Wanderlaugh

@Wanderlaugh (1622)

Australia • Age 69

Joined myLot 17 years ago

If you can't be brief, be interesting.

www.sydneymediajam.com

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Wanderlaugh liked this • 23 Jun 10

Doing Little Cartwheels of Joy Because of Helium

justdroppingby @justdroppingby (296) • Philippines 18 Jun 10

Normally I'm not a very expressive person, at least not in a non-written way. But I'm so thrilled and happy right now I'm literally bouncing off my seat and doing little cartwheels of joy in my head. I just got an email from...

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Wanderlaugh liked this • 28 Feb 10

Nasty words and insults may belong on a school play ground, but Here?

Patsie Hatley @Hatley (163781) • Garden Grove, California 27 Feb 10

This is maybe partly a rant but a mylotter friend of mine who is beloved by many here, her and her little dog, was hurt and insulted by someone. this is so hard for me to believe as she is one very sweet kind person. So am asking...

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Wanderlaugh liked this • 11 Jun 07

Further developments on Helium.com

Wanderlaugh @Wanderlaugh (1622) • Australia 27 May 07

I told the writers here I'd keep you people posted about the Helium saga. Good news. I got an article called "Backyard Geology the hard way" accepted for publication by one of Helium's partners in Helium Marketplace. That's a...

a diversity of writers

helium marketplace

heliumcom

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joey_matthews I haven't heard much about this site. I believe I've heard about it from you and I saw a discussion from another friend who writes there. I would like to hear opinions on this to, my other friend mentioned it's a good site. Certainly looks...

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Wanderlaugh liked this • 6 Jun 07

Digital Journal- Writers, a challenge for you.

Wanderlaugh @Wanderlaugh (1622) • Australia 5 Jun 07

I know a lot of the writers on myLot want to do some real work. This might be what you're looking for. Last week I started writing on Digital Journal, which is a site where you can post news articles and your own material about...

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SKLC_PT Thanks, I've registered to it :) let me see if I'm luckier there then in helium. Thanks for sharing ;)

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Wanderlaugh liked this • 5 Jun 07

Digital Journal- Writers, a challenge for you.

Wanderlaugh @Wanderlaugh (1622) • Australia 5 Jun 07

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joey_matthews Interesting buddy. I would love to do this but I'm not much of a writer myself, I just mainly ramble but it's cool your pointing this out for others. (The site looks nice aswell) ~Joey

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Wanderlaugh liked this • 22 May 07

Inexplicable or Paranormal events- What have you experienced, or read?

Wanderlaugh @Wanderlaugh (1622) • Australia 9 Mar 07

Being "blessed" with a global culture which refuses to acknowledge human abilities or perceptions, many things are considered to be myths, impossibilities, or just illusions. Someone, unlelected, has apparently decided that...

inexplicable events vs cultural norms

writing medium issues

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xParanoiax Yeah..it's dismaying really. Because people think they need to sign up with some rteligion to be spiritual. Which ain't necessarily true. But our current cultures were mostly fueled, fed, and created on the basis of alot of dogmas and lies..sure, there's some...

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Wanderlaugh liked this • 17 May 07

Self Publishing- www.lulu.com

Wanderlaugh @Wanderlaugh (1622) • Australia 24 Jan 07

Writers will be aware of my previous post, Writer Beware- A good anti-scam site. One of the people replying to my discussion mentioned that they were using www.lulu.com. So I checked it out, and it seemed to fit the basic...

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explorations Thank you for writing up such an important discussion! I started using lulu.com January of this year to publish pages from my art journal. I thought about querying Chronicle Books about this project, but I was concerned about my inability to follow-through...

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Wanderlaugh liked this • 17 May 07

Self Publishing- www.lulu.com

Wanderlaugh @Wanderlaugh (1622) • Australia 24 Jan 07

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unusualsuspect There's certainly a huge amount of dreck that's self-published. Complete lack of quality control makes that possible. On the other hand, there are perfectly good reasons for self-publishing, other than vanity. It can be ver difficult, if not impossible to find...

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Wanderlaugh liked this • 11 May 07

Anorexia- murder by any other name

Wanderlaugh @Wanderlaugh (1622) • Australia 10 May 07

I just recently wrote a piece for Helium, "Trillion dollar coma- Fashion and the girls from Auschwitz": http://www.helium.com/tm/320792 Self explanatory, but I'd be interested to hear of anyone's experiences and opinions...

