I WANT THE TRUTH -- Has anyone ever visited my journal? Ever?

[Radio_Lady]

http://journals.democraticunderground.com

What can I do to improve it?

Be brutal! I can handle it, believe me!

(Or is everyone looking at the top ten and these few journals only?)

top10
NanceGreggs
Bob Geiger
BobcatJH
CrisisPapers
Skinner
AuntiePinko
BlogBox
EarlG
WilliamPitt
H2O Man

[Robeson]

1. Honestly, I haven't. But, then again, I don't visit anyones' journal....

...but I'll check your's out...:thumbsup:

[Radio_Lady]

2. Thanks, Robeson. I'd just like the several publicists and the movie

studio mavens think that I'm getting some kind of a crowd.

Appreciate your help tonight/this morning.

Just curious: Are you too busy to read journals? I know most bloggers get ZERO traffic, but mine space is important to continue my press credits. I thought that a couple of movie reviews would carry it through until I return on Oct. 25, but that wasn't happening today.

Thanks so much.

[Robeson]

4. I'm posting on several sites of interest to me....

...so I usually read the posts in many forums from this and other sites I visit. I guess it's kind of a shotgun approach, so I don't always have the time to get bogged down in specific journals and such. There's only so many hours in a day. But I will check out your journal!

[Radio_Lady]

6. I really appreciate it. I started mine not so much for a place to express

my opinions -- but to post movie reviews and other interesting threads I started that got a bit of comment action.

I didn't think that it needed to be political all the time; however, those blogs seem to be the ones people cling to here.

There are many sides to my life and I can't baby-sit a blog all day, either. Too many commitments to do that.

Thanks again.

In peace,

Radio_Lady in Oregon

[GalleryGod]

3. I enjoyed it ! I love your movie reviews,especailly.

As for the Reunions? What can I say I have ALWAYS liked them and enjoyed them. I don't have the same anger about my high school days that many here, still harbor. Never did.

Just enjoy! My 40th comes up next year! You get "one last chance" to reconnect for a few hours.

HAVE FUN !

[Radio_Lady]

7. Yes, I'm kind of excited about seeing so many of the people again.

We were lucky that the 1955 and 1956 classes were the first ones in a new building, Edward L. Constance Jr. High and High School in North Miami, Florida, later changed to North Miami High School. The first two classes are called the "Original Pioneers." Although were were located in S. E. Seminole country, we chose the Conestoga wagon as our symbol.



You must understand that the building itself is in the process of being torn down -- it was old and leaky and moldy -- maybe like some of the graduates themselves!

But they are rebuilding the school on the former athletic field and that should be interesting. Also, we were lucky we had a man who had gone to the school, but not actually graduated, who took it upon himself to trace the several classes from 1955 to 1960; he sends a lengthy and fascinating newsletter to us every month. Go, go, go, go, Jim M. in Murray, Utah! We all appreciate his work. My husband and I had breakfast with Jim and his wife when we were in Utah a couple of years ago. He is a Mormon, and he just wanted to link us all together -- so he did it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Miami_Senior_High_School

[Robeson]

5. O.K., I've reviewed your site.....

...I think it's great. I enjoyed all the reviews, and it reflects your passions. On a personal note, Molly Ringwald is a doll, and I love Ian McShane. Damn I miss Lovejoy...:-(

[Radio_Lady]

8. Robeson, I'm indebted to you for your review. I'll try to be worthy

of your interest in the future.

In peace,

Radio_Lady in Oregon

[vickitulsa]

9. I just checked it out

and liked what I saw there, RadioLady! Having just first met you a couple of days ago (or was it yesterday?), I had not looked at your journal yet, but I can say I probably would have even had you not asked. :)

I haven't quite got into the habit of either keeping my own journal or reading anyone else's. I hope to find time to do more of that, but lately my creative juices have been flowing and I've got my head buried in songwriting. You know how that goes!

Will read more of your journal (and hopefully do something with mine) soon, though, promise.

I think I already gave you my comment on the 50th Year Class Reunion thing! :rofl:

Haven't been to Florida, either ... one of the very few regions of the U.S. that I've never visited, though I once got as close as the Carolinas.

So many other people have been there -- surely you'll get a lot of recs of places to go and things to do and see... before it all slips underwater. D'oh! :o

:applause: :bounce:

[Radio_Lady]

21. Hey, Vicki -- Thanks so much.. you're a peach!

[Guava Jelly]

10. I am not sure if i have yet

But i rarely visit anyones journal

[Radio_Lady]

22. Old habits die hard... try it, you'll like it!

My blog links to other film reviewers in the Portland area.

