December 06, 2008
Name check
User Name Check tracks social media name registration, so here are some grow-a-brain outposts: On Thredless and Myspace. Also, another one on Myspace that copies gifs from here
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This blog is dying slowly, but here are a couple of shout-outs:
From Carolina Naturally
"One of my favorite websites", from Cheri Pryor
Un-related: Jesus, you can't drink, you're the designated driver
Here is what Люди говорят о вырасту А головного мозга Since February 2003
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May 14, 2008
Avoid the middleman
Hat Tip from Eclectic Pudit: “Read Grow A Brain Directly and Keep Me Out Of It. Avoid the middleman”
...How to get to the front page of Digg...
This site goes on forever, from Sally and Sam
“Hanan Levin is the world’s greatest at doing what he does”… From The In-Town Insider
Awarded the Excellent Blog Award Meme by “Nag on the Lake”
…“growabrain - This site will keep you busy all day! Click on anything for cool stuff”…
Mark Shaw's list of Cool Websites To Check Out
….Lots of interesting stuff...
Here is what Люди говорят о вырасту А головного мозга Since February 2003
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March 14, 2008
I am Morgan Freeman in The Shawshank Redemption!
The guys at “Pure Blogging” were asking, “Just like most fictional characters can be boiled down to a few basic archetypes, most types of bloggers can be represented by a few basic fictional characters. So: What kind of blogger are you?”
It seems that I am Ellis Boyd “Red” Redding. Yea!
All New – Featuring the personal websites of Grow-a-brain’s readers! First in line: From Poulsbo, Washington, the MySpace place of Kim’s Hot Turkey Sandwich (with music by Corinne Bailey Rae). Submit yours today.
Here is what people were saying about Grow-a-Brain Since February 2003
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March 05, 2008
Start buzzing…
One of BigDog’s Top Ten on the Internet ..."2. For stimulation of my neocortex and all parts brainy, I rely on Grow A Brain, a most unusual and trippy liitle blog, of fun and interesting things, I can't really do it justice in my descriptions, but it makes me think about stuff, and that's what I love to do, most of all..."
One of 6 Must-Read Writing Blogs ..."While not really a writing blog, Grow-A-Brain has a huge depository of writing and literature links from all over the web dating all the way back to 2004. If you ever find yourself need a break from the ole’ word processor, open up Grow-A-Brain and trawl through some of the fascinating, silly, hilarious, and strange stuff that they’ve collected from the depths of the internet..."
Heiste’s graphic In response to the No More ‘Grow post
Also, One of NuWire Investor's Top 20 Real Estate Blogs. ..."Logging over nine million hits in the past four years, Grow A Brain doesn’t always cover real estate—in fact, it has more than 100 categories tagged in its archives—but it certainly provides interesting insight into the topics creating a buzz online. Israeli born author and investor Hanan Levin specializes in commercial and residential real estate. This site is an interesting read for investors looking for the odd post about real estate, technology, current events and unusual cultural musings..."
A master of blogging… Oh, no!....
Growabrain, the inexhaustible Fundgrube…
Do I need to remind you that I have a huge Internet following?
growabrain.is.your.new.bicycle
“…Most if not all of what I know about anything that's cool on the Web, I got from…”
Grow-a-brain on Superscreen Shot
… One of Blogs that start Buzzing...
Here is what people were saying about Grow-a-Brain Since February 2003
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November 12, 2007
Typepad featured weblog!
Grow-a-brain was picked as Typepad’s Featured Blog on November 10th, and appeared on their home page for the whole day! ..."It's filled with links vacuumed from all corners of the Internet, creating a fascinating, useful, humorous, and just plain fun site. Everything's grouped into categories (over 100 and counting!) such as animals, travel and jokes. Each of the categories contains several links to related posts; along with the photos and designs, this is definitely a rainy day/lunch hour blog designed to amuse and entertain" - Thank you Typepad
6.5 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Blog. No. 3: Your ideas are not focused.
…Another mega site that will keep you clicking for hours…
From “Kierkegaard luvz Candi”: Growabrain - Adam Savage reads this. I read this. You should read this
From Todd Carpenter ‘s Rembex: What makes a blogger “influential”?
