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ESPN Courts Female Viewers With World’s Emotionally Strongest Man Competition

Another brillliant piece from The Onion. Excerpt:

During the show’s premiere, a two-hour special titled “Manhattan Blowout,” competitors put their bodies, minds, and spirits to the test in events ranging from the brutal grind of “Enduring Quietly As She Takes Her Hard Day At Work Out On You,” to the agility-straining “Throwing A Last-Minute Surprise Party For A Despised Mother-In-Law,” to the ultimate combination of strength and finesse, “Helping Her Over The Death Of The Cat That Always Hated You.”

Link.

Ticket system helps kids track their own TV and game time

Found this on parenthacks:

I got tired of being the boss of when my kids (three and five) could watch videos and DVDs. I also wanted to help them learn to make choices about media consumption while they’re still young. So I decided to set up a ticket system.

Every Friday, they each get tickets (purple for one kid, green for the other) that can be redeemed for ½ hour of TV time.

See full article. And this post helpfully gives designs so that you can create the tickets yourself on your printer.

I am tempted to try it out, but I think that my kids might be a little too young for this.

How to get (old) Media Publicity for your blog

Hobbit Hob from has an interesting article on the IndiaPRBlog where he gives ideas on how you can get some publicity for your blog or for yourself in the old media (newspapers, etc). I obviously have no experience with this myself, but it does appear to be useful advice. Also, what I do know is that many people would never even consider something like this, basically because it appears to be too difficult, or out of their league. But these are fairly easy to achieve if you take time to do your homework and take a disciplined approach.

For bloggers who are engaged in blogging as a profession or are aiming to build up a high profile through blogging, getting covered in the traditional media can be the next big achievement after making a presence in the blogosphere and among the blogging community.

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It’s difficult but not impossible to achieve. With an understanding of how the media works, bloggers can do their own PR and chart out a plan for their own media-image building exercises.

Here are the top 5 steps that bloggers need to take.

Link. (found on DesiCritics.)