Archives for the ‘Thoughts’ Category

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

By fiLi • Apr 23rd, 2008 • Category: Thoughts

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 […]



Problogging in Israel : The Globe case study for a successful Hebrew blog

By fiLi • Nov 30th, 2007 • Category: Thoughts

It’s been a while since then, but it’s well worth the mention. Microsoft Israel hosted Yuval Dror of the Globe to talk about how his blog turned into Israeli’s most popular (self-hosted?) Hebrew blog. With 1100+ RSS readers and thousands of daily pageviews, I don’t think there are many that come close. Having long long discussions about […]



Israeli Blogosphere Awards: My favorite Israeli blogs

By fiLi • Jun 30th, 2007 • Category: Thoughts

Blogerim.net is hosting the "Best (self-hosted) Israeli blog awards". I’ve been quietly following the Israeli self-hosted blogosphere for the past few months and have come to appreciate the growing number of quality bloggers in the small Israeli blogosphere.
The awards are split into a few categories and you can cast one vote for as many blogs […]



Israeli Problogging and the Israeli blogosphere - Dakar as a beginning

By fiLi • Jun 28th, 2007 • Category: Thoughts

There are no probloggers in Israel. Not yet, anyway, and so the question of the Israeli blogosphere remains whether an Israeli problogger is even possible with a small market of about 3-4m Internet users, most of whom think blogs are for kids and that they mostly use the main portals for online browsing (Walla, Ynet, MSN).
Running […]



Security experts’ common sins

By fiLi • Jul 6th, 2006 • Category: Thoughts

In reference to Omer Taran’s 10 most common security experts’ sins, here’s my humble addition to that list. I’m doing a very bad generalization rule of some security experts that I’ve met throughout my IT years, and referring to security experts as "them", I hope they’ll forgive me:

No collaboration - Security experts seem to like […]