Here is what people were saying about Grow-a-Brain Since February 2003
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August 18, 2007
I’m a Rock Star! (and I didn't even know it)
Top 10 sites that Adam Savage (of Mythbusters fame) visits daily (Clik on the numbers, or a screenshot of same)
Best blogs on the web - AOL’s “Switched” unsolicited additions to the PC World list of favorite blogs
“…Hanan Levin, from Grow-A-Brain, is like a rock star in the world of real estate blogging… Stop in on just about any real estate blogger’s blog roll and you’ll find Grow-A-Brain. Hanan’s unique, intelligent style almost defies categorization. Grow-A-Brain is unlike any other real estate blog you will read. In a good way. He’s provided some of the most interesting links to ’stuff’ on the web we’ve seen at MiOaklandCounty blog..." at MiOaklandCounty blog
“…grow-a-brain is my favorite blog of all…” From “Mortgage training wiki”, and Lessons from most-visited realty blogs. (I still owe you that interview, Todd…)
“…Great reading, stuff about community, real estate with world news and silly stuff from around the world thrown in…” at Active Rain
“… A blog I love reading …” at “Creeple and People”
“… A daily must-read…” at “The Thing Of The Day”
“…I love GrowABrain…” at “Gastronautical Gastronomicon”
Here’s another growabrain blog (No longer active)
From Best Blogs Ever
So, do you really like grow-a-brain? Please do me a favor: I’d like to have 1,000 bookmarks on del.icio.us, just to feed my head. If you have an account there, please add me to your list. Is that too much to ask? Why not? The EZ button is right bellow
And here are 2 extra links if you want some del.icio.us stickers, or a few del.icio.us bookmarks. This is a Limited time offer!
Here is what people were saying about Grow-a-Brain Since February 2003
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March 13, 2007
Self-Talk
"An acerbically funny blog", from "Seeking Alpha" (Scroll to the bottom)
“...As Picasso is to the art world, as Dylan Thomas is to poetry, as Shakespeare is to literature…”
"Growabrain is arguably the best real estate blog period" from Placerville Real Estate Blog
"The glory that is known as Growabrain" On National Geographic Travel blog
# 18 20 on Bill Belew’s list of 100 Most Prolific Bloggers
Surf with the Sufis - "grow a brain, one of those blogs that you can spend days and days on" from "Change Therapy"
“...everyone's favorite liberal..." From "Reasoned Audacity". (Me? A libbie?)
Thanks to growabrain, from Paul Kinsella, the webmaster of Wallet Test
Why Do The Digg Crew Recommend Shit?
“...GrowABrain, the second most awesomest time waster on the Internet..." from Telophase
Somebody spelled growabrain on flickr
"Growabrain, a blog of the highest-caliber IMHO, and a throwback to a time when blogs were great collections of cool links" from "Caught in between"
"When there is nothing to blog about one can always go to hyperactive blogger Hanan and steal an inspiring idea", from "Yashil"
In the last 60 days I met with a couple of my favorite real estate bloggers, Dustin & Anna Luther, of Rain City Guide, and Rudy Bachraty of Sellsius
"wildly entertaining" with other such blogs. Also, (In Dutch)
(It's my brain on Exploding Dog)
Re-post: A grow-a-brain kit: Place your brain in room temperature water. Grow a brain will begin to grow within 2 hours and will become its full size in 72 hours
Grow-a-brain as a huge URL because Bigger is Better
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October 28, 2006
Semi-Digged
I’ve been getting tons of visitors on this blog lately from Digg. It seems that when the site is down, one of the Digg crew members recommends Grow-a-Brain, and people follow the advice. (I was digged before with the White Shirt Expriment post. Thank you, Amar)
If you want to read Grow-a-Brain on Live Journal, somebody put up a feed
“не помню, на что и зачем они ссылались, но в рефферерах у меня числятся” – Whatever that means, I hope it’s good…
From Craig Schiller: “As you read it… you are charmed, challenged, intrigued and taught”… Also, what can happen to you if you get linked here...
