Metablogging

Another way to promote yourself and your blog is to write a short blurb at the end of each comment you post.

Spammers know this and that's why this blog has been under attack from them for years. What they don't know is that we have instituted a site-wide NOFOLLOW rule for all of our comments. What does it mean?

We get about 2000 comment spams a day. On a slow day. Many unethical SEO companies try to embed links in our blogs so they can poach and use for their splogs our reputation and high-ranking in search engines like Google.

So, I have taken the drastic measure to block all search engine traffic from our comments section. ALL OF IT. This means you will not get any search engine benefits from links in our comments, but you will get whatever traffic is generated when someone clicks on a link to your organization or blog.

With that clarified, let's get into the nitty gritty of creating a comments footer. We have added an entry form in your account settings to simplify the process.

How to update your Comments Settings

1. On the left-side of the blog you will see a box with your name. That's your navigation block.

Click on "My Account" to go to your profile page.

Membership at culturekitchen has its privileges. One of them is being a member of a blog that, as someone told me recently, "scares people because it's so brainy".

Yah.

We are the thinking woman's (and man's) blog. Welcome to the thinkidrome.

Heh.

I owe the blogs hard thinkitude to my sluttish attraction to good writing. I have always made it a point to drag into this here blog the bloggers I love to read elsewhere.

Call it blogmiscuity, but it works.

Today, one of the somewhat regular contributors community members* to Culture Kitchen posted on his private blog that I, Michael Bouldin, because I don't support Hillary Clinton, am a white supremacist. Now, under normal circumstances, this would result in immediate banning; slanderous libel and character defamation, the kind that people go to court about and win with, is perfectly adequate grounds for that.

However, since the person in question has made a career of sorts by getting himself kicked off various Progressive blogs, simply for being a perfect and utter gaping asshole, only to then run around and cry racism, white censorship and enough injustice to make the very timbers of the Amistad weep with misplaced compassion, we're not going to go that route.

We will not feed into this martyrdom narrative, as tempting (and now warranted by libel) as it may be to do so. Instead, we look forward to watching this gentleman's continued and accelerating slide into babbling irrelevancy. Because you know, it's really not the being black we find objectionable or curious; it's the douchebaggery of confusing one person with blackness, and the further confusion of blackness with Hillary Clinton. Sorry, and speaking solely for myself, but I'm not going to be bullied into supporting a candidate just because some crashing bore on the intertubes reduces black history and pain into a primary campaign pitch for a white woman. Not only is that fundamentally unserious and in poor taste, it's also marred by the obvious drawback of not working. I'll leave up to you which is the bigger sin: douchebaggery, or ineffective douchebaggery.

So yeah, me personally, I'm really not so much angry at the white supremacist business as filled with pitying amusement. Trying just a bit too hard there, pal.

The End.

I slapped together a photolog of last Saturday's panel, CAMPAIGNING, BLOGGING AND FIGHTING BACK: Netroots Activism in Presidential Politics, which brought us not only Amanda all the way from Texas, but a gaggle of the lefty blogeratti as well.

If any republican terrorists would have wanted to to take out most of the top lefty blogopshere that night, man, they could have done it in one swoop.

Re-live the evening at Lefty Blogeratti at The Tank.

Just wanted you all to know that I am blogging about business and technology with a vengance over at lizasabater.com.

All the geeky and nerdy stuff that I always never post because it seems out of place here will be posted over at my personal blog. I will continue writing about business and tech here only as it pertains to politics.

Please remember, if you come on over for a visit, don't forget to bring the mojitos.