New biscotti post up @ ROASTe. Was a really fun one to research. I prepared various sweet and savory foods to eat with my coffee – in an experiment to see how each of them affected the coffee’s taste differently. I think you’ll like it.
New column up at ROASTe’s biscotti blog. Learning to write with keywords in article title and every paragraph that make the post more searchable by Google, also meta tags and making sure hyperlinks are only on words that have to do with the content they’re linking to (not how i did the hyperlink here).
New biscotti post is up at ROASTe.com. I brewed my first-ever cup of coffee using a French press (vs. a drip coffee maker). Woah, big difference – for real!
In my second ROASTe post, I ask what the hell these coffee tasting terms (smoky? earthy?) really mean, and also bitch about grounds in my cup and filters.
You know how I was posting my iGoogledIsrael columns on G-Fish as I wrote them last year? Well, I’m going to do the same with my ROASTe blog, which I’m calling biscotti [get it? – thanks, Dad!]. Here‘s the first one – enjoy!
New column is up over at iGoogled. Please RT and share the eff out of it on Facebook. It’s kinda good, I swear.
Kisses, Scott.
Filed under: Amerijones, Cultural Differences, Published Columns | Tags: Christmas, gifts, Hanukkah
New column is up now at iGoogledIsrael. Imagine a world where Christmas gets the token nod instead of Hanukkah. Plus: how to still get good presents from family in the U.S. when you’re living in Israel.
Kiss, kiss.
It’s hard coming up with new ideas for columns every week. Especially when I kinda do the same things: work, walk the dog, work out, do my creative writing. You think people would read a column about flossing?
My friend Simona DM’d me over Twitter that I should write about the Israeli gay scene. Well, it was either that or a column about flossing, so I did. I wrote about what I know, which is all I can really ever do. And as I was writing, I figured There’s a million and one gay travel stories on Tel Aviv that just mention the gay beach and main bars…I should write about the stuff you’d never find online, the stuff potential gay Olim or tourists really want to know – you know, sexyshiz and the like.
But Zoinks! Do I really need my mom knowing there are more Tops than Bottoms in Tel Aviv? Well, she does now. Fuck it, writers are supposed to be fearless. No turning back now.
Check in out here. P.S. Like the new iGoogled Xmas banner?
Filed under: Preaching, Published Columns | Tags: #tweetsgiving, gratitude, Thanksgiving
My friend and the owner of consulting firm Community Organizer 2.0, Debra, asked me to participate in something called #Tweetsgiving. An annual 48-hour event pegged to Thanksgiving, the project encourages people to blog, tweet, share and host parties about gratitude. All grants and donations raised by the project go to trick-out an elementary school in Arusha, Tanzania with computers and other high-tech learning tools. (Last year’s #Tweetsgiving helped fund efforts to build a new classroom at the same school.)
Anyway, I made my contribution this week’s iGoogledIsrael column, so check it out, please. I also encourage you to add the tag #tweetsgiving to all your tweets ) and follow @TweetsGiving (if you’re on Twitter), include a link to www.TweetsGiving.org in your posts (if you’re a blogger), or just plain old donate.
The U.S. nonprofit behind the project is called Epic Change.
Gefilte Fish Out of Water 