt=http%3A%2F%2Ftagfoot%2Ecom%2Fbigjim" target="_blank"&gt;Be sure to send me a friend request.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BigJim&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://squidoo.com/groups/cities" target="_blank"&gt;Squidoo City Guide&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=ur2&amp;amp;tag=thebuspodcast-20&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=9325&amp;amp;path=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2F0060875410%2Fqid%3D1133896518%2Fsr%3D2-1%2Fref%3Dpd_bbs_b_2_1%3Fs%3Dbooks%2526v%3Dglance%2526n%3D283155" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Read The Fair Tax Book&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17837940-1258865367032792447?l=www.squidoocityguide.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SCG/~4/wIIkGEhwl44" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SCG/~3/wIIkGEhwl44/scgs-500th-lens.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Big Jim)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">3</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.squidoocityguide.com/2008/12/scgs-500th-lens.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Links for 2008-11-03 [del.icio.us]</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SCG/~3/LlpgJd5PeKs/bigjimj</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:00:00 PST</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://del.icio.us/bigjimj#2008-11-03</guid><description>&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.squidoo.com/partnership_for_safety"&gt;Partnership For Safety&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
An electronic, anti-crime alert system that utilizes and inifies the entire community. Based in Jacksonville, Florida, Partnership For Safety allows you to be notified about criminal or dangerous activity in your area by receiving a txt message, email or phone call. Safer families, safer neighborhoods, safer communities. Peace of mind.&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.squidoo.com/die-cast"&gt;BigJim's Diecasts Direct&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
Great deals on my diecast collectibles. Buy them directly from me. No Ebay, no fees, lower prices.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SCG/~4/775paAIMfd4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://del.icio.us/bigjimj#2008-10-07</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Links for 2008-09-05 [del.icio.us]</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SCG/~3/GeG6ZGq5Ilg/bigjimj</link><pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:00:00 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://del.icio.us/bigjimj#2008-09-05</guid><description>&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.squidoo.com/collect-diecast"&gt;Diecast Collectible Cars&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
Great way to find deals on collectible diecast cars. Most auctions featured here start under $10.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SCG/~4/GeG6ZGq5Ilg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://del.icio.us/bigjimj#2008-09-05</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17837940.post-7317946479094947133</guid><pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:09:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-08-29T08:43:49.661-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Lens Of The Day</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">members</category><title>Two members get LOTD!</title><description>We've been very proud to see that in the last few days two of our members have had their city lenses chosen as &lt;a href="http://blogs.squidoo.com/lensoftheday/" target="_blank"&gt;Lens Of The Day&lt;/a&gt;. As most of you know, Squidoo.com has a "Lens Of The Day" feature and it is a very coveted distinction. (As of this writing these lenses had jumped to #1 &amp; 4 in the Travel category, and #21 and 147 in overall lensrank respectively.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A couple days ago, SCG member &lt;a href="http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/Gordon_H" target="_blank"&gt;Gordon_H&lt;/a&gt; had his &lt;a href="http://www.squidoo.com/thelastdrop" target="_blank"&gt;The Last Drop&lt;/a&gt; lens chosen. It's a vary cool look at a traditional Irish pub in Edinburgh. Makes me want a pint every time I look at it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On August 24th, &lt;a href="http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/marasco2001" target="_blank"&gt;marasco2001&lt;/a&gt; was chosen LOTD with &lt;a href="http://www.squidoo.com/VisitSanFrancisco" target="_blank"&gt;Visit My San Francisco&lt;/a&gt;. It's a picture-filled tour of the City by the Bay with some great local info and links as well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/megancasey" target="_blank"&gt;Megan Casey&lt;/a&gt;, writer of the LOTD blog, mentioned that she was moving to San Francisco and wanted to what Squidoo lensmasters had to say about it. Squidoo City Guide is quickly becoming a great place to find out info on cities, towns and villages from around the world. We hope your move went well, Megan. And best of luck out there on the left coast.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You should have a city lens in the &lt;a href="http://squidoo.com/groups/cities" target="_blank" title="Squidoo City Guide"&gt;Squidoo City Guide&lt;/a&gt; too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BigJim&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://squidoo.com/groups/cities" target="_blank"&gt;Squidoo City Guide&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=ur2&amp;amp;tag=thebuspodcast-20&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=9325&amp;amp;path=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2F0060875410%2Fqid%3D1133896518%2Fsr%3D2-1%2Fref%3Dpd_bbs_b_2_1%3Fs%3Dbooks%2526v%3Dglance%2526n%3D283155" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Read The Fair Tax Book&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17837940-7317946479094947133?l=www.squidoocityguide.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SCG/~4/uFpGp5eMBWc" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SCG/~3/uFpGp5eMBWc/two-members-get-lotd.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Big Jim)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.squidoocityguide.com/2008/08/two-members-get-lotd.