Blogging is good for your health!
The therapeutic value of blogging is being keenly studied by scientists, reports Scientific American. Since blogging is more about dwelling on personal experiences, thoughts and feelings, it gives a feeling of wellness which is a natural outcome of giving vent to those lurking thoughts in the recesses of one’s mind.
It is reported that such “expressive writing” of journals as blogs actually improves memory and sleep. Human beings being social creatures, the urge to communicate is a predominant feeling. This has been highlighted in the movie, “Cast Away” in which the man who was stranded alone in a desert island after a plane crash, paints a face on a coconut shell and continuously keeps talking to it to keep him from turning the bend.
Read the rest of the report here.
10 tips to buck up your Blog
There are zillions of resources for blogging on the net (why, there are pulp editions too!) - scripts, themes, ideas, links, hosts, dev-shops et al. But where to go for the contents? Ok, you can recycle what has been said before by someone, purely to give the content a bit more of eyeballs. Nothing wrong with it, so long as you link it back and the original writer (or, a recycler like you!) will get a pingback. Or, you can post about something that you saw, heard or read in another media, so as to wise up your viewers on what is happening around. It may be a personal journal where you merrily muse on anything under (and over) the sun - read it or GFY! 
Better still, you can have a niche blog, and dwell on a particular subject and have a regular clientele interested in that particular subject. Or, you may run a blog purely to spew ad-words, banners and other get-rich-quick links, in a rush to monetize your blog.
All this is ok. But you must have some visitors, in the first place!
Perhaps you simply don’t care since it is only for your mom to see or your sweetheart to say, Wow”! But there are scores of rookies who populate the blogosphere who blog and pray for recognition. For them, an answer to this million dollar question: “how to add a magnet to your blog”, will be of considerable interest!
This Washington Post article dwells on this subject based on real life experience of Washington DC-based bloggers. I have modified them with my own inputs, retaining the essence in tact and have listed them here. May be they’ll be useful to you:
Read more
Live on blogging?
Are you considering making a living (if not a killing!) on blogging?
If you are good, it is not enough. You must be smart enough too!
Most-linked-to 50 blogs
Out of the upwards of 27 million blogs in the world, the “most-linked-to 50″ amongst them are mapped with their connections in the New York magazine’s page entitled :
When shall you and I figure in the is kind of “50″s list?
Of toxic blogs!
We all would agree that the mainstream bunch of blogs are mere vehicles of self-expression made possible by the ubiquitous and powerful medium of the internet and the blogging tools that enable “push-button†publishing.
But there is another genre which target business rivals by proxy, according to an article by Daniel Lyons in Forbes.com. This is what he laments about:-
Read more
Ruled by tags
Tags, tags and tags. You will never hear the end of them. They are going to rule the globe. Yes, very soon.
If you are a blogger, you might have come across the highly innovative Technorati, which “is a real-time search engine that keeps track of what is going on in the blogosphere — the world of weblogs”. Technorati does the tracking by employing the new buzzword “tag” which simply denotes the logic of categorizing various chunks of content. Put the other way, a tag is a simple category name. People can categorize their posts, photos, and links with any tag that makes sense. Content put in by different people under the same tag are aggregated, thus trying to achieve a highly structured taxonomy of the web. That will be the ultimate nirvana of the Cyberland, or, Cyber Brahma, to be precise 
The use of tags is now all pervasive on the web. The photos that come from Flickr and Buzznet, two online photo sharing communities and the links that come from web-based bookmark services Delicious and Furl can carry category tags. Then you can join the Tagnorati Utopia, and get globally read.
If you think the tag magic stops with the virtual world, then you are not having an ear to the ground. Yoohoo, Rip Van Winkle, here is a fellow tag-holder
Yes, RFID-guided robots are poised to rule the world. How? By the use of tiny RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) tags embedded into humans and things used by humans. If you can read Thamizh (Tamil), you an get an overview of RFID by reading my blog post here. Otherwise read this story in CNet’s News.com, which prophesies the ultimate robotic take over! But right now they are busy tagging the frolicking children, the grazing cattle, the moving merchandize and a host of other tasks. They also tend to give the professional kidnappers a run for their money by making all glitterati wear a RFID thus making them easily trackable!
May be the future foetuses will grow with an embedded RFID tag each. That will usher in a fully tagged world!
-
-
About Me
I am S.K!
Ok, what's the big deal, you may ask! But you may miss a good deal if you do not dwell deep into this web site, specially hand-crafted for you. But what about me, the person? Wait, I am not good at making things up. If you stumble upon a good-sounding résumé, please pass it on to me!
-
Quirky something
Every absurdity has a champion who will defend it. -
Recent Posts
-
Blog network
-
Propagate
-
Extra
