rudyamid on December 9th, 2009 at 4:10 pm

A lot of bloggers stopped writing because they burnt out.  There are many reasons for burning out. There’s no time.  No one notices.  It takes too much effort to write.  Spammers inundate the site with useless comments.  Scrapers steal posts.  It’s not profitable enough. Essentially, blogging has lost it’s purpose.  It’s no longer about telling [...]

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rudyamid on September 2nd, 2009 at 12:06 pm

Usually, upgrading WordPress is no big deal – click a button in the admin page, and voilà1 – done! However, for some odd reason my hosting company allocated just small amount for my web site and I couldn’t do an auto-upgrade.  I had to do it the old fashion way, and download the TAR.GZ file [...]

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rudyamid on April 22nd, 2009 at 3:52 pm

Every blogger loves to receive comments.  I’m no exception.  I enjoy connecting with you, my readers, and I value your opinions. However, this is the internet.  People are unpredictable, and with the safety behind anonymity,  eventually I’ll encounter the “unwanted” comments.  I have my fair share of spammers and trouble makers.  I just read an [...]

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rudyamid on March 3rd, 2009 at 10:05 am

I just looked at my Twitter followers recently using a tool called Twitter Sheep. I made a startling discovery:  I’m becoming a “social media blogger”. Funny thing is, that’s not who I am.  Sure, I’m using social media as tools to learn new things and market my blog(s).   It’s definitely not my goal to be [...]

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rudyamid on February 12th, 2009 at 11:37 am

A while ago, I decided to start making a flowchart of my “content production” activities using Microsoft Visio.  This includes my blogging, microblogging, and other social media posts.  I tried my best to avoid duplications in all areas, but two things I couldn’t avoid: Duplicating Brightkite updates to FriendFeed (FF) and Twitter.  In FF, google [...]

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