The Danger of a Quiet Life
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You’ve probably heard people say, when challenged to get up and out of their comfort-zone, something like “No; I just want a quiet life.” Yeah – look you tech-die-hards; I’ve catered for you this week with a number of tech-only related articles. Besides; this has to do with success and the future, as well as the now, so do read on why not? A quiet life can be an asset; but only in small doses. Everybody needs some time away once in a while, some peace and solitude. A chance to unwind and review things, to make decisions pertaining to the future. – But spending all day every day doing that leads to procrastination, inaction, lethargy, lack of ambition or determination, etc. A quiet life becomes a dead-quiet life; one of tedious routine and a hard daily grind that never seems to go anywhere.
Wake up! Smell that coffee! A quiet time is a sensible and necessary time once in a while. A quiet life is… Well, quiet, dead, dead boring. A living-death of motivation and ambition. In short; a total waste of existence. Never moving forwards, and going precisely nowhere. The epitaph:- “ Died totally unsatisfied and unfulfilled; but had a quiet life nevertheless.” Unfortunately many people have this quiet life; many without realising it even until the end of it comes, and even then maybe not. Why? Because they never ventured out of their comfort zone. Because they never took any of the challenges that life threw their way, because they never walked through any of the doors of opportunity that opened to them but preferred to stay “satisfied” within their own life-vision of humdrum routine and taking the easy way out. Some try achievement at least once, but fail and give up straight away: Motivation, determination, and perseverance, vanish due to a single failure, and they give up altogether to retire back into their protective shell of comfort-zone and world-view. What they fail to understand, the big point that they miss altogether, is that every failure is a rung on the ladder to success. Failure is inevitable at some point and in some way; but as the old adage says: – “If at first you don’t succeed; try, try again.” The “quiet-lifers” possibly tried once, if they could be bothered; and then gave up, either because there was a stage 2, or because stage one failed on the first attempt. I want to use myself here in this example; not because I’m a shining light in the darkness or anything like that, but because this is my story: – In my teens I wasn’t a typical teenager. I was to all intents and purposes a loner who was trying to find some way to set up some kind of business operation in the face of total adversity from an extremely negative, psychotic, mother. A mother who seemed to always make certain that I never had any money, was extremely dominant, and who ensured at every opportunity that she told me that I was unable to succeed in life because I “wasn’t born for it”, and basically totally did my head in on a daily basis. In hindsight I don’t think she actually meant me any harm, but I’m fairly sure that she was looking after herself and her own future at my detriment. – Far too long a story to go anywhere with here. It was a no-win situation, so I left home in my late teens as amicably as possible, and tried to make my own way in life. After a while I eventually settled down to a “quiet life”. Relationships were on offer but I generally declined all but a few, and had no intention of marriage/”settling down” because I knew that there was something that I’d missed along the way: Not in relation to marriage etc, but with regard to success and achievement, and I was going to find that missing ingredient first before I “settled down” in any way. In short I discovered that a J.O.B. (Just Over Broke) wasn’t the way to success: It was quite obvious that the little dictators who imagined themselves to be within a position of “power” within the artificial environment of a company weren’t real achievers: their only successes were in reality as convincers and brown-nosers in regard to their own bosses. They were totally dispensable and utterly at the mercy of the organisation for whom they worked with regard to their future. Also they only had any of their “power” by proxy from their masters, who paid them as little as possible for as much of their time and effort as possible. Only self-employment had any solution to the problem; and that was the way I would be going. – First in the home improvement industry as a self-employed sub-contracted salesperson, then as a trader, then as an IT guru/computer builder/repairer. On the way through life I’d managed to pick up a disability during a road traffic accident, and so, although I could still achieve most things physical, it required a lot of extra effort. In reality, although largely unknown to the outside world, I was expending twice as much as everyone else in terms of effort to achieve the same result. In my thirties that wasn’t really a big problem, but now I’m getting older things are creeping up on me and I probably couldn’t do what I used to do now. Computer building and repair isn’t exactly physically stressful; and a lot of it is a sit-down occupation. At the end of the day, though, there’s very little money in it, plus the fact that one is also competing with the big High Street names such as Dixons, Comet, Staples, Currys, PC World, etc, in addition to the other white-box-builders. It was just as the recession kicked off in America that I got to know David Risley, owner of pcmech.com, online. His name had popped up a number of times in the past, although I’d virtually ignored it and carried on with whatever I was doing at the time. I did buy his “Build Your Own PC” manual to see if I could get any extra tips and tricks from it for my then PC-building career, but other than that I hadn’t known much about him and would probably have said that I’d heard the name if anyone else had mentioned him. Strangely, though, when he used to host PC Mech Live, a streaming show on Ustream from pcmech.com’s staff, I could see that he knew what he was talking about, and had a natural style for clear communication, whilst being articulate but by no means a bullshitter. David gave me a little free advice, and I argued against it, and for it too, in an attempt to pick his brains a bit more. He told me I should start a blog and use the WordPress platform in doing so. (You’re reading it now.) This was more like it, this was cool. I blundered straight onto Twitter and announced my blog to the world. I believe by month 3 I actually managed to top 20 a day visitors even! – But there was still something missing, and despite my dedication to blogging from the word go I wasn’t making anything like the amount of money that people like Yaro Starak etc were making from it. – In fact I wasn’t making any money at all from it, and it was just another financial burden, although one that I could manage to keep going.
Suddenly I heard of a product on the market that sounded right up my street. It was from David Risley again, and it was called 3 Day Money. 3 Day Money is a short 3-day course from David which teaches you the basics of running an internet-based business. It’s good and worth the price; but it doesn’t go anywhere near as in-depth as Blog Masters Club; David’s latest internet-based baby. I was already on Yaro Starak’s Becomeablogger course, which, incidentally is opening its doors again the day that David’s latest intake on the Blog Masters Club course ends and his doors close for another 6 months. The Become A Blogger course is a great course. How does it differ from David’s Blog Masters Club course? Become A Blogger starts from the very beginning, and teaches you from scratch the stages involved in setting up a blog, getting it running, and maintaining it, plus a number of techniques to keep it ahead of other blogs. The real difference is that Yaro’s course is aimed at total beginners. It’s professionally made and very well formatted. It covers a lot of material and is precise, concise, accurate. What it doesn’t do is teach you all the powerful techniques involved in internet marketing in relation to your blog. In essence Yaro’s course starts from square zero and goes to square 40 out of 60. David’s course, on the other hand, starts at around square 10 out of 60; although it does touch on squares zero to 9. David’s course starts on square 10 and goes all the way up to square 61 out of sixty: I kid you not. – That’s why it costs a little more than Yaro’s. Am I saying that David’s course is superior to or better than Yaro’s? Not at all: It’s a case of market sector targeting: – If you’re a complete beginner, and maybe you don’t even have a blog yet, then Yaro’s course is more the course for you in my opinion. However, having said that; if you’ve already started David’s course without a blog then you have absolutely nothing to worry about: David will take great care to ensure that your blog is up and running and optimised in time to start the marketing part of the course. If you have a blog, but it’s not performing as well as you’d hoped, then David’s course is the one for you in my opinion: In it, David will teach you everything that he knows – Powerful techniques and systems for marketing your blog and associated products to the point of generating a six-figure-income. In short, then, I got up off my butt and came out of my comfort-zone. I gave up the quiet life mentality. – I’m so glad I did! My life has direction again; it has a sense of purpose and achievement. I have motivation and ambition. I desire to succeed because of the other option: failure, aka a “quiet life”. When my life’s over and the undertakers are laying people serenely in their coffins; I want to be the one who comes sliding happily and excitedly in: Champagne and chocolate in one hand; a fulfilled life and a legacy in the other, shouting:- “Well, I guess that’s about it huh? – BUT WHAT A LIFE!”
Ooh; did i forget to mention that the doors to Blog Masters Club are open until Tuesday 2nd February 2010? If you want to take your blogging to the next dimension then click the link. Also on 2nd February 2010 Yaro Starak is opening the doors to Become A Blogger students. if you’d like to start blogging like everyone else seems to be doing then click the link. ***OMG – COPY ERROR*———————————————— I am so so so so sorry: I made an error: While you can download Yaro’s free report anytime now; the doors aren’t actually opening to his course until the 4th February 2010 – My copy error; for which I sincerely apologise. - That was a great start to a campaign wasn’t it?! |
– And that was just the prelude. Stay tuned for more gargantuan cock-ups here on Kkomp.com – Beyond: The blog that takes you out of your comfort-zone; as well as not being 101% perfect… Yet. Woman’s Prerogative – Change of Mind – BMC Interest Again
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“What the…! You’re really taking the rise out of us readers Sharron! WTF does this have to do with technology?” Oh loads; believe me. Forward-thinking technology that is; your future ability to find yourself in a situation where you can get the maximum of benefit from technology. – Where the Web 2.0 thing is all leading. I’m a visionary and I’m hopefully intending to lead you in the right direction. Read on; things will become a little clearer as you do so: - Not so long ago I said that I’m not going to advertise Blog Masters Club for around another 6 months. Well in the true course of a woman’s prerogative I’ve changed my mind and I’m going to do it again just this once for now. Why? Because although the promotional fervour’s all died down, the doors are still open until next Tuesday 2nd February; which is the festival of Imbolc for Pagans such as myself. – That has absolutely nothing to do with anything regarding BMC, but I thought I’d mention it anyway.
Since everybody has the chance to get in until that date, I thought it only fitting that I announce the matter on my blog in order that those who haven’t heard all the promotional din that I and other bloggers have been making in regard to the course can have another chance to get signed up and in on the BMC in good time. – Quite logical really if you ask me. Here are the facts: - Most bloggers would like to get more I mean, face it. Most bloggers barely make It doesn’t have to be that way, though. My friend, David Risley, has just opened http://www.davidrisley.com/cmd.php?Clk=3506052 Here’s the thing about David… He has been making a six-figure income He did NOT make that money by teaching And, he’s now created a blogging course David’s approach is based on what works. He shows you how to turn blogging into a The last time he opened up his Blog Masters The doors close on Tuesday, Feb 2nd. You don’t want to hesitate on this opportunity. http://www.davidrisley.com/cmd.php?Clk=3506052 - So there it is. Honestly; if you miss out on this as a blogger or prospective blogger you’re only shooting yourself in the foot in all reality. There is a blogging explosion coming: You thought it had already happened? That was just the detonator going off. In short there are going to be millions, maybe billions, more people who will be yearning to know what this course teaches in the next decade. If you already know it all, having done the course and applied the powerful principles taught to you, then you, by default, are an expert in the field: That, then, gives you the authority and puts you in the position to teach others. Knowledge is power, and power is money: You’ll be able to quit the job you hate and tell the boss where he can stick it. –Opportunity will knock massively for you as a qualified Blog Master; and for the nominal fee you’ll pay for the course you’ll be oh so glad of the investment in the future. No – it won’t be easy: Don’t get me wrong: This isn’t a “Sit on your butt and everything’s done for you” course. Those courses are, in general, scams. This is a “Teach you and if you do it you could well be in clover” course. – Note: This requires you to do something; and it can be hard work, especially at first, but David will help you through. If you’re expecting a “Get-rich-quick” course than you’re out of luck: Those courses don’t get anyone but the vendor/con artist who sells them rich quick. This is an interactive course, and by taking it you could open all kinds of avenues. I’ve said enough. The ball’s in your court now. Click this: http://www.davidrisley.com/cmd.php?Clk=3506052 |
LAST CHANCE: Free Webinar Tonight. – SERIOUSLY: Last Chance.
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During the past week or so there have been a number of promotional articles published; all to do with David Risley’s Blog Masters Club course. I realise that I’ve been going a bit overboard with it as such; but it’s a really good course that over delivers both in terms of material and of value. – I know this, because I was a part of its first run: I was a Blog Masters Club student during the latter part of 2009. I personally both recommend this course and guarantee that if you put some effort into it then you’ll get such a lot out of it. What is the Blog Masters Course, in a bit more detail? Well let me start to explain in this way: – Everyone must by now be aware that a number of bloggers make a small fortune by doing what they do: Blogging. Word has spread rather quickly, and everyone and his dog are now trying to do likewise. As a result the internet is jam-packed with millions of gigabytes of information carried by billions of blogs. All these blogs go to make up a wealth of information; much of which is available for free and on tap for anybody who wants to know. – And all these blogs are written by bloggers… Billions of bloggers. If each were making thousands of dollars from their blog then we could safely say that blogging is currently the most lucrative industry around today; with a multi-trillion-dollar turnover… But that’s simply not the case. It doesn’t happen like that. In fact, apart from a few bloggers making hundreds of thousands per anum from their blogs, most bloggers aren’t making enough to even finance their children’s pocket money from it. - That’s not good and it’s not fair. Why do some bloggers make more than enough to live on; yet most make less than enough for a coffee? The answer is that the big earners are doing something or things that the others are not. What are the earners doing that the others are not? That’s what Blog Masters Club will teach you: Blog Masters Club will teach you powerful things that will give you the potential to skyrocket your earnings from blogging to astronomical heights. – Take my word for it; I’ve completed the course, and so have over 100 others too… Yes, that’s 101 or more other bloggers who already have a head start on you. _ But if you want to get in with the people at the top of the game then now is the time. Don’t procrastinate – tomorrow is too late and never comes. NOW is the time for action.
