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To Our Readership:
Editorial –
We are proud to be entering our 8th year online, and we wish to thank all of you who check in every now and then to get a laugh at our satirical cartoons or read an article by contributing artists and authors.
During the past year we have expanded our topic areas to include more editorials and reviews of select business software products and services geared primarily for small online website start up marketing. We made this decision to expand into these areas for three reasons:
1. To pass along some valuable experience to our readership gained over our 8 years of running and monetizing this site and other websites. Our objective is to provide some products and services to help other small website owners discover ways to offset their server costs by promoting good quality software products to their readers. Our intent is to help readers sort out the scams from the legitimate products of all types based on many years of experience. We will continue to provide free open source information as well as specialized information for our Premium Subscribers in the future. More information about Premium services later on this month. One additional reason to expand was due to the overwhelmingly positive reaction we have received from hundreds of readers who appreciated the articles written last year to help them uninstall problematic software from their computers. We will continue to try and provide value in this area of PC software support in the future as well.
2. A recognition that with the economic situation more and more folks are trying to find alternative sources of income from home using the internet yet they might know very much about how to make it happen! We will provide guidance, information, discounted software from our affiliates, eGuides and eBooks for those of you who might be interested in starting up your own website to produce some additional extra income.
You can always decide what types of article you would like to be automatically notified of by making changes to your subscription eMail notification settings.
3. We will continue to post satirical cartoons and political humor, news, culture and political editorials albeit with more of a Libertarian slant than in the past. We have developed no special love for either major party, and won’t, at least not until one or the other or both start listening to, and embracing the will of the majority of American people and not their own special interest pocket lining agendas. This especially applies to both the far left and far right radical ideologies. Partisan politics is becoming evil in this country and it weakens us as a nation! Nuff said on that subject.
ZardozZ News and Reviews will always maintain a FREE readership publication subscription along side a Premium Level membership subscription that will provide users access to special software, immediate free downloads and product discounts of all types a number of DIRECT from the manufacturer at our sister sites at Rockbridge Downloads and Reviews.
We do suggest that you update your profiles with your categories of interest. If any of our users have the desire to write articles for ZZNR please drop us a line.
— Staff / ZardozZ News
Season’s Greetings Thank You Gift from ZZ News and Satire…
Rockbridge Designs, one of our affiliate partners in conjunction with PayLoadz Downloads, is allowing us to offer a free download of their 90+ Flash Arcade Game bundle pack all through the month of December. This is our way of saying thank you to our subscribers over the holidays.
The download contains some 90+ fun arcade style games that can run stand alone on your PC simply by double clicking on the game’s .swf file. Full instructions are included in the download. We have actually used these on our site (see our right hand margin) as a fun way to help attract returning visitors. So now you can use these as well on your site or just to have fun on your PC or laptop. You don’t even need to subscribe to ZZ News and Satire to download it. This is our way of saying thanks and attracting more subscribers. The free bundle pack is the first in an existing series of three Flash Arcade Bundles I II and III. There are NO time limits, special registrations or any annoying pop ads in these games. If you like them of course there are others downloads at ridiculously low prices at their site but this free package from us is our way of saying…
Thank You and Happy Holidays from ZZ News and our affiliate partners.
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Web Development Tip For Our Readers:
Website Monitoring
If you have a website or blog running under ANY platform it’s always a good idea to be alerted if your site is down for any reason! Rockbridge Services LLC has introduced a new website monitoring system that can provide you that notification. We have added some links where you can go directly to their site and test it out. You can also sign up your website for free and then try out their notification service in real time before subscribing… Sweet. They offer both a free version as well as a professional upgrade…
This new service is worth checking out if you don’t have any method of monitoring your website’s uptime and want to be alerted to your cell phone or Blackberry if your site goes down…
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ZZ N&S Email Subscription Basics
First we would just like to say: Thank you for taking the time to register on our site either recently or anytime during our past four years of active publishing!
