The Giant Squid blog points us to a very interesting lens. It was lens of the day a few days ago too. www.squidoo.com/sarah-palin I don’t agree with what Sarah Palin says (her big speech was written by Bush’s speech writer!), but I’m not writing this to talk about politics. I’m writing this because the lens was telepathically topical. It was made BEFORE Sarah Palin got the...

Hello dear reader. You look lovely today. Question: Are you a member of HubPages? You will surely by now have heard of HubPages. Surely. If not, get on over to JoinHubPages.com and sign up! HubPages is a site very much like Squidoo. But with enough differences to be able to tell they are not trying to be or copy Squidoo. There are as many differences as there are similarities, and this will be a short...

You know when you build a lens and you scoot around the web finding links, flickr pictures, youtube videos, amazon products, etc etc etc….? Well I found a site recently called FoxyTunes.com.  It’s basically a search engine all about music. So you’re at FoxyTunes, you type in a band name or a song or album or whatever, and it creates a page for you pulling in the song videos from...

Hello hello hello..! Fun post today. Blog your socks off. “Blogging and lenses go together like Winnie The Pooh and Tigger Too… So do YOU have a blog for your lenses?” ****************************** FIRSTLY, WHY WOULD YOU WANT A BLOG? ****************************** Blogs are fun. Blogs are free. Blogs are fabulous. And blogs are FINDABLE! It is extremely difficult now to do a search...

What is my all-time favourite module on Squidoo? Well, it’s got to be the text module But second? The extremely well-hidden Featured Lens module. You can see it in action on almost all of my lenses (here for example: www.squidoo.com/squidtail). Featuring my other lenses, cross-promoting, and linking to other cool lenses on the same topic. But if you are new to Squidoo… You may NEVER...

I stumbled upon a great idea yesterday. Lensmaster Extraordinaire and Giant Squid AND Squid Angel bdkz wrote a post at Squidu a couple of days ago about a new lens of hers. She used SquidWho.com to make a family tree lens. And how does it look? Fantastic! It’s one of the best uses for SquidWho I’ve seen. Bdkz is making a series of lenses about the family of the founder of her former school. She...