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17837940.post-6395840970172790042</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:10:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-25T14:00:11.872-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">News</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">members</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">New members</category><title>New Lenses Added And Member Interviewed</title><description>I just added a batch of great new lenses. Please take a look at them when you can in our &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/notebook/public/05778499048853381789/BDQ3gSwoQzIWb_qsj" target="_blank" title="Squidoo City Guide Notebook"&gt;SCG Notebook&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We love our members and a lot of them are influential and popular people across many aspects of the internet and online world. &lt;a href="http://squidoo.com/lensmasters/chefkeem" target="_blank" title="Squidoo City Guide Member Chef Keem"&gt;Chef Keem&lt;/a&gt; has been a Squidoo lensmaster for just a few months and has achieved quite a high profile. &lt;a href="http://bdkz.typepad.com/giant_squid/2008/07/an-interview-with-giant-squid-chefkeem.html" target="_blank"&gt;He was just featured for an interview&lt;/a&gt; on the &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;"So You Want To Be A Giant Squid"&lt;/span&gt; blog.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Congratulations Chef Keem and we're glad to have your &lt;a href="http://www.squidoo.com/berlin-wall-falls" target="_blank"&gt;Berlin Wall&lt;/a&gt; lens in the SCG.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BigJim&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://squidoo.com/groups/cities" target="_blank"&gt;Squidoo City Guide&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=ur2&amp;amp;tag=thebuspodcast-20&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=9325&amp;amp;path=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2F0060875410%2Fqid%3D1133896518%2Fsr%3D2-1%2Fref%3Dpd_bbs_b_2_1%3Fs%3Dbooks%2526v%3Dglance%2526n%3D283155" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Read The Fair Tax Book&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17837940-6395840970172790042?l=www.squidoocityguide.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SCG/~4/O--jUnPhr2w" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SCG/~3/O--jUnPhr2w/new-lenses-added-and-member-interviewed.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Big Jim)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">5</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.squidoocityguide.com/2008/07/new-lenses-added-and-member-interviewed.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17837940.post-7344934283383468218</guid><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:02:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-23T16:35:24.566-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">SCG Blog</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">comments</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Do-Follow</category><title>SCG Blog is now "Do-Follow"</title><description>The Squidoo City Guide Blog is now a "do-follow" blog. This means that we encourage people to add relevant comments to our posts and your links will be indexed, or "followed", by search engines.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SCG is all about finding ways for our members to promote and improve their Squidoo city lenses. We want membership in our community to be beneficial. Now you can add relevant comments and include a link to your Squidoo city lens, and get a little link love. You don't &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;have&lt;/span&gt; to member of the Squidoo City Guide (&lt;a href="http://squidoo.com/groups/cities" target="_blank"&gt;although you should be&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Comments that are related to our topics and contain useful and valuable content will be allowed. Any spam, marketing or inappropriate links will be deleted. Please don't waste our time or yours.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've been interested in this for awhile and got the info I needed from &lt;a href="http://www.squidoo.com/dofollowblogslist" target="_blank"&gt;Do Follow Blogs&lt;/a&gt; which, of course, was created by a Squidoo lensmaster. I was directed from there to &lt;a href="http://www.bloggerbuster.com/2007/10/remove-nofollow-tags-from-your-template.html" target="_blank"&gt;a helpful blog post&lt;/a&gt; that showed me how to remove the "no-follow" tags. "Do Follow Blogs" also has a "Plexo" where you can add the URL to your own "do-follow" blog.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We have also submitted this blog to the &lt;a href="http://www.dofollowblogs.com/" target="_blank"&gt;"Do Follow" Blog Directory&lt;/a&gt;. I hope this helps gets our members some beneficial backlinks. So comment away people. Let us know what you think about SCG and help us get the word out about all of our great cities, towns and villages.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BigJim&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://squidoo.com/groups/cities" target="_blank"&gt;Squidoo City Guide&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=ur2&amp;amp;tag=thebuspodcast-20&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=9325&amp;amp;path=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2F0060875410%2Fqid%3D1133896518%2Fsr%3D2-1%2Fref%3Dpd_bbs_b_2_1%3Fs%3Dbooks%2526v%3Dglance%2526n%3D283155" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Read The Fair Tax Book&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17837940-7344934283383468218?l=www.squidoocityguide.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SCG/~4/4eOawa12Wbo" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SCG/~3/4eOawa12Wbo/scg-blog-is-now-do-follow.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Big Jim)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">5</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.squidoocityguide.com/2008/07/scg-blog-is-now-do-follow.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17837940.post-282452280441867212</guid><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:19:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-17T15:50:14.692-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">squidoo city guide</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">News</category><title>SCG Member In The News!