Get in there… This, and maybe another, post, are the last time I’m going to be telling you about BMC for now. – Why is that? Because on Tuesday 26 January 2010 at 12PM EST the BMC doors are opening to let those who have registered for the course in; and then they’re closing again for 6 months.# That means that time is somewhat short; because by the time you read this it’ll be Monday 25th January 2010 by Greenwich Mean Time (UK and universal time.) which gives you a very short period of time to take action. The good thing is that; and here’s the point of this article at last, that tonight at 8PM EST – That’s 1AM GMT – David Risley, the product’s creator, is going to be doing a FREE LIVE WEBINAR SESSION. During this webinar, which will explain everything to you in detail, you’ll be able to sign up and say “Yes; I’m fed up with all this effort to earn enough for a cup of coffee! I want to send my blog’s earnings potential into orbit. I want to take 2010 and make it MY year: The year that I become someone who generates a decent income rather than a pittance from my blogging efforts!” But what if you can’t make it at that time? I’ll tell you now that David will be recording the webinar… But enough of my drawl. If you want to get on the list and be a part of all this, sign up for the webinar and start to get things SORTED, then there are probably 300 or less places available at time of writing and they’re filling up FAST. …So… CLICK THIS LINK – NOW, to reserve your place at the webinar: You might be lucky and get a seat. IF NOT though; your entry will be registered and if need be David will do a second webinar; which you’ll attend. But what if all this sounds good – but you don’t have a blog? Go for it anyway: By the mid point of the course you should have a fully functional, self-hosted, professionally-tweaked, blog. Once again, in conclusion: What you gotta do? When you gotta do it? NOW! |
What the Hell is Going on Here?
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“I’ve been following this blog for some months now; and I’ve become used to seeing new technical posts on a sometimes daily basis. Just lately all I’m seeing is marketing and promotional letters appearing as articles. I thought that this was meant to be a tech blog? What’s going on?” I see what you’re getting at; so let me explain: - It’s true; there have been a number of promotional letters posted as articles of late. Why is this? It’s because David Risley is about to open the doors to his Blog Masters Club again, and there’s a pre-launch phase in operation. I’m simply drumming up some further interest, and now is the time to do it as the doors open in around a week. “Oh I see; you’re getting paid to promote it.” In a manner of speaking yes: I make no denials with regard to my financially profiting from doing so. – Something has to pay for the running of this blog; and banner ads hardly scratch the surface to this point. It would appear that many of my readers are allergic to spending. “OK, so you’re making a bit of money to help keep this blog going by promoting this Blog Masters Course thingy… But this is a tech blog. – What does BMC have to do with tech? Aren’t you going way off topic?” Oh let me assure you that BMC has one heck of a lot to do with tech: Just like when I instruct you via this blog how to keep your computer working optimally, so David Risley will instruct you a certain extent via BMC in steps from starting a blog, optimising the design, getting everything working and looking ship-shape, professional, neat, before telling you many powerful tactics about keeping your blog at the top of the food chain, running it as a business, and generating an income from it. That is technology, it’s life beyond as we know it, it’s possibly more useful to you than simply having a computer that works optimally, even though that helps. So yes I’m an internet marketer as well as a blogger, and I’m using my blog as a medium for it. – I can’t simply sit on my butt all day every day typing out free information and going broke – That would be utterly pointless. So I urge you to look into becoming a part of the Blog Masters’ Course: You’ve had great value out of this blog; maybe it’s time for a little give and take? – You could sign up for Blog Masters via this blog, pay the nominal fee for the course, of which I’ll get a percentage, make what you’ve paid out + a small fortune more back, and help to keep the free content, that you so lovingly cherish because it’s useful and it costs you nothing, free, and online. – There really is no such thing as a free lunch at the end of the day. – Either you profit from it or you lose out on it: Nothing is ever without consequence. I don’t intend to lose out because I provided you with a valuable service for free but received nothing in return. – So now I’ve scratched your backs for some time repeatedly, why not scratch mine back? I’m advertising something that could well cause there to be an end to the “I can’t afford to buy anything, I want it all free.” attitude that seems to prevail amongst my readers. – Yes you could actually afford to splash out! I will shut up now: The ball’s in your court. |
Why Some Blogs BANK and Others Don’t
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Why do some blogs make good money Six-Figure blogger, David Risley, reveals http://www.davidrisley.com/cmd.php?Clk=3493879 This video is pretty deep and it gets into There is a lot which goes into a truly Pretty simple, actually. http://www.davidrisley.com/cmd.php?Clk=3493879 Watch the video. Yours in Blogging Success, |
The Honest Truth About Making Money Blogging
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Is it possible to make good money as Many think it is impossible. But, it isn’t… And David Risley has put out a video David is a pro-blogger who has been In this video, he talks about things like… - Why do SOME people make good money I think you’ll like it. No opt-in is required to view the video. One more time (for posterity): Sincerely, |
Try 3-Day-Money: It Might Have Your Name Written On It
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For those of you who aren’t familiar with David Risley, I’ll explain a few things about him briefly:- He’s an internet marketer and problogger who lives in Tampa, Florida, and he’s been blogging since well before it was even called blogging. He now makes a living from the internet, and very comfortably supports a family which includes a wife and daughter, and a son on the way. “- So what?” You ask. – Well, for one thing, David Risley is the reason that this blog exists: If he hadn’t encouraged me to start blogging in 2008 then kkomp.com – Beyond would never have started. I’ve met and spoken to a number of other bloggers online and off, but, without meaning to take anything away from anyone else – as there are many other totally professional, competent, and experienced bloggers out there- many with a great personality too, I feel that David Risley is always a dominant authority in the blogosphere, and to me he stands out as one of the if not the, top leader in his profession. In fact he’s pretty-much my role-model. “OK so you’ve got a schoolgirl-type-crush on him. – Big deal.” No; it’s a completely different kind of admiration that I have for him: OK I admit that he’s handsome, etc, etc… But disregarding that totally as I do, I admire him for his professionalism, intellectuality, perseverance, determination, charisma, and, more than anything else, his dedication towards making every product that he creates give the customer that much more than anything before it has. “All right I get your drift: Build him an altar why not. – I’m not here to join some guy I’ve never met’s fan-club.” ‘Fair comment; but the reason why I was telling you all that was because he’s promo-ing one of his products again, and I’m in on the promo too. – So I’ve put together the following video and stuck it up on You Tube; and since I made it I thought I may as well post it on my own blog too. “- And this has what to do with technology and computers?” ‘Funny you should say that, actually, because David Risley is a tech-problogger as well as being an internet-marketing guru. Take a look at PC Mech; that’s his first blog, he still owns it. - Anyway, enough of this. – Before long all the reading’s going to be sending you to sleep. – We can’t have that before you’ve watched this short video. – By short I mean less than 2 minutes. – Watch and enjoy: -
- Now that TinyURL that was mentioned all through the vid is http://tinyurl.com/yauyu5v. I chose to use TinyURL to shorten it as they give a preview for the security-conscious. If you’d like to preview the TinyURL’s destination before clicking on it then click here: http://tinyurl.com/preview/yauyu5v. – No I respect your caution: You never can be too careful these days. Anyway that’s what’s on offer, and it’s all that it says and more: I have the product; in fact I’ve owned it close on a year now, and it gets the Shazza-stamp-of-approval, with merit. I know that you’re possibly thinking “I’m a technician/engineer/hobby-tech-person/whatever, not bloody Sir Alan Sugar or Stella McCartney!”. I never even considered that I’d be reading a blog, let alone running one, only two years back. I thought my destiny and living was in building computers… Maybe you’re the next internet business and/or blogging sensation, waiting to come into bud? Who knows? Has the product got your name written on it? There’s only one way to find out. That’s my piece said then: If you want to add anything then there’s the customary comment-box somewhere below on the page. – Do give some feedback if you like.
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Beyond – The Public Newsletter: 9th October 2009
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I know I previously said that I’d only be doing a Public Newsletter fortnightly, but I decided to write this one as an extra in light of circumstances. This week has been fraught with frights: Viruses have been the main bane of the week, as I’ve been plagued with infection. (My apologies to anyone who received spam from the email worm.) Yesterday, Thursday 8th October, I designated as malware day on kkomp.com, and published a couple of posts related to malware and its removal. The first one of these was Is 64-bit Windows Less Prone to Malware Than 32-Bit?; an important question for those seeking extra security. The second; Microsoft Security Essentials – Excellent Free Antivirus Solution, tells my recent story with regard to a great piece of free software that is new, just out of beta, and totally effective. – With this guarding your Windows PC, malware has very little chance.
PC Mech: As I write this newsletter, another great tech site; PC Mech, is having problems, and is temporarily unavailable. The problem appears to be linked to the site’s database from what little I can glean. Owner David Risley is frantically working to restore the prominent tech-site to its former glory by getting it back online. The site’s server at Pair Networks responds to a ping, as does the database server; so it appears to be a php problem with WordPress installation itself. This must come as a severe blow to David Risley himself, as he relies on PC Mech for a large proportion of his and his family’s livelihood. Every second the site’s not online is costing him money both in terms of lost income and time taken up in restoring the site or attempting to do so. This situation is one of a blogger’s worst nightmares, particularly as far as an eminent problogger such as Risley himself is concerned. This site, the one you’re looking at right now, has also been down before; for the reason that the hosting company put the domain on a backroom scripting server because it was taking up too many resources on the shared-platform server that it was on until fairly recently, and following that there were a number of teething troubles following the move to a dedicated server, resulting in around 6 days downtime in total. Unlike David Risley, I don’t rely totally on my online activities for my income and livelihood at this point in time; although that may one day change. All I can do is express my hopes that PC Mech is up and running again as soon as possible, and that David and his family, which include his pregnant wife Malika, due to give birth to a boy in January, plus his little daughter Elyana, don’t suffer as a result of the issue. Added later on: PC Mech is now back online.
Virus: As I mentioned, I’ve spent the last few days cleaning my system repeatedly after two Trojan downloaders found their way onto a hard-drive. If you ever pick up a virus, a Trojan downloader or two is one of the last types you want: If your anti-malware programs fail to see the downloader then it makes no difference how many pieces of malware they remove; the downloader itself will simply replace them and add more. I was using F-secure 2009 Internet Security Suite beta version, of which I hold a licence until later this month, as my anti-malware program on my 3-core Windows 7 64-bit box, on the hard-drive of which the downloaders resided. F-Secure didn’t see them, and Avast! free edition failed to spot a backdoor Trojan, an email worm, and a keylogger, on the networked dual-cored box running XP professional 32-bit. Microsoft’s new anti-malware solution did though, fortunately, and it cleaned the system totally.
Other Issues:
- The softies continue writing their own rulebook, even in the face of the European Parliament’s ridiculous rules and regulations.
- A link to the many sounds of an extensive range of dying or dead hard-drives.
- Soup up your SATA drives by using this.
- OK it is the default browser supplied with XP, but it’s also the worst browser that Microsoft have ever produced this century. – So why oh why are people still using it when there are so many free and better alternatives? …And on that note we end this Public Newsletter. Enjoy your weekend.
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Article 500
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Article 500? What the –! What sort of title is that for a post? Is it some declassified US Government document? An intercepted secret communication between Heads of State perhaps? A UFO conspiracy? An addition to the Geneva Convention? Nope. It’s the 500th post on this blog. – Well it’s somewhere around the 500th: Probably more like the 501st to the 503rd; but a couple may have gone missing over time. It has been about 15 months, almost to the day, since I wrote the very first post on this blog. In those days blogging was totally new to me. To be honest I didn’t have a clue; either about what direction this blog was going in, nor about the art of blogging itself in reality. It all started back in the days when PC Mech Live was presented by both Rich Menga and David Risley. – June 2008. (Now it’s just Rich Menga only; (Wednesdays, 8PM EST.) as Dave is working his ass off on his various enterprises. – All of which, as far as the ones that are published go, have been to this day extremely beneficial, both to the author and to the customer; myself included.) In May of that year I’d been subscribing to PC Mech as a free subscriber for quite some time; years in fact. I found out about the live show that they did at 8PM EST on a Wednesday night during a conversation with Dave. I also showed him my website, kustomkomputa.co.uk, (Which hasn’t been updated since as far as I remember.) and he said that I’d be better off with a WordPress blog than doing all that messing around in html.