See the right column if you want the buzz on film around these parts.

Nice to meet you on the DU!

Radio_Lady in Oregon

[Road Scholar]

11. I did and it's very nice.

I'm gonna do mine one of these days.

[Radio_Lady]

23. It took me a bunch of years -- and Skinner's cajoling, to try my hand

at it. After all, I had already made 5,000 or so posts at the DU -- and this provided a ready audience for my reviews and opinions.

It's been fun, but I don't know if I would have liked it so much without the "ready-made" community here prior to the journal feature being turned on. Live Journal and Blogger seemed to daunting to me, and I have no real connection with any other people who are blogging in this way. Chalk it up to being 67 years old -- several of my first cousins, both male and female, NEVER GO ON THE INTERNET AT ALL -- or if they do, it's just for email. Luckily, I'm married to a 72 year old software (formerly electrical) engineer who saw the Internet coming along in 1981 and urged me to get off my Coronet typewriter and learn to word process. How I loved that Word Perfect and their fascinating "reveal codes." Anyone else like them?

In peace,

Radio_Lady in Oregon

[vickitulsa]

47. Oh, I gotta respond to this!

:)

The WordPerfect "reveal" codes ... now THAT was a great old DOS program! I still believe to this day that the ONLY reason Word won the software war over WordPerfect was that Bill Gates GAVE AWAY WORD with every single computer that was sold in this country for several years!

If he hadn't done that, and if the WordPerfect people hadn't lagged behind in fighting back against MicroSoft's tactics, we'd all be using WordPerfect now instead of Word. :D

I'm a lot like you, too, in that I'm not a young pup but I was advised by one of my temp agency people that if I didn't move away from my Selectric and learn to run the memorywriters and then computers that were taking over in the offices of the country, I would "become a dinosaur" and be unhirable.

Since I worked more temp than "permanent," I needed to be current on the technology and tackled word processing -- to my surprise finding it was WAY easier than I'd feared.

Oh, and I like the simplicity and user-friendly nature of the DU journal system, too ... I really do plan to try to get mine up and running in an orderly fashion, if only to post a lot of my original song lyrics and a few poems. Since I'm writing new ones lately but have few outlets for them, the journal might be the ideal place for that. Ya think? :dilemma:

[pscot]

12. Yes

And the pictures of Scarlett Johansson (sigh) were worth the trip.

[Radio_Lady]

24. Yes, Scarlett is just gorgeous. I love her even though I'm a

straight woman.

Was it yesterday? She was voted the most beautiful woman in the world or something. Saw it on Comcast.

Oh, well, I had my chance -- but it was fleeting.

From the Summer of 1956:



More recently (2003), with hubby in tow, in Florida.

[Sugar Smack]

13. Ma'am YES MA'AM!!

:patriot:

I really, really like it, too!:D

[Radio_Lady]

25. Sugar Smack, you rock! Did I order you around, or are you in the

military?

Thanks for the wave!

In peace,

Radio_Lady

[azmouse]

14. I don't look at anyone's journals. Sorry.

[Radio_Lady]

26. No problem, AzMouse. Thanks for posting anyway...

[ghostsofgiants]

15. I often wonder the same thing about my journal, haha.

Though my journal exists for the sole purpose of amusing myself. Yours seems to have a little more legitimate content, haha. :thumbsup:

[jonnyblitz]

18. i never think to look at any of them...

there is never enough time to read all there is to read on the internets. I know i have looked at something of yours (some profile, site, or whatever, I forget) and got movies ideas from your list of favorite movies, like i told you before. :hi:

[Radio_Lady]

27. Movie publicists like to think that a movie review is being read...

or heard -- somewhere, somehow. I do a web and TV AUDIO-only show (read about it in my journal on the right hand column) and now mention my DU journal at the bottom of almost every professional email I send out.

It's a good fit for me!

In peace,

Radio_Lady

PS. I'll take a look at yours to return the favor. Thanks for posting.

[ghostsofgiants]

31. Mine is essentially a collection of posts I've made...

That I onsider pretty funny.

[Tyler Durden]

16. I never look at anyone's journal...but I went to yours.

The true "art" of journaling has been sort of lost on me. I use mine to load things I write to remember my exact words, as some folks want to grab one's every word as a stone to throw back at you. I don't have that kind of time or ego m'self.

I wish I had a stronger opinion on your journal. It seems ok to me...if you like it, it serves its purpose, at least in my cosmology.