…”Maverick Real Estate Blogger”…
…”Don’t really know how to describe this site, except that I get lost for hours in there, chasing the cornucopia of bizarre topics…”
By “Jolly Cholly”: GrowABrain has done it again. If you have never given that blog a look, do so. He has the most interesting items, hundreds of them
“I will refer everyone I know. Nice work on your Grow-a-Brain.” - Julie Roberts
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September 05, 2006
Ego-Surfing
Martin Waugh credits some of the exposure to his “Liquid Sculpture” site (Scroll to bottom): “The traffic level had been about 30 visits a day; then I got listed on two weblogs about eight weeks ago. Suddenly, the number of visits jumped to 3000 the next day. The day after that, I got 20,000 visits. In the past two months I’ve had half a million people visit my site. The first weblog to pick me up was growabrain. The second was boingboing. There’s a site out there that measures what links are the most popular on weblogs, and for a couple of days I was number one…”
Real Estate Tomato: “Grow-A-Brain is more BoingBoing than strict real estate reporting... but I can't get enough, whatever it is”
The first entry on Wikipedia linking to Grow-a-brain
Found at Tom McMahon’s Virtual Painter
"New Sites to Peruse" from Cuidado
11,418 points Ego surfing
Day of the blog at Tecniart
From Jeff Eaton
Please nominate Grow-a-brain to The 2006 BOBs
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June 18, 2006
Some kind words
Traffic had been down here on the old ‘Brain, (Google re-indexing?) but a few souls left some good words for the blog:
Pajamas Media: “For All Your Weird Links and Real Estate Needs”
Ardell DellaLoggia: My most favorite "place" in the world, next to Kirkland. I wish I could live in there…
Coined new word at “Kill Ugly Radio” - growabrained (?) ...
From RealBlogging: Effective Blog Marketing
In a Realtor Magazine article by Christina Wood about Realtors who blog
From “Pressing the flesh”: Amazing blog...
From Netgrrl: Serious time-waster…
From Moleskine modality: Showcase Growabrain
From Norman Roberts: ...Covers just about everything
…One of my very favorite blogs…
I haven’t made it into wikipedia yet, but at least there’s a link to here on uncyclopedia...
Should I give out an iPod or something to get de-lurkers to come out of the woodworks?
Here is the complete list of what people were saying about Grow-a-Brain
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April 18, 2006
2nd degree of terrible separation
I was shocked to find out over the weekend that not only did the killer who planned to eat the murdered girl in Oklahoma, linked to Grow-a-brain on his blog, but that I actually linked to his blog over two years ago! Since yesterday I’ve been getting many hits from the surfers who heard about his blog “Strange Things are Afoot at the Circle K.” What an awful, small world. I could do without this proximity…
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Much nicer recent connections:
#1 Single! A wonderful proposition from Tom McMahon: Hanan Levin And Lisa Loeb - America's Next Sweetheart Couple
Colin at The Bog Brush put me "In The Chair" a few weeks ago, and conducted a long web-interview with me about the genesis behind Grow-a-brain. Enjoy.
“The Scoble of real estates bloggers” from Paul Chaney at Radiant Marketing Group who interviewed me for an upcoming book about "Real estate blogging"...
…Grow-a-brain was key to my understanding of how blogging in real estate is best structured to succeed… and the distinction of being the Funniest Real Estate Blog
From the California Association of REALTORS, an article in the California Real Estate Magazine about real estate blogging mentions Grow-a-brain
“People always buy with emotions and justify with reason”… Somebody quoted me but I don’t know who or where… (pdf)
“One of most important blogs from the USA”…? Ha!
“ Grow-a-Brain deserves a daily visit…” Ha!
Here's a Deluxe Brain with Arteries, 9-part
Come out of the shadows - You know what I look like but I don't know what you look like!
