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How to ensure that your blog lives forever
I made a mistake a few weeks ago. I need to back up a bit and explain something. I hate advertising. I think it’s the devil’s own backyard. Don’t get me wrong: There’s nothing wrong with hawking one’s wares; if … Continue reading
Posted in ... wait, what?, Communication, Computers and Internet, Education, Ludditis, Phlyarology, Strategy
Tagged death, domain name, Who wants to live forever?
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Turbo-boost your site by optimising images
In a previous life, I used to design business websites. One of the things I made very sure of was that the ‘weight’ (size, in bytes) of each page was as low as possible, because heavier pages take longer to … Continue reading
Posted in Computers and Internet, Strategy
Tagged bandwidth, crop, file size, images, optimising, pictures, resize, speed
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Duplicity in the Duplex?
Bhavik Naik over at Bhavik’s Blurs introduced me to ‘Google Duplex‘ the other day, in a post entitled ‘Is Google taking it too far?‘ Here’s a four minute video demonstration of Google Duplex in action: Pretty impressive, no? As well … Continue reading
Posted in ... wait, what?, Business, Communication, Computers and Internet, Core thought, Ludditis, News and politics, People, Phlyarology, Science
Tagged Duplex, ethics, Google, Sundar Pichai
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Why Some Blogging Goals Are Bad
Originally posted on Wading in Wisdom:
Goals are supposed to be this thing that lead us down a productive path. But, sadly this isn’t always the case. In fact, sometimes it would be better if we just didn’t make them…
Posted in ... wait, what?, balance, Computers and Internet, Reblogs, Strategy
Tagged goals, numbers, stats
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The litany against FB
Hat tip to Dreamwalker’s Sanctuary for pointing me at this video: Here are some words I wrote a few years ago (ok, so most of them belong to Frank Herbert, they’re taken from his fabulous Dune saga)… I must not … Continue reading
Posted in ... wait, what?, balance, Communication, Computers and Internet, Culture, Just for laughs, Phlyarology
Tagged Dune, facebook, FB, fear, Frank Herbert, invisible, litany, mind killer
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New writers start here: Scribophile
I recently joined an online writing community called ‘Scribophile‘, following a recommendation from fellow blogger DHH. Scribophile’s website is very well designed. There are the usual personal profile pages, forum, blog and FAQ, but for me the main draw is … Continue reading
Posted in Communication, Computers and Internet
Tagged author, critique, Scribophile, writing
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Poetry word cloud
Originally posted on Blue Sky Days 365:
I’ve been playing around on wordclouds.com This is the word cloud of my poetry text, shaped as a heart as “love” is my most often used word with 22 occurrences in 52 poems… what can…
Blogger Appreciation Award
I don’t normally do ‘awards’. But this one is different: Ang4him of My Journey to Imperfection has publicly acknowledged me for trying to help others; it would be churlish to refuse. Thank you, Ang4him. Also, it gives me an excuse … Continue reading
Posted in Communication, Computers and Internet, crowdsourcing, memetics
Tagged Appreciation, Award, Blogger
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Using Gravatar to build traffic
This short wibblette is intended for newcomers to Wordpress; I hope to be able to show you how to set up Gravatar to help you build traffic to your site. Continue reading
Posted in Communication, Computers and Internet, Education, Strategy
Tagged Gravatar, hits, stats, traffic, website, Wordpress
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The Antikythera mechanism
The device now known as the ‘Antikythera mechanism‘ — because of where it was discovered in the early 1900s — is a complex clockwork mechanism that is believed to have been constructed in the late second century BC. One of … Continue reading
