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Blogging : Live direct communication with your readers - Google Talk and Woopra

By Fili • Apr 28th, 2008 • Category: blogging

Live communication with your blog readers is something I’ve noticed is beginning to gain popularity across the web. Quite a few of the blogs I visit to leave comments after browsing their RSS are now using this relatively new Google Talk widget which allows your readers to try and communicate with you (add it to [...]



Bloggers, Blogs and Blogging : Ethics, Categorization, and Code of Conduct discussed

By Fili • Apr 23rd, 2008 • Category: Joomla, Thoughts, ethics

Yesterday, I gave a short talk regarding the issue of blogs, bloggers and blogging ethics - should there be a code of ethics, should bloggers regard ethical issues and if so - which ethical considerations should a blogger be concerned about.
Having been involved in the world of blogging for so long, I find the [...]



The open-source Browser Shots : Test your website on all platforms and browsers

By Fili • Apr 4th, 2008 • Category: Web Development

If there’s something I really hate about doing webdesign is having to making sure the design is running the same on all browsers running on all platforms. There are endless little issues that could drive the most patient of people absolutely insane, and the problem is that we usually have no way of knowing what [...]



Branding Fili - Topping Search Engine results with your name

By Fili • Mar 15th, 2008 • Category: SEO

It has a way of going up and down, but finally - it seems quite stable that filination.com is the top search result for my first name - Fili. Even Google Webmasters Central is reporting it. You’d expect that to be easy, but it’s really not that trivial. Competing with me on the Fili Google [...]



Drupal’s Event : RSS & Outlook iCal synchronization with Remote Calendars

By Fili • Mar 13th, 2008 • Category: PC

A few Drupal sites that I run have the wonderful Event module installed to handle a collaborative event calendar. Users tend to like that feature and every once in a while I get someone telling me that this is one of the more important features those social sites hold. A question that keeps coming up [...]