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I’m moving aquariumdrinker from a hosting service/wordpress installation to a wordpress.com environment. I’m going to maintain the aquariumdrinker.com URL of course, so I’m just doing a bit of juggling.

I’ll also be changing the focus of the blog away from an “anything-and-everything-I-find-on-the-internet” affair to a place for more long-form essays and fiction. I hope to write something substantial for this blog once a week.

That’s not to say that I won’t be finding anything and everything on the internet. It’s just that I’ll now be posting them exclusively over on posterous.

That’s right, folks. I took the plunge and am now hosting my own WordPress.org blog. This blog will remain available so as to not break any links you might have; however, it will no longer be updated.

For my pearls of wisdom, you’ll need to visit me at aprilhayman.com.

P.S. Make sure to update your RSS feeds too!

The time for my long-awaited and much anticipated change to WordPress.org, the self-hosted version of WordPress, has come. I figure there is no better time than when sequestered by the Bodega Plague. I have no idea what I’m doing. I am already flummoxed at step one.

duck!

Bear with me as I make this enormous step and please keep coming back, no matter what formatting horror you may find here.

Thanks for sticking it out!

The image is from Reasonable and senseless: the technical disaster by Donna Szoke. Excellent piece. Go read it.

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Technology was suppose to save us time!  And that is true for many processes we encounter every day – crunching numbers, finding directory information, researching, word processing, taking pictures and sharing them, etc., technology has made life much easier.

But . . . . go outside the main stream services and products just a little and . . . . BANG!  . . . . your time disappears into a black hole of technological marvels all telling you what each widget can do.  Great! 

Lots of great programmers coming up with lots of new tools.  What they don’t tell you, are the glitches with applying each one.  You have to go here and you have to go there and you have to ask this person and that other support person and then you have to ask more questions (because they know their stuff but you don’t know what they know) - the time consumption is horrendous!  And, of course, you find out in articles that if you happen to pick the wrong basic thing and combine it with another wrong basic thing, you’ll have to start all over again!!! 

The industry is so segmented and each component is so specialized, there’s no one out there thinking through the business aspects and linking everything.  – oh – correction – there could be – but another chunk of hours trying to find them because you’re likely not using the right terminology! . . . .I could be asking for an orange but I was suppose to ask for a navel orange . . . !!!!

Yes, it’s okay to have specializations – it’s necessary – the same as a mall – you have a clothing store, a shoe store, a drug store, a grocery store but they are all linked into one common thread – shopping and there’s a path from store to store.  Stores display their wares – warts and all – and store people help you figure out if something is right or wrong for you.

For instance, someone told me to start a blog on WordPress so I did and I have found it to be a very interesting process.  Because I’m learning, I have been doing a lot of research and am now starting to understand how I turn blogging into an on-line business. 

So, I think up an idea, I want to try it only to find out that I cannot do that on .com but I need to go now to .org of the same name company - huh????  For non-techie’s, this simply doesn’t make any sense whatsoever.  Why not just simply include it in upgrades and make it seamless for the consumer.

So now I have to figure out the difference between the two, find a web host, download .org software, and I’m on my own for all kinds of things like controlling spam.   Makes no sense at all to me.

If I were the company, I’d make it possible to add on some widgets on the sidebar the same as Blogger does – I don’t have to go to Blogger.org to do it – and I still get all the same coverage as just the regular old Blogger – simple – easy! 

I have spent hours now talking to AWebber who are so terrific in explaning technology easily and making their services so user friendly, it’s incredible!  If all online services studied AWebber about how to explain their to services to clients and how to make their product easy to use as well as how to use their product with other products, then all of this process would be simple.  AWebber know their stuff and are willing to help – they know they are the technology experts and the people using their services are often not nor do clients have the time to “figure it all out”.

So, the moral of the story – technology can chew up time like there is no tomorrow.  If you are entering into a new part of the technology world, expect to spend a huge amount of time sorting what’s what and practically becoming a techie yourself. 

It’s like this – getting into new technology is like buying a car in parts – you have to research and pick your own body, engine, drive shaft, transmission, ignition, etc  and understand what each part does, figure out if they are compatible and then you have to put it together yourself, do the mechanical repairs yourself and monitor your car with all kinds of gadgets to make sure it’s all working properly!  Oh, yes, and you’d have to know little tricks too like adding the transmission fluid – if you didn’t know these tiny little facts that likely no parts person would tell you, your transmission won’t work!  If anyone had to buy a car this way, there would be few people buying cars – in fact, the car industry would likely never sold a one!