We thought we would take only a moment and update all of our registered users on our new Subscription Module. Many of you are not aware that we have added a more sophisticated eMail Subscription Feature which allows you to now opt-in or opt-out of eMail notifications from either a single topic category or multiple categories of newly posted articles at ZZ N&S. If you are receiving this eMail you are indeed a registered user and may already be getting eMail notifications but we felt you may prefer knowing about gaining more control over what you receive in your InTray from us here at ZZ N&S.
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For our readers who have their own websites or blogs we thought we would share with you the scoop on this new web traffic service we are trying out here on ZZ N&S.
If you are interested in participating in a refreshing new approach to blog traffic exchange without having to surf yourself into oblivion to increase credits, you might seriously consider subscribing to this recent new traffic exchange service – BlogRush!
We have been trying it here and we are finding the underlying software very interesting and promising. The developers there have been busy creating a somewhat intelligent and interactive software network which adjusts to variations in the traffic within the network itself and targets like content sites.
There is no surfing necessary by the blog owner or anyone else. A small widget is placed on your site, like the one above similar to the one in our margin to the right, which publishes links from new blog posts via RSS from the member network. The widgets send targeted catagory posts to network members. That’s the key! The links are targeted similar to the targeting in Google’s Adsense for content similar to that on your site. They have wonderful graphical reporting.
You can subscribe here if you are interested and it’s free. You will not be disappointed, it costs nothing, and you get instant increased site visits. It uses a set it and forget it approach that beats the other timed surfing sites which will go nameless. We have also found that if you couple it with membership in a RingSurf webring, like ZZ OpenRing, you end up with an amplified reinforcing affect. Just keep BOTH the ZZ OpenRing ring code and BlogRush widget visible at the top margins of your blog like we do here and the combined effect is maximized.
We thought we would pass this find along to you, our readers. Right now we can say it is an excellent system with zero maintenance. We recommend you give it a try. — ZZ N&S Staff /Scotty
Are you interested in reporting here at ZardozZ News and Satire?
We are always looking for new authors and satirical reporters who search the web for political stories, satire and cartoons . If you are interested, simply follow these two easy steps:
1. First register here on our site then…
2. Send an email to us at: zardozz(at)gmail(dot)com — Subject: “Author / Reporter Request”
We will get back to your request within 24-48 hrs. Please also be sure to include the url to your website or blog so we can check out your style. Once screened and accepted we will set you up as a contributing author. You will be given site access to submit posts for review prior to our publishing them here at ZardozZ News and Satire.
IMPORTANT: Please check over our site first to be sure your work aligns with our readership and politics… We are a bit right of center as you can tell, still “holding on to our guns and religion” 
Your submitted posts may focus on any current news event, political satire, humor, or any other societal aberration of your choosing. We do believe most politicians provide multiple layers of rich manure in their hidden agendas for you to harvest and cultivate. You will always be free here to call it like you see it exposing any and all of those agendas adding your own personal point of view.
Oh… one more thing… even with all its faults at times, we love America. If you don’t — please don’t bother asking to author here.
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Cross-posting articles is an excellent way to give your own site some free additional exposure! We do permit reprinting of your posts here (cross posting) with a reference link in your posts pointing back to your site !
Looking forward to having you join us… — ZZ and Staff
Interested in writing or reporting for ZardozZ News and Satire?
We are currently looking for some additional authors and reporters. If you are interested simply register here on our site and send a note to the editor at: zzb(at)zardozz(dot)com . We will try and get back to you within 24-48 hrs or sooner if possible. Please be sure to include a url to your website or blog so we can get a peek at your work. We will set you up as a contributing author and as such you will be able to submit posts for review prior to being published here at ZardozZ News and Satire.
Check over our site first to be sure your work aligns with our readership and politics… We are a bit right of center as you can tell but we are not too “bitter” as one Presidential candidate might put it.
Your work should focus on current events, news, political satire, cartoons, humor and any other societal aberration. We think most politicians are snakes and have multiple layers of hidden agendas but you can call it like you see it. Oh… and by the way: We love America, for all its faults at times. If you don’t — don’t bother making your request.
100+ Subscribers on Feedburner… and growing.
This is also a very good way to give your site and your work some free additional exposure!
Looking forward to having a few more authors join us… — ZZ and Staff
