Rays of Hope ( +SteemMag's Re-birth and a design competition)
It probably sounds like a broken record but phew! It feels so nice to write again. The past one month has been filled with all kinds of events and it’s kinda awesome making a post after the break. To all who asked me when was my next post, you guys rock! I can’t really say why I've been at war with the muse but like a close friend will say, c’est la vie.
So many things have happened and it’s surreal reflecting on the conditions people live in all over the world.
If there’s a score list for species, human beings won’t probably get a pass mark right now. There’s so much sad news happening around us.
Our Hearts Are With Them
9/11
Exactly 16 Years Ago, the world stood still when some evil elements caused the death of almost 3000 people in the US. The wise ones know there was more to the event than we were told. But what mattered was the untold suffering placed on thousands of innocent people. The after-effects of the twin attacks still linger on.
It’s particularly saddening that that day’s event has led to even more heart-wrenching events all over the world.
To the millions of innocent unborn, babies, children, young adults, old men, and women who were and are still being murdered heartlessly in cold blood by oppressive forces all over the world.
Our hearts are with you.
The past one month has witnessed nature's rage also. It’s so saddening to know that a lot of these disasters were aggravated by man-made pollution. Yet, we have people who still don’t believe in climate change!
To the victims of Hurricane Irma, California fires and other natural disasters – our hearts are with you too! ;(
It’s Not All Doom and Gloom
Of course, it would be unfair to think there’s nothing good in the world again. It’s up to us to infuse happiness into our personal lives, our loved ones and that of our neighbors.
Chin up!
SteemMag – A Kinda Rebirth ;)
Like many of you know, I've been running SteemMag (Steemit’s Weekend Digest) for over a year now and it’s been wonderful so far. But as with every other personal endeavor, it suffers when life gets in the way.
For the past few days, I've been working on ensuring a more consistent publishing schedule.
Why?
Because I believe that as thousands of new Steemians join us, there is no better coverage of Steemit’s history than SteemMag. And this I hope to preserve and continue.
SteemMag has over the months beautifully captured the growing pains, leaps and bounds, key actors of Steemit and the Steem Blockchain at large.
Want to know the history of quality contents and spam fighting on Steemit, here’s a perfect throwback . The Lazlo of Steem? Early Whales and Dolphins, the origin of Busy.org and ChainBB? Happenings on Steemit last year September? Earliest supporters of Steem like @bittrex and blocktrades?
Going through the previous editions of SteemMag is like a walk through the museum of Steemit.
And there will be so much more exciting editions in the future.
Two Things
I. I use a ready template of SteemMag’s cover on Canva like this one -
It would be awesome to change this and I will be giving a total of 200 steem which is to be split between the top 3 (editable) cover submissions.
If you’re interested, please drop your designs as a comment below.
II. I’ve got lots of topics to cover in future SteemMag editions from now until the end of the year. But I would love more.
Is there a Steem-based tool you like? A favorite Steemian? Or a favorite community effort you would like to see on SteemMag.
Please make a comment on below. Would love to hear from you as I would be upvoting all comments. [except spam of course, lol ;) ]
Don’t wanna miss future updates. Do give me @infovore and @steem-mag a follow.
Hello @infovore,
I´ve spend some time on a possible SteemMag Design, which is fully customizable in an easy way in every single Aspect :)
Oh and the best about it is, that it actually fits the Steemit Cover Picture, so that you will see everything in the Post list instead of just the Top of your Frontpage.
To show you what I´ve created you may find 4 different Styles below, which are all based on the same Layout.
I hope you like it & if you got further questions or would like to get another example according to your imagination, then please let me know via Steemit.Chat :)
regards,
@Steembusiness
This is lovely. Can you drop by Steemit.chat?
Really nice design love them all.
Hi @infovore, here is my design cover.
http://imgur.com/FNFI6mu
http://imgur.com/jlArYy2
Don't know how to attach the editable soft copy. But can send it throuh mail if you need it.
I hope mine is not coming late. Thank you.
I love this. Thanks for taking the time to design this ,🌷😉😍
Thank you @infovore. Glad you love it.
Our prayers are with the family and victims of 9/11. The Hurricane irma in Florida, the earthquake in Mexico are all reminder that we are living in an ephemeral world.
