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Calling all bloggers!

A friend of mine is a radio talk show host for an AM radio station and brought up the topics of blogs on his show this evening. His basic contention was that blogs are not useful, powerful or read. He doesn’t have a blog because he does not believe it is a valuable use of his time (that is…no one reads them). He wanted to know if he was wrong or misinformed.

Now I know of the power of blogs, have seen newspapers corrected by blogs (Little Green Footballs is a great example of blogs catching what the media doesn’t), I’ve seen the media turn to blogs for information for stories…I’ve seen blogs influence things such as the International Freedom Center. What I’d like to do is give him a little taste of the power of blogs!

So, if you have 10 seconds and an email address, I’d like to send him some emails from bloggers and blog readers. I’ve set up the link below to automatically create an email from you to him, CC to me (I get an email sent to me as well) with the subject of “Are Blogs Powerful?” and the text of the email as, “Hi Chris, I heard through blogger Holly Aho that you were questioning the power of blogs. I’m a blogger/blog reader. She wrote a blog post requesting a few emails be sent to you to show you blogs are read and listened to. Here’s my email!”

As the emails are CC’d to me I’ll keep a tally of how many are sent and keep you updated. I’d like to have a few thousand sent to him - that would get the message across! (As we’re friends he’ll forgive me the massive amounts of emails - he’ll probably enjoy it! lol). I figured that it’s better to simply prove a point than debate the issue. I think this will do that nicely.

here is the email Email AM 1500 Chris Krok

hat Tip to Scott at Speed of Thought

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OK, to all you women out there go support the forth anual Boobiethon.

To all the guys out there, go give them your money.

Now Seriously go look and help a great cause for all the boobies sake.

Just to point (hehe) out that I like boobies, so keep them healthy…

Hat Tip to Fate who I have now seen her boobies (not that I know which ones they are.)

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This is a good leason on training for all of you young leaders out there.

(3 January 2005, St. Maurice, Switzerland) It was the first week of a weapons refresher course, and Swiss Army Grenadier Detachment 20/5 had just finished training with live ammunition. The shooting instructor ordered the soldiers to secure their weapons for a break.

The 24-year-old second lieutenant, in charge of this detachment, decided this would be a good time to demonstrate a knife attack on a soldier. Wielding his bayonet, he leaped toward one of his men, achieving complete surprise.

But earlier that week, the soldiers had been drilled to release the safety catch and ready their guns for firing in the shortest possible time. The surprised soldier, seeing his lieutenant leaping toward him with a knife, snapped off a shot to protect himself from the attack.

The lesson could not have been more successful: the soldier had saved himself and protected the rest of the detachment from a surprise attack. The lieutenant might have wished to commend his soldier on his quick action and accurate marksmanship. Unfortunately, he had been killed with one shot.

If you train like you would fight, you will fight like you trained.

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Protest Warrior operation failure.

I failed in making this weekends Protest Warrior support the troops operation the success that I had hoped for. It is the Air Force Base’s fault! LOL of the 10 responses I had only Fuzzybear Lioness showed up. the front gate was locked up and the side gates we in use. This base is tough because it has so many entry/exit points and with the main gate closed it is hard to figure out what gate is used and by who.

So grabbing success from the grip of defeat, We had a great conversation sitting in McDonalds. Fuzzybear Lioness (FbL) had divulged her deepest secretes to me all while turning a large piece of paper into hundreds of small tiny pieces…(ha ha)

The conversation was great dealing will many of the issues of this world (I think we solved several big issues if people would just listen to us) and we laughed and didn’t cry (really) and talked and talked.

I enjoyed the meeting FbL greatly and now I have some more homework to do by bugging some of my hardware companies (HP, IBM) for Project Valour IT. It is amazing the people you meet on line.

Oh Shit, FbL got a post up before I did…damn busy days and drinking nights.

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