This is just getting more exciting by the minute. See, the big thing that so many of us were looking forward to at PostieCon was the unveiling of the great big, new, awesome software that would revolutionize the consumer-generated advertising arena!

PayPerPost recently announced it’s ‘umbrella’ company, Izea. Izea is the parent company of all the companies that are a part of PayPerPost. So PayPerPost is remaining as it is, but, this is just an umbrella to catch all the companies in. You can click on that link and see all the companies under the new umbrella.

And the big new thing that Ted Murphy has been telling us about and pumping us up about for months is a super secret software system (say that five times fast) that will make things easier on all of us - advertisers, bloggers, and PayPerPost.

When I heard, about a month ago, that it was based on a social network, I got butterflies in my stomach! Social networks I can totally do! I love everything to do with social networking!

And just now, just this minute - I learned the name for the super secret software system! It’s called Social Spark! And there is an incredibly hot blogger, with a very sweet ass, who has the ROYAL SCOOP ON SOCIAL SPARK! Read it and get excited with me!

And go Digg her post, too! You can do that right here: Colleen’s Social Spark Scoop

See, here’s the chat:

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Isn’t that cool? I just realized that I could embed it here!

I wonder what happens to it later, when the chat is over. Or if they delete the room, what this post will look like!

Hmm..

Oh yeah, and you need to go DIGG the live feed - hurry, go now!
It’s right here: PostieCon live video/audio feed!

Oh my gosh! Now I’m even more connected to the goings on in Las Vegas! This is so super cool!

PayPerPost is streaming PostieCon live on the internet, and at the same time, they have opened up a chat room to further involve those of us at home! I even got to ask a question to one of the presenters - while she was talking! That was just cool!

So we did have one window open for the chat, and another for the live feed, and we were having to switch back and forth. Then this awesome blogger dude, Andy Beard - mashed them together on his site for us! This is so cool!

I’ve got Twitter open, watching for messages, and I’ve got Skype going with my rockin’ friend, Loretta, and I’m in the chat room/live video feed room - and I just popped over here to blog! This is so much fun! Technology rocks!

My cell phone is next to me and keeps ringing for the kids and annoying me - interrupting my techno-heaven. It is the one gadget I’m not interested in right now! Ha!

My sweet, silly children. Two of them asked me that, on separate occasions! They are completely aghast that I would let my friends run off to Las Vegas without me! I wish I could’ve gone! We just couldn’t afford it.

Next year, baby, next year! And I might get to meet up with them in New Jersey in May. *fingers crossed bigtime*

But in the meantime, those of us left at home are having a blast keeping up with everything that is going on in Vegas via Twitter, Utterz, Flickr, and, of course, on people’s blogs. It has been so cool to be completely interacting with them while they are out there. We’ve even helped them hook up with each other, at some points! Ha!

Here are some of my crazy friends the first day out there:

Aren’t they silly? That’s why I love them! And because they are an incredibly supportive group of people! They are all from different states - isn’t that a trip? I just got to thinking how cool that is, that we are all so ‘close’ - and most of us live in different states!

I’ll be dreaming of Postiecon next year, yes ma’m!

The boys came home from school today and within minutes, were fighting. What were they fighting about? They were fighting over who was going to get to practice their instrument in their bedroom.

One plays the trumpet and one plays the trombone, and they are working on completely different songs. They do not play together. So practicing together would definitely not work.

So there they both were - in the bedroom - one setting up, one already playing. Both being completely stubborn and refusing to even consider any other room to practice in.

I went in there and sweetly and kindly directed Patrick to another room. (And if you believe that, I don’t know what to say! Ha!) I told him that it would be easier for him to move and forced him into my room, exasperatedly closing my door - to which Shawn slams his door.

Fine.

They’re both in a room, door shut - practicing separately.

The lovely part is - they have Monday off, so this is a three day weekend I have to look forward to, with these boys who argue about every single thing they possibly can!

I don’t remember the school board running this ‘Veteran’s Day off’ thing by me! Hrmph!

Well, heck - that was always the rule when I was in school! Right! This is a crazy story, ya’ll:

And I understand that the student was actually trying to challenge the school on their rules. And I could see the ‘all black’ rule if that was related to gang activity. But - no political t-shirts in school? What the hell are we teaching these kids? So this is what their government class sounds like:

“Ok, kids, today we’re going to talk about the presidential elections, but, first let’s shut the door. The first rule about government class is that you don’t talk about government class.”

Haha!

And it is funny, because, it reminds me of a day I ‘challenged’ the dress code when I was in high school. I had these shorts, that were almost a skirt (very blousy/billowy - I don’t know what you call that) and they were really long, practically to my knees. And I had always worn them to school. And no one had ever said a thing to me about them. And then one day, some staff member decided that they didn’t like them and sent me to the office. Ugh.

And as my parents both worked, and I didn’t have a car, I was sent to walk home and change. Which I did. Heehee. I changed into my favorite miniskirt - which was way shorter than those darn ’shorts’!! And to make it even sweeter - I put on my roller skates and my walkman and roller skated back to school! Ha! I remember what …oh damn. I usually always remember what song was playing on my walkman. Now that I want to tell you what it was, it leaked out my ear and won’t come back! Doesn’t that figure?

I’ll come back and tell you when my brain stops teasing me like this. (I knew the song as I started this post…nuts, I tell you, just nuts.)

Let me tell you, though, I spent the rest of that school day in SMUG heaven!!

It will be interesting to see what comes of this young man’s case.