Archive | December, 2006

Bloggers, resolutions and multiple blogs

Posted on December 31st, 2006 by Tyme White in Miscellaneous

New Years. This is when a lot of bloggers make resolutions on what they want to do differently for the next year. Most are improvement related and unfortunately most fail. Why? No strategy.
Wait Tyme! You’re jumping the gun! I have a strategy! I have a plan! Tyme says: bunk.
Example, I have three sites. As [...]

Understanding discipline and ambition

Posted on December 27th, 2006 by Tyme White in Business

Periodically I ask myself, “what do you want to do with your life”? I asked myself that question several weeks ago because I was finishing a major goal in my life: master’s degree. Generally most people want a degree to help them professionally, bringing me to point #1: what do I want to do with [...]

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The Blog Experiment

Posted on December 26th, 2006 by Tyme White in Miscellaneous

I wrote in September about The Blog Experiment. I did not want to start the experiment until after I finished my thesis because it would have been an overload for me.
As a writer with diverse interests I tried to follow the rule: the more focused the content the more successful it will be. This led [...]

Pageflakes, FeedBurner, accuracy in stats

Posted on December 26th, 2006 by Tyme White in Miscellaneous

**Read the update at the bottom***
BoingBoing is questioning their RSS stats provided by FeedBurner:
We frankly don’t believe that nearly two million folks have decided to subscribe to BoingBoing via this relatively new service, and we suspect someone (or more specifically, somebot) is taking advantage of the service for some kind of spammy reasons. We’re looking [...]

Check caches of your site

Posted on December 22nd, 2006 by Tyme White in Miscellaneous

I was talking to the guys the other day and they sent me a link to one of my old archives. They had a great laugh because according to archive.org my old site looked like this in May 1999:

Um, no, this is what it should have looked like:

The Camtronic site was around years before mine [...]

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Debates vs. arguments

Posted on December 15th, 2006 by Tyme White in Miscellaneous

Let’s say a writer is passionate about a topic. In their passionate state the words flow, the post is made. Readers read the entry and possibly don’t agree with the writer’s opinion and respond with their opinion in the comments. The writer, seeing disagreement on his/her article, starts to debate and the debate turns into [...]

Don’t get caught up in statistics

Posted on December 8th, 2006 by Tyme White in Miscellaneous

Reading the reactions of the people who were accepted into 9rules is always humbling to me. Always. I am very thankful and perhaps that is why I tend to be protective.
I was reading Transformatum and Scott said:
I’m thinking of installing Mint to make tracking easier.
You know how in the movies someone says “Noooooo!” in slow [...]