Late in the night, we sit alone behind the glow of a computer screen, typing at a speed which meets our capacity for thought. We pour ourselves into the keyboard. We put forth our opinions, our stories, our frustrations, our joys, our angers; more simply, we put forth ourselves. And when our thinking is complete, when we are ready to present our… Read more
When a collection of videos is posted on the web, it is referred to as a video blog. You can very easily create a video and show off your work. However, if you want to make a success of it, you will need to have clear cut ideas of how to go about it. You will need a camcorder, editing… Read more
Blogging is a nice and informal method to notify interested readers about the developments going on in your company or in your life. According to Sysomos, the blog bloom started about seven years ago and currently, there are above 120 million blog posts on information technology. With such vast numbers going on about blogging, a well tended company blog can… Read more
Have you ever heard someone say that they watch the Super Bowl just for the commercials? These ads are notorious for being some of the best commercials of the year. But think about the power of a statement like that. People are saying that they WANT to watch a shameless promotion of a product or service.
This debunks the myth… Read more
Earlier last week, the New York Times published an article arguing that blogging is an act which is becoming a dying art form on the Internet, with users preferring to use social networking websites like Facebook and micro-blogging website Twitter as an alternative.
This news immediately struck me as odd as every Tom, Dick and Harry (and Mary, Jane… Read more
The US was quite badly hit by the recent economic crisis. Countless businesses had to shut down and millions of people lost their jobs during the past three years. Take the opportunity and use social media to connect with potential employers.
Although the Internet has been around for a long while now, but nothing has ever been able to attract… Read more
Not everyone should start a blog. If you don’t have anything new, insightful, or witty to say, you should probably just keep your thoughts to yourself and not share them for the whole world. We’ve all come across these blogs before- the ones whose writers are badly misinformed or deeply in self-denial about their level of education or sense of… Read more
I’ve had my blog for about six months now. In that time, I’ve written about sixty posts on topics ranging from recent political discourse, to ethics in medicine, to movies, to sports, to things that annoy me. I call the blog “Thoughts and Ramblings” precisely because I think too much, I ramble too much, and this allows me to have… Read more
The social media world has reinforced one truth surrounding blogging: it is horribly ineffective when used in isolation. News bloggers, political pundits, and editorial content mills have all shown us that blogging, as a communications method, is simply too long-form to survive when placed beside short-form social media services such as Facebook and Twitter. As length increases, interest fades,… Read more
It may seem crazy, but in all honesty, many blogs are taking a different approach to the whole commenting system. We’ve always come to view comments as a major part of a blog, and in truth it is, but what happens when things get out of hand?
