Archive for the ‘Blogging’ Category

First-Last-Now Meme

I’ve had a really boring day and I feel so tired right now. I wanted to blog about lots of things, but I don’t have the energy. Here’s a meme that I came across. Feel free to tag yourself and re blog it, if you want to.
P.S- I can’t stop admiring the pretty blue star-bullets. [...]

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Blogging Without Obligation

I have come across a lot of blogs recently where the blog owner apologizes for not having posted regularly. In fact, one particular blog owner blogs only to let everyone know that he/she has been busy and will blog when he/she gets the time to do so. (Edit: I’m not talking about posts where you [...]

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Untitled

Nikhil sent me a copy of his first book, Untitled, by mail. He blogs here at WordPress. He’s an MS student at SUNY Buffalo and will be starting his PhD in Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy this Fall, 2008 at the University of Nebraska. Oh, and he’s also an avid chess player and I wouldn’t [...]

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Aggregate All Your Online Feeds

Online social networks seem to be proliferating at an exponential rate and it has become quite necessary for us to aggregate them in one place. It’s difficult to keep track of different people and their online activity in different networks. There are lots of websites online where you can aggregate all your online accounts and [...]

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Someone forgot about WordPress

In this Web 2.0 picture:

I thought that Reddit was bigger, but it’s reach is 900 and valued at just about $30 milloon. Of course, Stumbleupon is much bigger, with a reach of 1,800 and valued at a little less than $100 million. Digg remains strong and steady with a reach of 6,000 and a little [...]

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Get Yourself a Tumblelog Today!

Let’s move away from Twitter and make space for the new kid in the block, Tumblr! I’ve never really been fascinated by Twitter/Jaiku/Pownce because they lack the power of customization and are very restricted in their usage. Tumblr is a tumblelog that “slightly more structured blogs that [...]

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Just a Small Note..

…to say that I’m back here. Self hosting turned out to be too time consuming and I’m afraid, I can’t do it. Besides, I was feeling too guilty of leaving this blog. So, what I’m going to do is get myself domain mapping and stay put at WP.com.
All of you who were against the move… [...]

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Do You Have a Gravatar Yet?

Gravatar was recently acquired by Automattic and it lets you select a global avatar, which will be associated with your e-mail address. If you comment on any blog or website and use that email address, then your gravatar will be automatically displayed. I think that this is a big move and might outpower MyBlogLog soon.
Personally, [...]

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Sorry for Another Shock

Lots of heated discussions took place in the previous post “A Simple Question“. The general trend in the comments section was something like this-
People who have self-hosted blogs could mostly see the positive in shifting. They pointed out various advantages like -
1. Total control and being your own boss
2. Ads
3. Lots of plug ins, themes [...]

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A Simple Question

Would hosting this blog on a web server be a nice idea? Would I be losing readership?
Your advice will be appreciated.

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