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Bob Marley, Reggae Legend

Monday, June 30th, 2008

I have liked reggae music for over half of my life. I started listening to Bob Marley at age 15. I bought my first Bob Marley poster and t-shirt at age 16.
Now years later at age 32, I made a lens highlighting some of my favorite Bob Marley Posters, CD’s, and T-Shirts.
Marley is [...]

Strategiclly Updating Lenses

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

I have been attempting to update more of my lenses of late and I have seen an increase in traffic and lensrank.
But not until I read CaptainSquid’s recent post did I consider more strategically updating my lenses. I highly recommend reading his post, Sneaky Squidoo Lens Label Trick, to learn more about why and [...]

Tonight I made my first Superhero Charity lens, on the founder of Vitamin Angels, Howard Schiffer.
Howard Schiffer has helped to save thousands of children from blindness and has also done important work in providing proper nutrition to the poor around the world through is important non-profit organization, the Vitamin Angels.
If you have not heard of [...]

Longest Word In The English Language

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

I feel like the only time that I have been on Squidoo of late has kept me updating my groups. My Natural Health Group has been a lot of work reviewing every lens and only allowing and featuring the best.
Tonight, I needed a break and made an experimental lens. I wanted to see [...]

Thank goodness for Squidu. I went there because I was at a loss on how to add an ever.com lens to be featured in my Natural Health Group.
I did a search on Squidu.com and found these results.
To add an ever.com lens, Christine Suggested: “for: http://best.cameras.ever.com/ use: best-cameras-ever”
Sure enough, it worked [...]

Still Updating Groups

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

Boy, updating my groups has been very time consuming. I hope that the work will be worth it. I am only about a third of the way at the time of this post on my Natural Health group. So far, the work seems to be paying off as it is now number [...]

My wife came to me to ask my help in regards to lens building. A friend of hers from work has a son named Ausin who recently passed away from neuroblastoma. This June, they are throwing their third annual cancer crushing carnival to help raise funds for neurblastoma research.
The carnival is [...]

For my first post about lenses I want to talk about how great Amazon Spotlight modules are. Amazon Spotlight modules promote one particular product instead of up to five like the traditional Amazon Module. You can see how I use these modules at my Star Wars Books lens.
In my opinion, the Amazon Spotlight [...]

My First Post From A Giant Squid

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

I created this blog to help showcase some of my favorite Squidoo lenses. Some of these will be my own, and others will be from some of the best of the other Giant Squids out there.
I will also be sharing tips and tricks for building lenses and some of my favorite methods of lens [...]