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Posted by Jaybetee • 6/10/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: bc blog, blogcatalog, fortune cookie friday, guest post
Last Thursday we put up a post on the BC blog about dealing with negative comments on your blog (blog.blogcatalog.com/blogging-101/responding-to-negative-comments-on-your-b...).
The post was inspired by a fortune from a fortune cookie, and we thought it would be a cool idea to keep this theme going as fortune cookie Friday. We'll be writing some new posts that take a fortune and somehow make a connection to a blog-realted topic, but we'd also love to see what the community can come up with.
So, if you'd like to be featured in the BC blog, here's a chance. Go out, get a fortune cookie, get your fortune and then write a post that connects it with why you blog, your writing process...anything blog related!
We'll start publishing them every Friday--one or several depending on how many submissions we get. And, we'll probably pick one really great one to add to the monthly newsletter too. We think it's a cool idea and we hope you do too. Look forward to seeing what people come up with!
Title your submission Fortune Cookie Friday and mail it to jason @ blogcatalog dot com. (There will be a mail filter set up to receive these submissions so any without the proper title may not be received.)
Also, since this is a discussion, are there any other regular features or topics you would want to see explored on the BC blog?
User Comments
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My fortune cookie said
"Ones story will appear on an the BC Blog"
Must be a fake!-
Ha. Yes we had a bunch of those printed up and distributed worldwide. If you get the golden fortune, you get to come and tour the BC offices!
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OMG! this sounds familar for some reason?
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Also i think once a month we should do a 'caption the picture' contest. Of course the more random the picture and captions the better and then maybe the winning caption can get a mention in the blog or newsletter!
Only an idea..-
That's actually a good idea. I saw one on a member's blog last week and it was pretty funny. We're also working on getting a video section set up on the blog and the soon-to-come Community Page so members can send in videos too. So, that should open up some fun doors.
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ohhhh i no!
A contest on creating a viral video from BC or a video showing what BC means to them!
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that story? -
If I get a fortune cookie that says "contribute something that is already on your blog", Can I-
um, no
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Well, there goes my idea.
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I wonder if I can write of Chinese for lunch as a business expense, if I create a post based on the fortune as a vehicle for promoting my blog.-
hmmmm, it's worth a try
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Fortune cookies are unknown in South Africa. What do I do now?-
Order a bulk amount of them off of eBay! -
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I love this idea...Asian King here I come...favorite Asian restaurant....yum, I just made myself hungry.
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We got chinese food last friday. My husband's fortune cookie said, "Stop searching for happiness. It is sitting right beside you."
Guess who was sitting beside him?
(I'm considering having it framed.)-
The one I always remember is one I got in Alaska. I had been really lazy while there and definitely was feeling kinda fat and lazy. i had just been telling my faminly during dinner that i had to lose a few pounds. The fortune cookie at the end of the meal said "You need to start a new workout routine."
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Maybe we should start a new thread called "Serendipitous Fortune Cookie Messages" or "I'm Being Watched. My Fortune Cookie Tells me it is So."
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Was it the waitress?
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where can i buy one fortune cookie? -
My mum once got a fortune cookie.
It read "help, I'm being held prisoner in a fortune cookie factory"
was sure I'd already posted this, was a similair thread up before? -
This has nothing to do with my blog but I am on disability for undergoing a rather traumatic event at work so I started writing a book about it and not too long after I got this:
"Past experiences will be helpful in your job"
I took that as a harbinger of my future as a writer.
I keep it in the front of my freehand book.
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My New fortune says
"Your Ads Will Be Kissed by whoever reads this!!!!-
LOL every time i read ads and kiss together, I burst out, lol!!. plus i see the red lips avie some1 has here puckering up to a monitor.
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What about BC admins writing about something they want... At insidedoson. -
Sounds like a good idea
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Oh man - we dont get fortune cookies here, although we do have packets of sunmaid raisins that have fortunes on them, will that count?-
sure. why not?
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Bit of a fortune cookie shortage here as well. Instead, Polybore could sacrifice a chicken and read it's entrails if that is acceptable. -
Oh ok, I would like to. I wrote a post a year or so ago, it was a beauty but wasn't published. -
For those that are without fortune cookies
www.wisdomportal.com/JS/RandomFortunes.html-
The chicken is spared. "Your venture will be a success."
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Last time I ate fortune cookies was a discovery of a black insect it ...
Very lucky in deed.-
Lucky in one respect. At least it was not half a black insect.
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You got positive thinking!
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I always hated those cookies, but one read "Your principles mean more to you than any money or success."
Its right because my writing means the world to me, because it comes from the very bottom of my heart. Even if people don't agree with me, I believe in my heart that my opinion is pure and uncorrupted,not because of me being cocky, but my sense to lean on one of my reliable features, being open minded to everyone else's opinions and facts then the power to collect my thoughts like pieces of a puzzle and then put them together to capture the whole picture. That in my opinion, is the real core of writing, itself, no matter what shape or form you turn it into wither it be a sword or a pen. (Pen mightier then the sword reference...). -
This is a good idea, and it will help also to those have Asian Restaurant in your area
Cheers,
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One wise man said, beware the one with the red hat -
Sounds good. Let us wait who comes first. -
We posted MissSuzie's Fortune Cookie Friday submission on the BC blog this morning...make sure to check it out and let her know what you thought!
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I demand a direct link to the BC blog from the navbar!
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I will pass your demands along to those who can make it happen.
There is one at the bottom of the page, but you prob already know that.
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Is there a target length for this? I had to collect several fortunes, in the name of research and Moo Goo Gai Pan, but I've only included three of them and I'm already at 250 words. With four more and a conclusion, I'm probably looking at about 600, which is very long for me (for a blog post).
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