I had a look at some people’s blogs, studied their source-code – Which worried me a bit: All scripts and php; both of which I was rather inexperienced in –and decided to make the jump to a blog; a WordPress blog, as Dave had recommended such and appeared to know what he was talking about when he said it was the best one to go for. When I started I had no idea what I was doing. I’d fretted myself into a cold sweat just installing the blog on my domain. I’d created this domain, kkomp.com, especially for the purpose of putting this blog on it. – You see my original intention was to make this an interactive website as an extension of my computer-building business; and since kustomkomputa.com was already allocated for future expansion in tandem with kustomkomputa.co.uk – even though that never actually happened – I chose the next-best thing that was available at the time, kkomp.com: A massive abbreviation, and an easy-to-type name, which I assumed would help visitors to remember it.
Possibly I got that bit right; but most other things I got totally wrong: Like eventually choosing a theme: The one I chose; Serenity Pink, was quite girly and seemed to be rather me at the time. Unfortunately it wasn’t very appropriate for a computer blog of any kind. I looked at it with a view to customising it; but my php skills were virtually nil at the time, css likewise, and I didn’t know which files to edit even. – So I was between a rock and a hard place so to speak. – Neither of which were very comfortable. I tried to run before I’d learned to walk and did everything I could to make the blog more attractive, despite in many cases having the opposite effect. I did notice that a few of my articles were pulling most of the audience, though; and those were the computer-help articles and the electronics articles. The news articles, despite being the easiest to write, were pulling in the least readers, and even when I expanded them and added my own personal slant on them, they failed to do the business.
Content was the least of my worries at the time: I was determined to make the theme look nice, and I was studying hard with the help of Google in order to be able to do so; so rightly or wrongly I eventually built up enough confidence and knowledge to have a go at customising the theme. – With strange results. Anyway; to cut a long story short it took until July 2009 before I was happy with the way the blog looked aesthetically. In January of 2009 I’d started paying more attention to content and a bit less to the theme files; and as I began to add more value to posts with better pillar-content, so my audience began to reach a decent size. I’d been using social media; especially Twitter, as an advertising medium, so it hadn’t been that nobody knew about the blog, it was just that, initially, the look and content sucked due to my naivety and inexperience.
Now we jump forwards to today; and as you’ll note from the blog’s footer, I’m currently on David Risley’s Blog Masters Club course and things are running along swimmingly at present; having encountered and dealt with server issues last week. – Which could have cost me anything up to £120GBP, but didn’t –’ Long story. Let’s just leave it there for now. I’ve already done Yaro Starak’s Become a Blogger course; which was most helpful. (If you yourself are interested in either of these courses, then it looks like the doors will be opening early in 2010 to new admissions with regard to both courses. Both have my personal recommendation; but in my opinion, beginner bloggers should enrol in Yaro’ s Become a Blogger course; whereas more advanced bloggers who want to go problogger and make a successful business from their blog would be better of attending David’s course. To be in with a chance of a place on enrolment day, as places are already under high demand on both courses, click on the linked course name(s) above and register your interest.) You’ve no doubt noticed, and will no doubt continue to notice, improvements; given time + a little trial and error combined with various tactics. As for the future: Well with two main milestones drifting into the distance; those being both the 500th post, and the blog’s first birthday – back in June 2009, it’s time to up the ante somewhat and put a bit more in to it on my part; hopefully to get a lot more out of it in the future: That goes for both myself and my readers too. This blog started as a mess, became something worth reading, underwent a little enhancement, and in the next chapter it’s time to take it to the next level. I’ll say no more for the time being; as every time I announce plans or make promises, something beyond my control crops up and ruins all of it. That’s it for this post: I thought of taking the day off in celebration; but that would just be unproductive or counterproductive. – So with nose applied to grindstone once again I bid you all farewell until the next article; coming very shortly on Beyond: - Hardware + Software + Practical Electronics + more - At kkomp.com; with that little touch of magick.***
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Beyond: The Newsletter – 7th August 2009
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After much deliberation and decision-making in the last few days; my final plans for this blog have been somewhat set in stone, subject to minor alteration as and when necessary and dependant upon circumstances as time goes by: The plan is to continue posting to this blog until January 2010. Some of those posts will be duplicated on shazzalive.com; with video if practical to do so. Furthermore, some of the posts that have proven to be popular and valuable that are already posted on this blog will be rewritten/edited and posted on shazzalive.com along with audio and/or video.
As already mentioned; most content will cease to be produced for this blog from January 2010., and I’ll be producing content for shazzalive.com only. – But that doesn’t mean all content will cease production for this blog. – For one thing there are my members-only newsletter subscribers who may well be in for a bonus if they remain subscribed. All existing members-only newsletter subscribers will have the email address that is on record put into the signup process for shazzalive.co.uk (Shazzalive.com simply redirects to shazzalive.co.uk. Shazzalive.com is easier to remember, easier to type, and is used as the URL generally.) as and when. Hopefully people will join the shazzalive mailing list also. If anyone on my list receives a confirmation email for shazzalive.co.uk but doesn’t want to join, then simply ignore that email. I do hope that everyone on my list will join up to the shazzalive mailing list, though, as there’ll be so much more on shazzalive.com: There’ll be videos, audio files, transcripts, probably reviews too. There will be some amazing offers, interviews, technical and business advice…
Of course, all this won’t suddenly appear on the new blog in January 2010 itself: It’s going to take time to build up contributors, readers, advertisers, writers… I don’t promise you the entire world instantly, as if I did I simply wouldn’t be able to deliver. What I am intending is to produce something bigger and better than kkomp.com; whist at the same time allowing kkomp.com to languish online as a reference library. This week on kkomp.com has seen 3 new articles appear: - The first of these is simply called “Video”: Video is not something that I’m well practiced in, so I’m going to be creating a number of trial runs leading up to the opening of shazzalive.com. This was my first attempt. It could do with a few tweaks here and there; but it’s passable. The video advertises a product from David Risley; himself a well experienced video-jockey who produces some outstanding-quality videos; but not just videos: David has been blogging since before blogging was invented, and has accumulated a wealth of knowledge which has allowed him to build up and run an online-business generating a six-figure income, with which he supports a family and lives quite comfortably in his home in Tampa Bay, Florida.
Let David Risley teach you the basics of a six-figure problogger business in only 3 days. The course includes 14 videos, and has a 92 page transcript, checklist, and audio podcasts of all modules included. Download my FREE 5-page .pdf report on 3-Day Money In 3-Day-Money, David shares his wealth of knowledge with you: From the fundamentals of starting up a blog, including choosing a decent market niche, right through to the techniques and marketing tactics he uses to continue to generate an income-stream and keep his entrepreneurship on the rails of success. 3-day-Money also acts as a great forerunner-course for David’s current project; Blog Masters Club, which will be opening its doors again in or around January 2010
- Tells you how to launch System Restore whilst in Windows XP’s Safe Mode.
Keep watching this space for more articles that show you how to do more with your computer, give you practical advice on practical electronics, and add to your technical knowledge. That’s all for this newsletter, Enjoy your weekend, whatever you’ve got planned. |
Video
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Today there’s not-a-lot of a particularly technical nature to post: Rather, having spent the weekend setting up and testing various lighting and sound set-ups in the small amount of office space that I have, (That wasn’t an easy mission I can assure you: Finding the best positions for, first of all me, then the lights, the teleprompter screen, and the microphone was one thing; actually creating the room to put them in position was another.) then doing several takes of a promotional video, before editing and producing a final cut; I didn’t get any posts written, edited, and scheduled to go out this week. That’s not to say that there will be no posts this week: Indeed I intend to write some and post them as they are produced. – But; what with this setback as well as trying to get shazzalive.com running, I’ll probably only be producing around 3 posts a week, including the Friday newsletter. – In fact I think that once a week is currently a bit too regular for the newsletter – So in future, after this week, I’m only going to be producing a newsletter on a scheduled basis once a fortnight; bi-weekly in other words. I’ll still endeavour to post something every Friday all the same. OK then; so after my weekend as lighting technician, sound recorder, producer, presenter, production supervisor, video editor… and everything else associated with making a video; you’re probably itching to see the result. – Well it’s passable in my opinion, but it could do with a few tweaks; such as the camera being placed more in-front of the teleprompter screen, as well as another light placed just below bottom-right of the picture as you see it. This is in fact only my second video that I’ve actually produced and displayed publicly on the internet; so I’m not exactly well-practiced at the art of video-production. Recently I’ve listened to an audio-only interview that Gideon Shalwick did with Maria Andros over the phone; America-Australia. – The long-distance line held out fairly well all through.. This got me thinking, and I realised that I wasn’t putting enough content out there and that I wasn’t claiming enough real-estate on the internet, and my visitor numbers and search-engine ratings were suffering as a result. Now this step will eventually filter down to my blog; in that I’ll be including more self-made video-content on it eventually. Whilst I am fairly certain that many of you will like to have articles in audio/video format, I’m aware that some of you would prefer to read text-only. This blog’s been mainly text-only up until now, and has attracted many visitors – Therefore I’ll provide at least a basic transcript along with the video when I am able to do so. On that note, all that remains for me to do is to show the video, along with a transcript underneath it: -
Transcript: - “Hi, and welcome to this video. My name is Sharron Field, and I’m the owner and creator of kkomp.com. In this video I want to tell you about someone who has made it big in the field of internet marketing:-
This person started off blogging as a hobby, even before it was called “blogging”. He’s now one of the biggest internet marketing gurus online. His name is David Risley; and you may have heard of him yourself. Having himself made it, he wants to share his success with others. He has a number of major projects currently running; one of which is called 3-Day-Money.
3-Day-Money is an online business-training course. It’s called 3-Day-Money because it can be completed in 3 days; although you can take as long as you like to study it. 3-Day-Money goes through, in detail, all of the steps you’ll need in setting up your own successful internet business. 3-Day-Money discusses everything from setting up your own blog through to business-models and techniques that David himself uses to run a successful online business generating a six-figure income.
I’ve purchased the product myself, and since then I’ve had time to put it to the test: This product comes with my personal recommendation as a 3rd party.
I’m not going to rabbit on any further about it in this video though: I’ll let David do all of that himself. If you go to my blog at http://kkomp.com and scroll down the Welcome page, you’ll see a banner ad for 3-Day-Money. Just click on that and you can watch free videos, made by the product’s creator himself, which explain the course much better than I ever could. There’s also a free 5-page pdf document that I wrote myself on 3-Day-money advertised right underneath the banner ad: You can take a look at that if you like too.
Thank you for watching this video. While you’re on my blog; why not take the opportunity to join my mailing list and get extra free stuff delivered to your inbox?
Here’s to your success. I’m Sharron Field; owner and creator of kkomp.com.”
Download my FREE 5-page .pdf report on 3-Day Money
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Beyond – The Newsletter: 17th July 2009
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The time for another newsletter, Friday, has come round again; and as a result of the lack of created content over the past week there’s not a lot content-wise to report on. – So I’m not even going to bother listing and linking the two articles I’ve put out this last week. If you want to see them then look them up on the Blog Contents page. My primary focus this last week has been on de-cluttering the appearance of the blog: The first thing to go was a number of unimportant items on the Welcome page, including the comments, (Comments on a Welcome page eh? I know I was doing things a bit radically; but this was over the top.) followed by the background design of all pages and posts: Whilst the fancy artwork featuring a distorted block-diagram was rather eye-catching, it was that in its very nature that distracted the readers’ attention from the main content. – And when their eye did eventually attempt to wander back to the main text again, their vision encountered another distracting plethora of unimportant widgets and objects. The solution was, therefore, to some extent obvious: That being lose the junk; which turned out to be a bigger operation than at first anticipated. The background was fairly easy: I simply edited the background .png image in my theme’s images folder using Paint.net. – No problem there. Much of the text on the pages themselves was encapsulated in a double-border within a table. The function of the table is to prevent overflow of text into areas of the screen where it’s not wanted, as well as to divide up the page and precisely position images and text-blocks. – So the table(s) stayed, but the borders had to go. This was to be accomplished by changing a figure 1 to a 0 in a number of locations: In itself an extremely simple operation. – It was a matter of tracking down all the 1s that needed to be changed to 0s that was the hardest part. Perhaps I still haven’t done this with all of them, and missed a few; but for the main part everything appears to be in order.
