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Severed Cables Causes Massive Internet Downtime
July 10th, 2010 by editor
If you have friends or business associates from the Middle East or India, don’t expect an email coming from them anytime soon. The reason being that they are unable to connect to the Internet; it’s not because of some government crackdown or terrorist activity, but rather because of two damaged undersea cables in the Mediterranean.
There was disruption to 70% of the nationwide network in Egypt, and India suffered up to 60% disruption.
UK firms such as British Airways have told the BBC that call centres have been affected by the outage.
Industry experts said it could take up to one week to repair the damaged cables and resume full service.
International telephone calls, which have also been affected, are being rerouted to work around the problem.
If people still think that the Internet is a waste of time and money, they should look at it again. A lot of businesses rely on this service and is somehow connected to our daily lives. Repairs are currently underway.
Bloggers Unite to Save Environment
June 10th, 2010 by editor
Bloggers from a broadband of the social spectrum in a show of unity expressed their support, through an Internet blitz, to confront climate change and environmental problems we are currently facing. Organizers of the Blog Action Day reported that 15,800 sites joined and offered ideas how people can help save the environment.
The aim of the event is to get people thinking and considering a better future. The blogs showed a new sign of concern for the environment and reflected the sentiments of a lot of people towards environmental problems and how they affect Mother Earth. According to Stavros Dimas, EU Environment Commissioner, the level of environmental awareness varies for countries but there is a rising trends towards an increased awareness globally.
Privacy in Blogging
May 10th, 2010 by editor
The phenomena of blog writing have become a huge success, and the age range of blog writers grew uncontrollably. Bloggers, as what the writers are called, are now caught up with the issues of privacy. This is understandable and expected because as we all know, you cannot have great control over your privacy online. And even if you have the choice whether or not to write in public, most people still opt to write publicly because that’s the default being used by almost all software and services available for blog writing. They just have to take the risk since one aspect of blogging is to have a global audience.
Blogging Strategy
April 10th, 2010 by editor
Blogging is not as simple as it looks. Unless you are some big shot executive with writes, designers, researchers, a waiting audience and money for promotions, popularity may not come overnight. Some of the world’s most popular blogs were shelved into obscurity before they rose from the ashes and hit the big time.
Long-term writing is the key to making it big. In order to write consistently for an extended period of time you would need a long-term strategy to make sure that the quality of your work does not deteriorate. There are three key areas you can concentrate on in order to prepare you for the long haul. To be a committed long-term quality blogger you need: inspiration, motivation and focus.
Blogging Guidelines
March 10th, 2010 by editor
Writing a blog takes a lot of preparation. It is not easy to write a blog that you intend to keep for a long time. There are times that you will be writing very well and often times you cannot think where to begin. In order to help you get started and maintain that momentum, here are some tips that can help you:
1. Find a target audience. This will help avoid burn-out.
2. Maintain an idea bank. Inspiration on a long-term basis.
3. Engage with your readers. Relationship is the key.
4. Long-term goals and long-term blogging go hand in hand.
5. Make some money. It helps you stick it out.
6. Define your goals to know where you are heading.
7. Celebrate your milestones. It helps to keep that good feeling alive.
8. Have a sustainable rhythm that you can work with.
9. Build your safety net to help overcome feelings of depression, boredom or other negative feelings.
10. Most important of all, keep on enjoying what you do!
Source: dailyblogtips.com
Blog Site
February 10th, 2010 by editor
Web log or blog is the easiest way to publish your brilliant thoughts. Blog sites spread like wild fire throughout the Internet world. The interactive sharing of personal thoughts, reviews, rants, raves, pictures or anything you want to the entire world or to a private group had such an appeal to many people that blogging is now one of the most popular activity on the Internet.
Blog sites are hosts where this information are uploaded to and shared to the world. Blog sites can be free or paid or in some cases private. For example, a certain company can put up a blog site where field employees can log in and just narrate their activity for the day. Blog sites are about building communities. Bloggers believe they are not baring their soul to the world but rather, sharing their thoughts and experiences to friends and neighbors.
Ebook sales increasing steadily
January 10th, 2010 by Frank
The day may be coming when more books, in digital format or otherwise, may be sold online than in brick-and-mortar stores.According to an Associated Press poll released last year, one in four adults read no books of any kind in 2006. And those who do read prefer digital copies over the traditional hardbound copies or paperbacks. The Association of American Publishers says that the sales of ebooks have grown at a compound rate of 55.7 percent a year since 2002, compared with a growth rate of only 2.5% in sales of paper books. This is probably due in large part to the development of portable personal digital assistants (PDAs) and the popular Amazon product, the Kindle.
Battle of the mobile browsers
December 28th, 2009 by Frank
Recently Mozilla released an early prototype the mobile version of the popular Firefox browser, codenamed Fennec. Firefox fans have been eagerly downloading and testing it. However Opera announced that its Opera Mini Browser has been released for the Google Android platform. Opera Mini has 40 million users worldwide and is also used in the Nintendo Wii console and in numerous other portable devices.
According to Opera CEO Jon von Tetzchner, “Opera Mini will be able to empower users of Android-based handsets with access to all of their favourite Web sites with popular features for smooth effects and scalable, tailored viewing.”
To make things more interesting, Microsoft is set to release an update for their own mobile browser. Stay tuned to see who will win this war.
Blog for Relief
November 9th, 2009 by Frank
Blogs are often relegated to being merely online diaries diaries that contain irrelevant (and irreverent) rantings and ramblings. But for some, blogging can be used as therapy.
Bloggers can choose to set a tone for their writings. They can be optimistic and happy. They can also be pessimistic. They can be risk-takers. Or they can be conservative.
That is the freedom given by blogging. It lets people build on their character. Discussion threads let other bloggers (or readers) participate, and a blogger gets instant gratification, with user-feedback.
I think you would agree that blogging is good for the soul. You just have to consider it as good writing and talking therapy. It’s like a support group, but this time, it’s online!
Blogging Tip: Increase Traffic By Tagging
October 22nd, 2009 by Frank
Tagging is the new way of organizing online material. Not only can you sort posts by category, but modern blogging softwares like WordPress let you tag your posts with different keywords. What’s great is that tagging can help you improve traffic!
Tags can help by helping optimize for search engines. Since these are keywords, search engines can better determine the relevance and importance of these words for your posts. More importantly, tagging makes it easy for social bookmarkers and blog search engines to crawl your site.
One of these important social bookmarkers and blog search engines is Technorati. Technorati is perhaps the biggest blog search engine, as it has millions of posts tagged every day. Other places where you can use tags are del.icio.us, Flickr (for photos), Digg, Reddit, and StumbleUpon, among others. There are plenty of other social bookmarking sites where you can sign up your blog for, but these are the ones that can substantially contribute to your traffic.