</title><description>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Squidoo City Guide&lt;/span&gt; member &lt;a href="http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/Joan4" target="_blank" title="Squidoo City Guide Member Joan4"&gt;Joan4&lt;/a&gt; has made the news! Joan and her lens about Pendleton, SC were mentioned in the &lt;a href="http://www.independentmail.com/news/2008/jul/16/tidbits-anderson-area-july-16-2008/" target="_blank" title="SCG Member In The News"&gt;Anderson-Independent&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Joan has been a &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Squidoo City Guide&lt;/span&gt; member since June 6, 2008 and her lens is shooting up the lensranks. As of today it was #10 in the Travel category and ranked #413 overall. A lot of hes lenses traffic is coming from townspeople themselves. Friends and residents are leaving posts in her guestbook and it's starting to read like a community bulletin board.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This will be fun to watch and will present some new opportunities to use a Squidoo lens to support, inform and unify an entire community.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So take a look at her lens and see what all the fuss is about. Great job, Joan. We're proud to have you as a member.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold; font-style:italic; font-size:x-large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.squidoo.com/pendleton"&gt;Pendleton, SC&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BigJim&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://squidoo.com/groups/cities" target="_blank"&gt;Squidoo City Guide&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=ur2&amp;amp;tag=thebuspodcast-20&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=9325&amp;amp;path=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2F0060875410%2Fqid%3D1133896518%2Fsr%3D2-1%2Fref%3Dpd_bbs_b_2_1%3Fs%3Dbooks%2526v%3Dglance%2526n%3D283155" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Read The Fair Tax Book&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17837940-282452280441867212?l=www.squidoocityguide.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SCG/~4/0Us1rN3n5Ag" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SCG/~3/0Us1rN3n5Ag/scg-member-in-news.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Big Jim)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.squidoocityguide.com/2008/07/scg-member-in-news.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17837940.post-4675662940555064731</guid><pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:47:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-12T13:07:54.477-05:00</atom:updated><title>On The Road</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.ottawabluesfest.ca/"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px;" src="http://www.ottawabluesfest.ca/images/coretemplategrfx/top-bg-2.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hello from Ottawa, Canada. I'm up here for a couple days playing at the &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Ottawa Blues Festival&lt;/span&gt; with the &lt;a href="http://sqidoo.com/sauceboss" target="_blank" title="Sauce Boss"&gt;Sauce Boss&lt;/a&gt;. And, you guessed it, we've got some great lenses in SCG about Ottawa. &lt;a href="http://citovil-swicki.eurekster.com/ottawa+canada/" target="_blank" title="SCG Search Engine"&gt;Use the SCG Search Engine&lt;/a&gt; to find member lenses and lots more relevant information. You can use it straight from here in the side-bar. Type in the city you'd like to find out more about.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After coming back in the states on Monday, we'll be playing in Rochester, Syracuse and Orchard Park, NY. As well as over in Lorain, OH. If we're going to be near you, please &lt;a href="http://sauceboss.com/concert.htm" target="_blank" title="Sauce Boss Shows"&gt;check out itinerary at the Sauce Boss website&lt;/a&gt; and come out to a show.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I just admitted a couple batches of great new city lenses. &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/notebook/public/05778499048853381789/BDQ3gSwoQzIWb_qsj" target="_blank" title="Squidoo City Guide Notebook"&gt;Please go to our SCG Notebook&lt;/a&gt; and take a look at our newest members.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BigJim&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://squidoo.com/groups/cities" target="_blank"&gt;Squidoo City Guide&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=ur2&amp;amp;tag=thebuspodcast-20&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=9325&amp;amp;path=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2F0060875410%2Fqid%3D1133896518%2Fsr%3D2-1%2Fref%3Dpd_bbs_b_2_1%3Fs%3Dbooks%2526v%3Dglance%2526n%3D283155" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Read The Fair Tax Book&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17837940-4675662940555064731?l=www.squidoocityguide.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SCG/~4/OGr8j23MCeI" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SCG/~3/OGr8j23MCeI/on-road.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Big Jim)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.squidoocityguide.com/2008/07/on-road.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17837940.post-1823953320280815338</guid><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 01:53:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-09T21:17:50.531-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">squidoo city guide</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">squidoo</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">SCG Featured Lens</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">cities</category><title>Featured Lens: "City Of Eternal Spring"</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://static.squidoo.com/resize/squidoo_images/-1/draft_lens1458449module2986357photo_puerto_harbour.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px;" src="http://static.squidoo.com/resize/squidoo_images/-1/draft_lens1458449module2986357photo_puerto_harbour.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our featured lens this time takes us to The Canary Islands and the old colonial town of Puerto de la Cruz. This is an excellent lens and makes you feel as if you're right their on the beaches and different areas of this town.