Hannah Montana meets Seattle

Hannah Montana is everywhere these days, and so is real-life Miley Cyrus who plays her on the hit Disney show. There was a write up on Tuesday about the recent concert in Seattle that had all the local youngin’s lining up to sing along:

Little girls in pink took over Seattle Center Monday night.

Still holding parents’ hands, they made their way to watch the Jonas Brothers and Hannah Montana at KeyArena, stalling traffic along the way. And as they pumped their pint-size fists, the sheer volume of their screams was deafening.

It was the show of the season, where tickets sold out in minutes thanks to scalpers (prices rose to more than a hundred times their value), and adding to the luxury of the night, limos pulled up after the show.

Whether the concert was worth the thousands some parents may have paid is hard to say. It was sugary pop at its best — the kind of music one ends up humming to whether they like it or not. Miley Cyrus (who plays Hannah Montana on her hit Disney show) sang flat during her encore, but her audience didn’t care.

Read more here: http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=cyrus31&date=20071030&query=hannah+montana

A bit harsh for a 14 year old pop star but I’m betting Montann’s loyal fans don’t give a hoot!

Management Humor: Responsibility

Here’s a great little image that says a whole lot about responsibility:

Found via Raven’s Brain

A blogging contest with cash prizes – ends tonight

blogaboutyourblog.com is running a blogging contest with cash prizesthat ends tonight!!:

How to Enter

There will be two ways to enter this contest. First, make sure to subscribe to our RSS Feed. You must leave a comment on this thread stating you have done so for the entry to count.

The second way to enter is to blog about us. This will gain you two entries in the drawing. In your post you must include Blog about your Blog and our sponsor Bidvertiser.

Read more here: http://blogaboutyourblog.com/2007/10/17/win-great-prizes-from-bidvertiser-and-bayb/

And here’s the updated list of prizes – pretty cool deal for a few minutes work:

First Place 200$ cash via paypal from our sponsor Bidvertiser (Bidvertiser has upped the first prize amount to 200$!!)
Second Place 50$ cash from Bidvertiser
Third Place 50$ cash from Bidvertiser!

Thanks to Working at home Mom and FeeFiFoto Blog for the heads up!

Google, SEO, Page Ranking and You!

I liked this post from Paul Hirsch: Google goes WHAM with the right hand! It provides some good info on the October Google Page Ranking hoopla from the perspective of a regular blogger.

So, how much was your site affected by the shift? Does your company rely on backlinks from directories, blogs and participatory sites? Did your SEO company sell you on a purchased backlink scheme? I’ll bet it worked for a while, and I’ll bet that strategy is going fail a little more every day.

For what it’s worth, my own Web properties either stayed the same or went up. My personal site was the only when to go down, from PR5 to PR4, but I was getting organic backlinks (people attributing stuff to me within their site content) from a few sources that had sold/exchanged an abnormally large number of links. They went down a few points, which will naturally trickle down to other sites like mine.

Read more here: http://www.thewhir.com/blogs/Paul-Hirsch/index.cfm/2007/10/28/Google-goes-WHAM-with-the-right-hand

And here are a few related resources:

• Google Webmaster Tools – Which URL on your site has the highest PageRank? Find out more.
• Google Technology – The heart of our software is PageRank™, a system for ranking web pages developed … Google’s complex automated methods make human tampering with our search …
• GoogleRankings.com – Check Google™ page ranking – Check your search engine placement and page ranking in Google™ .A free search engine optimization tool.
• Google PageRank Checker – Check Google page rank of any web pages – Page Rank Checker is a completely Free tool to check Google PR, page rank of your web site easily and possibly display your Google PageRank on your web …
• PageRank – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – Shortly after, Page and Brin founded Google Inc., the company behind the Google search engine. While just one of many factors which determine the ranking of …
• Pagerank Explained. Google’s PageRank and how to make the most of it. – PageRank is Google’s way of deciding a page’s importance. It matters because it is one of the factors that determines a page’s ranking in the search results …
• Link Exchange – Fully automatic link exchange system.

Free Link from EzineBlog – Increase your Google Page Rank and Technorati Authority

EzineBlog.ORG is aa cool site that talks about everything from science to sports. If you review their blog, they’ll link back to it and help increase your page rank and overall blog goodness! Pretty cool considering how important ranking and authority is in the blogosphere. You can check out all the details here: http://ezineblog.org/?page_id=92

While you’re at it, check out their Technology, Business, Entertainment and other sections for some great info.

Welcome to The Whole Enchilada!

Hello and welcome to the Whole Enchilada! A blog about business, technology, life, work, electronics, the Internet, personal growth and development, leadership, management, home life, life hacks, gadgets and anything else I can think of!  I love writing and blogging and hope to someday be able to scratch out a living by being a professional blogger. It’s become my passion and making a living doing what I love would be pure bliss! Obviously this blog is just starting but I plan to build it up over the next few months. Be sure to check back for updates on new and interetsing things.