08 May 2013 No Comments
Have you heard of Coursera? Along with Udacity and MIT’s Open Courses, it’s one of those places where you can take a University level e-class, from professors from some of the most renowned Universities in the world, in your free time, for free. I took Introduction to Sociology, which was interesting, but also very basic. (To be [...]
30 Oct 2012 No Comments
According to author Helen Sword from The New York Times Opinionator, verbifying describes the act of creating a new verb from another part of speech. But how long do these verbs live? Are they forever? Can a brand or a person become a verb? What are the rules? Any noun can be verbed. So [...]
11 Oct 2012 No Comments
One of the basic SEO optimizations you could do for your blog is improving the keyword density in older blog posts that are still receiving new visits. You can experiment with a couple of posts that In Google Analytics, go to your blog, then to Content -> Site Content -> Landing Pages. Select an older [...]
16 Jul 2012 No Comments
Have you read Elmore Leonard’s Easy on the Adverbs, Exclamation Points and Especially Hooptedoodle NY Times piece? He’s sharing his 10 rules for better writing, which I will paraphrase in the following lines: 1. Never open a book with weather, readers look for characters. 2. A prologue is only backstory, which you can drop anywhere you [...]
09 Jul 2012 No Comments
Do you want to write better? You can. Is there a magic formula for that? I don’t think so. Can you learn from what works for others and at least test on your own writing? You can. With today’s post I start a series of tips and thoughts on how to write better. Bleed in [...]
13 Jun 2012 No Comments
Would you like to know more about gamifing? Get the principles of statistics right? Understand the human genome? Explore poetry? Coursera is a social entrepreneurship company that partners with Universities such as Princeton, Stanford, the University of Michigan and the University of Pennsylvania and offers free online courses in areas such as humanities and social sciences, computer [...]
05 Jun 2012 3 Comments
When Picnik closed (only to transform itself into the Picasaweb Creative Kit editor) I was sad. Picnik meant super fast online basic editing. Perfect for image tweaks for the blog of for your Facebook page. Turns out part of the Picnik team is now working on PicMonkey, an even friendlier (at least in term of [...]
23 Apr 2012 No Comments
Want to use your site’s url as your openID? Nothing easier than: 1. Get an openid from a site such as https://www.myopenid.com/ 2. Get the server url for that openID site, such as http://www.myopenid.com/server 3. Copy this HTML before the </head> tag of your site. (In a self hosted wordpress you will find it in Appearance ->Editor [...]
26 Mar 2012 No Comments
If you have a blog and are fed up with lifeless stock photos, if your website needs a little photo boost or if you’re starting to send a weekly newsletter and you need good (free to use) images, this post is for you: Photos that are older than 120 years old are generally ok to use. Google [...]
08 Mar 2012 No Comments
When people ask me what klout is, I often tell them it’s like a page rank for Twitter. The more people talk to you, the higher your klout is. The more influential people who talk to you are, the higher your klout is. The more people retweet (link to you), the higher your klout will [...]
