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This site isn’t working out for me. It’s difficult to write for, and I’ve had to drag people to read it. Therefore, I’ve decided to, while leaving it up until the domain expires, stop writing posts for this site.
You can view my new blog, the Unofficial TF2 Blog, at this link.
This post seems sort of hypocritical to write, as my blog itself is in decline in terms of readership / pageviews / etc. However, this seems as good a time as any to both a) reveal some of my strategies and b) create an internal checklist of things to accomplish. We all want readers, that is true. We all do not know how to get them. Moreover, when we get them, how do we keep them? Not easy questions to answer, but both aspects must be attacked when one tries to revitalize his or her blog.
If you weren’t aware, Microsoft released Windows 7 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) yesterday for public testing. You can get it here. I downloaded and installed it yesterday, and have been playing with it ever since. It’s not a substantially different release from Vista, but where it differs is in all the right places, making an upgrade extremely desirable.
The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that federal regulators have the authority to clamp down on broadcast TV networks that air isolated cases of profanity, known as “fleeting expletives.”
The 5-4 vote was a victory for Bush-era officials who pushed fines and sanctions when racy images and language reached the airwaves.
Though it is difficult to ascertain the benefits or detriments from the censorship of language from the public, this ruling gives the FCC the power to rule against fleeting expletives. I am wholly against this ruling, for reasons that would follow.
Those who download illegal copies of music over P2P networks are the biggest consumers of legal music options, according to a new study by the BI Norwegian School of Management. Researchers examined the music downloading habits of more than 1,900 Internet users over the age of 15, and found that illegal music connoisseurs are significantly more likely to purchase music than the average, non-P2P-loving user.
This is even more interesting coming off of the heels of the recent decision against The Pirate Bay for copyright infringement. The source of this mentality more comes off of a general “appetite” for music, with a general consumption pattern felt my many music fans. This brings up an interesting question, however: is it okay to break the law if it causes more law-abiding?
I’m open for guest posting on your blog. If you like my writing style, and want me to write a post for your blog for some reason, either e-mail me at linkmandx at linkmandx dot com with an offer or buy one on the Entrecard market (if you’re a member there, of course): Link .
Recently, pushed to me through Windows Update was a set of tools and apps bound together under a collective title of “Window Live”. The term in and of itself is not new, but the apps are. One of these is Writer, designed to help bloggers publish “rich content”, i.e. better looking posts. I intend to both a) test and b) review this product here.
Blogging was the forefront of new media, starting the revolution of armchair content creation. It was the first service to allow the Average Joe to post whatever he wanted easily and have people read it. As the medium has evolved, from being mostly logs of a person’s life to the now popular niche blog, norms have arisen that people follow. This list presents five things that people often do that make bloggers want to write a mean post about them, which, surprisingly, they often do.
I have been using Twitter for quite a while. I enjoy the stream-of-counciousness it provides from the masses. However, recently, I decided to follow everyone that followed me, as a token of gratitude. This lead to several problems.
When Jon Bohmer sat down with his two little girls for a simple project they could work on together, he didn’t realize they’d hit upon a solution to one of the world’s biggest problems for just $5: A solar-powered oven.
The ingeniously simple design uses two cardboard boxes, one inside the other, and an acrylic cover that lets in the sun’s rays and traps them.