Copying a great idea from Robert Gale at “A Welsh View”, I’d like to ask the readers of Grow-a-brain who dare to do so, to post a picture of themselves in the comments below
Here is the complete list of what people were saying about Grow-a-Brain
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January 30, 2006
The reason for blogging
A few weeks ago I received this email:
Hanan,
I noticed that my site was listed as one of Yahoo! Picks of the Year. I thought I’d drop you a note to thank you again and let you know what’s up with me…
...It is not an exaggeration to say that you listing my site on your blog resulted in my work being seen by hundreds of thousands of people from all parts of the world. It placed my work in several national and international magazines, newspapers, and websites, connected me with many new cyber-colleagues, and lead to sales. The repercussions are felt in all parts of my life. I am most fortunate, indeed.
I wish you the very best New Year and beyond,
Martin Waugh, Liquid Sculpture
- All the best, Martin! Your site deserves all the credit it gets!
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Other connections:
One of Five Must (Ought to) Reads, by RipArvhivist R. C. Rybnikar
Best all-purpose blog on “Touch you last”. More comments
Imitation is the Best Form of Flattery...
One of many Reasons to be Thankful, from VerdantBlog
Growabrain, itself one of the best linkblogs ever
"…Dazzling & Joyfully delighful..."
Heel aardig weblog met allerlei alleraardigste zaken
A write-up from John Walkenbach about my new blog Korukoru, and Brian Kane’s interpretation of my planned move
Here is the complete list of what people were saying about Grow-a-Brain
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November 13, 2005
More Nice Words
"Do you read Grow-a-Brain? They always have loads of interesting and bizarre links"...
Don't miss out! Best blog ever! (Thank you, James)
“A truly amazing collection of links”, from “Jolly Cholly”
Always good for a nice word, Charlie ‘Vruba’ Loyd; "Grow-a-Brain’s hype is true: it will increase your IQ. Of the Velvet Underground it’s said that almost no one bought their records, but everyone who did started a band. Grow-a-Brain is like that"...
Nice graphic from Soulaquarium...
“You could lose yourself in there on a lazy Saturday. Consider yourself warned”. From Bleed Cubbie Blue
Brain Headlines from Web Nymph
…Excellent site, intelligent and entertaining, from “Is this the world?”
From Whippleworld
I'd buy him a beer, if I'd dare step foot in SoCal anytime soon
“Wonderful distractive fun links”, from Informiorium
A blog I like, from “Teachers' Lounge”
From All About Nothing
From “The Great Leap Forward”
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August 17, 2005
Feedster Top 500
With 1,470 links, I have “earned the right to proudly display the Feedster Top 500 icon on my blog” (No. 232, middle of the scroll – Yea!)
More links:
From Wugsy: …”probably the best blog in the world”
From “RTC”: …some of the best links ever…
“Resource blog” on flickr. (By Creatrix)
“My favorite blog” (In Danish)
"Get your stats counter spinning like a slot machine..."
- Who y’all calling ”prestigious blog”, boy?
August 10, 2005 mention on Tamata Chuang’s Orange County Register Business blog
If you like the graphics displayed here, you can see a big portion of this blog’s images on Google
Previously mentioned articles, from Investor’s Business Daily and Los Angeles Times story about real estate blogs
Grab a graphic to link to Grow-a-Brain
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June 23, 2005
Grow-a-brain Rulez
More needed feedback:
Grow-a-brain on Time Magazine! (Online edition)
Will Femia at MSNBC is putting Grow-a-brain on his "come back when I have a lot of time to kill" list
House of Weirdness and Bucket o' Fun, from “The Steel Deel”
The effect of being linked by Grow-a-brain, from Charlie ‘Vruba’ Loyd
“…By the likes of Fark and grow-a-brain and boingboing…” Quote from Rebel Yell
“As of today, Growabrain is what I consider to be the best place to find links”. From ”Lorbus”
“When I grow up, I want to have a site as good as this one...Meanwhile, I will play Visigoth and pillage (pillaging beats looting by a longshot)”. From ”Good Shit”. (Warning: Beautiful NSFW females)
“If you've got a lot of time to waste, you could do worse than visiting Grow-a-brain”. From Tim Zim
…The sort of (weblog) I imagine the Sputterly Utter could aspire to be...
…One of my favorite sites that I check out daily… From True that
“L'extraordinaire Grow a brain”, from Carnet de Zénon
“A nifty bloggy thingee’… from “altered_states”
“Bloggy Goodness” from Depraved Librarian
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