Improve your health by blogging

ASK the Government to look at your health problems

Laughter is the best medicine so it’s great that FMB has fun bloggers like DaddyP in its community.

But apart from having a good time blogging, your blog can make a difference in your and other people’s life.

Remember when I asked yesterday: what do you do when 960 children will die before you go to sleep? The comments were little because when you think inside the box, you already have enough on your hands with your own children…

But think outside the box!

We bloggers have a strong voice reaching hundreds or even thousands of people each and every day. So one day governments will finally hear our voices, and these days are closer by than ever.

If you don’t have a blog, you can speak your voice in the health communication study.

This study will test what we all know already:

the Internet is a good way
to acquire information and
to interact with others who share similar issues.

But in order for governments and health care providers to take us serious, they need an "advanced theoretical work" in order to take action.

Luckily Dr. Jeong-Nam Kim at Purdue University took the initiative to start writing his "advanced theoretical work" in his health communication study and he needs the help of every blogger and blog reader like you.

So if you want the government and health care providers to listen and solve your health problems, please take the survey now.

The survey is not only for people with chronic health problems but for everybody involved in online communication like:
 

• bloggers,
   
• people who read and comment on blogs,
   
• FMB community members like you and me.
   

So next time somebody asks you what you did to save 960 children from dying, you can say you took the health communication survey

in order to
make the government and health care providers
listen to your problems.

960 children die before you go to bed today

And this 960 count only covers Latin America according to Colombian singer Shakira…

Why don’t we hear about these huge numbers
in the daily news?

Shakira received an ALMA (American Latino Media Arts) award last Sunday for the humanitarian work she does for Latin America’s impoverished children.

How do you feel when politicians tell you that "the children are our future"?

How do you feel when these Latin American children need a singer to help them out?

(Picture courtesy of colombiareports.com)

PicApp Competition: We have a winner!

I have just received an email from PicApp, they have counted the images and the blogger who has used the

most images is: BenSpark!

Congratulations to BenSpark you will be going to Blog World Expo in September

Thank you to all of you who entered the competition and to PicApp for sponsoring it.

If you have not come across PicApp.com in your blogging life yet you should head over there now, PicApp offers free and legal images for blogs.

We are Fuelmyblog: The Electric Egg Cream

This post is part of a series of interviews highlighting Fuelmyblog bloggers and their blogs, a great way to find out who are the bloggers part of the Fuelmyblog community. If you would like to feature in this series add your name in the comment box or email sylvie(at)fuelmyblog.com

• What’s your name?

Michael

• What’s the name of your blog?

The Electric Egg Cream

• What’s the URL of your blog?

http://electriceggcream.com

• How old is your blog?

One-year old on September. Fifty-three years younger than myself, yet rapidly becoming older.

• If you’re willing to share, how many visitors per day do you have

to your blog?

From 150-250 unique visitors per day, depending on the tides and phases of the moon. Even though my stats counter is reputed to be accurate, I believe that most of these visits are made by aliens from Alpha Centauri who are merely dropping in for a laugh.

• How much time do you spend blogging every week?

From 20-40 hours, depending on my fluctuating moods, availability of ideas, and my duties/responsibilities in the “real world”–wherever that happens to be.

• Is it the creative process or the editing process which take you longest when writing a post?

The editing process is, by far, the longest and most agonizing part of writing…especially regarding grammatical errors. Whereas life and art are short and long, respectively, typos and the like possess an uncanny ability to lurk everywhere, in spite of one’s best laid plans. For instance: the “your” that should’ve been “you’re” or the (unclosed parenthetical clauses…are two of my favorite gremlins.

• What inspired you to first start writing a blog?

After a lifetime of wandering around between the steel and concrete of New York City’s heaven, hell and earth, I merely want to express it in my own words and thoughts…much of it based on sources but modified and relayed through my own eccentricity.

• What do you do to get inspired to write?

Surf through my memories then surf the Internet for source material to support my memories. For current events/ news, I usually browse the New York Times or the Brooklyn Paper.

• Is there anything that you simply refuse to blog about?

I try to steer clear of politics and religion…such material usually leads to heated debates and loss of friends.

• If you went for a job interview and were told that you’d have to close your blog in order to get the job, how would you react/feel about it?

Because I’m a stubborn and independent man with a hair-trigger temper, totally irresponsible and impractical, I’d politely tell them to take this job and shove it.

• Do you talk about your blog with your relatives and friends or do you avoid mentioning it?

My wife and I aren’t saying a word about our Electric Egg Cream insanity to friends/relatives until the movie is released.

• What is the biggest mistake you made when starting your blog?

I had thought that the world (or, at least, a section of it) would come running to my pages for marvelous and pleasurable reading, leaving comments and criticism all over the place. Of course, this wasn’t the case and even though the visitors are there, they’re usually silent: speechless with amazement or unconscious with boredom.

• Any tips for aspiring bloggers? -

Forget about becoming rich and famous blogging. Prepare to spend many lonely hours that (if you don’t have a real job or tidy sum stashed away) border on impoverishment. The visitors that you come across who claim that they “love” your blog, really love their own blog more and are merely linking around. Don’t trust avatars with beautifully gleaming faces on them, usually appearing on social blogging networks, who want to be your “friend.”

• Who are the bloggers that you look up to the most?

This is probably heresy, but I don’t look up to (nor do I look down on) any other blogger beyond myself. For good or bad, fair or foul, I try to look to and into myself for whatever inspiration may be secretly contained therein. If anything, I hope to find not a blogger, but rather only a piece of a F. Scott Fitzgerald or Charles Dickens (gods of my elusive imagination) hiding in the shadows.

• Do you still see yourself blogging in 5 years time?

Sure. I have an endless sense of humor that won’t end until I do.