{"id":9349,"date":"2006-07-24T06:58:47","date_gmt":"2006-07-24T13:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/07\/24\/blogathon-update-6.html"},"modified":"2006-07-24T06:58:47","modified_gmt":"2006-07-24T13:58:47","slug":"blogathon_updat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/07\/24\/blogathon_updat.html","title":{"rendered":"Blogathon Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img-shadow-right\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"WIDTH: 181px;  HEIGHT: 34px\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/blogathon2006.jpg\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogathon.org\" target=\"_blank\">Blogathon<\/a> kicks off next Saturday, and my preparations are already underway, pulling out comics for review and outlining various topics to post on.&nbsp; I think I won&#8217;t have any sort of shortage of things to blog about, so that&#8217;s something of a relief.&nbsp; As long as I don&#8217;t put anyone to sleep (including myself), it should all work out well. <\/p>\n<p>I even have my t-shirts selected.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been checking out some of the sites on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogathon.org\/list.php?sort=alpha\" target=\"_blank\">bloggers list<\/a> to see if there are any interesting places to visit.&nbsp; I&#8217;ll be including that at at least one post.&nbsp; Like most of the Internet, I fear <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sturgeon%27s_law\" target=\"_blank\">Sturgeon&#8217;s Law<\/a> pertains, but there&#8217;s also no accounting for tastes (mine in particular). <\/p>\n<p>Speaking of the bloggers list, I see I presently have 9 pledges for $352, which is fabulous (that&#8217;s $14.67\/hr, or $7.18\/post).&nbsp; Thanks, folks.&nbsp; It&#8217;s not too late for others to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogathon.org\/sponsor.php?blog_id=215\" target=\"_blank\">sponsor<\/a>, and my charity of choice, the EFF, has been in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\">the news<\/a> a bit of late, and it&#8217;s worth checking out. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Blogathon kicks off next Saturday, and my preparations are already underway, pulling out comics for review and outlining various topics to post on.&nbsp; I think I won&#8217;t have&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogathon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11663,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/07\/23\/blogathon_the_final_push.html","url_meta":{"origin":9349,"position":0},"title":"Blogathon &#8211; 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