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Blog (briefly) hacked
It was one of those awful Fridays yesterday – I had work and then work after work and after even more work I had to attend family event. And when I came home at last my own blog DOSed my browser with endless pop-ups. I am extremely sorry if you got...
Moved to another hosting
Rarst.net is more or less settled in new place by now, courtesy of WPWebHost and my WordPress story that landed me in winners of their recent contest. Move was (luckily) uneventful so just a short recap and few links on topic. Hosting I probably won...
Year with Skribit suggestions service
Resnooze had poked me with reminder that today marks one year of using Skribit service on this blog. Aside from WordPress this is longest I had used any blog-related service, even longer than Google Analytics and such. Technical evolution From first...
Twelve months blogging milestone
Three, then six, then nine months had passed and so I am here at first birthday of Rarst.net blog. Honestly feels like any other day. So let’s see how this year went for my blog and my readers. :) Readership In these twelve months (actually eleven...
Q10 – portable dark place for writing
I often start my posts with few words on how life led me to the topic for today. Today I was tired (it’s HOT here lately) and in no particular mood to write so that led me through my research bookmarks to Q10 – text editor that urges to adopt...
WordPress story of Rarst.net
I cannot claim that without WordPress this blog would be any different for you – it would still be blog of mine after all. On the other side of screen it would be nothing like this for me. WordPress defines a lot of how my time blogging is spent â€...
Few words to comment marketing scum
You. Yes, you – one of those who consider themselves very clever for using ultimate underknown technique that can fool any antispam filter and even most humans. I want to share my opinion on what you are doing. Can fool program but not intuition I...
Which software developers bloggers like
I had posted how past experience with software developers might influence our choices. Lately I think that tech bloggers form their own criteria for choosing software and developers to write about. Possibly different criteria from those of users. So ...
Dip into affiliate
Affiliate marketing is one of the most hyped technologies in blog monetizing. Except that in the beginning I hardly saw how blog that is focused on good free software can be qualified to sell readers… something. It took plenty of thinking and few r...
Nine months blogging milestone
So three more months passed since last checkpoint and I again present cute graphs, boring numbers and what they mean (or not) for this blog. :) Readership In January blog had slowly recovered from Christmas curse and two following months brought mor...
Good WordPress theme inside and outside
Featured giveaway from Rarst.net Promote yourself and win business cards or canvas art print (deadline March 22nd) Featured giveaway from Rarst.net Promote yourself and win business cards or canvas art print (deadline March 22nd) Performancing is ru...
Prospering in ultra-competitive online environment
Featured giveaway from Rarst.net Promote yourself and win business cards or canvas art print (deadline March 22nd) Featured giveaway from Rarst.net Promote yourself and win business cards or canvas art print (deadline March 22nd) It might seem easy t...
WpVote.com takes on WordPress social news selection
I had previously covered explosively successful WpRecipes micro blog and WpVote is another project (recently re-launched) from Jean-Baptiste Jung. So same topic and another form – what it has to offer? Content WpVote is again all about WordPress. ...
Entry for Best WordPress Design Award
A while back I had posted about my entry in WordPress Coolest Blog contest by WBWebHost (specialized hosting for WordPress-powered blogs). no luck (or I’d be still bragging) fat discount offer for participation. This time they are hosting design ...
1000 comments milestone
I’ve skipped comments analysis at half year blogging mark because I wanted to reach nice round number. Took one more month but I am there at last and it is time for some statistics and thoughts. Numbers 463 comments by yours truly, no one will ge...
Parting ways with Entrecard
Entrecard widget stayed in my sidebar for a long time: as experiment; through being a habit (just there); and until a time to see results. Is there much of result to see? What Entrecard promises Entrecard is cross between social network and advert...
Six months blogging milestone
Only six months? I feel like I am doing this for years. :) I picked three months periods to sum up my blogging experience and set goals. So here is my second milestone. Readership Number of visitors in last three months is somewhat unstable. In a go...
Had blogging brought idols to Internet?
I remember era of lame home pages (luckily mine never made it online) and emerging useful sites. I remember visiting those sites 100% not caring about persons running them. Fast forward to now and suddenly Internet is full of personal authority. And ...
Parting ways with Woopra
My story of using Woopra spanned across few months. It has some waiting for approval into beta, plenty of Java -related troubleshooting to get it running , bit of excitement, guest post that didn’t happen and finally struggle to break free from it....
My best post of 2008
Somehow there was no doubts which post, out of those 180 (that many already), to pick as best one. But what exactly makes best post? Best posts are easy to recognize Between those 150+ RSS feeds there are a lot of posts that get before my eyes daily...
WpRecipes.com – micro-blogging WordPress tweaks
Micro-blogging is form of blogging focused on sharing short bits of text or media. Somehow it is only known as Twitter and other blog/IM/chat hybrids. What if you take concept but replace common media with uncommon one? Something very niche like snip...
frogstr.com – branding and marketing blog (jumpy)
frogstr is one of the few blogs where I really hang out (as opposed to quick, efficient and RSS ed content consumption). It’s hard to fit marketing tints in my articles so Ben over there is linking to me more often than I to him. Well, I am willing...
Acting on blog critique 2
Original acting on blog critique post unexpectedly for me got ton of positive and helpful comments. Got me even more convinced that showing appreciation for feedback is most important step to promote it. Some time ago Lyndi of Nice2All reviewed my bl...
TechCult.com twists technology news
Lots of talking on likes and dislikes of tech blogs recently but it was getting theoretical. One of the real tech blogs I really like reading is TechCult. Content Unlike many blogs trying to be original, to the point of being totally not original, T...
Two things that make tech blogs awesome
According to comment by Klemen of brumec.org made at chain reaction to post of mine lame follow-up is expected for sarcastic posts. :) Last time I ranted what makes me skip and drop tech blogs from my reading . This time I am sharing my thoughts on w...
Improving blog design in a smart way
There are numerous ways to choose blog design - based on goals, looks, functions or maybe budget. But there is only one way to improve blog design. That is to make it fit your purposes better and manage to skip ruining it in the process . Starting p...
10 things that make tech blogs unreadable
Sometimes I feel like my posting is too positive (this is supposed to be cynical blog according to tagline) and bit of ranting should be added to the mix. I am not that arrogant to claim universal truth on what makes tech blogs unreadable but I have ...
Blogging Idol voting
Blogging Idol 2 contest I am participating in is finishing soon and voting is up for bloggers who used smartest techniques for promotion of their RSS feeds. My gain at moment is 34 subscribers up to 190 plus few more at software updates feed so I am ...
Typealyzer.com – horoscope for web pages?
Martin of gHacks had recently made post titled Typealizer: What Type is That Blog . It’s about service that claims to analyze text on page and evaluate personal traits behind writing. I’ll take as compliment being used for example near such major...
Is blogging new gaming?
I remember reading an article years ago. Not even online – onpaper. :) It discussed why people play computer games and main idea was that gaming is to feel that you matter . Sounds like blogging a bit? Or not? Read on. Looking to matter Gaming all...
