While reading Mark Cuban’s blog, I noticed the search engine „Ice Rocket“ which added a few function to especially search for blogcontent. You’re able to search the web or specialize for News, PhonePics, Images (in cooperation with Google), MultiMedia and of course Blogs. It appears to be quite useful and I spent a few minutes searching for myself there:
I felt like updating the RSS List which I’ve been using to manage my full Blogroll service. On top of the newly uploaded OPML file, I created more categories to sort the numerous blogs and news services. Now you all may enjoy to read what I read several times a day, stay online and be up to date! ;)
I strumbled this saturday morning on an interesting issue concerning the variety of blogs and the corresponding content specialization.
Alex Steffen of Worldchanging.com and Thomas Pany of Telepolis published an articles about the Badlani Blog and the niche of reporting on a specialized topic which is in this case the pollution of plastic bags and its effects to both our nature and society.
I expect to see more and more of this micro-niche advocacy blogging over couple years, and that’s a great thing. Good blogs on a single issue can become real resources, as well as outreach tools.
But even these micro-nice blogs are not really free as even the authors of Badlani sell cotton bags – I guess they might be slightly prejudiced while moving on with their good goals to openly advocate the banishment of plastic bags. On the other hand, why not advertising your product in the micro-niche blog? It’s not much different from using cooperational advertising such as Google’s AdSense or many others. The revenues earned by the open advertisement of these cooperational ad programs are probably much lower than the revenues created by content within these micro-niche blogs as they serve the perfect environment for content-relevant advertisement.
Zum vierten Mal findet dieses Jahr in der Zeit vom 18 April. bis 8. Mai 2005 die Vision Schleswig-Holstein unter dem Banner der IHKs Flensburg und Kiel statt. Zu dem diesjährigen Motto „Wasser und Mehr – Meer und Perspektiven“ versammeln sich bis zu 150 Unternehmen, um auf dem Wirtschafts- und Kulturfestival für sich selbst und Schleswig-Holstein als Unternehmensstandort zu werben.
Persönlich werde ich einige Veranstaltungen am Veranstaltungsort Flensburg besuchen, und wer mag, darf sich natürlich gerne anschließen. Ein Ziel dafür ist die nordjob, eine Beratungsmesse für Schüler und Studenten in der Campushalle Flensburg.
I had enough of the limitation of 65 words due to the partial syndication of my blog. The URLs to the feeds will remain the same, so please do not worry! But from now on, both the RSS and Atom feeds will contain the full and uncut content. However, certain feed aggregators might not display the content 1:1 due to plugin or layout differences.
I honestly detest the new variant of advertising a product in a well-established market. Once the marketshare of certain newspapers and weekly magazines decreases, the editors prefer to introduce new methods of attracting their clients: Buy a magazine and earn a rich-media content CD or DVD. Usually, information technology magazines grant their readers the chance to conduct further research into the digitial sphere of their materials, but recently, great newspaper families open themselves to the media. By publishing the usual magazine with a DVD, certain german magazines like Der Spiegel and TV Movie try to compete against the new SFT and AudioVideoBILD who already include a full DVD in their monthly edition for 3.99€. Will this mark the end of the classic print media and enable us and the editors to create a convergence situation? But by which of the four known steps will the convergence end?
1. Technological Convergence, a vast array of different types of technology to achieve nearly similar tasks,
2. Industrial Congervence, a merging of traditionally seperated branches,
3. Market Convergence, an increasing substitution of products,
4. or the Regulational Convergence, a part of the government relationship with markets.
Whoops? What’s that?! I’m going to be scared now, but „Your session will soon expire. We advise you to save your post.“ popped up all out of a sudden. Of course I understand the importance of security measures, but normally a session expires after 30 minutes or 1 hour, or usually if you log off from the computer or close your browser window. Nevertheless, the new Blogspirit alert window appears after 5 minutes (5*60*1000 in javascript as calculation). Don’t you think this is too short?