The result so far seems to be good: Philip Langford, commenting from Facebook, said “It’s looking a lot cleaner and easier to read.” – So the changes appear to be having a positive influence. Onto another note; David Risley’s Blog Masters course, which I’ve been promoting recently as those on my mailing list will no doubt be aware, has now closed its doors for at least the rest of this year (2009). The take-up rate for this first run was pretty reasonable to say the least, and I can proudly claim that I, as a member, am one of hundreds of bloggers committed to taking their blog to the next level and beyond; with the goal of creating a full time income-stream from it and becoming a problogger.
You may be asking: “What does this mean for me as a reader and devoted follower? Are you going to attempt to fleece me with multiple internet-marketing campaigns advertising amateur-ish products that have no real value just for the sake of making a fast buck?” Let me reassure you that I’ll not be fleecing anyone: Anything advertised on this blog in the future will have been personally vetted by myself for quality, reliability, and for providing positive solid benefit to my readers and/or customers. Another thing is that there’s no obligation on you, as a reader or devoted follower, to purchase anything that you don’t feel entirely happy with, having clicked on the ad and read the sales letter. You may also be thinking “I suppose that, in the light of the above, you’ll stop creating valuable free quality content and put a price on everything.” Quite the opposite in fact: I’ll probably be providing even more valuable free quality content which will cost absolutely nothing to my readers. In addition to that I also invite you readers to send in your own articles. I’ll even reward anyone whose article I publish with the sum of $5USD or thereabouts. All I ask is that you send the content in a file with a .htm or .html extension. You can attach this to an email which you can send using the “Contact Shazza by email – Click here” link in the footer of every page and post on this blog. Include the article, and separately to that a brief 10-lines-or-less “about the author” piece, plus your PayPal email so that I can send you the $5 if I publish your work. Back to the subject at hand: Yes I do want to make money, obviously; who doesn’t? – So of course I want you to buy my products advertised herein: But only if you’re happy doing so. Yes there will be more adverts appearing on this blog. Yes there will be a lot more offers and promotions… But no there won’t be any loss of quality or value to you as a casual reader. At some point in the future I intend to open up a members only section of this blog; a section which will contain even more value and be of greater benefit to my readers. This will not be free however: I can’t just place everything from pearls to diamonds, precious rubys and emeralds, at your feet and say “Take it; it’s yours.” I’m already sharing a lot of valuable information for free and will continue to do so. – But there is a limit on how far I can go before I say “Hey wait a minute: This is extremely valuable and worth one heck of a lot. I can’t just throw this out onto the net for anyone to use as they see fit at any time they choose to do so.” OK, enough on that for the time being.
I have an offer currently running which gives you the chance to purchase not only a listing of free software that can replace many of the paid-for products which companies such as Adobe and Microsoft would charge an arm and a leg for, but also I’m adding my “Improve Your Existing Box” eBook, previously on sale for $7.99USD, as an extra for a total price of just $7.00USD. If you want to know more then do click this link that’ll take you straight to the sales letter page. Rabbit rabbit rabbit. – I think I’ve covered as much as time allows me to do right now. It just remains for me to wish you a happy and prosperous weekend. Enjoy.
Kind Regards Sharron. x
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Microsoft and the Massive 7 UK Con
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The internet is probably the most useful place any American can go to for a bargain. In the UK the situation’s slightly different: Yes; UK people can find things at a decent price on the net most of the time and/or cheaper than in most High Street shops; but the way the cookie crumbles favours Americans. I’m not sure whether this is why Americans use the internet a lot more than the British; or whether it’s a result of the British using the internet less, possibly due to the comparative lack of education and abundance of negativity in UK culture when compared with the American equivalent. – ‘Sorry Brits; but honestly we’re going to end up a nation of half-witted moronic thugs and delinquents unless something radical happens, and soon. I’m not going into politics right now: But perhaps I should; as the stuck-up self-interested privileged “elite” currently in UK politics who have allowed this situation to deteriorate over the last few generations seem to hardly be able to run a bath; let alone a country. The term “Americans” herein refers to those who are resident in the US and Canada. I found it rather, to all intents and purposes, racist, that an overwhelming number of sometimes crazy offers that appear on the internet are only available to US and Canadian residents. One such offer concerns Microsoft’s up and coming operating system; Windows 7: An article by Rich Menga on PCMech.com; which is run from Tampa, Florida, by David Risley and others, announces the headline: - “Windows 7 Home Premium Pre-Order, $49.99 Upgrade, $199.99 Full” Inside the article; Rich clearly states: - “Starting today, if you pre-order Windows 7 as an upgrade, the Home Premium Edition (which is what most people would go for) is just a tick under $50. See below.” Wow; that’s amazing! I can order my own copy at a massive discount! (The three images below are copied directly from Rich’s article on PC Mech.)
“The full versions start with Home Premium at $199.99. That’s still steep, but it is cheaper than Vista. See below.”
“What versions of Windows qualify you for the upgrade?"Windows Vista or Windows XP. Yes, XP qualifies be it Home or Pro Edition. Is says so right on the Office Depot sale page for this product. “
Brilliant! I run XP professional and Windows 7 RC. – I qualify! “A near-60% discount on the purchase of Home Premium means this is the cheapest Windows upgrade we’ve seen in a very long time. I use Windows 7 RC on a daily basis. It’s stable and solid. And now, thankfully, cheap (at least for the upgrade). This upgrade offer lasts from today, June 26 to July 11. Where to get it?The links go directly to the Windows 7 pre-order page for the respective vendor.” I attempted to order from Amazon.com: They are unable to ship this product to my address. I looked at Office Depot… Office What? ‘Never heard of them. – An exclusively American company.# I tried the Microsoft Store: The words “United States” were written in the banner at the top of the page. I was asked to sign in with my Windows Live ID: No problem yet; but it wouldn’t allow me to leave the ‘state’ field blank, neither would it allow me to enter a British postcode in the ‘Zip’ field – So I’m stuffed there too. I know; how about if I go back and select ‘United Kingdom’ from the drop-down list that appears when I click ‘United States’ in the banner bar?.. - NO! <stifled scream> :-
I don’t want Vista. I hate Vista; Vista sucks. I’m definitely not buying it just to get 7! Even if you charged me for 7 and gave me Vista free I’d send Vista back. Hang on a minute: How much?
Unless there’s been a massive devaluation of the UK pound against the US dollar that I missed, then I make that offer about 5 times the cost in the UK as it is in the USA! – + I’ll have a copy of Vista to use as a coaster on my coffee table. If you’re in the UK and are thinking of going for this offer; my advice is don’t. Microsoft are fully aware that a lot of British people don’t have the brains they were born with, and are too lazy to even browse the internet: That’s why they’re offering you the chance to increase their Vista sales figures, so that they can say “We did well with Vista in the UK; the figures prove it.” In the meantime you’re in reality paying probably full price for Windows 7 and also jointly all buying a backlog of unsold Vista DVDs at a knock-down price just to make some room in Microsoft’s warehouse while saving on their recycling bill. Yes it stinks: It’s a big con, and if you’ve already fallen for it then Microsoft saw you coming a while ago. Well Brits: Don’t all just sit there with your stiff upper lip, tutting and murmuring “Terrible!”: Get your arse in gear and complain; to the EU bureaucrats you’ve just elected, (– Let’s see how helpful the BNP can be, eh?) to Parliament, to the European Court of Human Rights, to Microsoft themselves even. You, me, and every Windows user in the UK who owns a computer and wants an operating system upgrade are being ripped off! Are you going to let them get away with it? What did you say? – “What’s it worth to me?” – About £120 odd; that’s how much you’re being ripped off for. Are you just going to take it lying down? – No don’t answer that.
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Happy Birthday Beyond
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It’s Wednesday 24th June 2009 and it’s kkomp.com’s first birthday today. It feels like I started this blog aeons ago, (Really, it does. It feels like I’ve been blogging for a number of years; yet it seems like only yesterday I had my 40th birthday.) and also only a few days ago too. In the year since this blog started I’ve made about 430 posts in 24 categories. – That’s not to mention the pages. My initial intention of enough content creation to place this blog on the blogosphere map has to all intents and purposes come to fruition, and some.
A year ago the world was facing the fact that we were in a global recession courtesy of the greedy international banking system. From what I hear lately, the UK appears to be pulling out of it: The economic growth report for March 2009 appears to indicate that GDP and growth returned to a positive figure in the case of UK. Although one leaf doesn’t make a summer; it appears that there are definite signs of a recovery on the way for Blighty. - But; as some prominent bloggers have asked; where exactly is, or where exactly was, this massive economic downturn? More than not it appears to have been largely created within the minds of negatively-biased individuals by a media-led frenzy. The press will do anything to sell newspapers. A few businesses disappeared, true: That can and does even happen in times of economic prosperity though. Were there people claiming that the end of the world is nigh, that the commercial system as we knew it was going into meltdown? Of course there were: ‘Probably the same doom-mongers who did the same thing in the last recession, and the one before that too. – But the car-parks are still just as full at the shopping-malls as they always were, the traffic still flowed as per usual on the highways and byways, the world continued turning. I accept that the world financial institutions made crazy speculative investments which lost them billions: perhaps they’ll now learn that putting spotty teenagers with a constant hangover and greedy out-of-control excuses for businesspeople in charge of the world monetary system is a definite recipe for its doom. As we hopefully begin to emerge from this major economic turbulence we find that the world is still changing in our favour: By “our” I mean those of us who are building our world online. Social networking and global communication has, and will most likely continue to, cause the storm-clouds to depart and to build bridges of co-operation and opportunity for businesses globally. The remainder of the commercial entities will be forced to follow suit. Unfortunately for those of the old-school; opportunity and inter-corporate/interpersonal connectivity will continue to elude them, and they will fade away to be replaced by those who are operating under the new electronically-connected socio-commercial framework that has arisen from technological and societal advancement and the evolution of civilisation that has ensued as a result of that progress.
As I pointed out earlier, during the last year this blog has accrued around 430 posts, mainly of late technologically-orientated material dealing with basic practical and theoretical electronics and/or computer hardware and software, punctuated here and there by a news item or two which stood out to me, along with the odd mystical/Pagan-themed post. Like a human child; this blog started without form, just a cell of an idea, fertilised and conceived a year ago on a whim, following a suggestion from someone who was already a blogger. Having no womb to mature within, it slowly took form in the wild, evolving with the mainly indirect assistance of a number of professionals who advised and directed with regard to its construction, renovation, changes, layout, and to a limited extent its content. My naivety during the first couple of months of managing this blog was a little more prolific than I’d imagined it would be. I remember my first move as my brainchild came into existence was to announce on the social media channels, which I’d only recently become familiar with and had managed to pick up 1 or 2 followers, that I now have a blog: here’s the URL; please come visit. Well 1 or 2 people did visit, for about as long as it took to hit their back button on their browser.
I’d heard of people making fortunes on the internet; but somehow connected it with the dot com boom of the turn of the century, and regarded it as a thing of the past. Spring 2008 turned to Summer, my web 1.0 website at kustomkomputa.co.uk didn’t appear to be attracting much if any business, and I was starting to become extremely despondent. – Then a pro-blogger by the name of David Risley suggested I start a blog using WordPress. – Well what I was doing at the time wasn’t working; so in for a penny… Why the heck not?
