Hi folks -- have no fear; we will resume our regular Guest Editor's picks
program next week (And all our friends -- old and new -- with new
blogspot and other non-AOL blogs will be welcome to participate if they
so desire, both as Guest Editors and featured picks. This, of course,
means I'll need to find additional ways of highlighting just AOL Journalers, but such is life. We've got a few ideas in the works.)
I've
been crunched again this week and so I'm skipping the Guest Editor's
Picks, though this is more for reasons of the short holiday week than
anything else.
To help me out, my boss Bob, who is also Buzzline Editor (so I guess it should be Buzzline Boss Bob's Boss Blog Blob), has picked a bunch of blogs that are related to Thanksgiving and food -- both the Thanksgiving kind, and the equally delicious non-Thanksgiving kind. I added the blurbs, though, which means I can say I did Buzzline Boss Bob's Boss Blog Blob's Blurbs:
Taste of the South offers up a "Never-Fail Gravy", plus a bunch more fall recipes.
The folks at Two Minute Warning have some Thanksgiving tidbits gleaned from their collective consciousness.
Superchefblog is a foodie blog, by foodies, for foodies.
Spice's Recipe Box blogs to share her family recipes -- her current bunch are jams and jellies.
The latest offering over at My Recipes is a very timely cranberry...chutney? Interesting.
AOL Cooks!
features the AOL Test Kitchen, where the AOL Food Editor takes the
recipes she gets and inflicts them on us. (And it's been a while, hmmm?)
Food for Thought and More... leads off with Sweet Potato Pie.
And, over in Delores Kitchen, I see a lot of sweets: pecan rolls, blondies, fudge....
Also, all you last-minute cooks can check out Slashfood's poultry category, which has entries on non-traditional turkeys, Thanksgiving safety warnings, eight turkey tricks and even turkeys in space (there are turkeys in space; unfortunately for them, they're irradiated and squeezed into little plastic tubes).
Also, lastly for right now, Journaler Kathy
had sent me mail saying that her blog was acting funny, though when I
took a look, I didn't see anything wrong, so I'm hoping a restarting of
the computer helps her out.
However, when I looked at her blog, I found
this entry which has a whole bunch of Thanksgiving-related Web links, so if you're looking for some seasonal sites to surf while you're fighting off your turkey coma, check them out.
Happy Thanksgiving! Thanks -- Joe
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And for another comic moment... the ad on the top of your journal about Thanksgiving food right now (what I am "blessed" seeing... ) is :::::drum roll::::
South Beach Diet!
So are you trying to make fun of all the food journals you just chose, or are you, now like the rest of us, stuck with an ad that no only do you not personally endorse, but is contrary to the content of your journal.
Ha. Welcome to the club.
Virginia
hahahahaaa hahahaha hahaa. judi
Come on, guys! Haven't you had enough of this? Go where you will, blog what you like - but don't kill the messenger! This nastiness has gone a little too far. Take it outside. Penny http://journals.aol.com/firestormkids04/FromHeretoThere
Happy Thanksgiving Joe.
Kathy
http://journals.aol.com/onestrangecat/OneSummersDay/
As soon as the unsolicited and unwanted ads are off my journal so that I am free again to use my journal for what is should be used for, I will be more than willing to be gracious, to say thank you... all the stuff my mother taught me. But until AOL is willing to honestly address this issue, instead of quoting to the Post that they had only "several dozen complaints" I feel it is within my rights as a paid member to continue to ask for the respect we deserve and the answers we seek and the resolution we deserve. That Joe doesn't address these issues head on, when he is our paid liaison, is insulting to me. Joe is not simply "the messanger"... Joe is an AOL employee, and the one that was responsible for feeding the feedback of we "several dozen....!" up the line.
AOL wants us to be quiet and go away. It is guaranteed there will be no satisfactory resolution if we are simply polite and quiet. Polite and quiet rarely effects change. I would also counter, considering that I have found the lack of response from AOL to we customers asking for a response, to be highly insulting, that my responses are considerably measured.
Virginia
h
great sites on food just in time
Are any of those recipes from AOL UK Journals
with no banner ads included?
*** Coy ***
And still Promise tries and tries to get into her private journal and can not! hmmmm and tries and tries to get into some of her friends journals that are still hanging on to journalling and can not.... Promise feels like AOL has boycotted her!
h
Happy Thanksgiving Joe
http://journals.aol.com/slapinons/Slap-Inionscom
Happy Thanksgiving, Joe!
Happy Thanksgiving, Joe!!!
Great entry Joe... very festive! I like the Thanksgiving tips. Have a great holiday!
Lisa
Happy Thanksgiving Joe and thanks for the mention! ~ Lori
Happy Thanksgiving!!!!!
Dianna
Happy Thanksgiving!! Thanks for looking at my journal.
Delores
Happy Thanksgiving Joe!
I'm sure AOL would like to bury the hatchet...in our hearts. I agree with Virginia--this issue of the banner ads has still not been addressed to my satisfaction. I've seen people writing about how AOL has the "right" to put the ads on our journals, since the customer agreement makes it clear that AOL "owns" our journals. But, really, is that the point? Is that what it's come to? Acceptance of actions because companies are "within their rights"? It may be within AOLs "rights" to put banner ads on our journals (LEGAL GOBBLEDYGOOK), but that still doesn't make it RIGHT.