I would like to see two community effort on SteemMag, (The African community and the Spanish(cervantes) community). The two communities have done exceptionally well and supported alot of steemians. It good to read your blog again.
Thanks for the tip. Will try to incorporate it into the content schedule for SteemMag.
That will be encouraging to the steemit community at large and in particular, the mentioned community. Thanks.
The event of 9/11 was indeed a sad one and the departed ones will continue to be remembered. We can only pray and hope tragedy of this nature and others never happen again.
Welcome back, @infovore. Find below my design submissions. First variation is a portrait mag style. The white space in the footer is meant to accommodate the text titles of each articles as shown below. The text can be placed and designed any way. Pictures can also come in.
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And this is the landscape variation. Just in a bid to balance things up. The bottom right was chosen as the text area. Transparent shape was created to enable it.
I hope you liked it.
https://steemit.com/creativity/@lemmybe/steemmag-cover-design-my-submission
This looks great .
I'm glad that you have returned to make another post. However, with great times comes sorrow and despair. Rest In Peace to all that died and my prayers and condolences go out to all their families.
I've never looked at it from that perspective but potentially millions of human beings were killed from that one sickening attack. I do agree that what we are told may not be a reality but I don't know how they can come to terms with killing generations of people.
It seems like to many people climate change isn't a big problem. Rather than thinking about the future, they think about now and their own gain. I try to practice what I preach and be conservative with my electrical uses and minimising my carbon footprint but you still have those that exist that don't mind driving their gas glugging hummers.
Mother Nature tries to warn us with these hurricanes and floods but people turn a blind eye. I guess some may learn too late. When we can't revert our damages. Hopefully as we learn how to terraform planets like Mars we can repair our own.
It has been a long time since you have made a post. It doesn't feel as if it was two months ago but I guess that goes to show how quickly time goes. It also makes me wonder how I have been able to make a post everyday for the last few months and not fall behind haha. I hope you have a great day @infovore
It is great to see how you are trying to give exposure to those on steemit whether it may be a user or group. It is one of the hardest things to gain and I bet you have revolutionised some peoples lives with your initiative. If I do get any free time I'll have a go at making a cover but I think my job will get in the way haha
@arckrai i agree with you lets save our planet, global warming is the biggest problem right now..
let us help our mother earth to recover
the ice's slowly melting on the north pole
the water slowly rising on each day.
let's minimize the population
let have green life by recycling our plastics
hope our society make move before its to late.
this is not on our-self but in the new generation to come
,so that they will drink fresh water and breath fresh air.
help me on this advocacy, with this poem i wrote..
follow me back as will @arckra and @infovore
https://steemit.com/poetry/@dontryme2/poem-love-the-mother-nature-please-be-aware-of-global-warming
Thanks for the good wishes. The world needs all of that now.
You're right. It's so appalling that a set of people can feel comfortable killing millions of humans like them just to achieve a selfish goal.
I do admire your desire to practice what you preach. So many people complain about climate change while doing literally nothing about it.
Consistency is like going to the gym. At first, its pretty difficult and soul draining. After a while, one feels so good hopping to the gym and shaping those muscles. I guess you've won the inner resistance, keep pushing!
In all, really appreciate you taking the time to drop a well thought out comment here. Do have a splendid day too,
9/11 VICTIMS RIP
Peace & Love!
About 18 times people die every week than the amount of people who died in 911 and very few think to care about them... I'll admit 911 was a horrendous tragedy but we also need to think about our day to day life
Everyday is a 9/11 for thousands of people all over the world.
Nigeria is presently experiencing their 9/11
We extern our condolences to all who are in pain and agony, we are with you and would always want to help. Let's live like a true family. Congrat. SteemMag for the education and promotion of steemit, we will all do our part to see a better tomorrow. Shalom.
9/11 VICTIMS rip
Good to see you back at it! I was wondering where the boat had went?!
Namaste :)
Lol. The boat is back! Maybe ;)
@infovore @eric-boucher @arckrai i have a poem to share with you guys, t
his is my advocacy hoping for your kindness and your time..
https://steemit.com/nature/@dontryme2/green-life-for-next-generation
Wow, these SteemMags were very lightening. Hope you continue with these reports @infovore as it serves as an inspiration for us newbies