Special Announcements

Special Announcement:

Jeritopia Rocks.

Chats ahead:

Monday Feb. 4-- Townsperson Jennie Sword--9 p.m. CST

Thurs. Feb. 7-- Matt Federman (Writer)-- 10 p.m. EST


Rich of Copywrite requested our help so, if you'd like, please answer this question:

"With Jericho at minus 9 days, I'm working on a post to break sometimes before Feb. 12 and would like to write something from the perspective of the fans. So, if you have a minute, etc. What stands out to you about all these months of saving and promoting the show? "

You may leave your response in a comment or email to me at sweat1951@rock.com

Thanks.

Changing Jericho

As most of you know there was a time during the Save Jericho campaign when it became necessary for me to have three blogs so I could post assorted news and information about the campaign.

As we are ready to embark on our journey to Season 2 I feel some changes are in order. We won the campaign and Jericho will return soon. I feel that I am spread too thin to provide the depth of coverage I am now interested in pursuing.

Therefore, I am happy to announce that JerichoMonster will remain as the blog for Jericho news and information. Arabelle's Alley will, within the next week, become a blog focusing on TV in general as well as Social Networking. JerichoCentral will remain (for informational purposes) but I will not be updating it after today.

I hope you will all join me at JerichoMonster for more in depth discussions of the show. I appreciate your support and encouragement and look forward to seeing you at Arabelle's and the Monster.

Thank you.

Boo Update

Just a brief update. Here's a picture of my Boo as a baby.

Boo and I had a wonderful day together. She is now on her way to Indiana.

Again, I thank all of you who made this possible. You saved Boo's life which saved mine too.

I am exhausted so will return on Monday.

Jericho Fans: Saved Boo

If you missed this story please go here.

Just an update on my Boo.

She was spayed yesterday and is doing great!

She leaves for her new foster home in Indiana Friday night.

The other good news is that I will be able to spend about 8 hours with her before she leaves. I haven't seen her in two weeks.

I am very excited about that but sad to see her go. Of course the alternative is unthinkable.

Many thanks to everyone who made this possible. Your outpouring of support, donations, and love have been beyond astounding.

I'll be with my Boo tomorrow but I'll be back to make another report when she arrives in her new home.

Thank you all!!!

I'll be back to regular blogging on Monday.

January Series

"In the television business the grim reality of the writers’ strike has set in, with the prospect of a long shutdown of scripted shows growing stronger by the day.
But in what seems to be growing consensus among executives at the television networks, the strike could contain a faint glimmer of good news for one group of shows: struggling, barely surviving prime-time series.
In January the series that had been held in reserve will get their shots on the air, usually in limited runs. These include shows like “Lost” and “Cashmere Mafia” on ABC, “The Sarah Connor Chronicles” on Fox and “Jericho” on CBS. And some of these shows could do better than they would have otherwise, because by the time they get on, they would not have to face original episodes of shows like “Grey’s Anatomy” and “House.”



More Supernatural TV Secrets

Behind the scenes info here.



"Content creators everywhere are mad and not going to take it anymore. Well-compensated TV writers want in on online video revenue, or else... (Well, that's the part they haven't quite worked out yet.) And now CBS news writers and producers are so annoyed about CBS's plan to combine two newsrooms and pay radio people less than TV people that they're about to follow their Hollywood brethren into the streets."




Get paid to blog for an entire year

Would you please give my friend a vote?

CBS,NBC,and Content

"Oh, I love my vampire!" CBS President of Entertainment Nina Tassler said recently, beginning a conversation about her network's new drama, "Moonlight."

Clearly, she must. No other TV show this fall has experienced as much turbulence as "Moonlight." But through all of the changes in the executive producing ranks, the cast and the show's framework, CBS hasn't budged in its support, scheduling it in between its reliable Friday-night fare, "Ghost Whisperer" and "Numb3rs."



Hey Nielsen Interviews JerichoMonster:

"In addition to being vocal and viral champions for their favorite show, the Jericho Monster crew have also proven themselves to be great community builders and a resource of information on TV and entertainment across the board. At a conference just last week on Consumer Generated Media hosted by our siblings at Nielsen Online, more than one TV exec spoke about the power of fan blogs and forums... and how they had all learned something from their passion and their approach."


"Beth Comstock, president of NBC Universal Integrated Media, told American Magazine Conference attendees today that we now spend more time with media than we spend sleeping.

Digital video recorders, the source of the most anxiety for companies like NBC Universal have only reached 22% penetration, according to NBC's research. But of course that number is growing rapidly. "It's causing a lot of anxiety in our world," she said.

This all reflects the many, many quick changes affecting the media business, but that's all right, she said, calling this a "golden age" of media. "It's a great thing to be a content company in the digital age," she said. "Content is always going to win."

Bloggers To Be Read

Winners and Honorable Mentions: Bloggers Unite Competition

Here is the article that won 1st place in Rich's Bloggers Unite Competition. You don't want to miss it.