I had been using Word 10 as an html editor to build kustomkomputa.com: It was difficult, cumbersome, and the resultant pages were full of so much unnecessary html that they took quite some time to load even with a broadband connection. Despite this I’d become used to Microsoft Word, and I even understood most of the crap html in it. WordPress was a totally different kettle of fish though. I downloaded it, looked at the files and their contents, and screamed inside. .php – I’d never learned any php. .css – I had even less idea about css. Html: No problem; even Microsoft Word. – Especially Microsoft Word. Php and css, though, looked like Chinese to me. By the time I’d installed WordPress on the server my head was so drenched in sweat I thought I’d just washed my hair! – But I’d done it. – And it didn’t work. Check: Had I done everything right? Yes. I’d triple checked everything before I started, and triple checked it again after every stage while I was doing it. having triple checked everything afterwards I eventually discovered that fasthosts.co.uk Windows servers were no good for running WordPress on. I’d specifically asked them beforehand: - “Are your Windows servers able to run WordPress?” Answer: “I don’t know. Nobody’s ever run WordPress from our servers before.” - When pressed: “Well I can’t see any reason why it wouldn’t work on a Windows server. If you install it and it doesn’t work properly then we can always put you on a Linux server instead. The transfer won’t cost anything, our Linux servers cost exactly the same price to use as our Windows servers, and it’ll only take a few minutes to swap over.” It didn’t work on their Windows server. – As promised they transferred me to a Linux server, and I installed WordPress again. This time it worked straight off and without problem. Advice: 1) If using fasthosts.co.uk as your host for a self-hosted WordPress blog; always choose their Linux servers as your server. 1a) Always use a Linux server wherever possible: Linux is a much better server platform than Windows. 2) Don’t use fasthosts.co.uk, unless you want to be wound up in red tape. I hope you like reading; There’s more: - To start with I didn’t really bother too much about presentation as far as the pages were concerned, which was my first mistake: After a false start earlier in June 2008, where it ended up that I took the entire blog down and restarted from scratch due to some kind of major problem. – I can’t remember what exactly, I downloaded and used a pre-built theme, threw up a Welcome page – almost literally by the previous look of it, and concentrated on turning out content.
I decided to break the mould of how most blogs were operating early on, by having a Welcome page initially, which visitors not linking from a link to an article would arrive at, rather than having the entire content of my posts appearing in chronological order on that initial page. Unfortunately the element that was missing was a contents listing, other than a table of the ten latest posts in the sidebar. This was a matter that wasn’t remedied until 2009, which was another major mistake I made. I agree that it would have been more sensible to attend to the matter earlier, but as things turned out it didn’t happen that way. We live and learn. Although I’d written a number of papers over the past few years; I didn’t then classify myself as a writer, and maybe it showed. A few of my articles at the time were articles featuring content throughout that I’d created myself, but they were mainly seemingly less than quality content. In the main I concentrated upon relaying news items that I found to be of interest more than anything else. Quite obviously, since there were an almost infinite number of alternative and better-known sources of the news that I was relaying; people stuck with what they knew, and other than a few visits sent by Google I didn’t get much traffic at all. Also, although I’d downloaded and installed the tools for search-engine-optimisation, I hadn’t configured them properly, (- As I actually wasn’t aware that they required further configuration in the early days, and I also didn’t know how to do it anyway, had I even been aware.) which didn’t help either. During July 2008 I’d started to introduce advertising via advertisments that I’d created myself with links back to Clickbank. This however generated very little, if any, revenue. By September 2008 I’d started to relay the news items whilst also including my personal take on them. Although this helped, it still didn’t have that much upwards-effect on my traffic figures. Despite having trained in electronics, as well as having a number of years of experience with computers, I felt at the time still very naive and vulnerable when it came to blogging, pretty much throughout 2008. Despite this though, I noticed that this blog was nevertheless ranked 5-million and-something-th at the time. In October 2008, I think it was, I began to properly configure my SEO plugins, such as All-in-One-SEO-Pack, Google XML Sitemaps, etc. This did begin to have a positive effect, and the number of unique visitors began to increase somewhat. I also began utilising further free tips from David Risley, which also helped. By December 2008 the blog was attracting a more realistic audience figure, and I set my attention upon the blog’s homepage, as well as the header and footer.php files, with the intention of tidying it up and making it look more attractive. Php still worried me, as although it was quite easy to understand, I was constantly having issues with the syntax of anything I wrote. Also most of what I wrote clashed with the style.css file of my theme. Although my effort eventually improved the page considerably, the resultant page was too crowded, not designed well, and the colour scheme failed to convey the theme of the blog. Many female readers liked it; but since the blog was attracting a mainly male, older, audience, I felt that it wasn’t a sensible option to allow things to continue that way.
I worked on and designed an entirely new home (Welcome) page, in addition the the header and footer, and implemented in during January and February 2009. I also edited and redesigned the theme to be more in tune with the central subject material of the blog. Previous to this, although the subject matter had been mainly of a technical bent, I hadn’t really had a theme for the blog as such, nor had I used the blog’s design to clearly indicate the subject matter to my readers; which probably left some readers in somewhat of a quandary as to exactly what it was that I was trying to convey herein. Also the footer, (footer.php) at one point during 2008 had a serious php error in it which caused a number of problems. These issues were rectified when I almost totally rewrote the header using a lot of html in addition to attending to the php already present – which was enhanced, and also in addition I repaired and enhanced the footer. In doing so I introduced a header banner, which I enhanced over a number of weeks. I’ve since moved the RSS link into the header, and provided the mailing-list-subscription link high in the sidebar, above the fold, by writing its script into the sidebar.php file. I also introduced a contents page,clearly linked to from the header as well as the Welcome page.
A lot of the inspiration for the redesign came from Yaro Starak and Gideon Shalwick’s “Becomeablogger” course, which I bought into earlier this year, admittedly a little late. Whilst I haven’t yet implemented all of the suggestions within the course material by any means yet, it has nevertheless helped me out no end. The Becomeablogger course will be having its second run soon, and the enrolment window will be between 29th June and 3rd July 2009. As soon as the window opens I’ll be advertising it in the header of this blog, so if you’d like to join up you’ll have the opportunity to do so via this blog. One of the biggest issues for me over this past year has been avoiding clutter, both in the sidebar and on the Welcome page. The sidebar is an area which I’ve particularly concentrated upon in this respect, along with its appearance, as the sidebar appears along with almost every page and post. My intention has been to not let it detract the reader’s attention overly from the main article. I hope I succeeded in that. That’s summed up some of the main points of the blog’s evolution over the time since its creation. No doubt it will continue to evolve further with time; hopefully in a positive manner. The Future So what will I be doing on this blog in the future? For the immediate future nothing much is scheduled to change. I’ll be writing more free content fairly regularly, plus making the odd tweak to the theme perhaps. I’ll be adding further advertising of top-quality products from other bloggers and online businesspeople, plus also I will probably be writing more reviews of a number of them.
At some point I’m hoping to be adding podcasts to the mix – Maybe followed by video too. I don’t have a schedule for doing so planned out at this point, so I can’t be any more definite than that at this present moment. A year has passed, and the blog is still up and running. I have the feeling that the following year will contain many profitable and beneficial additions; both for you the visitor as well as for me the blogger, plus any help in the form of people that I take on in the future. That’s about it for this post then: A year older and wiser. Enjoy the rest of the Summer if you live in the upper Northern hemisphere. If you live in the lower Southern hemisphere you can take heart in the fact that midwinter has passed. Wherever you are, enjoy the rest of the year, and don’t forget to return regularly to kkomp.com to see what’s new. If you happen to be in space or on another planet then enjoy the break, and if you aren’t part of the Human Race from Earth and you actually live on another planet then I invite you to make contact with the us Humans. – We’re a peculiar civilisation, but most of us still have some semblance of normality left I believe.
If you’re not on the mailing list then it would be a good idea to subscribe to it and get notified by email. You might also like to subscribe to the RSS feed for notification too. Finally I invite comments/constructive criticisms/remarks… You know the drill.
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Beyond – The Newsletter: 19th June 2009 -*Special Edition* Important News For Bloggers & Would-Be Bloggers
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In today’s Newsletter I have two major things to announce: - First is this blog’s first Birthday; which will be on 24th June 2009: the day before the next newsletter is scheduled to be published. This blog has almost made it through the first year; and I’ve learned a lot… But more on that in the Birthday post that’ll be published on the day. The second, and most important thing I wanted to tell you about, is meant, in a way, to be a secret right at this moment in time. – But I’ve decided to give you advanced knowledge of it, so that you’ll be prepared when it happens: Now for those of you who have just started, or are thinking of starting, your own blog, there is an amazing course which I myself have just been on. It’s a joint venture by two very prominent internet entrepreneurs; namely Yaro Starak and Gideon Shalwick. – Both from Australia. Don’t go tying me kangaroo down just yet, – because this course, this time round, isn’t starting just yet. Oh no; you’ll have to wait until next week for the sign-up window. You see, last time the course launched, the take-up rate was so phenomenal that many expectant people had to be turned away and queued for the next launch, simply because the servers used in distributing the course material would have been unable to cope with the demand. – The load that would have been put on them had any more people joined. As a result there is now a queue of people already waiting to join the program who have been promised a place; and therefore places are limited as it is, even before the launch starts. That leaves Yaro and Gideon with the dilemma of how to avoid the same type of rush this time round, and the best way of avoiding disappointing people again. They have come up with a solution: - Last time round the signup window, in terms of time, was fairly large, and the Becomeablogger course was well advertised on a number of prominent sites for a few weeks. People umm-ed and arr-ed, as they do, for a while; then they all suddenly rushed at the chance at the last minute. – Result: A crush at the turnstile, and many people didn’t get in. This time the number of available places are even more limited due to the waiting queues that have been waiting pretty much all year so far to get in and skyrocket their blog’s popularity, and therefore their chances of generating a proper income from it. Whoever reads this newsletter, however, has a definite advantage: That of advanced notification, so that they can strike while the iron’s hot and get in there to reserve their place before all the remaining vacancies run out. So when’s it all happening? What is the crucial time to strike? Well; the Roadmap to Become a Blogger report is scheduled to be re-released on the 23rd June; but the critical time period, the sign-up window, starts on June 29th and ends on July 3rd. – That’s only allowing a 5-day window to join. – Which means places could be more limited, even, than I think. Quite obviously you don’t want to miss out on this chance to advance your blog by learning the ways of the blogging – masters. I assume that you’ll want to try everything to get your blog as highly rated as you can, generate a decent amount of traffic, and start earning a profit from it in financial terms. – So by my publishing this advanced disclosure, and also by you reading my article, you’ve put yourself in with a significantly higher chance of being able to do so than many others who didn’t bother to read this, or haven’t heard of kkomp.com and/or “Beyond”. What I’m going to do, then, is to start advertising in banner form in the page header on almost every page of this blog as soon as the sign-up window opens. The advert will be in place of the 3-Day-Money ad, so keep your eyes peeled for it; because it’ll only be there for 5 days. Even if I am a bit slow to take it down; the official window is only 5 days anyway; so it may transpire that even if you click late you could well be out of luck. So please do keep your eyes on the top of most of the pages and posts on this blog; otherwise you’ll end up missing out on a course that is so packed with valuable information that I’ve only had time thus far to implement about a half of it all. I personally guarantee that you’ll be enthralled with it all; but only if you apply what you learn.
…Anyway; having covered that, it’s time for the more mundane matters; such as a review of the week here on kkomp.com. – But don’t stop reading just yet: There’s more news of an exciting course which is starting soon further down the page. Monday. I posted about the sudden drop in the growth of Twitter’s traffic: It had to end sometime; but it appears to have tailed off rather abruptly: -
Tuesday saw the publishing of another computer-help article: -
On Wednesday I published two differing articles: One being another hardware-related article on the theme of online business: -
The other being a minor news article dealing with Microsoft’s decision re. IE8 and Windows 7 in Europe: -
Thursday saw a rather quick post regarding eBay: – I decided to do this as I saw the video on YouTube earlier and liked the song. Those are the 5 posts since the last Newsletter. Don’t forget, if you want to join in on a sensationally-informative course that could lead to your making a considerable income from blogging, to keep your eyes open for the header advert to change. As I said; this’ll be happening on the 29th June 2009, but the sign-up window will only be open for 5 days due to the expected numbers showing an interest, combined with those already queued to join up this time round. Also happening soon, although I haven’t received final details about it yet, is another course from another prominent internet entrepreneur called David Risley. – David is the man behind the 3-Day-Money course that is currently advertised in the header banner on almost every page and post. (If you haven’t yet seen it then you are seriously missing out!) You may have noticed the following advertisment on my Welcome page: -
This course may be a little bit more advanced than Gideon and Yaro’s course, and then again it might not: To tell the truth I haven’t yet seen it. I believe that this course is so powerful that nobody gets a pre-launch viewing this time. I may indeed be wrong, but it appears this course is being carefully shielded until the light turns green and it’s released to the wild for customers to purchase. …Yes it really does cost more than a coffee, and yes it will have you earning more than the cost of a coffee also. This is going to be a powerful make money online course. Interested? I believe there’s a free report somewhere behind the advert, as well as a free video in which David will tell you more about it. It’s got to be worth at least a click, don’t you agree? – And no I don’t get paid-per-click incidentally; so it makes no difference to my finances whether 1 or 1 million people click it; it’s just that you could miss out if you don’t do so. And finally… Finally that’s it for this week. There is a chance I might post something this weekend if I feel like doing so. I might even post something else later today. – But I prefer to take it easy at weekends, unless I’m doing something like building a computer or similar. Are you doing anything special this weekend? You might like to tell us about it if so… Have a great weekend.