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KarenO52 A friend of mine told me he read an article about subliminals used in advertizing. One thing they used was images of skulls hidden in the ice cubes in a glass. I thought that was strange, and he explained that death was subliminally attractive. Maybe the...

11 May 07

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Wanderlaugh liked this • 10 May 07

Inexplicable or Paranormal events- What have you experienced, or read?

Wanderlaugh @Wanderlaugh (1622) • Australia 9 Mar 07

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xParanoiax I'm just hoping that it won't take near destruction to wake everyone up to their needs.

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Wanderlaugh liked this • 10 May 07

What's wrong with the big websites?

Wanderlaugh @Wanderlaugh (1622) • Australia 3 Jan 07

What would make things easier for you to look at the big heavy user websites? Do you think saturation level usage is just making them harder to browse, or there's too much material on them? Can you search them effectively, or...

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SKLC_PT I think heavy user websites have so much content that sometimes it's too hard to find anything. Sometimes to find what you want you need to go through numerous options to get there and that can be very frustrating. I tend to give up. I think they should ensure...

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Wanderlaugh liked this • 1 May 07

Say what you like about sanity, it is cheaper.

Wanderlaugh @Wanderlaugh (1622) • Australia 21 Apr 07

Have a look at this picture, tell me what you think.

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Jewels There is a whole industry awaiting the gullible. I was thinking last night, the world evolves around victims and there is an agenda to keep people exactly where they are most useful. Useful to who - big question and an even bigger answer would incite argument...

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Wanderlaugh liked this • 1 May 07

To blog, or not to blog- that ought not to be a question.

Wanderlaugh @Wanderlaugh (1622) • Australia 14 Apr 07

I've just been wading through the various rituals involved in setting up a blog. The first efforts came up with arguably some of the lousiest layout I've ever seen on any document, huge gaps between paragraphs, and some really...

blogging

how to spend an afternoon among useless formatting

worth it or not

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unusualsuspect Agreed--some of the blog formats are awful, particularly on free sites. I blog on Wordpress because they have well-designed themes, and a ton of features. I just started another on Blogger, which is fairly icky as far as themes are concerned, but they've...

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Wanderlaugh liked this • 1 May 07

people that just don't get it

Wanderlaugh @Wanderlaugh (1622) • Australia 12 Jan 07

I don't expect Shakespeare, but I do expect people to read the discussions before asking "What's this about?" or that other great, much-appreciated option, missing the whole point of the question. Current feeling, before I calm...

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unusualsuspect "What worries me is the ability of some people to never be on topic." LOL Nothing truer was ever said. Or to put in in reverse, some people are incapable of staying on topic. I'm convinced it's because they either haven't read carefully, or don't understand...

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Wanderlaugh liked this • 1 May 07

myLot Avatars- the coral reef of the minds.

Wanderlaugh @Wanderlaugh (1622) • Australia 1 May 07

I think avatars are a kind of social ecology, in subliminal form. People fill their environmental niches with their images: 1. The Cats and Dogs. There are a lot of these, mainly spreading furry propaganda, and thus keeping up...

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unusualsuspect Interesting, but maybe a bit of a tempest in a teapot. And definitely too abstruse for the general run of point-seekers. I've decided that avatars are generally pretty non-interesting because to the extent that they reveal the person, they reveal someone...

1 May 07

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Wanderlaugh liked this • 30 Apr 07

Has myLot changed since you started here?

Wanderlaugh @Wanderlaugh (1622) • Australia 25 Apr 07

Don't know if it's just me, but as myLot grows, I've noticed that some of the regulars who used to dominate the discussion pages, have almost vanished, and a lot of others seem to have moved in, and the character of the site has...

catalytic discussions

changes

culture

mylot

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darkzzt i have noticed that it is harder to find good discussions now. it used to be that i could post in a lot of the discussions but i struggle to find anything to post to now. i think mylot has grown by 2000 members since i joined. i guess the character of the site...

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Wanderlaugh liked this • 29 Apr 07

Has myLot changed since you started here?

Wanderlaugh @Wanderlaugh (1622) • Australia 25 Apr 07

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SKLC_PT It's changed a lot with it's new functions, the personalisable front page and profile updates and the one I so love is knowing when someone replied to you when it's not a discussion you started, as I hated having to search through everything as it took forever...

29 Apr 07

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