Lisa Wines

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Conversational Rape by Dr. Pat Allen)


2nd place:JerichoMonster


Here is the 3rd place winner:

Verna Corbett


Honorable Mentions:

PetLvr


NAFASG


Personal story of abuse
http://jewelrytales.blogspot.com/2007/09/hearts-ease.html


A 25-year cancer survivor,
http://sunmoonsorc.blogspot.com/2007/09/bloggers-against-abuse.html

Blog For Hope: Winners

"On Sept. 27, BlogCatalog became the first social network to ask its members to collectively call for an End To Abuse. On thousands of blogs all over the world on the same day, BlogCatalog members and other bloggers did.

To highlight a few, Copywrite, Ink., in cooperation with BlogCatalog, invited any blogger who participated in this campaign to submit a link and other measurements for consideration in our Blog For Hope Post Competition.

Six judges painstakingly read more than 100 entries, representing a mere sliver of Bloggers Unite posts written by thousands of bloggers. From these, we tasked ourselves to select eight. While there are no losers, we’re pleased to highlight a sampling of the work from caring individuals who made a difference. The work speaks for itself...

Second Place — Barbara Sweat (Jane), Jericho Monster

Sweat chronicled how verbal abuse sometimes escalates from put-downs under the guise of jokes into disparaging comments that aim to control, manipulate, and intimidate, leaving an impact on the victim forever. She then gave readers information from several sources and prompted the victims of verbal abuse to contact the state branch of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence if the abuse crosses into domestic violence."


Many, many thanks to Rich, BlogCatalog, and LisiBee who created Edna.

Jericho: How To Digg

Jericho Digg Day

Oct. 28th



Why is Digg so important to Jericho?

Once a submission has earned a critical mass of Diggs, it becomes “popular” and jumps to the homepage in its category. If it becomes one of the most popular, it qualifies as a “Top 10”. If a submission doesn't receive enough Diggs within a certain time period, it eventually falls out of the “Upcoming” section.
The system only works when users actively participate on a large scale, so make sure to do your part and Digg content that matters to you!

Basically, the more Diggs a Jericho article gets the more people who will see it. I'm not talking about 10, 50, or even 100 Diggs-we need thousands. Do you want CBS to stand up and notice us again? Do you want to support the cast and crew of Jericho? Do you want more viewers? Here's a simple way to do all that and more.

For a Digg Tutorial go here.



I have this set up where you only have to go to one page to digg everything.

http://digg.com/users/sweat1951/history/favorites

If you have not registered at Digg then please see below and use my invite.



Come Join My Network at Digg

sweat1951 is a member of Digg and would like to send you an invitation. With Digg you can help promote and share news to the millions of Digg viewers with a single click (Digging a story).

http://www.digg.com/invitefrom/sweat1951

Invite your friends or find them on Digg and add them to your friends list. Then your friends can track what you’re Digging and you can see what they Digg as well, enabling you to collectively find news together.



When you click on the Digg button after reading an article you may be taken to a page where you will see that you are the first person to Digg it so you must submit the story. It's very simple.
1. You will be asked for the title of the story. The URL will be right above that space so you can usually get the title from that.
2. You write a brief little bit as to what the story is about.
3. Scroll down to categories and choose TV.
4. Scroll down and you find one of those boxes where you type in the code which shows you aren't a bot.
5. You may come to a page that says similar stories have been submitted. None of them will be the one you're entering so scroll down and hit the Submit button and you're all done.

Jericho: More Fun Links

Hawkins Basement

Do you like to laugh and have a good time? Do you like to post silly pictures or make funny comments on the pictures posted?

Stop on by Hawkins Basement!!


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The H/J Porch - grab a tango margarita + watch the world go by


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Where is Jericho?

One of my favorite threads at Rally Point! Follow along as they plot just where Jericho and surrounding towns really are!

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Want to talk about season 2 of Jericho?

Let's speculate on Season Two. What would you like to see?


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Printable Jericho Board Game. Fun for the whole family!


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The Three Word Story
An on-going story, all you have to do is add the next three words!!



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Jericho Fan Video player - watch fan created videos!


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Jericho Word Search Puzzles


Have fun and good luck!

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DVD Discussion Folder - what are your favorite bonus features?



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Guardians of Jericho- all the latest news and updates about Jerichon 2008!

http://www.guardiansofjericho.org/

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The famous I Know Who Dropped the Bombs thread



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Talk to experienced folks about what they are doing to prepare for a real life disaster



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Great list of games and fun!


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New to the CBS message boards? Here is a tutorial to help and a place to ask questions


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Jericho, Moonves, and A Chicken

Rich of Copywrite Ink does a great job with this article.

“I do not think CBS even has people in place to evaluate and determine whether or not an opportunity is good for them,” commented Jericho fan blogger Terocious in response to our Tuesday post. “I think the company's success with new media must be coming from a small minority within the company who sees the possibilities and is pushing for them.”


"CEO Les Moonves held court at the Merrill Lynch Fall Media Preview last week. Let's review some interesting highlights."



"Last Chance for Animals (LCA), one of the nation's leading animal rights organizations with over 100,000 members, today strongly criticized CBS for staging the killing of a chicken for entertainment. CBS set up the brutal killing for the September 26 episode of its television show "Kid Nation." LCA also questioned the website YouTube's policy allowing the posting of this video and others promoting animal cruelty."



Jericho: CBS Mischief Makers