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Tampa Bay Website Highlight: Art Squeeze
Art Squeeze — Get the juice on Tampa Bay’s arts scene!
Art Squeeze is a visual arts blog written by Megan Voeller, freelance writer and visual art critic for Creative Loafing Tampa.
From Megan:
I created this blog as a way of addressing the disconnect between different parts of the Tampa Bay [...]

Local recipe and food blogger Jaden Hair started her Steamy Kitchen blog in February of 2007. By August, she was getting big-time pub from the Tampa Tribune and the Wall St. Journal. Before that month ended, Jaden was looking for a logo for her brand new column in Creative Loafing.
Alas, it is over. [...]

Brendan McLaughlin found that the metro area of Tampa currently holds the title of “worst cheating quotient”.
Uh.. uhmmmm….. uh..
San Diego is almost as bad? And St. Louis too?

According to the News Hounds, Fox News is still insinuating that the plane that crashed into the Bank of America (nee Barnett) building in downtown Tampa back in 2002 is linked to terrorism. In truth, it was a 15 year old boy who stole a plane and used it to commit suicide.

Received From Eric Deggans:
The Tampa Bay Association of Black Journalists is presenting its second annual session focused on multimedia reporting on March 8, featuring members who have done extensive work translating their newspaper or TV work into online platforms.
On deck so far:

Ken Knight, multimedia reporter for Media General
Demorris Lee, reporter for the St. Petersburg Times, [...]

Back in December, Wayne Garcia said "Tampa Bay has jumped the shark."  At the time, he offered his views on Tampa Bay’s top 10 civic problems.  Garcia writes for Creative Loafing, and this week’s cover story is a follow-up to that column, saying we have to fix these things now.  This time, the entire CL [...]

It seems we’ve lost some comments. On average, this site gets a few hundred spam comments a day. Not too long ago I added a text captcha to slow down the spammers.

Now it looks some readers lost their comments. This blogging software failed to inform the readers that their comments didn’t save and needs to be reentered.

If you have a comment that failed to show up on the website, I apologize. I believe I now have the kinks worked out.

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It seems we’ve lost some comments. On average, this site gets a few hundred spam comments a day. Not too long ago I added a text captcha to slow down the spammers.

Now it looks some readers lost their comments. This blogging software failed to inform the readers that their comments didn’t save and needs to be reentered.

If you have a comment that failed to show up on the website, I apologize. I believe I now have the kinks worked out.

Just remember when you comment — the word “vote” is very important.

In light of the Polk County Bloggers meeting (see below) I’d like to highlight three area blogs that don’t get a lot of press:

Bog It Blog features “information left from the Flotsam of Life” and is written by:

52 year old father of 5, grandfather of 2, married for 32 years to a wonderful woman. Twelve year veteran of Radio Broadcasting. Worked as Operations Manager, Production Manager, News Director, Morning and Afternoon Drive Time Announcing. Later, Involved in Micro-Computers. Worked as a Computer Consultant and Advisor. Been involved in Computers from the beginning. Believe it or not, trained in collators, card punch machines, mini-main frames, main frame computers. Experienced in early computer kits, 8 bit to 16 bit to present computers. Currently Disability-Retired. Living his life ON-LINE to the world! — Bog it Blog About Page

Knot a Blog is all about the ties that local resident Michael Segers owns.

I had very few ties, and as expensive as ties are, I began shopping for ties in thrift shops. One day, I found a tie covered with script and drawings from Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks. Something clicked. Wearing a tie like that could be fun.
What a novel idea! Wearing a tie could be… fun? — From the first entry on Dec. 12, 2005

Wendy Usually Wanders is about “An old RV, a dog, a cat and a crazy woman travel the US” except lately Wendy has spent a lot of time not wandering in Lakeland. In a recent post she writes of a trip to our local Goodwill store:

Ummmm…I wasn’t feeling much good will when Judy and I went to the Goodwill store. The prices are crazy! Almost everything in there is cheaper new. I don’t get it. Is it some sort of a tax write-off boondoggle? I saw a couple of “executives” in an office…all dressed up and their cars out front were expensive. This is a HUGE store. It must cost a fortune to heat, cool and light, plus it was way over-staffed. This place must benefit somebody, but it’s not poor people or anyone who wants to buy stuff at a good price! Does anyone know why Goodwill is like this? — Jan 25, 2008

That leads to a reminder that the next Polk County Blogger meeting will be this Monday, February 4th at 6:30 p.m. at Polk County’s Unofficial Blogger’s Haven — Black and Brew ( 205 East Main Street )
You don’t need to write a blog to attend. You’re invited if you’re reading this, or if someone is reading it to you.