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lensmaster &lt;a href="http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/Piksychick" target="_blank"&gt;Piksychick&lt;/a&gt; has filled this one with facts about the town, the attractions, inside traveling tips. There's helpful info to help you go to either end of the spectrum on hotels and accomodations and what to expect from different types of transportation in the area. There's links to free maps and other informative websites, a table with exchange rates and even a recomendation for a physician if you need one while there. Plus video and lots of great pictures.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold; font-style:italic;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.squidoo.com/puertodelacruz" target="_blank" title="Squidoo City Guide Featured Lens"&gt;Puerto de la Cruz, Canary Islands&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One thing I like about this lens is that it is very specific about where this town is. I've noticed a lot of lenses that have me searching and wondering where in the world this place really is. (I'll have a post about that and other tips for improving city lenses soon.) You definitely know where this part of paradise is.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BigJim&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://squidoo.com/groups/cities" target="_blank"&gt;Squidoo City Guide&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.squidoo.com/pages/faq" target="_blank"&gt;What's a Squidoo lens?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=ur2&amp;amp;tag=thebuspodcast-20&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=9325&amp;amp;path=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2F0060875410%2Fqid%3D1133896518%2Fsr%3D2-1%2Fref%3Dpd_bbs_b_2_1%3Fs%3Dbooks%2526v%3Dglance%2526n%3D283155" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Read The Fair Tax Book&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17837940-1823953320280815338?l=www.squidoocityguide.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SCG/~4/6nYYwVgKsL8" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SCG/~3/6nYYwVgKsL8/featured-lens-city-of-eternal-spring.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Big Jim)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.squidoocityguide.com/2008/07/featured-lens-city-of-eternal-spring.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17837940.post-2635308048891783670</guid><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-25T14:01:22.578-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">squidoo city guide</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Google Notebook</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">New members</category><title>Brand New SCG Lenses.</title><description>I just admitted a new batch of lenses to the Squidoo City Guide. Including Portland, OR; Paris; Seoul, Korea and more. Be sure to take a look at all of them. You can find links to them in our&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold; font-style:italic;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/notebook/public/05778499048853381789/BDQ3gSwoQzIWb_qsj" target="_blank" title="New SCG Lenses"&gt;SCG Google Notebook&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We're growing and we would like you to be a part of our community.Click on the "Make A New Lens" links in the side-bar and join the Squidoo City Guide.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BigJim&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://squidoo.com/groups/cities" target="_blank"&gt;Squidoo City Guide&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=ur2&amp;amp;tag=thebuspodcast-20&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=9325&amp;amp;path=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2F0060875410%2Fqid%3D1133896518%2Fsr%3D2-1%2Fref%3Dpd_bbs_b_2_1%3Fs%3Dbooks%2526v%3Dglance%2526n%3D283155" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Read The Fair Tax Book&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17837940-2635308048891783670?l=www.squidoocityguide.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SCG/~4/KDw8ozJu-YU" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SCG/~3/KDw8ozJu-YU/brand-new-scg-lenses.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Big Jim)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.squidoocityguide.com/2008/07/brand-new-scg-lenses.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17837940.post-4029985218859138396</guid><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:16:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-06-30T22:17:35.275-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">squidoo city guide</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Sydney Australia</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">SCG Featured Lens</category><title>Featured Lens - Let's Climb A Bridge</title><description>When I pick a featured lens I usually go through my notes of ones that struck my fancy as I admitted them to the guide, or I &lt;a href="http://www.squidoo.com/groups/cities/lenses" target="_blank" title"SCG Members Lenses"&gt;scroll through our members lenses&lt;/a&gt; and see what jumps out. But this one popped right into my head... "Where's that bridge climby thing lens?" I really like this one and it has, to me, appallingly low lensrank. But we're going to fix that. Aren't we?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lensmaster &lt;a href="http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/Littlesweetpea" target="_blank"&gt;Littlesweetpea&lt;/a&gt; has taken us along with her on her visit to Sydney, Australia as she &lt;a href="http://www.squidoo.com/SydneyHarbourBridgeClimb" target="_blank" title"Climbing Sydney Harbor Bridge, Australia"&gt;climbed the Sydney Harbor Bridge&lt;/a&gt;. (Ok, it's a mini &lt;a href="http://jaxatnight.blogspot.com/2008/06/featured-lens-119000-cars-day.html" target="_blank"&gt;"bridge theme"&lt;/a&gt;. But big ol' bridges are cool.) Littlesweatpea provides us with facts about the bridge, some great pics, videos, need to know info in preparation (don't have a drink first!), equipment they provide you with for the climb and even a link to where you can buy tickets. And you do have to book in advance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not up to the 3 and a half hour climb? You can go to the top of the pylon at one end and watch the other crazies climbing the bridge. If you plan on making this trip you'll get through it like a pro after reading this.