Blessed Be.
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3-Day Money – Review
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A while ago I was involved in the pre-launch purchasing of this powerful product, and I got the chance to sample the course along with a select few, prior to its full release onto the internet. The first thing that struck me was the quality and depth of the content: Although it was, out of necessity, somewhat condensed, it was clearly structured and well presented. After a week or so of sampling the product, I was asked by David Risley, the product’s creator, if I was interested in writing a short recommendation for possible publication in advertising. To be honest I jumped at the chance; and you’ll see the following recommendation within the advertising material if you click on the linked banner. Yes I can vouch for the fact that I did write this text, that it’s genuine and unedited, and quoted word-for-word: -
Bypass the rest of this article.
So was I simply trying to make the product sound excellent, perhaps better than it actually is; or was I being totally serious, realistic, and maintaining a full amount of ethicality whilst remaining true to myself and my inherent honest nature? The answer to that is that I was indeed being perfectly genuine in my written opinion. – I absolutely love the product. Really; I’m jealous that I haven’t produced anything like the sheer brilliance of this course. I’m still looking for negatives; but unless I’m extremely pernickety the only negative that I can come up with is the time that it takes to download the entire package. I have a relatively fast pipe, and it still took a while to retrieve all the content. Someone on dial-up would possibly still be downloading it now had they started downloading when I did… Okay, maybe that’s a bit unrealistic, but it probably would have taken weeks. That negative point I just made has two edges: It may take a long time to download everything; but that will give you some idea of the amount of content that David’s packed into this product. The instructional videos are, besides being competently presented in an easy-to-understand style, high-quality and crystal-clear. The .pdf transcripts accompanying the videos are well-formatted, and the accompanying podcasts also exude an heir of professionalism of production. - But that’s not the main reason you’ll like what you get. You’re not buying it to look at nice pictures and excellent presentation alone: The main reason you’d buy it is for its content. I’ve already talked that up; but can I also talk it down too? Umm – well I suppose it doesn’t cover every possible aspect of the subject matter with regard to every possible situation, it doesn’t remove all the thinking for you to make your business a complete no-brainer – Yes I’d like to find a course that can do that too. – I don’t think one such course has yet been written. – And, as I stated above, it doesn’t run your business for you… So; is it the ultimate in perfection? No. Will it solve all of your problems like some magic do-it-all pill? No. On the positive side, though; it’ll open up a successful streak that you never knew you had the ability to achieve if you adhere to the principles outlined within it. Bypass the rest of this article I could rabbit on for hours about this product; going over it with a fine toothed comb and critically analysing every detail. – That would probably bore you to death, and you’d stop reading after the first 2 pages. – So I’ll not even attempt that futile exercise. In conclusion, then, I’ll say that if you want something that’ll at the very least put you on the right lines, giving you a lot of motivation and showing you a correct and proven method for setting up and running a successful online income stream/business, then to all intents and purposes I do believe you’ve found it. This could well be your personal “eureka!” moment. …Provided that you’re prepared to part with a small amount of funds to proceed on what could be the start of a life-changing voyage for you. Yes I’ll be straight up with you: I mean you have to buy the product to benefit from it. – Quite logically, really. How do you do that? Click the banner below, read and watch as David tells you more, and then the final purchase choice is down to you. One more thing, just before I end this article, is that there’s a money-back guarantee associated with this course: -
“As soon as you submit your order, you’ll have immediate access to the training material both online and available for download to your computer. If, after 60 days, you can’t make it work for you, the refund process is super easy. That’s Right, I said You’ll Get Your Money Back! After you are onboard, take 60 days to test drive the course. If you’re not making money and or not satisfied with what you have learned, just ask for a refund. Remember, the course was designed to go through in 3 days. Now, obviously you won’t be able to put everything into practice in 3 days, however I think you’ll see that a 60 day guarantee is MORE than adequate.
David makes this guarantee to you because he knows that by giving this an honest attempt, He believes you will be well on your way to making money online, just like tons of other people and myself are doing all over the world. Again, test drive the course for 60 days, and if you’re not making money or not satisfied with what you have learned, you can get a full refund, no questions asked…” … So there really is nothing to lose at the end of the day. – Click on the banner below and David Risley himself will tell you more in a video.
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Something’s Bugging Me…
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On Wednesday 3rd June 2009 I noticed a page about this site, kkomp.com, on browserdefender.com. On this page it says that there’s an unsafe download on this site; a file called gpu-z.exe. I’ve never put gpu-z.exe on the site; so I tried to download it myself, and sure enough it’s downloadable from the site’s root directory. Despite this it doesn’t appear on the ftp server, and I can find no trace of it other than the fact that it can be downloaded from this site. I advised the hosts; fasthosts.co.uk, (I was going to change the hosting after their last act of customer-unfriendliness; but it never happened.) of the situation, and they said that they’ve never had this situation before, that they’d put an engineer straight on the case, and that they’d get back to me by email. What they actually seem to have done is absolutely nothing: Sweet F.A. I thought I’d have a look at this file myself; and downloaded it. First things first; I scanned it. A scan by AdAware came up negative:
A scan by Malwarebytes came up negative: -
A scan by Avast! antivirus also came up negative… So now I’m wondering – more than I’m wondering why a file that doesn’t exist according to ftp is available for download from the server, more than I’m wondering how Fasthosts have the nerve to charge more than some other hosts, yet do almost sod-all; Where is the freaking risk? According to Malwarebytes, AdAware, and Avast! (Which is a good antivirus at coming up with false positives incidentally.) there’s no infection. – So have browserdefender.com come up with a false positive themselves? Having said that; the ftp server at fasthosts.co.uk says that the subject file doesn’t exist; yet I’m able, nevertheless, to download it. (I’m not even going to think about running the risk of actually running the file just in case.) So WTF is going on here? Well, in short, it seems to be something of nothing. (Literally in some ways.) The best advice I can give you on this is: - Don’t download gpu-z.exe from this site’s root directory. If you do download it then bear the following points in mind: A) The file has nothing to do with me: I did not put it on the server. B) You download it at your own risk, and I am not responsible for any consequences of your doing so. (If you need someone to blame; fasthosts.co.uk would be a good place to start.) I could have said nothing about this matter unless someone emailed in and made a fuss: In some ways that may have been an equally good option. – But I prefer the pre-emptive strike tactic; hence this article. Strangely, browserdefender.com also have pcmech.com; a site that’s just gained BBB Accreditation in the USA, that has a much higher search-engine, Quantcast, etc, rating than this site, and has over 10,000 visitors a day, marked as an unsafe site too. I bet David Risley, the owner, won’t be too amused! I get the uneasy feeling that I may be overlooking some glaring fact that’s obvious to some others. If this is indeed the case; and you know more than I do, then please comment: There’s a comment form below, so someone may as well make use of it. Onwards and upwards: Enjoy the coming week. I’m going to spend the rest of today (Sunday June 7th 2009) mainly watching TV I think. |
The Three Most Productive Days of Your Life
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If you could gain and learn in three days the commonsense basic knowledge that someone who now generates a six-figure-income online has learned by tuition – That’s tutelage if you’re American – and experience, over the course of 10 years; you’d apply that knowledge and make your own online income, yes? Of course you would! – It’s easy money, right? Wrong: There is no such thing as “easy money”. There is such a thing as uneasy money though; and it could be what you’re making now? – You see there’s a right way, and a wrong way, to make money online. The right way to do it has changed from a few years ago: Then it was a simple task of building a website, writing content, and plastering your website with targeted ads. That might still work to some small extent; but it’ll never generate enough income for you to live on. – But you can still make a decent income online; it just takes a little more effort plus a whole new way of thinking.
I want to introduce you to David Risley at this point. David is what is known as a six-figure-internet entrepreneur (That’s six figures to the left of the decimal point incidentally); meaning he makes somewhere between $100,000 and $999,999 a year from his online business. – But he’s one of the lucky few, right? Wrong: David’s income stream isn’t generated by luck. – That pleasure is the domain of lottery winners, and it’s short-lived. – David works determinedly day in, day out, at his online business, from home, and possibly generates more income in a month than many people do in a year. – All of it online. All his business is legit, nothing’s hidden from the Tax Man, all his customers are happy customers; and most, including myself, are repeat customers. – Customers who’ve bought his products before and have ordered again because they’re happy with the quality and value of their purchases from him. Now successful people are generally nice people. – OK, losers would have you believe that successful people are mean and tight – which is probably why they’re losers. But successful people like to pass on the success that they’ve had to others and give others the chance to become successful people too. That’s what David’s doing right now, in a 3-day course of video presentations – Which you download and keep on your computer. Now you don’t have to learn everything in 3 days; you can take 3 months to watch all the videos if you like, that’s up to you. – But in these videos David shares with you everything that he’s learned and is currently putting into action to generate him a six-figure income right now. – That’s what the title of this article is all about: If you watch the videos in 3 days, and put everything you learn into action, then those 3 days could be the most productive three days of your life! In case you’re wondering; I already have the product. I have watched all the videos. I’m watching the videos again too. I’m glad I have the product. Is it worth what I paid for it? It’s worth much more in my opinion. Ah; so it’s going to cost then? Yes; the only free lunch is in a mousetrap. – But you’d think; for knowledge that can have you making six-figure-income, that you’d have to pay a six-figure sum, right? Wrong: Not a five or four figure sum either. – Not even a three-figure sum. – And with a money-back guarantee the most you have to lose is three days: Well considering that out of an 80-year life we spend more than 22 years (>8343 days) asleep, it’s nothing really. – And if you learn and act on what you learn then you could be making money while you’re asleep too! There really isn’t a better time to act than right now. Procrastination is reputed to be the thief of time; and procrastinators are always close to success; if they could decide to make the right move at the right time they might actually become successful: But they won’t and they won’t. – They’ll always be procrastinators rather than success stories… So no more rabbit from me. – That’s it. I refuse to force-feed you. The next move is yours: See the banner below? You have the following choice: You can either click on the banner and find out more about becoming a six-figure-earner online yourself, or you can navigate away from this page and make do with your current circumstances for the time being. The choice is yours. Thank you for reading. Have a nice day. – Or should I say, have a nice three days.
- Oh I forgot to tell you about the free bonus offer… And I’ve run out of time now too. Oh well if you click the banner above I’m sure David will be good enough to tell you about it in his presentation. – Enjoy: And here’s to your coming success. |
RSS Revitalised
As you may be aware; my RSS feed crashed a few days ago.
I’d narrowed it down to being a problem with my blog itself; inasmuch as the fact that no RSS feed was being produced by this blog. I’d researched all kinds of reported RSS failures to do with WordPress 2.7 in forums and blogs via Google, and had followed a number of suggestions, all without any positive results. I’d also attempted to apply logical reasoning to the matter, and had even renewed some of the RSS-associated php files from a fresh copy of WordPress 2.7. Nothing seemed to be having any positive effect or making any difference to the RSS failure. In my quest for knowledge and to stay up to date on the latest trends and ideas in the blogosphere I’d also been devoting a portion of my time to reading and commenting on other blogs, in addition to trying to diagnose the RSS issue. It just happened that not so long ago I started listening to an audio recording of Yaro Starak’s interview with David Risley. Yaro was inquiring about the plugins that David was using. David was saying that he used “Yet Another Related Posts Plugin” as it was a cool tool; as it seems to figure out which posts are related to the post in question fairly accurately , and not only does it display them underneath the post on screen, but it also includes them in the RSS feed… Holy carp, I didn’t think of that plugin as being related to the RSS feed! I deactivated the “Yet Another Related Posts Plugin” plugin and the RSS feed came back to life instantly. AT LAST! Success! “But don’t go celebrating yet girl.” I told myself, cautiously. “Let me first see what happens when that plugin is reactivated.” Well I’ve reactivated it, and last time I checked the RSS feed was working 100%. Target neutralised! (For the time being at least.) What caused it to foul up? There must have been a bug somewhere inside that plugin that caused it to get stuck. – and block the RSS feed in anticipation of further data while awaiting another subroutine execution that never happened… Maybe? I’m not a php expert by any means. – Really, I’m not by any means whatsoever. I can barely string two lines of php code together as yet, so I’ll not try and be clever at the risk of making myself look utterly stupid. I’ll be reporting everything to the creators of the plugin for their analysis. – Including a copy of this post, along with a copy of my entire modified theme folder. In the meantime I hope the RSS feed doesn’t fail again. If it does I’ll at least have some idea of why. – Or at least what’s causing it. So in summary the RSS feed is working again and David Risley has saved the day yet again; without even realising it! In fact I’m going to give his blog at davidrisley.com a free plug. – As well as the other site he runs at PCMech.com .