They say, well, there are techies who can help you.  Ah . . . . but . . . . that’s a whole other story altogether – which one?  for what purpose?  Unlike a car, there is no car mechanic who knows all the systems, how they are all work together and how to fix problems.  No, in technology, even for a small thing like a small website, you need a designer, a graphic designer, a SEO expert,  and the list goes on for just a simple website.

  Yes, you say, well get one already made.  Really?  Then, you have to figure out if the the company which is offering these “ready mades” will stay in business, are they reputable, do they offer large enough bandwidth, the amount of downtime they experience or not and the list goes on and on and on and on.  And, when you do arrive at the be all and end all of prefab websites, then you have to figure out all the plugins, shopping cards, merchant accounts, entering new products, creating new descriptions, uploading pictures (& hosting picture), and, there again, the list goes on and on and on.  See a Yahoo store – so popular today and some of the best prefabs you can get  - but it takes 1Choice 4 You – a whole company – to help you put it together properly so it all works as well as possible!  Great looking stores – prefab – but, again, it chews up time like mad!  Yes, it’s true – you can go to forums and blogs and get help – guess what???  More time is chewed up finding the good forums/blogs/etc. . . . .

And that time doesn’t include all the other things you need to do in order to give it your best shot at creating a viable business – business plans, product sourcing, capitalization, newsletters, customer service, etc. etc. etc. 

You say, well, if you had a brick and mortar store, you’d have to do leasehold improvements too – maybe – and once done, it was done – not so with websites – you continually have to work on them and keep them fresh.  Then you have to be connected to Twitter, Facebook, LindedIn – then you have webcasts, podcasts, webinars, etc.  And you have to intergrate all the old fashioned stuff too into your business plan - and both kinds – traditional paper and untraditional online advertising and promotion!

We are so connected to the internet now and the industry is still so “unconnected”, the challenges for the average person are overwhelming not to mention trying to understand lingo and instructions that don’t work because they missed a few steps that “you, the customer, should have known”. 

Lots of great people in the industry – great online help in some cases – but if they only could sit where I sit and so many other people are sitting, they would be amazed at the maze created by the internet and technology.  It’s no wonder that many people just sparingly use the internet for find a phone number or get an answer to a question but to actually use the internet in any other way for most people is very, very difficult and time consuming.

For instance, if my blogging software company just made a “mall” type service as its business, it could be making a lot of money.  A person shouldn’t have to know from the beginning that there are 2 different categories of  – .com and .org and that each allow the user to do different things.  Make it one company – one thing - then offer people options as people who choose to grow with the software can take advantage of. 

Yes, the Support at has been terrific in answering questions but after 3 days I still have no idea what the transfer will take in order to do what I want to do.  It should be seamless – what I want to do is so simple, it should be seamless and should really take no more than a few clicks to accomplish – it’s just a matter of adding an opt in box onto my blog – simple.  Over 3 days of trying to get that done and I’m still nowhere!  All I wanted was to put an opt in box on my blog from AWebber!  That’s all – and all of this for just that!

So . . . small business people . . . be prepared for a long haul or throw money at it – and, then, again, you’ll have to make sure the money goes to the right people to do right things for what you want – in addition to just regular ‘getting into business’ processes.  Prepare for one heck of a journey!

Por fin me he puesto a trastear con mi dominio y sus subdominios, esos grandes desconocidos, y voy  crear este blog con wordpress.org.

Hasta entonces y para no tener el contenido por triplicado, voy a borrar las entradas aquí y poner el enlace del que está funcionando actualmente:

http://copytaste.blogspot.com/

Me ha dado pena borrar este dominio, así que lo mantendré con un único post, que será este. Hasta que tenga todo listo.

Bonjour,

je suis toujours “sous” wordpress, mais wordpress.org :
j’ai pris mon propre espace et

je vous prie de bien vouloir cliquer sur ce lien
afin d’accéder à mon blog et à son contenu!

http://www.aglioecipolla.com

Aux internautes qui m’ont lié chez eux (et que je remercie),
je demande de bien voulir vérifier que leur lien dirigeant vers mes articles est bien
http://www.aglioecipolla.com
et  non pas http://aglioecipolla.wordpress.com !
Grazie 1000 d’avance !

Amicalement
vV / AeC

Written by Jonas Klit Nieslen

Sometimes it’s just time to pick up your things and move on. But not to worry; we haven’t moved far away.