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.squidoo.com/SydneyHarbourBridgeClimb" target="_blank" title"Climbing Sydney Harbor Bridge, Australia"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic; font-weight:bold;"&gt;Climbing The Sydney Harbor Bridge, Australia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This has a lot of the stuff I like about lenses that tie in with the concept of a &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Squidoo City Guide&lt;/span&gt; lens. It's informative, inclusive by using relevant pics and videos, great useful information and suggestions, it encourages feedback, cool related items to purchase. There's a couple pics of the beautiful Sydney Opera House. It really helps to have compelling content.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She even slips in a reference to some of her other lenses. Early on too! How bold. It's a great reminder that Squidoo lenses are about promoting yourself and your lenses. City lenses can almost always be tied into your other lenses and subjects. They are great way to do some cross-promotion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don't forget to rate the lens, Digg, StumbleUpon or any of the other ways to help promote an excellent lens. Leave a note in the Guestbook too. If you're not a member of Squidoo, &lt;a href="http://www.squidoo.com/group/create_lens/cities?forward=true" target="_blank" title"Join the Squidoo City Guide"&gt;join now and make your city lens&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BigJim&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://squidoo.com/groups/cities" target="_blank"&gt;Squidoo City Guide&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=ur2&amp;amp;tag=thebuspodcast-20&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=9325&amp;amp;path=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2F0060875410%2Fqid%3D1133896518%2Fsr%3D2-1%2Fref%3Dpd_bbs_b_2_1%3Fs%3Dbooks%2526v%3Dglance%2526n%3D283155" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Read The Fair Tax Book&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17837940-4029985218859138396?l=www.squidoocityguide.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SCG/~4/sdnF045UEbI" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SCG/~3/sdnF045UEbI/featured-lens-lets-climb-bridge.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Big Jim)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.squidoocityguide.com/2008/06/featured-lens-lets-climb-bridge.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17837940.post-1934195085665049461</guid><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:41:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-25T14:02:19.595-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">squidoo city guide</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Google Notebook</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">New members</category><title>New SCG Lenses with Google Notebook</title><description>Now you can keep up with the newest additions to the Squidoo City Guide. You'll be able to find them in the side-bar of this blog, at the &lt;a href="http://squidoo.com/groups/cities#module10172539" target="_blank" title="Newest SCG Lenses"&gt;Squidoo City Guide&lt;/a&gt;, on our &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=518926725" target="_blank" title="SCG Facebook Profile"&gt;Facebook Profile&lt;/a&gt;, or with the &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/notebook/feeds/05778499048853381789/notebooks/BDQ3gSwoQzIWb_qsj" target="_blank"&gt;RSS feed&lt;/a&gt;. It's an easy way to find out about new places and meet and support new members to the guide.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I've been using &lt;a href="http://google.com/notebook" target="_blank" title"Google Notebook"&gt;Google Notebook&lt;/a&gt; for awhile now. It's really handy for organizing links, research and info and you can access it from any computer when you're logged into your Google account. So it travels well too. Then I read a couple places that there is some good evidence that Google Notebook can help search rankings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So in an effort to find more ways to help get our members more traffic and exposure, I'll be keeping a running list of lenses as I admit them to &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;SCG&lt;/span&gt;. It's a Google Notebook that I have published to a web page. Take a look at the &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/notebook/public/05778499048853381789/BDQ3gSwoQzIWb_qsj" target="_blank" title="New SCG Lenses Notebook"&gt;New SCG Lenses Notebook&lt;/a&gt;. You can bookmark that page and visit it periodically if you like to keep up with new members that way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I hope this will be another valuable resource to our members. If you have any questions or suggestions about it, please comment on this post or email me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BigJim&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://squidoo.com/groups/cities" target="_blank"&gt;Squidoo City Guide&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=ur2&amp;amp;tag=thebuspodcast-20&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=9325&amp;amp;path=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2F0060875410%2Fqid%3D1133896518%2Fsr%3D2-1%2Fref%3Dpd_bbs_b_2_1%3Fs%3Dbooks%2526v%3Dglance%2526n%3D283155" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Read The Fair Tax Book&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17837940-1934195085665049461?l=www.squidoocityguide.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SCG/~4/p18xAsihdkw" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SCG/~3/p18xAsihdkw/new-scg-lenses-with-google-notebook.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Big Jim)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.squidoocityguide.com/2008/06/new-scg-lenses-with-google-notebook.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17837940.post-1648054273510018160</guid><pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:26:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-06-23T10:18:58.790-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">SCG Featured Lens</category><title>Featured Lens: 119,000 Cars A Day!!</title><description>&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;The Buckman!!