I sometimes write my entries in French, using symbols such as é, è, ç. Lately I'm getting garbage after I saved my entries, like Lès, à , é, ç, oò that make the reading difficult.
Can you tell me what is wrong now. I tried a blog on AOL.fr, same thing happened. Is your editor software not recognizing the French characters or is it an encoding issue, I don't know??? Please help...
Yap991
While AOL decision makers slept over the holiday:
http://www.thenewstribune.com/business/story/5353565p-4845742c.html
http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051124/BUSINESS01/511240302/1066/BUSINESS01
http://www.bizreport.com/news/9522/
http://www.blogherald.com/2005/11/24/aol-users-criticize-blog-ads/
AOL can shove ads into every corner of their service, but once you've pissed-off everyone to the point they're not coming back (and check your membership performance over the past several months for strong evidence of that), you're going to be doing a LOT of advertising to nobody. NOT effective.
Shut the lights out when you leave, huh Joe?!
Why aren't you using us to be Guest Edior's? I put in to be one a LONG time ago and never heard anything.
The point of having a blog/Journal is to write in it. What is the point if all that has changed and the new point is for AOL to have yet another way to spam it's own customers?....And/or the visitors of the customer. I do not even support the businesses flashing atop my blog. How rude it that. A mere disclaimer doesn't (in reality) do anything to help the aesthetic value of my journal, instead has quite the opposite effect, it only places yet MORE items from AOL on my Journal. This is also completely unacceptable. So if I am not writing in my journal, then the ads you have chosen to place are being seen by less than was intended. Whan is AOL going to begin realistically addressing it's customers issues and requests? I don't see the gross misreprestntation that "only a couple dozen complaints have been made" as addressing anything. Come on Joe, even you can see that over 100 people have complained right her in Magic Smoke.
Lisa
While AOL's decision makers (and apparently the Journal Editor) continues to hibernate, Jason Calacanis wants to tell you about
WHAT WE (AOL) DID WRONG
Here: http://www.calacanis.com/2005/11/26/on-the-aol-journals-advertising-mini-brouhaha/
I trust Calacanis will be the one responsible for setting up AOL Keyword: Clue, then?
Lose the ads!!
http://www.calacanis.com/2005/11/26/on-the-aol-journals-advertising-mini-brouhaha#c116258
Very very good reading. judi
Glad I visited Jason Calcanis.
http://www.fogliata.net/archives/2005/11/27/jason-calacanis-sulla-questione-dei-banner-di-aol/
This one's Italian and here's the translation:
Jason Calacanis says its on the recent movement of AOL that introduced a specially obvious banner in the head of every blog of the actual community (AOL Journals), without to warn the users in anticipation. The problem obviously is not the banner, but the fact that AOL have changed the limits of the service without to communicate preventively the thing to the members.
judi
You should just have Bank of America be the Guest Editor, since they have the most prominent place in AOL-J now.
Albert, now at: http://AlbertsWorldofArtsyFun.blogspot.com/
Hi Joe! Hope you ate well! I've decided to post in both journals for the time being, with a running commentary on the relevance of the ads to my aol journal. Today's entry: Sandhill Cranes Need ATMS. (Either you get it or you don't. But I intend to have some fun with this.)
a bunch of us have just looked at journals and the ads are gone, but then some are saying they are seeing them again........ I hope they are removing them. judi
we'll obviously be the last to know........
LOL I'm watching that too! They're there. Then gone. Then back. Then gone again. It's actually more entertaining than the football game. I'm taking bets.
~~ jennifer
Now you see them, now you don't? I'd rather not see them. Could it be that AOL is listening to us? Talk to me, Joe.
C'mon Joe. Talk to us. Is something going on? We've been teased enough. And shocked enough for one month. Or is it just gremlins?
h
And just as I posted that, the ads reappeared... :-(
At the moment, no ad...
Dare we hope?
And then disappeared again... weird.
And the reappeared.
Okay, whatever.
I love <3 the holiday entries, Joe... Thank you.
... I hope that you enjoyed your Thanksgiving holiday.
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Anti-Advertising NEWS links, of great interest...
* The Washington Post, report's:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/22/AR2005112201648.html
* Jason Calacanis (CEO - Weblogs, Inc.), report's:
http://www.calacanis.com/2005/11/26/on-the-aol-journals-advertising-mini-brouhaha#c116258
* The News Tribune, report's:
http://www.thenewstribune.com/business/story/5353565p-4845742c.html
* BizReport, report's:
http://www.bizreport.com/news/9522/
* The Journal News, report's:
http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051124/BUSINESS01/511240302/1066/BUSINESS01
* The Blog Herald, report's:
http://www.blogherald.com/2005/11/24/aol-users-criticize-blog-ads/
* Blogspotting, report's:
http://blogs.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2005/11/bloggers_messag.html
* ( Latest ) Blogspotting, report's:
http://blogs.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2005/11/jason_calacanis.html
* paidContent, report's:
http://www.paidcontent.org/pc/arch/cat_aol.shtml
Is AOL considering taking the ads down or not?
Albert is right!
Bank of America as Guest Editor!!
V
I'm all for BOA being guest editor, but I think match.com would make it that much more interesting.
Ads on people who pay for AOL is wrong. Everyone knows it.
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