Actually it's half a day but it looks as this year's ConvergeSouth combined with the 1 day BlogHer event will be the biggest yet.

If you'd like to volunteer or just learn more there's  a ConvergeSouth Google Group.

Update: This post turned out to be a hoax-- sorry.

If you're smart you'll add your cell phone numbers to the National Do Not Call Registry because on Feb.12, 2008 all cell phone numbers were released to telemarketing companies and you will start to receive sales calls that you will be charged for.

To prevent this, call the following number from your cell phone: 888 382 1222 or go to the National Do Not Call website.

You must call from the cell phone that you want to have blocked.
You cannot call from a different phone number.
Help others by passing this along to all your friends.

Kudos to Bob Church for letting us know.

Are you an obscure poet, novelist, author, artist, musician, art-jewelry maker, photographer, or independent film-maker who currently has products available online and is looking for ways to increase your sales? Well it just so happens Blogsboro.com is a means of highlighting The Long Tail of commerce so that the struggling artists among us may sell more of whatever it is you're trying to sell and we'd like to help you sell yours. With tens of thousands of readers, Blogsboro.com is a great place to get noticed.

Blogsboro.com will help you sell more of whatever it is you want to sell as long as it is artistic in nature and already available online. Prices for our services range from free to free. In the future we hope to offer even greater services at the most affordable prices in the industry but for now we're sticking with free.

If you're an artist, poet, photographer, novelist, short story author, jewelry maker, indie film-maker... with your personal products already available online then please check out our Submissions and Support pages to learn how we can help.

If you have creative products that aren't currently online we can help with that as well through CreativeScamper.com and by other means such as free blogging lessons for persons living in or near Greensboro, North Carolina.

And finally, if you haven't the time, money or expertise to establish your own web presence for your artistic endeavors or really cool business local to Greensboro, North Carolina then it's possible we can do that for you at no charge.

As some of you may know I'm a monthly columnist/hack for Shirley Allard's Word Catalyst Magazine. (My December submission) While Shirley has worked for publishers in the past, this is Shirley's first attempt at publishing and despite several setbacks she finally has a really nice website set up to display the works of writers, photographers and artists. As part of a way to support this venture Shirley has designed some great Word Catalyst products and made them available online so you can help Shirley support other struggling artists and hopefully someday found a print publication we'll be proud to be a part of.


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Why Shirley puts up with me I'll never know.

The employee-owned company, Blogsboro.com is looking for a creative partner to fill a void in our line-up and head-up a new Internet property called BrainsToo.com. The writer who fills this position will work closely with myself and other Blogsboro.com partners located here in Greensboro, North Carolina but will also be expected to work independently as well. Partners are expected to have fun.

We have very specific goals for BrainsToo.com but are also open to suggestions. If you can write, use simple digital cameras, a computer to surf the web and send e-mail then we can teach you all you need to know in just a few days.

The person we choose to fill this position will be given a full partnership in what is already one of the top independent online properties in Greensboro. Sales and marketing experience and the desire to make things happen are also a plus. If you think you're up to becoming a Blogsboro.com partner then e-mail idleblogs (AT) yahoo.com with the words, "BrainsToo.com" in the subject line of your e-mail so we can talk.

And if by chance you're not the right person for BrainsToo.com it might be possible you fit in one of our other positions.

If you're a serious artist looking for an easy way to sell prints online then RedBubble.com just might be the way to do it. And if you happen to be an artist who is already using RedBubble I'd love to hear from you.

If only it wasn't such a closed community...

Who would have ever thunk it? But hey, there it is in no less than 5 different languages. And then there's North Carolina's World Trade Center Does anybody really know what time it is? Good night.

As one who has been involved in the petition drive to raise Greensboro's Minimum Wage to $9.36 cents per how I'm happy to announce we now have the minimum amount of signatures required to force this issue to the people.

I'd like to make note that the Greensboro Mayor and City Council could save taxpayers thousands of dollars by preempting the election by voting to raise Greensboro's minimum wage to $9.36 per hour which is below the Federal Government's $9.58 per hour figure required to keep up with inflation.

Also, I'd like to make note that Mayor Johnson and District 2 Representative Wells both signed the very copy of the petition that I circulated. Wells signed the petition in the parking lot of the Food Lion Grocery on East Market Street and Mayor Johnson signed the petition at a dinner of the local League of Women Voters at the church on Greene Street. Let's see if either of them bring the issue to the table.

Rather than reinventing the wheel I'll simply let Mental Kudzu give you the scoop.

But just in case you'd like to keep up with the latest from Blogsboro.com and the entire Blogsboro Network we decided to resurrect the old Idle Hands, Ringing Of The Bards Newsletter and rename it the Blogsboro.com, Idle Hands, Ringing Of The Bards Newsletter. It's free, fun and helps you stay in touch.