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The official blog of Michael Kwan, freelance writer based out of Vancouver, Canada.
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Crystal Ball: Top Ten Predictions for 2010
First things first, I’d like to wish everyone a very happy new year. I hope you all had a very happy and healthy holiday season, but now it’s time to look forward to the decade ahead. The first ten years of the 21st century are filled wi...
Friends with Benefits: A Social Media Marketing Handbook with Barefoot and Szabo
Do you see Facebook as simply a way to connect with old classmates? Do you see no value in YouTube aside from watching dramatic gophers and Star Wars kids? You’re missing out. Maybe you don’t even know your Twitter from your LinkedIn....
A Search Engine Ranking Achievement
There are many different things that you can do to promote your blog or your business online. You can choose to buy advertising on other websites or even through Twitter. However, one of the most powerful things you can do is to rank for your targ...
Handy Gmail Tips and Tricks
We have a lot of options when it comes to Internet search engines these days, but most of us tend to gravitate toward Google. In like manner, there are many services that offer free web-based email, but most of us prefer to use Gmail for that purp...
Why You Want a Backup Computer on Hand
Whether you need a reliable computer to run your home-based business or you simply want something around to surf the web and update your Facebook status, I recommend that you consider having two computers on hand. This may sound like an unnecessary ...
Twitter Basics with Kevin Spacey
It seems like almost everyone is on Twitter these days, including Academy Award-winning actor Kevin Spacey. Are you on Twitter? Why or why not? If you are new to the microblogging and social networking platform, you may become somewhat overwhelmed by...
Blast from the Past: My First Ever Blog Post
You could say that my writing career started with Now That’s Entertainment, but that link will stop working in a few short months. I received an email from Yahoo! yesterday informing me that they will be closing their Geocities service as of Oc...
Setting Your Social Media Boundaries
When you ask some people why they haven’t joined Twitter yet, they’ll oftentimes say that they don’t want to share every mundane moment of their lives with the rest of the online world. They either feel that their lives are not inte...
What’s Up Wednesday: Another Twitter QOTD
I didn’t really realize it until Betshopboy pointed it out, but I haven’t done a Twitter Question of the Day (QOTD) on this blog for some time. As you may recall, this is when I pose a question to the Twitter community and post the respon...
Why I Don’t Follow You Back on Twitter
You could say that this is a follow-up to the post I wrote a few months ago about how I want to follow you on Twitter. To me, the microblogging platform is a great way to connect with people around the world in a highly informal manner, crowd-sourcin...
How to Deal with Scrapers: DMCA Notification
Nearly every blog owner has had an experience with a scraper. As you may already know, scrapers are people (or bots) that “scrape” the content from your blog for publication on their own sites. This is clearly illegal and a violation of c...
Chatting with The Commentary’s Joseph Planta
Earlier this week, I was interviewed by Joseph Planta of...
Winner of the Facebook Me Contest
A couple of weeks ago, I launched the Facebook Me and Win contest. The concept was very simple. All you had to do was join the I Read Beyond the Rhetoric Facebook group, write a comment on the group’s wall, and you’d be entered to win a b...
Google Chrome Dual View Gives Two-for-One
Although I didn’t like it very much initially, Google Chrome has become my web browser of choice. It beat out my old favorite, Mozilla Firefox, because it grants more of the screen real estate to the web content and much less space to the other...
Get Beyond the Rhetoric on Amazon Kindle
I guess I’m always looking for new ways to reach a wider audience. A good number of people choose to read Beyond the Rhetoric on the website itself. Others opt to use an RSS aggregator or via the free email subscription option. I have yet to cr...
Contest: Facebook Me and Win!
That’s right, folks! It’s time for another contest on Beyond the Rhetoric. In the past, you tried to send the most traffic or post the most comments on this blog, but some people said that these contests were too hard to enter. I’ve...
Finally Got a New Phone
Considering that I am a self-confessed gadget geek, it’s almost ironic that it has taken me this long to get a new cell phone. I’ve been using my old phone, a Windows Mobile-powered HTC Wizard, for at least a couple of years, slowly watch...
Giant Mechanical Spiders Attack Yokohama
I could make some inane comment about Godzilla, poorly dubbed video, and thousands of city dwellers running madly through the streets in sheer terror. I could, but I’m not going to do that. Feel free to make a bad Godzilla joke on your own. Las...
Free Dropbox Account with Bonus 250MB
Whether you are using it to back up your files or to share your documents with colleagues and friends, reliable online storage can be a very handy thing to have. For example, it’s much easier to have your family photos stashed on an online serv...