&lt;/span&gt; - For years, and even now to a degree, those two words were enough to strike fear in the heart of anyone living in the Jacksonville/NE Florida area. It's just down the street from my house and I used to avoid it at all costs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 99px;" src="http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:uJvDT2V1-uzlTM:http://www.phaengineers.com/images/Buckman-Bridge.jpg" border="0" alt="Squidoo City Guide Featured Lens" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This weeks featured lens introduces you to the &lt;a href="http://www.squidoo.com/buckmanbridge" target="_blank" title="Featured Squidoo City Guide Lens"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Buckman Bridge&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Containing pictures, video, stats and facts, this is a great look at this 3.1 mile trek across the St John's River. &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;(Hint: take the "Danger, Flying Objects!" section seriously.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/JaguarJulie" target="_blank" title="Lensmaster JaguarJulie"&gt;JaguarJulie&lt;/a&gt; brings us this look at "the Buckman". I've always been intrigued by the concept of a series of lenses on related topics, and this is a great example of how that can be done. You'll find links to the other bridges in the Jacksonville, FL area and she even has a &lt;a href="http://www.squidoo.com/groups/jacksonvilleflorida" target="_blank" title="Jacksonville Group"&gt;Jacksonville Group&lt;/a&gt; that brings them, and others, all together. JaguarJulie is one of the top lensmasters on Squidoo.com and we're proud to have her as a member of the Squidoo City Guide.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Are you a member of the Squidoo City Guide? &lt;a href="http://www.squidoo.com/group/create_lens/cities?forward=true" target="_blank" title="Join Squidoo City Guide"&gt;Make a city lens, or another one, and join now&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BigJim&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://squidoo.com/groups/cities" target="_blank"&gt;Squidoo City Guide&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=ur2&amp;amp;tag=thebuspodcast-20&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=9325&amp;amp;path=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2F0060875410%2Fqid%3D1133896518%2Fsr%3D2-1%2Fref%3Dpd_bbs_b_2_1%3Fs%3Dbooks%2526v%3Dglance%2526n%3D283155" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Read The Fair Tax Book&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17837940-1648054273510018160?l=www.squidoocityguide.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SCG/~4/ww7boV5d_fI" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SCG/~3/ww7boV5d_fI/featured-lens-119000-cars-day.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Big Jim)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.squidoocityguide.com/2008/06/featured-lens-119000-cars-day.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17837940.post-7731529590879671692</guid><pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 12:32:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-06-21T07:58:17.529-05:00</atom:updated><title>SCG, Facebook and New Friends</title><description>Squidoo City Guide is becoming quite popular on Facebook. We just went over 100 friends after only a few days of getting our page established there. I think Facebook will provide a great opportunity for our members to promote their city lenses and make lots of new friends. &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=518926725" target="_blank" title="SCG Facebook Page"&gt;Be sure to come by and see us at Facebook.&lt;/a&gt; Send us a friend request, write on our wall (and include a link to your city lens. &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Self promotion is encouraged!&lt;/span&gt;) and find about all the other stuff you can do there to get hooked in to this growing network.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There's a lot of Squidoo lensmasters on Facebook. Here's a couple places to make some new friends that you already have something in common with - An addiction to Squidoo!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=15945307607" target="_blank" title="Squidoo Community on Facebook"&gt;Squidoo Community&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2224707086" target="_blank" title="Squidoo Lensmasters on Facebook"&gt;Squidoo Lensmasters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SCG finds a lot of our friends through the &lt;a href="http://squidoo.com/add-your-profile" target="_blank" title="Add Your Profile Lens"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Add Your Profile Lens&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. You can add the url to your profile page on your favorite social networking sites. It's a great way to make new friends and contacts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BigJim&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://squidoo.com/groups/cities" target="_blank"&gt;Squidoo City Guide&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FFair-Tax-Book-Saying-Goodbye%2Fdp%2F0060875496%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1214052852%26sr%3D8-2&amp;tag=thebuspodcast-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Read The Fair Tax Book&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17837940-7731529590879671692?l=www.squidoocityguide.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SCG/~4/95ccBbWqfD0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SCG/~3/95ccBbWqfD0/scg-facebook-and-new-friends.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Big Jim)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.squidoocityguide.com/2008/06/scg-facebook-and-new-friends.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17837940.post-5391510063150868771</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 03:25:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-06-16T22:49:16.385-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">SCG Featured Lens</category><title>Featured Lens: Crazy Dubai Growth</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://squidoo.com/crazy-dubai-growth"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0px 10px 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 116px;" src="http://static.squidoo.com/resize/squidoo_images/-1/lens1951454_1208613556DubaiTowers2.jpg" border="0" alt="Featured Squidoo City Guide Lens" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our newest featured city lens takes us to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. Lensmaster &lt;a href="http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/triathlontraining"&gt;triathlontraining&lt;/a&gt; show us the progress of this growing city. Along with some great photos and information, from a little history to economics to the largest indoor ski slope in the world (who knew there was more than one?), he also shows a bit of the down-side of progress.