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Disclosure and Trust

noreply@blogger.com (MrBrownThumb) — Thu, 31 May 2012 16:38:00 +0000

Merriam-Webster defines disclosure as “the act or an instance of disclosing.” The example sentence reads: “We demand full disclosure of the facts.” If it all sounds like courtroom speak that has nothing to do with garden blogging: think again. The Need for a Disclosure Policy Back when IZEA...

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Get Published: Got Stink Bug Photos?

noreply@blogger.com (MrBrownThumb) — Wed, 16 May 2012 17:38:00 +0000

Mary Schier (blogger at My Northern Garden) editor of Northern Gardener magazine is looking for a creative photo of a brown marmorated stink bug for pay. Do you have a high res photo of a brown marmorated stink bug in a garden setting? I licensed them a picture of...

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Blogger Extracts Payment From Newspaper Publisher That Plagiarized Him

noreply@blogger.com (MrBrownThumb) — Tue, 15 May 2012 20:57:00 +0000

This is too sweet not to share. A blogger found that a local newspaper had plagiarized a post of his, and to add insult to injury didn't even provide him with a byline. So, armed with a letter, invoice and a camera he went down tot he office of the newspaper and this happened. via...

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Problem with Gravatar Comments on WordPress

noreply@blogger.com (GardenBloggers.Com) — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 21:13:00 +0000

As a blogger that uses Blogger, the comment feature of WordPress blogs has always been something I've admired and been envious of. They have always been "open" and easy to use. When the company that owns WordPress acquired Gravatar it made using the comment feature that much nicer. I...

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P. Allen Smith and Demand Media: Adding Insult to Injury

noreply@blogger.com (GardenBloggers.Com) — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 01:11:00 +0000

Hi Mr. Brown Thumb, I’m reaching out from eHow Home’s YouTube channel where we’ve been working closely with PBS star P.Allen Smith to create great gardening/design video tips and how-to’s the past few months. We’re big fans of your site and would love to work together to provide some of this...

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Facebook's "Timeline" Coming to Facebook Pages.

noreply@blogger.com (GardenBloggers.Com) — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 22:11:00 +0000

On March 30, 2012 Facebook's Pages will be redesigned to show the new Timeline style of profile pages. Ugh. What may look cool as a profile page just looks confusing as a Facebook Page. Here's a preview of what my garden blog's Facebook Page looks like using the new Timeline interface. Where...

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Garden Bloggers on the Cutting Edge: Example 192

noreply@blogger.com (GardenBloggers.Com) — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:27:00 +0000

In February of 2011 I blogged about the Global Garden Report of 2010 complied for Husqvarna and Gardena. The report attempts to categorize and contextualize garden bloggers and our role as garden communicators. At the time I highlighted a section of the report that reads in part, "Most often,...

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The ANLAClinic is a lot like High School

noreply@blogger.com (GardenBloggers.Com) — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:20:00 +0000

Last week I attended the ANLAClinic in Louisville, Kentucky, from Wednesday through Saturday. The ANLAClinic is a yearly educational event for members of the American Nursery and Landscape Association. During the clinic attendees listened to speakers, participate in workshops and seminars...

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Garden Bloggers Get WWE on NWF

noreply@blogger.com (GardenBloggers.Com) — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 20:15:00 +0000

While I was attending the ANLAClinic in Kentucky this week my Twitter feed erupted with outrage over the announcement that the NWF had teamed up with Scotts. I monitored the conversation online and kept relatively quiet. My silence on the issue was construed as apathy by a few Twitter...

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Persea non grata

noreply@blogger.com (GardenBloggers.Com) — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:53:00 +0000

A couple of years ago I wrote an article for Lawn & Garden Retailer Magazine explaining what garden bloggers were and how garden centers could connect with garden bloggers. After the article was published I was contacted by a garden center in Iowa thanking me for the article and saying that by...

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Garden Bloggers on the Road

noreply@blogger.com (GardenBloggers.Com) — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:25:00 +0000

After the drama surrounding being falsely accused of creating a boycott of the GWA by a group of writers and bloggers in Fern Richardson’s secret Facebook group I was contacted by the ANLA Clinic to see if I was interested in participating in their event. At first I wasn’t sure that I had anything...

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Welcome to the Internet, GrowWrite

noreply@blogger.com (GardenBloggers.Com) — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:42:00 +0000

Michael Nolan has launched GrowWrite, an online publication for garden writers. There are nuggets of good information like the article that explains the lingo of setting up your own website. Nothing groundbreaking, but useful when your audience may be on the Luddite end of the spectrum. Until you...

