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Cabaret Hotline Online is an independent website with more than 7,400 pages of news, information and stories on cabaret, owned and maintained by Stu Hamstra. CABARET HOTLINE ONLINE is not affiliated with any club or organization. It is totally supported through advertising and membership donations. This blog is an extension of the website and newsletter.

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Monday, February 2, 2009

FUN WITH BLOGS

I am having a bit of fun with this new blog, thanks to some things I have come to realize. First off, I always have to worry about using certain terms and words in the twice-weekly newsletter. I have had to reject or at least revise titles of some shows that I receive releases for since I know that, since it is an e-mail publication, the "porn-police" have built extensive content filters to reject e-mails that contain certain words or phrases. A few weeks ago, 60 newsletters were rejected and returned by such censoring programs and I went over the issue word for word and could not figure out the reason for the rejection. But on the blog there is no such handicap.

Also, the blog allows me to "get things off my chest" right away. There is a real treat in being able to say what I feel soon after I feel it. Of course, I am blessed with a delete switch if I feel differently a few hours later and regret what I wrote. I can't do that in the newsletter.

Most of all, it gives folks a chance to comment and respond - but hardly anyone does. We are not close to 250 visitors a day (not a big amount, but still gratifying) but only one person has made a comment - or I should say 2 comments made by the same person. Interesting.