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Blog: subtle irony

Posted Feb.28, 2012 under random

ironyI’ve remembered one argument some bloggers have when they speak about me: he’s a nobody, meaning nobody ever heard about me, i have just a small audience that does not matter in the real world.

Partially true.  There are 5 to 7 million Romanians online every month on the internet and only 120.000 visited my blog. Small, very small.

But…and this is where i started laughing, if the top blogger has 120K/month and is you say he is a nobody, what are you, having only 1% of his traffic as a blogger?

There is an old saying talking about how, if you let a man speak long enough, he will make a fool of himself. True.

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Small leagal battle

Posted Feb.27, 2012 under random

I’ve started a small legal battle with one of my former Teacher Assistants. The person published in a book a bunch of personal opinions about me (i use profanity, i have no traffic and other stuff i have heard before) assorted with some untrue facts. I am all for personal opinion, even thought some times people write stupid things on puropose, just to get a reaction or to piss me off (it’s hard being top blogger). My legal notice was pretty clear, it questioned the facts, not the opinions of the author. He is now screaming censorship and poses as a victim of the mighty me. And responded to my lawyer’s notice with the same attitude, trying to overlook the problem.

No more.

It’s not ok to knowingly publish untrue facts, just to smear people’s reputation.

 

sopranos-happy

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Facebook: Meta description = og:description

Posted Feb.22, 2012 under random

I like to do things manually on my blogs and use as little plugins i can. If i can use a plugin for two things it’s great. A good example is Auto feature Image plugin i am using for display on the front page of my blog, rss thumbnail and Facebook thumbnail (details here).

Here is how you can use your seo plugin, whatever it is, to set an og:descrption, for better looking posts on Facebook timeline. So, look for meta name=”description” in your plugin and add property="og:description" after it.

In Yoast SEO plugin it’s easy:

echo ‘<meta name="description" content="’.esc_attr( strip_tags( stripslashes( $metadesc ) ) ).’"/>’."\n";

echo ‘<meta name="description" property="og:description" content="’.esc_attr( strip_tags( stripslashes( $metadesc ) ) ).’"/>’."\n";

The result is this: my post has a short description, the other one does not.

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Mad temptation

Posted Feb.17, 2012 under random

I’ve been involved in the Romanian Internet for over 6 years and during this time I’ve accumulated a lot of information. The least of my favorite part is the personal gossip. People fail to understand that a blogger writing about business decisions is not interested about who is leaving his wife for the secretary and who is sleeping with who in order to gain him as a client. Yes, i understand that sometimes decisions are made based on that, but i find it very low to publish such things.

 

mischa

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How to save face when all is lost

Posted Feb.11, 2012 under random

blue_moonSome of the people I know had misfortunes in the last couple of years: divorce, bankruptcy, company shrinkage, other disappointments. Others  were just fed up with trying to stay in a corrupt and mediocre industry. They choose the safe ground of a job i can’t blame them. I can, whoever, judge what company they decided it was best for them. When someone chooses a company that represents all that is wrong with the industry he was so disgusted with, he signals he is desperate and he gave up the fight for good in exchange for money. He doesn’t want to save face. The problem appears when he continues to feel disappointed about the industry, now being part of the problem.

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