Digging tricks!
When the whole world is singing hosannas to the the King, Queen and concubine of the web, the content, there is a rebel who dares to damn it as a mere “crap”!
Here are some of his pearls of wisdom:
- Forget Content It’s all About the Headline Anyway
- For Gods sake, DON’T Stay on Topic!
- WTF is Going on Here?
- Re-Hash, Steal, Cheat and Borrow
Oh, forgot to tell you upfront. Actually he enumerates his experience with Digg so eloquently!
Read and enjoy the blog with an outrageous title, “Obama the Terrorist’s Wife Carrying Bush’s Lovechild“.
Run out of steam for blogging!
Yes. It happens to any one - be a writer or a blogger. You have been busy writing for quite a while, but suddenly found your mind hitting a blind alley. No inspiration! They call it a “Writers’ block” or, more appropriately, a “Blogger’s block”!
Pat B. Doyle has come up with a list of 23 “Great ideas” to help gird up your loins and start blogging with verve!
Here are the excerpts:-
- Write a book review.
- Review a product
- Review a popular blog or website about your topic.
- Make a list of available resources.
- Explain something about your subject that might be confusing to newbies.
- Tell why or how you first got interested in this topic.
- Do a review of a relatively unknown but good blog in your niche.
- Take a stand.
- Tell about some mistake that you made and what you learned from it.
- Do a case study.
- Conduct an experiment and tell the results.
- Do an analysis of something.
- Find some offbeat or weird website on your topic and link to it.
- Find a good video about your topic on YouTube, and embed it in your post.
- If you are a little more adventurous, create your own video post.
- Be different. Do something unexpected. State something which goes against popular opinion.
- Find a big topic and do a series of posts about it.
- Run a poll. After it is done, discuss the results.
- Interview someone and post the interview on your blog.
- Take something technical and explain it in a step-by-step way.
- Tell about a personal experience.
- Use humor.
- Make a list of something like this one!
I wish to add my own tip: if stuck with a block, start writing about it!
Fakes are powerful
Fakes beat the original in being arousing and holding the attention of people by being more entertaining and interesting. That is because they are not trammeled by being the original!
That explains the phenomenal success of The Onion and such parodies.
If the original is reclusive and enigmatic, and also successful, then we have to look for rumors and fakes to satiate our inherent clamor for gossip and scandal! As the world is full of people who love to sweeten their tea with a pinch of tittle-tattle and mild scandal, there will be no dearth of resources to cater to such needy!
Now we have a highly successful and enigmatic celebrity, who prefers to keep his private life out of arc lamps and depicts and attitude of “My personal life is nobody’s business”. Doesn’t he fit the bill to be the most likely candidate for being faked! But there is another spin-off benefit too - call it “collateral” if you like - for the adventurous and the innovative faker! He becomes instantly famous!
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The art of Simple Living
A boat docked in a tiny Mexican village and an American tourist complimented the Mexican fisherman on the quality of his fish and asked how long it took to catch them.
“Not very long,” said the fisherman.
“But then why didn’t you stay out longer and catch more?” Asked the American.
The Mexican explained that his small catch was sufficient to meet his needs and those of his family.
The American asked, “But what do you do with the rest of your time?”
“I sleep late, fish a little, play with my children and take a siesta with my wife. In the evenings, I go to the village to see my friends, have a few drinks, play guitar and sing songs… I have a full life.”
The American interrupted “I have an MBA from Harvard and I can help you! You should start by fishing longer every day. You can then sell the extra fish you catch. With the extra revenue, you can buy a bigger boat. With the extra money the bigger boat will bring, you can buy more boats until you have an entire fleet of trawlers. Instead of selling fish to the middle man, you can go directly to the processing plant and maybe even own your own plant. Then, you can leave this little village and direct your enterprise from Mexico City or even New York City!
“How long would that take?” asked the Mexican.
“Twenty, maybe 25 years.” replied the American.
“And after that?”
“Afterwards? Then it gets really interesting, answered the American, laughing. “When your business gets really big you can start sellingstocks and make millions!”
“Millions? Really? And after that?”
“After that, you’ll be able to retire, live in a tiny village near the coast, sleep late, play with your children, catch a few fish, take a siesta, and spend your evenings drinking and enjoying your friends!”
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The moot point is, to live today or, after 30 years!
(From CommonCraft Blog)
It is your life!
Here are some more motivational and inspirational stuff for successful living on this planet!It tolls for thee!
No man is an island,
Entire of itself.
Each is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.!
Therefore, send not to know
For whom the bell tolls,
It tolls for thee.
- You do not need to know everything. It is only human if you have to ask someone.
- The world needs anger. The world continues to allow evil because it is not angry enough.
- You must know how to fall of the horse without hurting yourself.
- Every fall, failure or defeat is a comma, not a full stop. Plan around them, not against them.
- I never let schooling interfere with my education.
~ Mark Twain - Kites fly highest against the wind, not with it.
~ Winston Churchill - One of the keys to happiness is bad memory.
- Always listen to feelings as well as meanings.
- I am grateful:
- For the teenager son who is not doing up his room, but watches TV, because that means he is at home and not at the streets.
- For the taxes, because it means I am employed.
- For the mess to clean after a party, because it means that I have still some friends.
- For too much email, because it means so many people think of you (including bots!)
- For the alarm that goes off in the early morning hours, because it means that I am alive!
- Learning is a process of discovery and we must be our own discoverers.
~ Dewey - We are all prisoners of our own past.
- Getting it wrong is part of getting it right.
- Tomorrow is another day, another opportunity.
- Life is a book still to be written.
- We are so absorbed in our own surroundings that we forget to look over the fence.
- The aim of perfection and desire for inner tranquility conflict with each other.
- The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.
~ William James - Do not let trifles affect your mental harmony. Don’t overrate adverse situations.
- Life is what is happening when we are busy making other plans.
~ John Lennon - Now is the only time we have and the only time we have any control over.
- Who said life was going to be fair, or that it was even meant to be fair.
- I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
~ Mark Twain - You never get a second chance to make a first impression.
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Do not believe, just because wise men say so.
Do not believe, just because it has always been that way.
Do not believe, just because others may believe so.
Examine and - experience yourself!
~ Buddha
- “One life, one chance – grab it. Get the life you love – and live it.â€
Says Arvind Devalia in his book:
- “There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there’s only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there’s no reason why you shouldn’t have a fairly good time.”
~ Edith Wharton - “Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to othersâ€
~ Jonathan Swift - “People who get things done, just do things. They don’t sit at home waiting for their self-belief to grow. They don’t fill their days and nights reading self- improvement books. They just get out and do things”
~ Fiona Harrold - “What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.”
~ Pericles - When I’m authentic in my words and actions, it’s amazing how things come together in my life.
- “When you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bots blot the dark paths of Wordpress!
“Whooami” has divined that Wordpress files (from the folders like “wp-admin”, “wp-includes” etc) that are not to be indexed are being indexed and shown on search results by Google.com. This will be throwing open may opportunities for the dark guys who are up to no good, to use the exploits.
But the good thing is that WhooamI is nice enough to provide a solution too to the problem.
You can read more about it in his blog.
Improve your blog content
WordCamp 2007 presentation of Lorelle VanFossen on Kicking Ass Content Connection, helping bloggers improve their content and build their blog connections and networking, focusing on the relationships on blogs:
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