Squidoo - Why Is Your Lens Locked?

Squidoo’s forum has had several plaintive requests from lensmasters whose lenses have been locked. They ask someone to tell them why. As the lens is locked no other lensmaster can read it and give a detailed explanation. All we can say is the lens has tripped a filter or been reported for abuse and so is probably on the SquidDon’t list.

The very first thing I did before signing up for Squidoo was read their Terms of Service (TOS). It’s what I did when before I recently joined Qondio and even Facebook and Twitter. I like to know what I’m getting into. I also like to know what rights I have, to my copyright for example, and what rights the company insists on having. Make no mistake, when you join any online site, it’s their bat and their ball so they get to make the rules. You either comply or go elsewhere.

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Most of us cannot understand how anyone can be so evil that they would buy and sell children in the sex trade.  How paedophiles can brutalise children for their own selfish gratification is beyond any understanding and certainly any kind of forgiveness. If I had my way, they’d be castrated without anaesthesia. I’d probably have them cast out into a vast wilderness as well, to fend for themselves, far beyond any kind of help.

We can’t wave a magic wand to abolish this evil trade but we can help to fight it. Find out what you can do – read Best of Child Trafficking on Twitter and see how people on Twitter are are getting together to support the charity Born2Fly – read about it here.

Find out why 09-09-09 is an important date for your diary and for children all over the world then use your own Twitter and other social networks to spread the word.

It’s felt like a feverish 6 or 7 weeks ever since I decided to try for the Giant 100 Club halfway through May with the deadline June 30. Since then I’ve made about 30 new lenses. When I still needed to do at least 12 more to get to the 100, it felt like an impossible task but somehow I made the 100 and then more to reach 107 lenses in all.

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Blackcurrants - A Superfood?

Yesterday I published my 100th Squidoo lens – Blackcurrants – A Superfood? I can hardly believe that I have produced so many lenses in just a couple of months.

When I committed myself to bringing my total number of  lenses up to 100 by June 30th back at the end of April, I never really thought I could do it. I had to produce 23 lenses in just two months. That sounded daunting, to put it mildly.

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