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And I'm saying mean things about RealTownBlogs on REMBEX Blog Fiesta or did when I was interviewed by Todd Carpenter.

I was thriled Monday with the little yellow weeble (little people thing RealTown Blogs uses on the featured entries) for an entry that just said my blog is two.

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Blogger Celebrates 100th Birthday! 

It's all in the numbers

I got frustrated with RealTown Blogs late in 2005.  This blog was started on RealTown Blogs in August 2005.  There were few other RT bloggers .. it did not have a lot of features. I did not know how to blog...... On New Years Eve I started  blogging on another blogging platform, Blogster.   I named the new blog  "Columbus Best Blog."   A week later realizing I had started a blog on Blogster  but really wanted to be on Blogger... I started a blog on Blogger and named it  "Columbus Best Blog." 

Dumb...very dumb.  Having the same blog three times does a number on how Google Yahoo, etc. search engines see a blog....but what about a 100 year old blogger?  On Blogster you put your birthdate with the year on your profile... after I started the Blogster blog I realized  my birthdate was on the internet for all to see....  Gasp ...Those with math skills could figure out how old I am. 

So I changed the birthdate year on my profile so I was 99 years old on Blogster.....  and  wrote:

"edited again 1-7-2006*.  I changed my birthdate on Blogster....or the year.  I am now 99. Oldest blogger on Blogster?  I still don't understand why they would have age on a blog. Or I do... but if they have any respect for us middle aged women they would not.... I saw someone else who was 0. "

"June 26, 2006 I will turn 100 on Blogster (the birthday will be less momentous in real life.) I better get some birthday greetings. "

I forget about the other two abandoned Columbus Best Blogs.  Usually.

Another RT blogger,  Andi Durbin of Rooftop Views   Rooftop Realty  in Denver  mentioning her birthday (NOT HER 100th!) on her blog made me think I probably did not even mention my birthday on on my RT blog...Nope.  I did not.  If I was still  a 100 year old woman blogging on the Blogster blog Al Roker should have been covering the story.   

RealTown Blogs now has almost 900 bloggers. Lots of new features are added all the time. 

I believe Bonnie Erickson and Ardell DellaLoggia both started blogging on New Years Day 2006 ..I've always wondered if there were New Years Resolutions involved.  As I was resolving to jump ship from RT blogs these newer than me bloggers  were committing to RT Blogs.  Both have committed!  Bonnie blogs about St. Paul MN real estate on Real Estate Snippets  Ardell's RT Blog is called Ardell's Seattle Real Estate Blog.  Ardell has other blogs but she named the other blogs something different, and each has different content.... smart.  Very smart.

* On Blogster it says 2005... but it was 2006.  Confused?  On 1-7-2005 I did not know what a blog was.

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