Researching bloggers: the good, the bad, and the ugly!

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There's a really good CNN article about blogging.  It refers to a lot of research about blogging and bloggers.  http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/14/living/blogging-career/index.html

Have you ever gotten a job through facebook?   Apparently there are a lot of people that have.  And a lot who have gotten a job through Linkedin.  http://recruiting.jobvite.com/news/press-releases/pr/jobvite-social-recruiting-survey-2011.php

Ideas on how to start your own blog: http://www.howtostartablog.org/

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Blogging to make money is a very difficult thing to do.  It's kindof like practicing basketball for your shot in the NBA.  Or at least that's what this article says.  http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2009/04/21/8-reasons-why-you-wont-make-money-from-your-blog/

Blogging is a great way to get a job that's beyond your experience level.  According to this article, you should blog about  that you want to get into.  This forces you to lear, and at the same time offers something for potential employers to look at that shows that you're talking about.  http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2008/04/14/5-ways-to-get-a-job-way-above-your-experience/

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Blogs can other people interested in the same yourself, which may offer future job possibilities, referrals, etc.  http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2007/06/24/blogging-supercharges-your-career-by-making-you-more-connected/ 

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How to write a good blog: http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2009/05/13/how-to-write-a-blog-post-people-love/

How to start a blog:  http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2006/11/10/the-easiest-instructions-for-how-to-start-a-blog/

Other advice.  Put in random scenery pictures that have nothing to do with the article.  Because everybody loves those. 

Also, if you would like to guest blog on my blog, let me know.  I will post your pet peeves, opinions, advice, etc.  I will attribute them entirely to you!  You get some free views, and at the same time, my blog grows!!!   Mwahaha!!!

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Sex with multiple partners causes cancer. Seriously.

In my trip back up to Salt Lake from St. George, I was listening to NPR. There was a guy talking about cancer. Apparently at this point it has been shown that 20% of cancers are caused by viruses. Most recently (and newsworthily), it is suggested that people (women?) receive the HPV vaccine, because it will immunize you against cervical cancer. Anyway, the good news about this is that viruses can be prevented. Additionally, it is now noted that antibiotics will actually help with some causes of cancer. There are even some kinds of breast cancer that are apparently caused by a virus. THIS IS HUGE, because viruses can be stopped.

Here's a link to an article explaining how oral sex causes more throat cancers than smoking. Seriously. http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2011/03/01/133968901/virus-passed-during-oral-sex-tops-tobacco-as-throat-cancer-cause?ps=sh_fthdl Of course it's not just sex, it's sex with multiple partners, or with someone that has had multiple partners, that is dangerous. According to the article, a person that has had oral sex with 6 people is 8 times more likely to get throat cancer.

Here's another article that talks about how viruses are being looked at more and more as causes of cancer. http://www.livescience.com/10023-viruses-cancer-previously-thought.html

I really wish I could find a link to the interview that I heard earlier. He explained a couple of times that the virus gets into a cell, and then it causes the cell to replicate with a slightly altered composition. Not a full on "I'm a viral cell!" composition, but one that makes the body think that these cells are normal players to be left alone. Eventually, often years later, these altered cells 'wake up,' and surprise! you've got cancer.

Maybe some of you all already knew this. I didn't. I thought cancer was caused by having different genes period. Guess not. Anyway... Rock on!

Jeff