Posts tagged with:blog

…i built a small business having only my father’s name as a door opener and a few hundred dollars. I wanted to prove myself, and to him, i could do it. I sold it to him and his partner two years later and moved on to other things i wanted to do. I read all […]

Vimeo folks wrote me a nice letter a few days ago, noticing me they have removed a bunch of my videos from my account, videos that were breaking their rules. From 100+ videos, they removed half. I reviewed a few of them and asked myself, and them, how is this video, par example, breaking the […]

Dear site owner or webmaster of http://zoso.ro/, Your site appears to be running an older version of WordPress. Google recommends that you update to the latest release. Older or unpatched software may be vulnerable to hacking or malware that can hurt your users. To download the latest release, visit the WordPress download page. If you […]

I really hope the great blogging tool Windows Live Writer will get better over time. Here’s my wish list, in case anybody from Microsoft is listening: fixing the jpg-png transformation bug an option for a cropped thumbnail. an option for choosing my own thumbnail name. wordpress has the -100×100.jpg naming system, wlw has -150×150.jpg system. […]

In 2008, I wrote a review of a new phone. I am more of a journalist than a tech expert, so my opinion was from the consumer side, not from the techie who’s impressed by the accelerometer, whatever that is. The review was mixed, with good and bad, again, focusing on what the consumer needs. […]

So you’ve become more successful that you thought possible. People recognize your skills and put you up on the good list. But you forgot how you got there. And for months now your blog had that traffic because you wrote good articles some years ago. But how long will those visitors keep coming back?

In teh past few days i’ve been approached by people asking or offering me easy jobs. Consulting or seo or other stuff like that. There is no challenge in optimisation. The real challenge is finding something new to write about. And doing it creatively and making people think and interact with your text.

I’ve reported this problem to Microsoft, but it will probably take another 2 to 6 months before i get an answer. The answer is simple: wlw checks for an exif. If he finds one, the image is a JPEG, so he leaves it alone. If he doesn’t, he assumes it’s a PNG, so he transforms […]

In the last few months I’ve read a lot about Search Engine Optimization, being eager of raking my main blog well in Google. Finally I ended up reading CopyBlogger, which is much better. There are to approaches to SEO: People optimizing to the death all sorts of aspects to their site, from the links to […]

A quote from a discussion about the new Google search changes, from a guy who operates an aggregator: There is very little "truly original" content out there, virtually every single blog rehashes the content of others. Is Techmeme of no value? Is Digg of no value? Is Topix of no value? Also, we do actually […]