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Now it’s gone down again; and this time deactivating YARPP isn’t doing anything! HELP!
The RSS feed is screwed. -’ Long story and turns out nothing to do with YARPP. – So I’ll be editing it manually from now on: Yes a manually-made RSS feed that I’ll have full control of… But the URL will change. Of course I’ll be posting the new one ASAP. There’s been a rather large cock-up somewhere – But things are in hand… (‘Wipes brow; taking care not to dislodge the matchsticks propping eyelids open.)
Update: The good news is that I’ve knocked up a feed and it works. The bad news is that I have to update it manually, and the feed URL has changed temporarily until further notice.
Now don’t worry about a thing if you’re on the mailing list: I have that sorted and you’ll be getting some updates today: You don’t have to do anything at all; you’ll continue to receive messages as per usual. If you’re subscribed to the old feed however then stay subscribed as it’ll probably be working again eventually. Until then the temporary RSS feed URL is: -
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This is a temporary arrangement; but things may stay as they are for a while.
Isn’t technology amazing? – I’m just about to help somebody in Romania repair her computer. 
Have a nice day.
Risley Writes
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Back in July 2008 I wrote an article about the sensitive and to-all-intents non-political commentary of David Risley on the Obama campaign’s influence upon bloggers and micro-bloggers to the extent that a multitude of articles and comments were being produced in echo-chamber fashion covering everything to do with it almost to the point of recording Obama’s every visit to the toilet. (Draws long breath.) Whatever Risley’s opposition, the coverage did its job; as I’m sure President Obama will testify to at some point perhaps? Despite being no political commentator, (Not that he ever tried to be.) David Risley is one of the internet’s success stories; and has from that point gone from strength to strength, building up a strong online business using his own self-generated business-model fashioned after a multitude of tips from many internet gurus and moulded to the Risley model.
His websites include PCMech as well as davidrisley.com. I’m not going to tell you all about them; rather I’ll let him do that:
In the search for quality materials to present on this blog I have in the last few hours discovered this recently-written manual by David Risley himself, and available online from his blog davidrisley.com , called The Future of Blogging Income . In it he shows how, by building up an online business and leaving it on autopilot, he was able to make over $12,000 while away on a 10-day cruise. With those words I’m going to end this article. Your choice now is to either do nothing and never know; therefore you’ll not be informed how you can do similar yourself; OR you can click on the link and read the e-book: It’s entirely up to you. No, the e-book won’t cost you anything: It’s totally free of charge. – So why miss out? http://www.davidrisley.com/blogincome
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‘An Opportunity That Nobody Should Miss…There’s Still a Chance (?)
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As I often do on this blog; I’m going to once again give my readers something for free. This is a bit of a double-edged sword in fact; as the advice comes from me. This part is free. That will hopefully lead you onto part 2, which will involve you shelling out a few dollars to someone else for the purpose of hopefully ensuring that you are recession-proofed. "Recession-proofed? What on earth is she on about?" You ask. In answer to that I’ll share with you an email which I received today from David Risley. I’ve added some commentary to intersperse the text for further explanation so that you can follow the drift of what he’s saying: - "News From DaveAs we move into 2009, we all think about our New Year’s resolutions…What are your resolutions for 2009? This … newsletter was written in advance because, as you get this, I’m on a cruise. My wife and I finally took a vacation – our first since our honeymoon. We went straight into parenthood after we tied the knot, and kids have this funny habit of anchoring you to home when they’re young." [Maybe it would have been an idea to tie a knot in... 'Never mind. "I’ve also been working very hard, and 2009 is going to be even more fast-faced. While I am pursuing other projects, too, the PCMech Premium membership program is certainly a top priority…" [The PCMech Premium membership is something I need to explain to you:- PCMech, if you haven't heard of it, is David Risley's internet brainchild. It's a blog that was started a number of years ago as a hobby; but over the last few years has become not only one of the web's top-rated technology information and online-career-building sites; but also David's source of income for him and his immediate family, from which he lives comfortably. He continues: - ] "You guys [and girls] saw me do several videos last week about our membership program. This week, while I’m gone, I have all channels open to make sure that people know that they can sign up for our premium program at the old, 2008 rates. See, once I get back into town, I’m turning off registration to our program. During that time, I’ll be re-working some things in order to execute my 2009 enhancements to the program. When I reopen the doors, the price will be higher to reflect the increased value to our program." [I hear brains ticking over: Some thinking "I like the sound of this. - It must cost a fair bit!" That's not actually the case with this. - Not yet anyway. How much it does actually cost depends on when you sign up for it: Like David said earlier, - and I can vouch that this is quite genuine: "The price will be higher to reflect the increased value to our program." When will the price be higher? Looking at the countdown; 4 days, 18 hours, 14 minutes, and 2 seconds ...At time of writing. 'Less now.] "2009 is a recession year. It is time to put the pedal to the metal, to learn new skills, and to take action. If you learn the right skills and follow the right strategies, you can come out the other end of 2009 doing very well. This time next year, we can all be taking cruises! …You’ve gotta DO it. And this year, I plan to work closely with PCMech Premium members to do exactly that. ‘You onboard?"
I realise that the first thing you’ll think is that I get paid for introducing people; therefore I’m not giving you "free" advice exactly. Honestly this is really totally free advice: Due to circumstances beyond my control, the corresponding affiliate program that I signed up to last year was deactivated, – The program itself, that is; not just my membership. – in anticipation of reactivation in a better format prior to this date. It didn’t happen as planned, and I was informed, so i haven’t been cheated in any way. However this opportunity that I’m telling you about is permanently advertised only on pcmech.com . There are various tweets about it on Twitter, which find their way onto FriendFeed, and onto David’s profile on Facebook. -But if you don’t use Twitter or FriendFeed, aren’t David’s friend on Facebook, and have never visited pcmech.com; you’ll be left completely in the dark, will never hear about it, and will miss the chance of taking advantage of this opportunity. – And time is ticking away as you’re reading this. - That’s why I’m advertising this to you. I’d have liked to have made money from telling people about it; but it wasn’t to be. Nevertheless I choose to advertise it regardless. I want to bring my readers value. I’m doing so now by telling you about this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. ‘More from David: – ] "PCMech Premium is like no other membership program on the Internet. We combine insider tools and tactics in the world of computers and technology with powerful information on using the Internet to make money and improve your life. You will not find this mix of information anywhere else. It reflects MY approach to the world of technology. I make my entire living on the Internet as a professional blogger. I am a geek, a computer enthusiast, but I am also an online entrepreneur. Together we can live the ultimate, high-tech lifestyle. Learn More About PCMech Premium.David Risley Click here to to learn more about the premium program for 2009. " Because I’m not getting paid for this, – David Risley had no idea that I was going to write this article either. Neither did I until a couple of hours ago – I can honestly say in a totally unbiased and from-the-heart manner that the only person who’ll be missing out is you yourself if you don’t take advantage of this offer. If you don’t believe me then don’t sign up through any links in this article: Go directly to http://www.pcmech.com by typing that URL into your browser-bar and sign up there if you distrust me that much. It makes no difference to me any way you do it or don’t do it. Why am I advertising this for free? I want my blog to be known as a blog that provides real value to my readers, as I already said. This value is in the form of an amazing offer from someone else: if you hadn’t read this article you possibly wouldn’t be any the wiser. – I want my blog to have that reputation so that my traffic increases: That’s my ‘selfish’ motive. Also I feel that this is an opportunity that nobody should miss out on the chance of taking at an incredibly-low price. "Incredibly-low price eh?" You ask in a suspicious manner. "Exactly what is this "incredibly-low price"? – $400, $300, $250?" I’ve been a member of PCMech Premium, in its previous incarnation if you like, for 6 months so far. I can quite honestly value the program as it was then at somewhere around those figures; put very loosely. However you’d be mightily surprised to learn that a year’s membership is currently less than $100 (£69) - Considerably less in fact. ‘Not convinced? Go see for yourself: http://www.pcmech.com . Near the top of the page you’ll see a countdown sequence, ticking away: That’s how long you’ve got left in real time.
If you missed it I’m afraid to tell you that the countdown has ended and all PCMech Premium registrations are currently closed. You can, however, set up a free, restricted, account and go on a waiting list in anticipation of registration reopening. (Target date 30th January 2009.) Here’s what David Risley himself wrote: -
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Dwindling Economy Hits US Trade Shows
*See also this BBC report. - But it’s not Macworld alone that’s been hit: This week’s CES in Vegas is showing a decline in exhibitors this year, with figures down by 10% on last year: Some exhibitors even pulling out at the last minute, while others are making cutbacks in their showing. Personally I take the David Risley line on this, and I think that, if anything, companies should be increasing their advertising budgets rather than cutting them in an economic downturn. – Each to their own though: Some will survive, some will fall by the wayside regardless.
Analysts are now questioning the viability of trade-shows in the light of today’s climate: On the other side of the coin; Jason Oxman, senior vice president at the Consumer Electronics Association, disagrees: "Trade shows take on renewed importance in a down economy. Every major consumer electronics manufacturer, buyer, installer and retailer is there. It’s the most efficient travel saver imaginable." Will this type of opinion retain validity in the light of experience though? Could we see a considerable cutting-back of trade shows? Will we see many going the way of Macworld in the light of experience and reality? It’s certainly a possibility. Time will tell.
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Why Microsoft Must Launch Windows 7 in 2009
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When Microsoft launched Vista it was to fanfares and promises of a new age of excellence dawning: The problem was that they missed the boat by a mile and landed in dangerous waters. There were problems with the final beta release in 2006 which they attempted to address in the hope of a pre-2007 launch date: As the end of 2006 loomed; however, Microsoft were still desperately struggling. By the time everything was supposedly sorted the holiday season was over Unperturbed by this setback; Microsoft went ahead with the launch in the early part of 2007; but in their last-minute rush had overlooked many major issues which hadn’t been properly patched or remedied in the final retail release. It wasn’t until 2008 when Service Pack 1 was launched in its own final retail release that these bugs were patched and remedied to a reasonable extent; yet despite this the new operating system was still buggier and slower than its predecessor; Windows XP. People were starting to describe Vista as the second ME by this point; and despite Microsoft’s determination to press ahead – withdrawing sales of XP in June 2008 by the major system builders – the Microsoft following revolted by using the downgrade facility made available wit6h Windows Vista Business and Ultimate to revert their Vista installations back to XP. Still others abandoned the Microsoft camp altogether and defected to Linux or Mac OS*. All-in-all the entire shenanigan was a complete embarrassment for M$; who still have the egg on their face to this day. And today, with an entirely new openness and more user-interactive approach to development from Microsoft; Windows 7 looms on the horizon. The softies originally set a release strategy for 1H 2010 for the new operating system; however Bill Gates let slip on numerous occasions, hints of a possible 2009 release schedule. What would happen if M$ were to wait until 2010 to release 7?. They’d miss the holiday season again; and with their current reputation in tatters thanks to their late production of the best promotion campaign for XP ever; namely Vista, Microsoft need to get as many copies out as fast as they can immediately, following RTM of the final retail release; or those people expecting another damp squib – Which will I expect be a sizable percentage of those in the firing line of the new release – will prefer to either stick to their new Apple computer purchased at Christmas or in the January sales; or stick to their newly-downloaded Linux distro and not bother paying for another possible disaster of an operating system. Although Windows 7 is currently billed by the supergeeks as ‘Vista that works with a few extras added’, it is surely going to come under close scrutiny from the online geek community; particularly the bloggers. If it’s not up to scratch I see people such as Michael Arrington; and possibly even the likes of tech bloggers such as David Risley; both of whom are converts from Windows to Mac, dissecting and analysing every last wrinkle and bug that Microsoft didn’t remove prior to release. In all honesty I sincerely believe that Windows 7 will be make or break for M$; and following the recent fiascos it’ll not just have to be good but it’ll have to be particularly good in order to convince the critics that Microsoft still have the wind in their sails to keep the profit in their sales. To read more on the current latest news on Windows 7; see what What do you think: Has Vista doomed Microsoft to an uncertain future dependant upon the success or flop of Windows 7; or will the current downturn in the software giant’s fortunes be just a blip in an otherwise gently-upward trace of success? Please do leave a comment. |
"Unreliable Platform"
"Dave Winer, 53, pioneered the development of weblogs, syndication (RSS), podcasting, outlining, and web content management software; former contributing editor at Wired Magazine, research fellow at Harvard Law School, entrepreneur, and investor in web media companies. A native New Yorker, he received a Master’s in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, a Bachelor’s in Mathematics from Tulane University and currently lives in Berkeley, California."http://www.scripting.com/stories/2008/09/13/whyIphoneIsAnUreliablePlat.html I think, on that evidence, it would be fair to assume that he knows what he’s talking about: I’m sure you’d agree – So when Dave Winer says that the iPhone is an unreliable platform it should make some people pop their head up from their comfort zone and take note.
