Tag Archives: internet

For Bloggers: An Introduction to Twitter

I. Twitter isn’t for everyone, but it may be necessary for anyone wanting an audience I’ll confess: I started using Twitter because I had to; when promoting a blog, you have to go where the audience may be. I’m very grateful for the people I’ve met on Twitter, many of whom are generous, willing to …

June 3, 2009 – 9:29 pm | By ashok | Posted in blogging | Tagged | Comments (2)

Tagging in Progress

Some of you have noticed that I’m streamlining and updating tags all throughout the blog. This is not an easy process: 200 tags were eliminated, with still more cuts to come, but a few are being added. Moreover, out of 44 pages of entries, only 8 or 9 have been tagged to my satisfaction, and …

November 15, 2008 – 1:21 am | By ashok | Posted in blogging | Tagged | Comments (2)

Do I Get to be Proud of 100,000 Pageviews?

Granted, it took 13 months. And there are blogs and sites getting 20,000 unique visitors a day that people online barely know about. But you know what? I’ve experienced firsthand from the net how many people are resistant to learning, resistant to reading carefully and well, resistant to anything that’s different, new, or – worst …

November 14, 2008 – 5:17 am | By ashok | Posted in blogging | Tagged , | Comments (3)

Setting a Reasonable Traffic Goal

I thought once that if I were getting 10,000 visitors a month, I’d not only be doing well, but I wouldn’t have to promote as much. Well, I had 11,000 unique visits in September and a little over 10,000 in October, and I’m not satisfied. It isn’t greed that’s driving me: the issue is that …

November 6, 2008 – 7:47 pm | By ashok | Posted in blogging | Tagged | Comments (2)

Thank you for your support – 50,000 unique visits looks like a healthy number…

…the more important numbers are the nearly 7,000 unique visits last month being surpassed already this month. Numbers tell nothing, of course – it could be the case that 500,000 people stopped by here, and it wouldn’t mean anything unless people were commenting, saying hi to me, asking questions of me and others, getting to …

September 20, 2008 – 7:25 pm | By ashok | Posted in personal | Tagged , | Comments (3)

Blue Zinfandel Theme Issues: Are you having trouble reading this blog?

At least 4 of you have complained that this blog is wacky in terms of how it is presenting itself to you: something is askew esp. with the bullet points I use so frequently. If you’re having/had trouble viewing this blog, post what browser you were using to look at this blog in the comments …

August 21, 2008 – 1:52 am | By ashok | Posted in blogging | Tagged | Comments (4)

More Housekeeping Issues…

Some of you have noticed that the Index isn’t up and running entirely yet. I’m working on it piece-by-piece. The most aggravating thing is changing every single link within posts that goes back to the Blogger blog. On a series like Plato’s “Crito,” 6 parts with 5 links per part, one going to every other …

August 4, 2008 – 9:18 pm | By ashok | Posted in blogging, personal | Tagged | Comments (0)

Quick Post, I Want to Get Back to Work: "Distracted from Distraction by Distraction"

This article is most certainly alarmist, but has a few points worth considering: To what degree are attentiveness and being distracted physiological conditions? The author claims that knowledge of the brain tells us that if you’re driving, and someone is describing something over the phone that requires you to visualize it, a “visual channel” will …

July 22, 2008 – 1:08 pm | By ashok | Posted in education, links | Tagged | Comments (2)

For Discussion: Is Politics Theater? Or Can a Government Mastermind Everything? Where did these stupid ideas come from? And what do you want to do about them?

1. People understand politics to be theater, even while insisting it be something more: some power that makes all the trains run on time and beats every enemy and costs no amount of money. I could say “this is irrational,” but duh you already know that. The bigger issue is that I understand politics this …

July 9, 2008 – 5:00 pm | By ashok | Posted in education, politics | Tagged , | Comments (0)

My New Addiction: Making Mini-Tours of the Internet

Thanks to Hazel, I am now aware that I can comment on pages and link them together into little “tours” that take a surfer through a subject.I’m playing with Trailfire and have created 3 such tours so far, about 6-7 stops in length each.Here’s the page with the ones I’ve completed/am working on, sorry if …

July 8, 2008 – 6:49 pm | By ashok | Posted in blogging, poetry | Tagged | Comments (0)