Filed Under: Wordpress with 0 Comments
Hey Wordpress! Great job on 2.7, especially on listening to the needs of the blogging community, and I’m hoping you’ll also look out for that small but important community of WP users who use WordPress as a multi-blogger platform.
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What’s Important, What’s Not?
There’s a guy down my street who lives alone. One morning he woke up, checked his fridge and realised he was out of anything to eat, so he thought about getting out of his house, walking 5 minutes down to the market and getting food for himself.
But since it was early morning he was lazy, so he plopped down in front of his computer, and started going through his email and daily blog reading.
A couple of hours later, a low growling in his stomach reminded him of more pressing needs. He checked the time, and split between replying to someone’s comment on someone else’s blog and going out to get food, he decided to wait for lunch time instead.
Filed Under: Promotion with 2 Comments
This is a brief template for promoting your website using social media using strategies from my personal experience and from those veterans who average 2-3 front-page Diggs every week.
If you have any questions, let me know in the comments section and I’ll update this page accordingly. Please keep in mind that this template outlines the process / steps; if you’re looking for an in-depth explanation of what the key concepts mean, mention this in the comments and I’ll cater for that as well in future articles.
How to get as many social media votes as you need for your linkbait promotion:
Filed Under: Blogging, Pakistan with 3 Comments
The Pakistani online community are a curious bunch. The IRC / forum / gaming vets stay underground, leading true double lives on and off line. The lone entrepreneurs plough on relentlessly, wondering when they will meet a fellow Pakistani entrepreneur while at the same time choosing to work instead of reaching out to other souls.
The idealists - every society has those but in Pakistan they take center stage - are vociferously vocal, active and prominent but not technical nor money making experts. And there are those who spend hours and hours on social media apps but balk at the thought of spending 30 minutes a day writing a blog.
The Lahore Bloggers Meetup (what, you didn’t know?) was an interesting experience - and now that I’m back home (don’t worry Lahore, I’ll be back soon), here are some takeaways:
Filed Under: Blogging, Thinking Out Loud with 1 Comment
Defining ‘blogging’ is like explaining ‘God’ (without the likelihood of ensuing bloodshed) - every blogger and non-blogger has their own idea of what ‘blogging’ is (and every believer, non-believer and fence-rider has their own idea of what ‘God’ is), and they’re all wrong about both.
When you can’t agree on what something is, it’s time to agree on what something isn’t. Here I sense that we will agree - God is not man (and therefore should not be anthropomorphised with human attributes) and blogging is NOT writing.
Filed Under: Work with 4 Comments
Ever since I started working online, I’ve had trouble answering a very simple question - what do you do?
In university it was easy - you could tell them you were studying computer science and while you never wanted to write code again in your life, people would have no problems in attaching a convenient label to you (computers in this case).
But after university, things got complicated. Saying ‘I write for a living’ was exotic but invariably followed by the question ‘but what is your real job?’ or ‘when are you going to get a real job’. Apparently earning twice as much as my fellow graduates while working half as much was considered cheating and without a future. Maybe it was, but what did I know?
Filed Under: Pakistan with 1 Comment
Thursday, 9 October 2008.
Another bomb went off in Islamabad today, this time hitting the Anti-Terrorism Wing in the Police Headquarters. Where was everyone? The other end of the city, providing security for a 2-day briefing session on Anti-Terrorism.
It would be a laughing matter if a bomb going off in Pakistan wasn’t such a common affair. Common enough that when the bomb went off this morning one of the primary sticking points wasn’t ‘who did it’ or why did this happen’, it was the size of the crater produced from the blast.
I was in a building roughly 500 meters away from the blast when it happened - but once we knew we were safe (windows shattered but the building was still standing) we peeked outside the window to see the smoke and in less than 2 minutes, we were back to work.
We’re not scared anymore.
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From another book I was browsing through today:
Filed Under: Thinking Out Loud with 0 Comments
From a book I’m reading:
Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows that it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed.
Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows that it must run faster than the slowest gazelle or it will starve.
It doesn’t matter whether you’re a lion or a gazelle; when the sun comes up, you had better start running.
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Mohammed Bello is 84 years old. He’s a maulvi. He has 86 wives, 170 children and lives in Bida, Nigeria.
Apparently his neighbours are a little upset with his lifestyle. They’ve painted it as a religious issue but surely the sociological and psychological aspects are far more fascinating? Anyone?
The Pakistani online community are a curious bunch. The IRC / forum / gaming vets stay underground, leading true double lives on and off line. The lone entrepreneurs plough on relentlessly, wondering when they will meet a fellow Pakistani entrepreneur while at the same time choosing to work instead of reaching out to other souls. [...]
Defining ‘blogging’ is like explaining ‘God’ (without the likelihood of ensuing bloodshed) - every blogger and non-blogger has their own idea of what ‘blogging’ is (and every believer, non-believer and fence-rider has their own idea of what ‘God’ is), and they’re all wrong about both.
When you can’t agree on what something is, it’s time to [...]
Ever since I started working online, I’ve had trouble answering a very simple question - what do you do?
In university it was easy - you could tell them you were studying computer science and while you never wanted to write code again in your life, people would have no problems in attaching a convenient label [...]