We’ve decided to relocate our blog to our main site which means that we are moving from using wordpress.com to using wordpress.org – if you’ve ever wondered what the difference between the two are, you can read about it here.

Looking forward to see you at Mindjumpers.com.

I find this page inspiring:

http://www.mozilla.org/contribute/

I’m back!  I think I have the site visible now. I’ve taken the redirect off of this blog for now. I’m only going to be updating on the new site. To visit me, please go to

www.calliopespen.com  and update your readers or links (totally optional, of course

I still have some work to do, but I’m having fun playing around with a gra-ooovy new theme. Pop  in!!

Disukai atau tidak, jika Anda memiliki blog wordpress.org baru, maka Anda harus menginstal beberapa plugin untuk memaksimalkan kinerja blog.Walaupun sangat mudah diinstal, penggunaan plugin ini tentunya harus disesuaikan dengan kebutuhan agar tidak memberatkan waktu loading dan tidak menimbulkan masalah terhadap hosting. Dari pengalaman saya mensetting beberapa blog baru, saya berpendapat 10 plugin berikut layak diinstal di blog wordpress baru. Tentunya ini bukan jumlah minimal karena sewaktu-waktu bisa ditambah bila Anda memerlukan fitur lain sesuai kebutuhan blog Anda.

1. Akismet

Plugin ini berfungsi sebagai anti-spam. Dengan kata lain, plugin ini akan membantu Anda dalam menangkap komentar-komentar yang dianggap spam.

2. All in One SEO Pack

Plugin yang membantu mengoptimasi blog untuk mesin pencari. Plugin ini memberi kemudahan dalam menset up tittle tags, deskripsi, kata kunci (untuk home page dan juga postingan) dan fitur lainnya yang memiliki dampak terhadap SEO. Bila Anda ingin mengatahui penggunaan plugin ini.

3. Google XML Sitemaps

Plugin ini berfungsi membuat sitemaps blog sehingga membantu Google dan mesin pencari lain dalam menemukan setiap halaman dan postingan. Dengan demikian, blog baru akan cepat terindeks.

4. WordPress.com Stats

Plugin ini menyajikan update statistik blog secara cepat berupa situs pengarah, halaman yang dilihat, kata kunci dari mesin pencari, dan klik keluar blog.

5. WordPress Related Posts

Plugin ini menghasilkan postingan terkait berdasarkan keterkaitan tag yang dibuat.

6. WP-Cache

Plugin ini mengoptimalkan akses bila tiba-tiba blog mendapatkan ribuan trafik dari situs media sosial (Digg, StumbleUpon, Lintas Berita, dan lain-lain)

7. WordPress Tread Comments

Plugin ini meningkatkan fungsi komentar karena pemilik blog atau pengunjung lain bisa membalas komentar yang sudah ada terlebih dahulu.

8. CommentLuv

Plugin ini menampilkan postingan terbaru dari komentator. Selain mendorong pembaca untuk berkomentar, plugin ini membantu komentator mempromosikan postingan terbarunya.

9. Top Commentators Widget

Plugin ini menampilkan siapa komentator terbanyak yang bisa disetting berdasarkan mingguan, bulanan, atau tahunan.

10. WordPress Database Backup

Pugin ini membuat backup database blog secara otomatis dan reguler. Sangat baik digunakan untuk memastikan Anda tidak kehilangan database blog bilamana blog Anda mengalami masalah.

WordPress has the potential to put Wedding and Funeral Webcating Companies out of business. It is also true of online obituary companies..

Special thanks to wordpress.com for making video easy on their blog. It is now possible to webcast funerals and weddings on the wordpress.com blog network. The free blogs are quite useful for posting videos of funerals and weddings.

These blogs are also useful for a family to post obituaries as well. Comments can be used as condolences or a funeral guestbook.

You do not have to use the services advertised on the web For “WebCasting Funerals.”  Set up a wordpress.org blog. or a wordpress.com blog. You will  have funeral webcasting. It will not be live but right after the funeral but very inexpensive.

To some this is a  surprise. The  family can replay their own video at the  blogs mentioned above with minimal cost and minimal effort. It is kind of an internet virtual memorial. It can go on  in almost virtual  perpetuity. All that is needed is a Video Camera.

Funeral Industry| Funeral Blog

To be fair this can be done on typepad and blogspot (google) blogs as well. This could pose a dismal future for funeral one.com anf funeral recording .com

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