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Blogger Now Supports Threaded Comments

noreply@blogger.com (GardenBloggers.Com) — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:17:00 +0000

Blogger's most requested feature is here. Today's post on Blogger Buzz unveiled the new feature and how to activate it on your blog. I've been waiting patiently for years for this and I'm excited that we can now reply directly to the comments. Blogger Buzz...

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Did GardenWeb Buy the Garden Rant Domain for $1.3 million?

noreply@blogger.com (GardenBloggers.Com) — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 23:24:00 +0000

There's a link making the rounds on Twitter which claims that the GardenRant domain sold for $1.3 million to GardenWeb ( the Internet's largest gardening forum ) which is part of iVillage, a division of NBC Universal. The article lists several popular sites and blogs and gives a dollar amount for...

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Garden Bloggers For Sale

noreply@blogger.com (GardenBloggers.Com) — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 18:35:00 +0000

A few months ago Pam Penick Emailed the past organizers of the garden bloggers flings asking for our opinions of where we thought garden blogging was heading as she prepared to give a TED SXSWi talk in Austin. At the time I gave her my thoughts, which were that the garden blogging niche was heading...

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Centering Text and Images in Your Blog's Header

noreply@blogger.com (GardenBloggers.Com) — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 19:43:00 +0000

Recently I was modifying a Blogger template and I had to relearn how to center the text and image in header. This is how to center text in your blog's header in the new Blogger Template Designer. From your Dashboard to go Template>Customize>Advanced>Add CSS> Paste the following code...

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The PROTECT-IP Act

noreply@blogger.com (GardenBloggers.Com) — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 22:31:00 +0000

PROTECT IP Act Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo. I believe in the rights of intellectual property owners, but the PROTECT-IP Act has me really conflicted. Watch the video and see the links at this BoingBoing post and read up about it and decide for yourself.

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Join James Sinclair's Movember Challenge

noreply@blogger.com (GardenBloggers.Com) — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 21:11:00 +0000

A few weeks ago I learned on Twitter that James Alexander-Sinclair had organized a group of male garden bloggers and designers to participate in Movember and grow mustaches to raise funds and awareness for men's health. Below is a short Q & A with Mr. Sinclair on the project. How did you...

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Try Dynamic Views on Your Garden Blog

noreply@blogger.com (GardenBloggers.Com) — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 23:51:00 +0000

Dynamic Views templates are available on Blogger now. You could say that the new Dynamic Views released on Blogger today are the Tumblr-fication of Blogger, but I don't care! A couple of Dynamic Views are really interesting. In the screen grab above you see my blog is sporting the Magazine Dynamic...

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The Garden Blogger Fight to Save a Teacher's Garden

noreply@blogger.com (GardenBloggers.Com) — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 19:27:00 +0000

A week ago today a friend on Twitter tipped me off to the story of Adam Guerrero, a Memphis math teacher, and his garden that had been deemed a nuisance by a local judge after a neighbor had complained. That weekend it seemed like Adam was on the verge of dismantling his garden that is used to...

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Lightbox Now On Blogger Blogs

noreply@blogger.com (GardenBloggers.Com) — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 16:59:00 +0000

One of the things that I've always disliked about the way Blogger handles images is that when you click on them to view them full sized they navigated away from the blog. Yesterday Blogger announced that it had added Lightbox to handle the processing of images. How it works isn't important. To see...

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Feed Scrapers IV

noreply@blogger.com (GardenBloggers.Com) — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 21:00:00 +0000

If you haven't ever found yourself in a position where your garden blog is being scraped consider yourself lucky. If you currently find yourself in that position see the posts on Feed Scrapers(Guest Post by Dave), Feed Scrapers II, and Feed Scrapers III for tips on what steps to...

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Blogger's Official App for Your iPhone

noreply@blogger.com (GardenBloggers.Com) — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 01:41:00 +0000

Today Blogger announced that their app for iOS was available in the App Store. The Blogger app allows you to: Pick up and continue drafts you've started on your desktop Select account/blog if you have more than 1. Include pictures from the gallery or by taking a picture directly from the...

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Ads Are Coming to Your Twitter Stream

noreply@blogger.com (GardenBloggers.Com) — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 02:24:00 +0000

If you like Twitter and you don't like ads this will come as bad news. Really bad news. Leo Widrich just spotted an instream ad on Twitter. Take a look at this post for a screen capture of the ad by a company he's following. It had to happen sooner or later, I was just hoping that in stream...

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I'm Going To Bring Down The GWA.

noreply@blogger.com (GardenBloggers.Com) — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 00:32:00 +0000

I'm a one man Rainbow PUSH coalition-the Rosa Parks of garden bloggers-waging a campaign to bring down the Garden Writers Association and ruin the business of vendors that participate at the next convention being held in Arizona in 2012. Or so, a thread in Fern Richardson's (Life on the Balcony)...

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