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Mothers Day has been around for a while now and nobody seems to question how it started and why. They just do “the usual,” with the flowers, card, and special dinner or what have you. It’s pretty meaningful stuff and especially in America, everyone eats it up. The point in bringing up this subject is to find out and inform everyone of how this interesting trend started in the first place. What better place to find it than Wikipedia.com? Here’s an excerpt of information you might not know about Mother’s Day:
One school of thought claims this day emerged from a custom of mother worship in ancient Greece, which kept a festival to Cybele, a great mother of Greek gods. This festival was held around the Vernal Equinox around Asia Minor and eventually in Rome itself from the Ides of March (15 March) to 18 March.
The ancient Romans also had another holiday, Matronalia, that was dedicated to Juno, though mothers were usually given gifts on this day.
In some countries Mother’s Day began not as a celebration for individual mothers but rather for Christians.
(And another interesting piece) Mother’s Day is now the most popular day of the year to dine out at a restaurant in the United States.
I’m sure you were one of those people complaining about the long wait and the bad service! Apparently everyone and their mother are waiting in line to get eats on Mother’s Day. On a personal note, it sounds like I was lucky to be at home hanging out with my Mom having a toasted peanut butter and banana sandwich! Happy Mother’s Day Mom!
Anyway, you all know the drill, give your mom a big thanks and let her know she’s appreciated for all the great things shes done and continues to do for some of us. Hopefully yours was enjoyable. Until next year,
What exactly is “Open Blogging” anyway? We weren’t sure at first actually, it was just an idea that our Creative Director stumbled upon while pondering ideas in the shower one evening (no kidding). An “Open” or “Community” Blog allows its members to post relevant content for free, in an attempt to build an interesting community resource, that is our definition, anyway.
From there it was immediately thrown out because of the lack of control such an arrangement poses, and the fact that it’s probably been done a thousand times. Plus, how many people would actually be interested in doing such a thing? It seems as if the biggest majority of internet goers are doing their own thing these days and staying away from the regular scheme of big name websites and overrun ideas. After about seven minutes of throwing the idea out completely, research had commenced. An all out “dig the search engines in hopes of not finding a similar idea so we can have an extra little niche in the internet world before its too late and theres nothing we can do about it,” kind of search.
Well after doing some research, which you can do as well, around search engines and other blogs- it seemed that there was no significant setup for community/website members to login and write blog entries. Wikipedia was about the closest match we could find, every other site was hogging up their precious space by content provided by the same group of authors, almost a little boring!
So anyhow, we decided to take a stab at it and see what we can brew up here. As of May 10, 2008, about two weeks after the development started, we’re now sorting out several bugs and issues with the system. Currently, users are available to register and start posting articles, which we encourage of course. The content is minimal for now until we launch our advertising campaign, if all goes well, in mid June to early July. Until then, we are accepting members to help us build up some early content and test the waters and find out what we can and can’t do. And as a side note, we are very impressed with everything Wordpress is capable of and the site is proudly powered by it.
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