Especially people like me who browse the web while searching for blog-worthy content aren’t „Fast-Blogging“ within the given timeframe of each alert with 5, 10 or 15 minutes. Sometimes it is necessary to rethink a situation before you publish content, and each popup has been annoying. So far I received two of them since an entry takes its time. I’m sipping a cup of coffee or eat a snack, sometimes I read an article or consult other blogs to see how they refer to the topic, etc. Now I had to „Save as draft“ for the first time, because usually the session expiration never pulled me off. This was done because of a mixture of fear, anger and unsureness concerning the behavior of the blog’s admin interface if the third popup would notice me. The HTML source of the post.php told me it’s not going to auto refresh or close the window… phew!
But to protect people from being tweaked by others who get their hands on a PC in i.e. a computer lab or public office, I noticed a nice feature at Hotmail.com instead of the timeout event: Hotmail uses a small checkbox to let the user signal to the server if they reside at a public place or use somebody else’s computer (a very insecure place, checked) or if they are simply at home or use their private computer (a very secure place, unchecked). In any case, you have to manually hit the checkbox as it’s standard option remains on „unchecked“. And in the private situation, the session of hotmail may last very long… however the public session is rather limited.
In general, many other phone numbers will exceed 30 characters… but I noticed upon entering my telephone number in account/overview.php of the admin interface that the number cannot exceed more than 10 characters. But unfortunately my number (without spaces!) includes already 11 characters, if I add the international area code for Germany „+49“, the field needs already to have 13 characters since the first „zero“ of the national area code is erased once international callers use my number. Once I’d try to draw the value for this input field in a more readable format, it would include a minimum of 21 characters as I combine „+49 (0) xxx xx xx xxx“ for my number.
Now it’s time to test this function – I haven’t ever done this: Writing a blogentry by sending an email to the server. The requirements are simple since I need to add an authorized email address which may send posts to the secret (!!!) email address created by Blogspirit. I hope it’s going to work, and who knows how it’s going to show up in the blog. I believe I have to manually change the category and community settings of the entry… stay tuned!
Update:
Yes, I had to manually modify the category and community settings. Perhaps it’d be quite useful to preset any posts being delivered by email?
I was wondering about the intensive ammount of traffic drawn from this Blogspirit account, and I concluded it had to do with the filesize of each HTML document (or PHP output). I simply ran a test on the subdomain and it turned out the following details by using the Leknor tool:
https://mikeschnoor.com is
not gziped.
If it were gziped the requested page (38910 bytes) would be the following sizes at:
| Level | bytes | % of orig size | 1k/sec | 3.5k/sec | 10k/sec | 100k/sec | utime |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 38926 | 100.0411 | 38 | 10.9 | 3.8 | 0.4 | 1 |
| 1 | 10406 | 26.7438 | 10.2 | 2.9 | 1 | 0.1 | 0 |
| 2 | 10218 | 26.2606 | 10 | 2.9 | 1 | 0.1 | 1 |
| 3 | 10054 | 25.8391 | 9.8 | 2.8 | 1 | 0.1 | 1 |
| 4 | 9517 | 24.459 | 9.3 | 2.7 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 1 |
| 5 | 9359 | 24.0529 | 9.1 | 2.6 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 1 |
| 6 | 9294 | 23.8859 | 9.1 | 2.6 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 1 |
| 7 | 9292 | 23.8808 | 9.1 | 2.6 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 2 |
| 8 | 9277 | 23.8422 | 9.1 | 2.6 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 1 |
| 9 | 9276 | 23.8396 | 9.1 | 2.6 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 1 |
| Headers: | |
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| Set-Cookie | PHPSESSID=3d2c05aa0fc6bf43bbe882a100dfa24f; path=/ |
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| Cache-Control | no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0 |
| Pragma | no-cache |
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| X-Cache-Lookup | MISS from chili.private:80 |
| Connection | close |