March 2010

How Time Flu

by Dave

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I’ve mentioned elsewhere on this site that one of the things I wanted to do was write about how this project impacts on me and my family life, and that’s what I want to touch on today. I’ve also stated that I don’t want this project to impinge on family life. Time being a stay [...]

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Mona Lisa Million Update March 30 2010

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Mona Lisa Million Update Straight to business today with the promotion of two recent additions to the Mona Lisa Million. There’s no lead-in piece today and I’ll explain that decision in a later post. Latest Additions to the Mona Lisa Million Free Fringes – Erica Mullenix is a writer and special needs parent living in [...]

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Normal Service Will Be Resumed Shortly

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I wanted to let you know that I hope to be back to posting properly tomorrow. I feel I’m past the worst of the flu that has sidelined me for the past week. I can’t be certain but I’m hoping for the best. I’ve got some more great sites to share with you and I’ll [...]

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Just The Mona Lisa

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The image of the Mona Lisa is located on another Domain – MonaLisaMillion.com – which means that your sites are getting a link from there as well as from the text links posted on Mister Good Guy. The technology behind the ability to link to sites from the image comes from a ‘script’ I purchased [...]

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Cancer Research UK (& Mona Lisa Million Update)

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Cancer Research UK is the world’s leading charity dedicated to cancer research and the largest funder of cancer research in Europe. It carries out groundbreaking research into the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of the disease. In 2008/09, the Charity spent (GBP) £303 million on cancer research, funding the work of over 4,500 researchers, doctors and [...]

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Fishing For The Mona Lisa

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There are still two free places on the Mona Lisa Million giveaway, and I want to give them away today, like there’s no time to waste, like the world will end it it doesn’t happen. I want shot of them ASAP. You must surely know someone who’d be interested in this? Go rattle their cage [...]

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Great Ormond Street Hospital (& Mona Lisa Million Update)

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I’ve been mentioning for a while that I’m looking for good causes to promote as the lead in to my updates on the Mona Lisa Million. The idea being that it extends the value of this project and brings an added interest. At the very least it’s a way for good causes to get the [...]

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How Much Will Haiti Get From The Mona Lisa Million?

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So how much will Haiti get from the Mona Lisa Million? Nothing at the moment I’m still giving away sections for free. I’m happy to do it too because it’s a great chance to build a community around the project, a community that will be essential to the success of the project. I could open [...]

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Bloggers Are A Lazy Apathetic Bunch

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Woo Hooo! What a title! If I’d written nothing else but that title I’d still be pleased with myself. I’ve been wanting to say that for ages. When you read the title did you feel your hackles go up? I hope so. What I really wanted as a title was “Bloggers Are A Lazy Apathetic [...]

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Obsessed With The Mona Lisa

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Slowly but surely I’m becoming obsessed with this project. Not in a bad way, but in a creative and good way. It’s really helping me to focus my attention on building a better future for myself and other people. Much of my spare time is taken up with thinking about the project. And even when [...]

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Mona Lisa Million & New Lungs 4 Chuck

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This is the latest update of the Mona Lisa Million project and today I bring you details of great British Mum Blogger and information about a very good cause you might like to support. First, news of the good cause. Tim Brownson, Life Coach and Author published a post today provocatively entitled Does Twitter Give [...]

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Buttons And Banners Anyone?

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Help Me Design Buttons And Banners A great guy named Danny Cooper has offered to create some buttons and banners for those who want to show they’re part of the Mona Lisa Million. I think it’s a great idea and wanted to open up the process to those of you reading the site. I’m looking [...]

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5 Quick Things You Could Do To Help Me Help You

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Please help me get this site noticed It’s a numbers thing! It’s about getting as many people to come and read the site as possible. (By the way, these things will work just as well for your own site!) The more people who come to read this site – the more people will go to [...]

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Helping The People Of Haiti

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When I started this project with a view to raising money to help the aid effort in Haiti, it was with the devastation, destruction and misery caused by the earthquake firmly in mind. That was back in January. It’s now two months on and already it’s noticeable that Haiti has been dropped from the news [...]

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Giving Away Another 10 Sections Of The Mona Lisa

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Hi, If this is your first time here let me just say Hello and explain that this project is aimed at raising over $1 million by auctioning off sections of the Mona Lisa image. If over 1 million is raised then 85% of the after tax and fees proceeds will be donated to help the [...]

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Giving Away More Of The Mona Lisa Tomorrow 9 March

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Hi, a short message to let you know I’m giving the next ten sections of the Mona Lisa tomorrow 9th March 2010. The post is written and scheduled to publish at 07:30 London time. Here are the ten sections on offer: If you haven’t already, I’d be grateful if you could add this site to [...]

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What Would You Like From This Project?

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We’re still right at the start of this project and there’s quite some way to go before all of the sections of the Mona Lisa have been allocated. Last week I got it a bit wrong with my ‘after sales’ service and caused a number of you to feel confused. I can’t blame you, it [...]

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