Keeping a blog fresh with regular posts can be a challenge. At some point or another, we all feel we have simply run out of stuff to write about. Some people call this “Writer’s Block” and there are as many ways to overcome this horrible condition as there are writers. Today, I’d like to share [...]
I started doing “this” back in 1997. “This” means creating websites, promoting them and monetizing on the traffic (as opposed to creating websites for other people’s business need). It’s a pretty common business model for most of us. The Age of Webmasters Back then, we were called webmasters. As a webmaster, you were expected to [...]
Haven’t done a news & views roundup in a while, so time to check my RSS reader folders and link to some good webmasters reading material. Search Engine News Bing’s Stefan Weitz: Where Is Search Going? Weitz provides some interesting insights about the future of search engine development, and no, social media is not the [...]
I won’t name any blogs, but I have seen this on several blogs. Every once in a while, either as a regular feature or just a once-in-a-while thing, they post what might be described as “sexy pictures”. Nothing explicit, nothing that would be illegal anywhere, but not exactly family-friendly either. I am not a prude and [...]
As some of you know, I live in Israel. It’s supposed to be winter time here in February, but it definitely is not. I have a household full of six kids (only two of which are my own), making this nice lazy banter-noise in the background. Just can’t get myself to write any brilliant web [...]
Google officially rolled out their Buzz service yesterday. Logging into your Gmail account, you should already be seeing it there. If nothing else, it’s bound to cause a major buzz. I would have skipped the lame joke, but I don’t think I have to since Buzz doesn’t skip the lame questions on its profile page [...]
I finally gave in to peer pressure and bought the Thesis theme for my blogs. All the cool blogs seem to be running on Thesis nowadays, so I figured it’s worth a shot. Total disclosure moment: I honestly am not that enthusiastic about it on the get-go. There is a lot of hype on the [...]