&lt;br /&gt;Check out &lt;a href="http://squidoo.com/crazy-dubai-growth" target="_blank" title="Featured Squidoo City Guide Lens"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Images of Dubai's Huge Growth&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Be sure to leave a comment in the guestbook or the "Duel module". Let him know what you think and we'll look forward to more great info in this lens.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you have a city lens or know of one you would like featured here, please let me know. Send an email to squidoocityguide (at) gmail.com&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last weeks featured city lens: &lt;a href="http://squidoo.com/stow-ohio" target="_blank" title="Featured Squidoo City Guide Lens"&gt;Stow, Ohio&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BigJim&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://squidoo.com/groups/cities" target="_blank"&gt;Squidoo City Guide&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=ur2&amp;amp;tag=thebuspodcast-20&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=9325&amp;amp;path=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2F0060875410%2Fqid%3D1133896518%2Fsr%3D2-1%2Fref%3Dpd_bbs_b_2_1%3Fs%3Dbooks%2526v%3Dglance%2526n%3D283155" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Read The Fair Tax Book&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17837940-5391510063150868771?l=www.squidoocityguide.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SCG/~4/ZbF8JvH-fN8" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SCG/~3/ZbF8JvH-fN8/featured-lens-crazy-dubai-growth.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Big Jim)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.squidoocityguide.com/2008/06/featured-lens-crazy-dubai-growth.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17837940.post-4959041014491658131</guid><pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2008 03:46:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-06-14T22:59:28.709-05:00</atom:updated><title>Busy Week, But New Feature Coming</title><description>I'm on the road with the &lt;a href="http://squidoo.com/sauceboss" target="_blank" title="The Sauce Boss"&gt;Sauce Boss&lt;/a&gt;. Port St Joe, Fl; Gulf Shores, AL; and Destin, FL on Father's Day. So I haven't had a lot of time to update. But I'll have a brand new featured city lens next week. That's the great thing about doing this blog, I get to go back through and see all the great cities we have in the Squidoo City Guide.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Until then, come and see us on &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=518926725" target="_blank" title="Squidoo City Guide on Facebook"&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt;. We're really getting our page together there. You can join our blog network and, if you're an SCG member you join our Facebook group. Come on by and add us as a friend and write on our wall.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, back to life on the road. Be sure to see all of our great lensmasters and their favorite cities at the &lt;a href="http://squidoo.com/groups/cities" target="_blank" title="Squidoo City Guide"&gt;Squidoo City Guide&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BigJim&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://squidoo.com/groups/cities" target="_blank"&gt;Squidoo City Guide&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=ur2&amp;amp;tag=thebuspodcast-20&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=9325&amp;amp;path=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2F0060875410%2Fqid%3D1133896518%2Fsr%3D2-1%2Fref%3Dpd_bbs_b_2_1%3Fs%3Dbooks%2526v%3Dglance%2526n%3D283155" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Read The Fair Tax Book&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17837940-4959041014491658131?l=www.squidoocityguide.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SCG/~4/5Th0fRE8VeY" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SCG/~3/5Th0fRE8VeY/busy-week-but-new-feature-coming.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Big Jim)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.squidoocityguide.com/2008/06/busy-week-but-new-feature-coming.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17837940.post-4026859470782114194</guid><pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 21:03:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-06-09T12:55:06.698-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">squidoo city guide</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">SCG Featured Lens</category><title>First Featured City Lens</title><description>To get this kicked off with our first feature, I'd like to spotlight &lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Stow, Ohio&lt;/span&gt;. This lens tells us about everything from the local newspaper to a beach for dogs! And lots more. Jump on over and check out &lt;a href="http://squidoo.com/stow-ohio" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Stow, Ohio&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This lens is by Squidoo lensmaster and my good friend, Gypsypirate. She has lots of lenses (hey, I ain't counting 'em all. &lt;a href="http://www.squidoo.com/gypsypirate" target="_blank"&gt;See her lensography&lt;/a&gt;.), several different city lenses, she's a Giant squid, a &lt;a href="http://www.squidoo.com/giant-squid-organizer" target="_blank"&gt;Giant Squid Organizer&lt;/a&gt; , one of the top lensmasters on Squidoo.com and probably a bunch of other stuff I don't know about. She has helped me with the Squidoo City Guide since I started it and is a co-administrator.&lt;br /&gt;So be sure to take a look at our first SCG Featured Lens. And while you're there, be sure to rate it and share it, leave a comment, etc, etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks Gypsypirate for your help all the great work. (&lt;span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Personal hint:&lt;/span&gt; check out her &lt;a href="http://www.squidoo.com/usmc-silent-drill-platoon" target="_blank"&gt;USMC Silent Drill Platoon Lens&lt;/a&gt;. Very Cool!!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BigJim&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://squidoo.com/groups/cities" target="_blank"&gt;Squidoo City Guide&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=ur2&amp;amp;tag=thebuspodcast-20&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=9325&amp;amp;path=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2F0060875410%2Fqid%3D1133896518%2Fsr%3D2-1%2Fref%3Dpd_bbs_b_2_1%3Fs%3Dbooks%2526v%3Dglance%2526n%3D283155" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Read The Fair Tax Book&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17837940-4026859470782114194?l=www.squidoocityguide.