Archive for the ‘Blogs’ Category
Thursday, January 10th, 2008 |
There are many blogs, many tech news and even more tech review sites, but which are the best? Most of them simply duplicate the information from some sources but there are a few which ARE those sources.
There are two very famous blogs when it comes to the latest gadgets and tech news:
Both have a lot of the same information, but are mostly the first to let you know about anything and everything cool in tech. From reviewing the latest patents submitted, to reporting on spy pictures of gadgets and tech no-one has ever seen yet, to letting you know what’s the best gizmo to get.
Right now, the big event in Computer industry is the CES show in Las Vegas. Engadget and Gizmodo have been submitting videos, reviews, and news since the very second it started. I’ve read over 500 articles in the past few days just about things from the show itself.
Also, whenever there is a major event like CES, or MacWorld (coming up shortly; in 5 days on January 15th), you may rest assured that these two blogs will have minute-by-minute LIVE coverage of the event in pictures and words updated every couple of minutes. With them, I always feel like I am on the show floor myself.
Other sites for tech news and rumors which are worth mentioning and are in my RSS Feed are:
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Monday, January 7th, 2008 |
There are not many rules when it comes to blogging, that’s the whole point about it, but there is only one thing you should definitely follow:
Quote your sources by giving credit where credit is due! 
That’s it … With the previous posts about how to start a blog and this one and only rule - you’re ready!
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Sunday, January 6th, 2008 |
There comes a time when you need more than just a blog… While WordPress can provide you with the pages so it can behave just like a regular website and a blog, it might not be enough.
There will come time when you need something bigger: a blog, a wiki, user management, an e-commerce solution, a web forum, or a mailing list? How about all of them? What do you do then?
I’ve never personally used the product for a prolonged period of time, but I’ve seen a bunch of web sites on the net powered by it and by now - I am impressed. The solution is called The Expression Engine!
It’s a modular solution provided by EllisLab and it’s a very nice and feature rich Content Management System (CMS). It’s modular design makes it quite expandable and pocket friendly since you can purchase the core system and then the add-on modules when and if you need them. Adding a web forum is a snap, and so it is adding your very own Wiki, Mailing Lists, Photo Gallery, or RSS feed. Best of all, the basic core is FREE for non-commercial use which I welcome!
If you’re in a need for something more than just a blogging platform check out the Expression Engine.
I found out about it from a Blog I read from time to time: GearLive.com. They are powered by the Expression Engine and I must admit - the site looks really slick. It’s fast, and it makes a great use of most of their modules 
Here are couple of more sites being powered by the EE: gocm.org, idea-esolutions.com, ymz.cmcmusic.ca.
P.S. This is not an advertisement - just my personal opinion after having played with it for couple of hours as well as from the information I found on-line and the impressions GearLive site left on me.
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Sunday, January 6th, 2008 |
In the last article I wrote about What’s a blog and how to start one.
Now the question is which way to go, a blog hosted by the blog makers themselves, or hosted by you - on your own server either shared or dedicated.
This is a tricky question. The easiest solution would be to simply go ahead and sign up for (mostly free) on-line blog. Blogger, WordPress, MSN Spaces all offer free hosted solutions. This comes in very handy for a number of reasons:
- You pay nothing. It’s completely FREE!
- Setup is a breeze, you will be done in 5 minutes or less.
- When your blog starts to gain traction you will not have to worry if the server will crash from all those visits from Digg; you will be most likely on-line and unaffected.
There is one problem with this choice:
- You will not have much control over how your blog looks like. While many offer a bunch of themes, there may be no way to upload your own designs or upload your own plugins.
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Sunday, January 6th, 2008 |
It seems that the word of the year for the past couple of years has been Blog. Everyone is talking about blogs, everyone blogging, and even right now, you are reading a blog.
Wikipedia nicely defines what blog is:
A blog (a portmanteau of web log) is a website where entries are commonly displayed in reverse chronological order. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.
Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject; others function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs. Most blogs are primarily textual, although some focus on art (artlog), photographs (photoblog), sketchblog, videos (vlog), music (MP3 blog), audio (podcasting) and are part of a wider network of social media. Micro-blogging is another type of blogging which consists of blogs with very short posts.
Now that we have that clear it’s also good to note that unlike starting a regular website, starting your own blog is much simpler; in fact, it’s almost trivial! There are couple of ways around this:
- Use one of a bunch of on-line, mostly free, blogging platforms. These are on-line services which provide you with everything you could possibly need to start blogging. A website address, blogging back-end (or the service which you can log into and manage your blog from), and a lot of themes and options allowing you to customize the blog to your own liking. There’s nothing like a nice and pretty looking blog! If the content on it is equally interesting, you’ve got yourself a jackpot!
- Option number 2 is to sign up for web hosting and setup your own blog. Even this does not have to be too hard, most Web Hosting providers these days offer very easy to use Control Panels which allow you to install numerous blogs with just a couple of mouse clicks. No need to know PHP, HTML, and such.
Sounds interesting? Well read on… Let’s weight the pro’s and con’s of each so you can decide how to proceed. Time is of the essence
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