Posts Tagged ‘Thoughts’

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 [...]



Techies - Problem solving and searching discussed

By fiLi • Mar 30th, 2006 • Category: Thoughts

“You’ve been preaching for us to do all sorts of nasty to our computers, like telling us to disable the Automatic Updates service for our machine to run faster with your “tweaking post” and then write us about using Firefox that doesn’t even work well with the Windows Update site. See? we have to use [...]