The iPad: a great tool for bloggers

Wednesday, April 7th, 2010

I’m not too much of an Apple fan. To me: Apple products, with their streamline engineering and dumbified interfaces, have become somewhat of a cliche. Kind of like the Mustangs of the automobile industry. The  2010 Mustang might be a kick-ass car but seeing it on the road after every 40 cars just leaves a bad impression.

However, if the 2011 Ford Mustang fits my specific needs as a driver, I might actually consider buying one. Likewise, if Apple created a product that fits my specific needs as a blogger, I might consider buying it.

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What to do when you don’t know what to blog about

Saturday, February 27th, 2010

A very insightful post was written today by Darren Rowse (if you are new to the world of blogging, I suggest you Google him) that deals with the subject of blogging when you can’t blog no more.

All writers (bloggers included) deal with writer’s block. The truth is — even if you do have a lot to say you don’t always know exactly what it is you want to say, how to say it and where to start.

When I started my first blog ages age, writing one post per week was highly prolific for me. But as you can see from this blog, I now typically write one post per day. Oddly, writing 500-800 words per day for this blog (on top of writing for my personal blog, for class assignments and the university newspaper) doesn’t hassle me or cause me any distress. I simply sit down at the computer, search through a list of topics, pick one and start writing.

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Random Topic Generator | Blog Topic Generator

Friday, February 12th, 2010

Who wouldn’t need a random topic generator to help come up with ideas for a blog post/term paper/dissertation/marriage vow? That’s why I created this nifty little topic generator that uses JavaScript, AJAX, MySQL and PHP to give you random topics at the click of a button.

Enjoy. And be sure to leave a comment if you found the topic generator useful or if you think it is an absurd waste of space on this blog (or the www for that matter).

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