Wakey-wakey! What he didn’t say; and I stress this now so as his words aren’t taken out of context, is that the iPhone software provided by Apple is buggy and unfit for purpose. I’ve not read any complaints about iPhone 2.1 yet; but then again I didn’t read that many about 2.0; even though I knew for a fact from insider information that it was so: The Apple faithful remain tight-lipped about any of Apple’s failings; though one can read between the lines and derive their true feelings by inference rather than by direct speech:
For instance; David Risley posted an article on his blog about his initial impressions of the iPhone while posting to said blog using the iPhone WordPress App. After he made an obvious comment about the fact that it works, he followed it with two negative criticisms; a complimentary remark in the following paragraph to diffuse his last two points; saying that it’s "…pretty cool that I can even do it at all", followed by "End of post because typing on this thing is still a bit slow. So an iPhone is "Pretty cool because [it works - Because it doesn't 'not work']"? Hmm. An interesting definition of ‘pretty cool’ there David. – So; my television clapped out after over 30 years this week: The screen is blue; nothing else; just blue. (‘ironic, myself being a Wintard, that my TV dies with a BSOD!) But it works nevertheless: It still produces sound; and there’s still something on the screen: It’s a "pretty cool" TV then? (I am aware that there is a track fault on the PCB in the colour synchronisation separation circuitry; but the dear old set is so old I’m not going to bother fixing it: I’ve already got another one.) My comment on David’s post was: "So overall you’re saying that it’s a load of utterly unusable crap that is non-user-friendly, slow, and poorly designed; but it’s really cool because it’s an Apple iPhone. Wow!" I’m not "anti-iPhone" or "anti-Apple" despite appearances: "Anti" is too strong a description: I see it all for what it is, and what it is; or at least was, is no more than a botched rushed attempt from Jobsweh at making a fortune. By combining this with employing a strategy copied almost directly from the previous actions of Microsoft; the gamble paid off, and Apple landed in clover and Jobsweh made his massive profits. Fair play to him.
Back to Dave Winer; who is saying that developing an iPhone App isn’t worth the hassle; because when all’s said and done; apple might reject it after all the work and aggravation has been carried out. Why would Apple reject it? Not necessarily simply because of an unseen bug that might make it detrimental to people’s iPhone hardware; but because it competes with existing Apps; as in the case of Podcaster yesterday, (13th September 2008.) where Podcaster was rejected because it competed with iTunes. It’s as if Apple are saying: "We’re the best, and we alone make the best software for our own hardware. Anything that competes with or that appears to be better than anything that we build will be immediately silenced and we’ll just conveniently forget that it ever existed – Because you honestly can’t better Apple; so don’t even try." Or put another way: "I am the great Jobsweh; god of all things Apple, and there are no gods, no programmers, no designers, better than me. I am the beginning and the end. I was there before computers existed and I shall be there after they have ceased to exist…"
…Er hang on Steve; aren’t you forgetting something? You’re mortal yes? I think I’ll end here with the last words of Dave Winer in his article: "…the Internet is the platform without a platform vendor. That’s the most powerful kind of platform there is because it is the least regulated." Thank the gods (Excluding Jobsweh.) for Web 2.0. See also: |
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We’ve heard moans twice from Apple Fanboi Michael Arrington; but we want to be convinced that it’s not just one voice in the darkness.Well here it is: The post you never expected to see from one of the new Apple fanboys:- |
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“Apple Showing Warning Signs” “As many of my readers know, I have converted pretty much everything to Apple products. I am now a Mac user and recently I switched to the Iphone. As of a few days ago, even my keyboard is built by Apple. I am a fan of the company and their products, but I am seeing big red flares that are showing signs of trouble on the horizon.” (I think that’s meant to be iPhone; but ‘easy typo either way.) -So David says; and I quote “I am a fan of the company and their products“. Fair enough: Each to their own. He continues:- |
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“Why I Like Apple““It continues to be funny when I witness the emotional reaction Apple can get out of people. A lot of non-Apple geeks are quick to dismiss me as a “fanboy” because I like Apple. Such a reaction is really asinine and, ironically, often comes from people who would buy Apple if not for monetary reasons…” Help me Wikipedia:“By 1990 the term was being used in popular music and science fiction circles, and as electronic entertainment gained popularity, the term became increasingly applied to computers and video game consoles – with people often developing an obsessive loyalty towards one platform or brand.” “Current subjects of such obsessive loyalty include areas of: TV shows; movies; music; anime; comic books; cars; video game consoles, video games and MMORPGs; and computer operating systems, hardware and software—and more recently politics.” “”Fanboy” was added to the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary in 2008.“ |
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“…But, There Are Warning Signs”“While I have admired the user-centric design of Apple products, the company has been showing some signs of losing touch. Some examples:
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“What I’m sensing is a bunch of Apple users who really want to continue liking Apple, but are having to find ways to explain the parade of bonehead moves and buggy products coming from the company.” That last sentance was very well written and extremely spot-on-target: Those people are called “Apple fanboys/girls”. Of course, not being a fanboy himself – and any suggestion that he might actually be a fanboy being “really asinine“; David doesn’t fit anywhere near into that category: “In all fairness, most computer companies release crappy stuff. I guess Apple is held to a higher standard because of their marketing and the loyal following that they have. Perhaps Apple is just showing us one thing: they’re a computer company just like any other computer company.” Of course; that’s not actually anything like “ways to explain the parade of bonehead moves and buggy products coming from the company.” : It’s just an excuse for darling Apple’s incompetence – ‘All companies cock-up from time to time: Apple are no different; in fact they’re much better at cocking up than any other company.’ Exactly; just one of the many things they do better than anyone else, isn’t it?
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You read it first here; unless you read it first there: Apple cocked up – As admitted under a veil by an Apple…non-fanboy himself. My analysis? Apple have lost it: I foresee a lot of their market-sector gains dwindling slowly back to much how they were. I see the crown falling from Jobsweh’s head. As a Microsoft fan I don’t see any immediate advantage to Microsoft. I would say that Linux will continue to make small gains from both M$ and Apple, at least until Windows 7 is released. Do I see Linux reaching 10% market-sector impact? It’s possible but unlikely in my estimation. I won’t rule it out altogether, but Linux had its day; in fact around 3650+ of them. Ubuntu have made inroads in a sense; but the various distros are still proving difficult to give away; even in the light of Microsoft’s shot in its own foot with Vista.
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Shazza Does Gnomedex – From the UK
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I caught David Risley online via the feed at the Gnomedex pre-conference bash and tried to get an interview of sorts. The chat was so hectic that this was quite obviously impossible and I was in the wrong place at the wrong time. I did manage to get about 3 lines through though, as you’ll see toward the end of this video clip recorded from the online stream: Technology is a fantastic thing; and all the world’s population now has the opportunity (Most have the ability.) to communicate over large distances via the internet to unite the entire globe.
After Dave Risley followed Sarah Lacy, who seemed to do her own show jointly along with virtually everyone else present: Sarah turned out to be an excellent chat-show co-host, and the presentation was most enjoyable and entertaining. The chatroom crowd interacted with the presenters and guests, resulting in a quite spectacular interactive production which, other than for the quality of the Ustream feed, was worthy of a television performance. Towards the end of the long evening, as the alcohol flowed freely, one of the guests became aggressive and attempted to disrupt the show with a verbal attack on Sarah, her other current guests, and her co-presenter(s). This was handled extremely professionally, courteously, and graciously, by Sarah herself and a couple of the guests; one in particular whose name I forget (‘May have been Eric Rice?) as it was about 4AM BST and I had my eyelids propped open with matchsticks. Another small downer was the absence from the show of Tara Hunt, aka @missrogue, who was requested to guest by a large number of the chatroom, including myself; and who I feel could have made a valuable extra contribution had anyone been able to locate her. Quite obviously Tara has an extremely busy schedule: This most articulate lady leads a jet-set life filled with great achievements, and parties hard in any spare time she gets: Quite a live-wire! Everything suddenly scaled down in a matter of minutes, and the party was completely over and empty by 6AM BST. The main host, Chris Pirillo, did make a short appearance on the feed towards the end of the night; after his parents had been on and had been interviewed by the chatroom crowd about his young days and his personal life. During this time I was writing the first draft of my last blog entry in addition to watching the feed. I hope my multitasking didn’t make me miss too much of the proceedings. All in all it was a thoroughly dynamic event. Apologies for having missed out anybody: There were three birthday people that night; one of whom was Kathy, the others…I think I remember it was Sarah Lacy’s too: Belated Happy Birthday wishes to all anyway. The rest of Gnomedex is currently running for real. You can pick up the live Ustream feed at http://chris.pirillo.com/live/
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Fire Your Computer Technician!A computer technician spills the beans and makes available the knowledge he has charged clients hundreds in service fees for. |
Twitter: War On The iPhone – Military Logs
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Politico-geek
| An intellectual geek, self-confessed nerd, soon-to-be online-marketing-success-story, professional blogger and family man; David Risley could quite easily be described as Tampa’s “Mr Tech”.
“David Risley is an internet entrepreneur and professional technology blogger. With about 10 years of experience in this field, David has a solid and practical understanding of the web and what works. He is the founder and President of PC Media, Inc., a Tampa-Bay based company active in internet media publishing. |
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| Recently, in an entry posted 15th July 2008 to be exact, he posted what appears to be a one-off foray into politics. http://www.davidrisley.com/2008/07/15/bloggers-for-obama-lemmings-for-something-shiny/
Using his excellent flowingly-articulate writing-style he managed to keep the coverage to as level a playing-field as possible, showing very little if any of his personal political preference, yet still succeeding in giving the mass-ranks of pro-Obama bloggers a flea in the ear for their one-sided biased coverage of Barack Obama’s political campaign.
Did David really keep the playing field level though, and did he, a professional tech blogger, inadvertently take a step into territory where the nerd-angels fear to tread? His second paragraph starts off:”We’re in the election season and that means we’re seeing lots of politics online. Since I follow social media, I can clearly [tell] which of the candidates seems to be the favorite of the blogosphere: Barack Obama.” |
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| OK so much for proof-reading; but ignoring an honest accidental mistake in leaving a single word out; does the above indicate any political preference or bias? It could be loosely construed if this passage is taken by itself ignoring the rest of the article that by his mention only of Obama he sets a biased tone for the underlying theme.
However in reality we have to take the post as a whole and analyse the bigger picture.Further down he shows a more balanced approach when inculcating both candidates. : He states:”I have no doubt Barack Obama is a good man. I have no reason not to like him. But, when I see bloggers so blindly vouch for the guy, and so eagerly blame Bush for anything and everything and find every possible fault in John McCain…” Is this really balanced though, or does it have a supportive slant for McCain? By itself perhaps; although once again we must look at the bigger picture. Let’s do just that from a statistical point of view:- Mentioning of Candidates Obama: 7 mentions McCain: 1 mention Can any conclusion be drawn from this? I wouldn’t say so despite the repeated mentions of Obama: After all; that is part of the overall theme: Bloggers’ documentation of Obama’s campaign in exclusion of and to the detriment of, McCain’s.
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| Overall it appears that David Risley has done an extremely good job of maintaining a viewpoint of neutrality despite his political convictions while covering this topic: An achievement which is rather commendable.What are David Risley’s political convictions? I have no idea honestly; and even if I did know this, the fact that I revealed them in this article of mine would lead to a distortedly-biased view of his words by the readers.
He concludes with the words:”I’m not a political blogger and I’m not going to start. I follow tech, not politics. But, as a professional blogger who wants to see blogging recognized as the profession it is, I do not want to see bloggers as a whole turn into blind lapdogs for the latest shiny political figure…”
- All-in-all a quick dip into the edges of the political quagmire out of partial-necessity using the correct safety-harness and coming out completely unscathed. This demonstrates resilience and the mark of a talented writer: There aren’t a lot of bloggers out there that could even do this; let alone in such a manner. If I were running a “Blogger of the Month Award” then I feel that this post would be a very strong front runner at this time, and could easily end up winning first prize. |
