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Time For Take-Off
June 3rd, 2007 by Osman S BoruteceneIt has been a long time that I was only busy with my blog in Turkish. I have built an audience of nice people. You win some, you lose some though. I was unable to pay attention to this blog in that time span.
Today, I feel that it is the right day to start paying more attention.
I have written nice posts about blogging on the other blog, people loved them. I plan to translate some of them.
More importantly, this will be the new home for all of my blogs in English. There aren’t too much but that just means increasing topic variety. Anyway, we’ll see what it’ll evolve into.
Writer’s Block
May 26th, 2007 by Osman S BoruteceneI have created a new theme for my blog and changed the layout and visual aspects. I was really eager to go on and write new posts under this new image.
However, in the past several days (and including today and now), I am suffering from kind of a writer’s block. I can’t add new material to my blog easily. Even this post is a pain for me.
Over the editor area of WordPress, there are four drafts waiting for me to complete; Issues With Blog Themes And Templates, Top Tips and Tricks For the 21st Century Economy, Internet Explorer Myth, Enhance Your Productivity With Web Based Applications.
I am not sure when I am going to start writing them.
Anyway, this was just a quick note to tell that I am alive.
Don’t Worry Robert
May 21st, 2007 by Osman S BoruteceneUPDATE: Robert Scoble made an explanation about deleted comments.
Robert Scoble posted about the censorship in China. His blog is censored in China too, among many others. Don’t worry Scoble, don’t worry. You are accustomed to censorship on your own blog.
I noticed recently that Robert Scoble deletes comments almost arbitrarily on his posts. When I follow through comments that I came across which are deleted afterwards, there is no clear pattern for a cause of deletion.
Hard to understand.
The last comment that I have noticed being deleted was from Goddess Artemis.
Anyway, censorship is not a solution to any of our problems on the net. There seems to be little difference between Robert and China. LOL.
A New Visual
May 20th, 2007 by Osman S BoruteceneBlogging is hard. Doing a custom template for yourself from scratch in WordPress is harder.
I have completed most of the job. There may be portions of my website which still does not function. Please do me a favor and leave a comment to this post if you encounter anything that doesn’t work.
By the way, this blog is going to be the new home of my other blogs in english. I have some other blogs about sex and relationships, clinical psychology and alternative treatments, web design and development and several geeky stuff, etc.
I have recently decided to unite them under one. This is the address.
Some parts of the new template still needs a little fiddling. Thank you in advance for your patience.
Sunday Reading
January 27th, 2007 by Osman S BoruteceneBig gadget sites don’t link to blogs Robert Scoble tells the truth one more time.
Meditations On Meaning Is Fun
January 26th, 2007 by Osman S BoruteceneI am sure this guy will not jump the shark any time soon. Now this is what I call original, interesting content: How to Walk Through Steel-Reinforced Walls and Achieve Other Similarly Impossible Feats
Even The Shortest Essay Is Not A Blog Post
January 15th, 2007 by Osman S BoruteceneI have been thinking on a project that involves some minor information design. I suddenly caught up by the idea of what is a post and what is an article. This reminded me of a blog post of Dave Shea.
I think a blog is news source regardless of what is it about. It may inform you about that the blogger saw this movie and has slept with that person, etc. It’s a news source that can tell you that the blogger person has written a new article, but its not the article itself.
Therefore, Wordpress has the static pages feature. So that the user will be able to both blogs about this and that and then also writes articles, or essays in whatever kind of nature.
Just a couple of cents in a break.
Comment In Moderation: Alyson Strother’s Blog
January 10th, 2007 by Osman S BoruteceneAlyson Strother has a blog on wordpress.com about design, music and everything Apple related. Her recent posts reveal accurate information on iPhone too.
Robert Scoble Is One Clever Guy
January 6th, 2007 by Osman S BoruteceneNowadays, I see posts about Robert Scoble and his blog and his job and his nearly everything here and there. These posts mostly talk about Scoble’s views on certain products that he writes up in his blog. Others are simply hate propaganda against Robert Scoble.
I don’t specially like or dislike Robert. I just think that he is a clever, special guy who likes to initiate discussions in a provocative fashion. His provocativeness is a must as a journalist. And yes, he is a journalist. He does interviews. He does it well, I think.
His provocative posts are generally about comparing two or more products or services. For instance, once he questioned whether Apple imitates Microsoft. There have been 230 comments under this post so far and he made people to come out and talk. Okay, I know that topics like Microsoft vs Anything can be quite intriguing at times but he has the ability to achieve more buzz than an ordinary Microsoft vs. Oranges and Apples kind of comparisons.
Another nice post to play with from Scoble was about why United States will remain dominant in tech. He claimed that United States will remain dominant in tech because Iran and some other countries mistreat their citizens. Robert Scoble knows very well that there are lots of countries on earth that are coming really close in competition on tech. I don’t think that his claim was sincere. I think he just knows how to make a buzz.
For a last example, I will mention his post about how Microsoft is gonna edge in on Google. I am sure that Robert is joking here completely.
Now, more important than all this is how and why people react to Robert Scoble. I feel disturbed by the hate propaganda that some bloggers carry out against him. I just don’t understand why they keep reading him if he discomforts them by his posts.
There must be something else, some other reason that some people hate Scoble and keep reading his posts. This isn’t just a love-to-hate situation.
My opinion is that those people don’t have the guts and the mindset to post like him. I think that is jealousy. Most people that blurbs about Robert Scoble blurb about him just because they think he gains and earns by something they cannot achieve. Those people cannot make something on their own, they feel needy most probably. Or at least, they cannot see the buzz he creates and they forgot that Robert Scoble is a journalist. One of his provocative posts was about comparing Windows Vista and Mac OS X. He needs this to do his job. He needs to and must podcast about odd things sometimes. That happens all the time, all day long with a whole press and media.
Anyway, my suggestion to those suffering from the Scoblenvy: Go try and create your own buzz and content. You are free to add any interesting content to your blogs. Do it and try to make it better than Scoble, then come and blurb about why Scoble makes no sense.
By the way, among the negative comments blurbs about Scoble, the oscar has to go to Yuvi who is a 15 year old Geek wannabe from Chennai, India. He is a VB and C# guy, but is trying to expand his horizons. He is the best representative of people who like to blurb about Robert Scoble.
update: Another post from Robert Scoble that drive people crazy. Now it is iPhone. Well, another reason why I think that Robert Scoble has a playful cleverness. There are many people out there, important names who blog about the iPhone recently. They write down very decent things, evaluating iPhone and the future of Apple, swot of opponents etc. but none of them get the attention that Scoble is getting right now. This isn’t Scoble’s way, that’s just what we call “social psychology” among academic jargon.
Creating Purposeful Home and Landing Pages
January 6th, 2007 by Osman S BoruteceneI recently added something to my home page. The addition is a little information on what this web site is about.
I have done that because I noticed the fact that even blogs have to identify their home pages. When users land on to any post or page from search engines like Google, there is a purpose there. The visitor reads the page, gets the information she needs and that’s it. However, if she clicks for the home page, than there must be some additional information where she is and what this place is all about. Briefly, of course.
Do this for your own good. The less confused visitors you have, the more user-friendly you will become (Master Yoda, 2007). Becoming more user-friendly is beneficial for your sites search engine optimization, results in more people bookmarking your site and increase overall quality of experience of your website or blog.
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