Once Upon a Lens

I’ve finally finished (for now) my lens - Setting Up a 32 Gallon Aquarium. It took a lot longer than I thought it would; the lens, not the setup.

It’s like having a big screen tv!

My original Blogging Meme lens is getting incredibly long so I have started the migration of the Memes into individual lenses. Here are the ones I’ve managed so far. Please pop over and participate by doing the meme in the guestbook.

• The Rainbow Meme
• Eight Facts Meme
• Rule of Seven Meme
• Discovering Your Alias Meme
• The Squidoo Meme
• Employment Line Meme
• Procrastinating Meme

I have still have many more to transfer over but I hope I can finish it this week. Pop over and participate in the memes through the guestbook. I’d love to read about you.

The YouTube module is annoying me. The “display options” are not saving properly on any of my lenses (or they act like they have until I publish it). This started a few weeks ago (and yes, I sent a bug memo). I like to remove all the title, description, rating etc and put my own (or not) depending on the video/lens. All this noise keeps showing up no matter what I do. Most of it is unattractive and messes up what I consider an otherwise streamlined lens. Rant finished…

I just posted a comment, on a blog I was visiting, along with a backlink to my curvy chics lens and it posted immediately. When my mouse went over the link in my name one of those popup snap boxes came up; but instead of showing the lens it showed my note from my last squid cast along with a link to a different but related lens.

How weird is that? I’m not sure how I feel about it yet.

I haven’t really spent much time at SquidTop lately other than to see what everyone else is doing and to leave a few comments. I haven’t added any new lenses because I’ve been busy updating current ones (as well as other non-related work). Today I’m inspired to talk about by bottom 20 lenses thanks to this post/lens by JustBon.

Taking a closer look at your bottom twenty lenses is definitely a good opportunity to see where a little work needs to be done either in regard to adding a module or some kind of promotion. Here are my bottom twenty lenses. Please stop by, have a gander and leave a comment.

1. 10 Respected Luxury Brands
2. Flo-rida: Low Lyrics
3. Big Girl Knits
4. My Favorite Fat Blogs
5. Sir Mix-a-Lot: Baby Got Back Lyrics
6. U2: Big Girls are the Best Lyrics
7. Emilia: Big Big World Lyrics
8. Anthony Hamilton: Sista Big Bones Lyrics
9. Lo Rider: Skinny Lyrics
10. We hate The Hitcher
11. The Smiths: Some Girls are Bigger Lyrics
    
12. AC/DC: Whole Lotta Rosie Lyrics
    
13. Don’t Help Me… I’m Stranded
14. We Love The 13th Warrior
15. Miss Platnum: Mercedes Benz Lyrics
16. Miss Platnum: Come Marry Me Lyrics
17. Fat Girl (A ma soeur!)
18. Christina Aguilera: Beautiful Lyrics
19. Mika: Big Girl (You are beautiful) Lyrics
20. Juliette and the Licks: Hot Kiss Lyrics

I’m not surprised that 13 of my bottom 20 are lyrics. There are a lot of huge lyric sites out there to compete with. But I loved Victoria Neely’s tip about creating simple lyric lenses with the same format and I had wanted for a while to highlight curvy girl songs. Other than the initial linking and promotion (and creating an index lens - Big Girl Music) I haven’t spent much time on these lenses other than to make sure that the videos are still working.

Big Girl Knits is a work in progress and as I work through some of the patterns I plan to add photos and pattern conclusions. 13th Warrior is a new lens and I still need to add character/actor information which I think will improve it greatly (maybe this weekend). I also want to make my fat blogs a little prettier.

Otherwise I have no major updates planned for these lenses and I can live with that. I will however make a point of providing some back links for them for the remainder of this week and see how that goes.

Curvy news:

• Miss England is over and Chloe Marshall came in as 1st runner up.

• America Ferrera’s new film The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants 2 comes out August 6. Yeah!

I finished the weekly update on my writing prompts lens. Can anyone else believe that it’s almost August? Only five more months until Christmas. Sheesh. I hope everyone is having a great weekend.

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* Write Prompts Lens

JHud’s New Album… I just updated my Jennifer Hudson lens with the cover and album information of Jennifer Hudson’s new album and a link to preorder it Amazon for 9.99!

So… do you think she lost weight? Or lost weight and was airbrushed? Or was just airbrushed.

More recovery drama - oh my! Visit My Lasik Experience to read up on what is happening next.

I’ve had a bunch of lenses I needed to update and link to here since I was away from the computer. I’m finally getting to it. First, the last the of the lyric lenses:

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• Big Girls (You are Beautiful)
• Hot Kiss
• Beautiful
• Big Big World
• Skinny
• Low
• Big Girl Music

And a movie:

• Fat Girl (A ma soeur!)

I just finished updating my weekly lenses:

• The Write Prompts
• Blogging Memes