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SCG/~4/gMrnm6-Rlrs" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SCG/~3/gMrnm6-Rlrs/first-featured-city-lens.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Big Jim)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.squidoocityguide.com/2008/06/first-featured-city-lens.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17837940.post-3106688609007107098</guid><pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:48:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-06-04T14:51:34.620-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">squidoo city guide</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">squidoo</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">lenses</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">citovil</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">cities</category><title>Now the official blog of the Squidoo City Guide</title><description>Welcome to the new &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;S&lt;/span&gt;quidoo &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;C&lt;/span&gt;ity &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;G&lt;/span&gt;uide blog. This is where I'll let you know about some of the best city lenses created by the great lensmasters at &lt;a href="http://squidoo.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Squidoo.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We're getting new lenses over at &lt;a href="http://squidoo.com/groups/cities" target="_blank"&gt;SCG&lt;/a&gt; every day. Lenses about cities from all over the world. They're fun and informative and the people who create these lenses are passionate about their cities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In this blog I'll be featuring new members, stand-out and popular lenses, occasional tips to help make your lenses better and info on what we have planned to be a place that will drive more traffic to your lens.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I started &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;SCG&lt;/span&gt; several months ago when I noticed that many of the lensmasters were making lenses about their hometown or favorite city. It seemed to be a common thread. Lots of  people had created numerous lenses on a variety of topics and often one or more of them was about a city, town or village. I thought this was a great resource and wanted to create a way to bring them all together. These are almost always lenses to show their love, admiration, pride and knowledge; not just as a way to publicize or make money. (Although you &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;can&lt;/span&gt; make money from Squidoo lenses!) So their sincerity shines through.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Topics for a city lens are endless. As endless as aspects of cities themselves. Everyone has a different experience and outlook with regards to their favorite city. And it doesn't have to be about a hometown. It can be where you went to school/college; where you lived for a period of time; a city you have vacationed in, done business in, travel to for entertainment or dining. And on and on... Several lensmasters have more than one lens on the same town! Some have lenses on several different cities. There's no limit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I hope you enjoy finding new places to "visit" here through this blog. If you're not a Squidoo lensmaster, &lt;a href="http://www.squidoo.com/group/create_lens/cities?forward=true" target="_blank"&gt;join now and make your own city lens&lt;/a&gt;. Thanks for stopping by and keep coming back to find out what's in store here and at the new web site that will be coming soon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BigJim&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://squidoo.com/groups/cities" target="_blank"&gt;Squidoo City Guide&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17837940-3106688609007107098?l=www.squidoocityguide.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SCG/~4/cotrLwa3BTI" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SCG/~3/cotrLwa3BTI/now-official-blog-of-squidoo-city-guide.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Big Jim)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">2</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.squidoocityguide.com/2008/06/now-official-blog-of-squidoo-city-guide.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17837940.post-598802435474882982</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 20:43:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-05-30T15:53:07.025-05:00</atom:updated><title>Squidoo City Guide</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://http://squidoo.com/groups/cities"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_3BMLgOkWMzc/SEBn9SeC2jI/AAAAAAAAABo/anLeEhvygCM/s320/scgbadge.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5206275471867828786" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;COMING SOON - The official Squidoo City Guide Blog&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do you have a &lt;a href="http://www.squidoo.com/group/create_lens/cities/7a57c49028e1bfd1ece1bd84340297d7"&gt;city lens on Squidoo&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stay Tuned!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17837940-598802435474882982?l=www.squidoocityguide.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SCG/~4/tp6M0Pdovq0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SCG/~3/tp6M0Pdovq0/squidoo-city-guide.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Big Jim)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://bp1.blogger.com/_3BMLgOkWMzc/SEBn9SeC2jI/AAAAAAAAABo/anLeEhvygCM/s72-c/scgbadge.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.squidoocityguide.com/2008/05/squidoo-city-guide.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><title>Links for 2008-04-09 [del.icio.us]</title><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SCG/~3/aj4EIvXdXS8/bigjimj</link><pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:00:00 PDT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">http://del.icio.us/bigjimj#2008-04-09</guid><description>&lt;ul&gt;
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