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The following is an email from host Miss D. Bleu that details how the BlogTalkRadio network changed her life. Read on.

BTR saved my life. I was in a funk, bored, feeling my creativity being sapped by a job I absolutely abhorred. Surfing the MySpace fantastic one fateful afternoon, I came across a friend’s blog and started hearing voices.

Thinking I was cracking up and that my job had finally snapped me, I started picturing what the padded room was going to look like. Then, I noticed a tiny little media player in the blog’s banner. I don’t know what made me click it, it didn’t look like a link to anywhere. Suddenly, I was in a world of endless possibility… I could host my own show! This didn’t seem real.

The wheels started turning and the plan formulated itself with little help from me. I had already tried to rally a group of my friends about 6 months prior to finding BTR to start our own internet radio show on a station that was well established, but the plan had fizzled and I was all but ready to let my dream of letting the world in on my personal punchline implode.

With BTR, I had a platform to discuss everything from Election 2008 to STD’s and everything in between while keeping the perspective fresh and funny. This medium has given us a fan base we would not have otherwise had and we will soon be branching out into party promotion in the Philadelphia area, an endeavor close to our partying hearts. My creativity returned, I got a new 9-5 and some day soon, WWTF Radio will take over the world! Or maybe just Philadelphia, but the chance to start is invaluable.

Thank you Alan Levy!!!

Miss D. Bleu
Co-Host/Producer of WWTF Radio
www.blogtalkradio.com/wwtf

For those of you that have followed BlogTalkRadio, the story of how I came up with the idea was told.

When I was growing up in Seaford, Long Island my dad was in the dry cleaning business. He and my uncle owned a few dry cleaning stores located in Manhattan. The store my dad spent most of his time (and life) at was just adjacent to Lincoln Center on W. 64^th in Manhattan.

During my adolescent years, I used to take the train from our house in long island to help my dad out in his store. I would sweep up, tag and bag clothes and my favorite job…..delivering the dry cleaning. In those days, getting a dollar or two dollar tip from the wealthy NYC customers was big stuff, especially for a 14 year old kid in the 70’s.

ABC TV studios was located adjacent to the apartment building where my dad’s store was located. Some of his customers were Sam Donaldson, Geraldo Rivera, Barbara Walters and many other ABC personalities. If I was lucky enough I used to deliver dry cleaning to some of these TV personalities. It was exciting stuff!!

Yesterday, with great help from Marisol at Middleberg Communications, our excellent PR agency, we were able to secure a TV spot on ABC News Now called Money Matters for BlogTalkRadio (video below):

Host and BlogTalkRadio fitness director Peter K joined me on the 5 minute piece. I was pleased with how the clip came out and as a follower of BlogTalkRadio, you will notice that the anchor on the broadcast sounds just like the British lady which proceeds every one of our broadcasts.

So here I was standing outside my father’s dry cleaning store just having been broadcast on a major TV network, the network where I used to deliver dry cleaning. This is the first time I had seen my dad’s store in perhaps 20 years. Of course, I had to pop my head into the store and tell the non English speaking Korean owners that 30 years ago my dad owned this store. They had no clue what I was talking about, but they did smile a lot.

Peter took this picture of me in front of Lincoln Plaza Valet. I felt my dad everywhere yesterday afternoon. As I looked around the store, as I walked into the ABC building and as I sat in front of the camera answering the question…”What inspired you to create BlogTalkRadio?”

Thanks Dad.

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The Webware 100 Awards honors the greatest social media tools on the net – like BlogTalkRadio. If you’ve already voted (and it seems many of you have, the Webware site reported on Friday that they were approaching 2 million votes!), thank you. If you haven’t voted yet, do so right now! Click here to vote or click the badge!

Voting ends Today and winners will be announced April 21 - we hope with your help that we’re one of them. Thanks for supporting BlogTalkRadio!

BlogTalkRadio welcomes Actor James Madio to the network tonight for an exclusive interview on Leigh and the Pawz Cauze crew.

Many of you remember him as the adorable Lost Boy, Don’t Ask, from Robin Williams’ movie “HOOK.” His career spans many other movies and television shows, but tonight at 6pm ET, Madio discusses “Diva Dog: Pit Bull on Wheels”.

Hit by a car and left permanently paralyzed, DIVA DOG is the true story of Coral – a pit bull on wheels with a heart of gold and a triumphant will to live. Now she is starring in her very own movie with James Madio, who will explain his interest in the story and how he continues incorporating his experiences into new and inventive filmmaking endeavors as an actor, writer and producer.

Sun Microsystems CEO, Jonathan Schwartz, joins BlogTalkRadio’s show Media 2.Open today for a transparent conversation about business.

Today at 2:30pm ET, John C. Havens welcomes, CEO and president of Sun Microsystems, blogger, and a member of Sun’s board of directors: Jonathan Schwartz, who proves yet again that he is an inveterate communicator. Having led Sun’s drive to engage the marketplace, and redefined corporate transparency, he’ll be sharing his insights with you. Join them live.