The Megaphone Hosting

Reliable, Affordable Blogging Solutions

Archives for the ‘Uncategorized’ Category

What about Yahoo and MSN?

By admin • Jul 16th, 2008 • Category: Uncategorized

Today I got to thinking about this new Page Rank thing with Google. For those who have not heard there are rumors that Google is starting to penalize sites for doing paid posting by reducing their PR rank. Some site owners are saying their PR rank has fallen from PR5 to PR0. So I got [...]



The Lazy Person’s Guide to Creative Writing

By Kay • Jul 14th, 2008 • Category: Uncategorized

“We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.” - W. Somerset Maugham.
Are you one of those angst- ridden writers who scribbles in a frenzy with a wild eyed look on any scrap of paper he can find, with nothing but nothing penetrating that concentration- not hunger, not tiredness- [...]



Free Blog Hosting For Select Writers

By admin • Jul 14th, 2008 • Category: Uncategorized

Do you need to build your blog where you can accept job assignments? If you’re finding out after a lot of hard work and time consuming efforts you’re told you can’t do paid posting on your blog then you might want to consider joining our network.
The Megaphone Network provides you with a sub-domain Wordpress blog [...]



Free Sub-Domain Hosting For Authors

By admin • Jul 14th, 2008 • Category: Uncategorized

Do you need to build your blog where you can accept job assignments? If you’re finding out after a lot of hard work and time consuming efforts you’re told you cannot do paid posting on your blog then you might want to consider joining our network.
The Megaphone Network provides you with a sub-domain Wordpress blog [...]



Freelance Site Review

By admin • Jul 11th, 2008 • Category: Uncategorized

Why use The Megaphone Network as part of your online advertising campaign?
The Megaphone Network is a small and growing network of bloggers. Our bloggers consist mainly of Authors, Poets and Freelance Writers. These people are professionals and take their blogs and your advertising campaigns very seriously.
How is The Megaphone Network different from hire [...]



Dancers Of Life

By admin • Jul 11th, 2008 • Category: Uncategorized

Like graceful dancers
two sunflowers sway
in mornings breeze.
Teardrops of morning dew
like glistening diamonds
reflecting rays of rising sun.
Sunflowers of beauty
Dancers to unsung songs
they do not ask why they
are so beautiful, they just
dance in morning breeze.
Mike Brandon



Open sesame says Yahoo!

By Kay • Jul 10th, 2008 • Category: Uncategorized

Yahoo’s new release of BOSS (Build your Own Search Service) is exciting news for companies interested in developing their own search engine based products. Basically what they’ve done is invited any developers to use Yahoo’s technical know how, in the shape of their Search index, as a foundation. But why give this technology away so freely?



Would you like my posts on your blog?

By Kay Elizabeth • Jul 9th, 2008 • Category: Uncategorized

Awww, you’re making me blush! There’s a very simple way to do that.  Just go to Syndicate Me! in the right hand column and click where it says Entries RSS. That’ll give you the feed link you need. Then just insert it in your site or blog’s RSS feed reader. It’s free and I would [...]



Call for submissions: Bard Fiction Prize of $30,000

By Kay Elizabeth • Jul 8th, 2008 • Category: Uncategorized

Have you published a fiction book, are under 40 and American? Bard offers this very large prize plus a one-semester appointment as writer-in-residence at Bard College in New York. Hurry though, the deadline’s only a few days away on July 15 2008.

This contest comes “highly recommended” at Winning Writers, so you can be sure of [...]



Memories of sunshine and swimming

By Kay Elizabeth • Jul 7th, 2008 • Category: Uncategorized

Conversations sometimes bring back memories of the time I spent in my childhood in Durban, South Africa. I lived there for two and a half years until I was twelve. It was the mid 70’s, a time when apartheid was still in place. There was segregation everywhere. Buses, park benches, public toilets, even the beaches [...]