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Mr. Akismet filtered my trackback, to my own post .. hehe.. hmm.. my BlogWalking Pilot Episode seems to be the first, and the last …

Hardono Arifanto :: Apr.09.2008 :: Blogging, Internet :: No Comments »

Blogwalking is the easiest way to create a post You don’t really need to think, you just need to randomly visit any blogs, then write down whatever you think about that blog, or what is interesting thing that’s happening in that blog.

So here’s my plan, every week I will visit 5 blogs that are listed either in MyBlogLog or BlogCatalog. So here they are:

1. Above Popular by Mark. The blog has no specific theme, but given his job as an IT Administrator, his posts are very much related to computers (new hardware, digital media). Although he didn’t post anything new since Sept 2007, he left two posts that I found really intriguing. A YouTube video about a 2 years-old girl which has better skill to locate countries in a map than to pronounce their name. And another one is a well-thought article about the death of Hip hop music.
2. A Not So Desperate Housewife by Rebecca. Rebecca is a wife to Shawn, an US Army Soldier. Her blog chronicled her life as a mother of two beautiful children, Michael and Lydia. Although she’s a self-confessed not-so-environmentalist, but she is doing her best to go green but practical in the same time.
3. aiAlex by Alex. This beautiful silverish blog is about Web 2.0, Technology, and Blogosphere. I found many interesting articles here. A few of them are: 7 Easy Ways to Inspire Creativity, Need I Say More and The Formula for Designing a Successful Website, Simple to Understand and Execute
4. 1/2 an Hour Later by Dave Heffernan. Although the topics in his blog quite varies, Dave can teach one or two things about getting fit. Great articles like Lose those Manboobs (looking at my Flatmate :P) and Keeping Motivated to Do Work Out will certainly beneficial to those who want to get fit and burn away the fats.
5. Adapt, Adopt, and Improve by Anon. A Mus. From the way he picked his Blogspot profile name, I can sense that this fellow has a good sense of humor. I specially like his take mild-sarcastic but definitely amusing story of attending a Wedding ceremony. You can even see him doing some funny sketches. Well dude, whoever your name are, your blog definitely worth visiting again and again

That’s all folks! If next weekend I really have nothing to do and specially… specially when I’m dry on ideas… you’ll see again another episode of BlogWalking.

Hardono Arifanto :: Jan.12.2008 :: Blogging :: 3 Comments »

Once in a while, I log in to MyBlogLog (It’s the social network site for bloggers). In my profile, I put “Sticks and stones love, I saved your life and you saved mine, we’re square” … oops .. … I mean “If you add me, I will add you”, or something like that …

After quite sometime my list of contacts grows until 299. I have around 5 people that have added me to their contact, but MyBlogLog didn’t allow me to return the favour by adding them into my contact. I forgot when exactly this thing happened, maybe roughly 2-3 months ago? After trying for 1 or two days, I stopped trying.

So today I login again to MyBlogLog and found there are 35 people who have added me. Without any intention or expectation, I clicked the add to contact button.. Whoa.. I can now add more people into my contact list. Since when did this happen?

To all MyBlogLog-gers, I offer you my humble apology for not keeping my word of adding you into my contact list. I will definitely return the favour.

Hardono Arifanto :: Aug.29.2007 :: Blogging, Internet :: No Comments »

A few days back, a trackback was caught and held as a prisoner by Akismet. Since this is the first time I saw a trackback caught by Akismet, I spent a few minutes visiting the blog that sent the trackback.

Apparently the blog is indeed a splog. Basically it just grabbed the first 100s words from the blog post and published it there. A link to the original article also added at the end of the post. Quickly I judged the comment as a trackback from splog which the punishment is damnation to nothingness a.k.a. deletion. But after I clicked the Delete button, I pondered whether I judged fairly or not.

When I looked that blog for the second time, that blog actually never steal any content. It grabbed some words from the post, the post writer name also mentioned there, as well as the originated blog. It looks more like a blog aggregator than a splog.

To think of it, if we stripped out the commenting and digging/burying from Digg and replaced the user submitted summary into machine generated one, I think Digg will not stand out that far from the splog that sent me a trackback.

So does this mean we can make a splog, add few widgets, maybe build a mini community, and finally ‘legally’ called it a blog aggregator?

Hardono Arifanto :: Jul.18.2007 :: Blogging, Internet :: No Comments »

Before you imagining any physical disease that affect your body, I am actually talking about a mental-disease disease that will make your blog posting frequency reduced, then reduced more, and finally became non-existent. Of course you can argue that breaking both of your arms will make blogging out of the equation. But in case you did broke both your arms, I just hope for your quick recovery. If I may suggest, your experience during your recovery should become a valuable experience that can be shared with your future blog readers.

The disease that I want to talk is the disease of fear. Fearing that everybody already know what you are going to write. Occasionally, I did experience the same thing. This fear did prevent me writing what I have in mind.

There was a time when I was in the mood of writing about something. Then I researched about the subject through Google. The sheer amounts of article written about the subject immediately discouraged me. “Why should I waste my time. There are so many similar articles in the Net. I fear that my article will become one of those junks found in the Internet”.

Until eZineArticles send me this article. It really helped me to battle the fear and start writing.

Now every time I have this kind of fear, I just tell to myself that as long as I put my best effort, well researched it, and being personal, whatever I write will have a unique touch.

So if you occasionally infected by this disease, read the the article above. Hopefully it will help you like it helped me.

Hardono Arifanto :: Jul.16.2007 :: Blogging :: No Comments »