[Radio_Lady]

33. "It serves its purpose," said Tyler. Thanks for the good news!

Sometimes I think I could spend all day working on my journal.

That would be more like.... hope this doesn't offend you.... "verbal masturbation."

You do it to yourself. It feels good. There's no one around to bother you. You get your verbal rocks off, and you don't care whether there is any reaction.

That really isn't my purpose. I like give and take. That's why I ended up in radio talk shows.

Thanks for looking!

In peace,

Radio_Lady

[Haole Girl]

17. Just did...

I like the pic of the red flowers...Ginger, I think? Beautiful!

[Radio_Lady]

35. Thanks, KC2. I love the Internet's graphic abilities.

There's so much to choose from, both in my own Photobucket account and also on the whole Internet.

Here's one I liked very much:



That's my husband and me after seeing "Guys and Dolls" at the Piccadilly Theater. The photo was taken by an Australian fellow who was "three sheets to the wind" after spending part of the afternoon in a neighborhood pub!

It was the best shot of both of us from our trip to England in May 2006.

In peace,

Radio_Lady Ellen in Oregon

[Hissyspit]

19. The Top 10 are pretty much fixed for a long time, because these

people set up their journals early on so if they don't get many visits from now on (and that is not likely to happen), it will take you years, probably, to make a dent in them.

[Hissyspit]

20. If you post in your journal instead of a regular post, radio lady...

people who click on your posts get counted as a journal visit, even if it doesn't appear as a journal page to them. So, yes, people are visiting your journal if you keep it updated regularly.

[Radio_Lady]

39. Hissyspit, it's not one of my goals. I'm just curious about audience

size on these forums. We have 95,000+ members at the DU.

What part of them are on-line on any one day -- or at any one time? How many read only? How many share or don't share -- our Democratic Underground views? Trolls? Disrupters?

Do members read journals, or not?

There's no real way to survey this (at least without one of those click-counter software packages).

I know I used to hear figures on standard "terrestrial" AM radio -- 60,000 to 150,000 listeners per 1/4 hour, M-Sat. 10 AM to 2 PM. Mostly female, but a large number of men on the road.

At WEEI, this was a big audience and the sales guys would go nuts about how good that was.

Of course, it was also the early 1970s, with AM radio leading the talk-show pack.

Probably a pittance in today's world!

In peace,

Radio_Lady

[Haole Girl]

28. Guess who made the "Most Views: Today" list?

Most Views: Today top10

NanceGreggs
AuntiePinko
Armstead
WilliamPitt
Bob Geiger
Phil Rockstroh
Plaid Adder
salvorhardin
CrisisPapers
Skinner
Time for change
EarlG
BlogBox
kpete
sabra
rocknation
Radio_Lady
BobcatJH
DeepModem Mom

[Radio_Lady]

36. Oh! Surprise! It pays to publicize yourself, I guess. Thanks so much.

Who'da thunk it?

[swag]

29. I rarely look at journals. I prefer the hustle and flow of open forums.

[Radio_Lady]

37. I understand completely. Appreciate your comments.

[qnr]

30. I don't read any journals, generally (except for the ones I used to read

before they were 'journals').

[Radio_Lady]

38. Hey! You knew them when...!

[qnr]

42. Well, I'm certain that the journals are wonderful (yours included), but

it just seems like a little too much for me to keep track of, following everyone individually.

[qnr]

40. self-delete n/t

[Blue-Jay]

32. No, but I never look at anyone's journal.

Didn't even want to spend the time to make my own. If I want to blog, I'll blog.

[HEyHEY]

34. I look at the journals of people I don't like

In an attempt to discover and exploit their weakness

[qnr]

43. Way too much work. I'm evil & hate everyone n/t

[Radio_Lady]

41. Sure. Forget I asked.... (Impertinent Radio_Lady walks away...)

Have a good month!

See ya again around Hallowe'en!

[Blue-Jay]

44. I hope you didn't take that as an insult.

I'm just not much of a journal/blog-reader. (aside from Kos & Atrios that is)

[Radio_Lady]

45. Absolutely not, Blue-Jay. There are just so many hours in a day.

I often feel set-upon by the clock.

But, we're going on vacation and it will be swell! Thanks for your comments. Have you ever been to a school reunion? My 50th High School reunion is on the docket this month ... don't know what to expect, but I'm psyched:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x5699648

[Mutley]

46. I haven't, but I don't really look at anyone's journal.

I doubt anyone looks at mine, but that's fine by me. I basically use it as a storage bin for threads that I want to be able to find easily.