there are several ways to become popular in the blogosphere. Apart from the obvious, well known ways, there are some more subtle methods to attract more visitors to your blog.
This post explains why avatars can play such a fundamental role in your position in the blogosphere and how you can choose the perfect avatar.
Example

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From new technologies emerge new restrictions. Before the Gutenberg era, there was no such thing as copyright. The mechanical reproduction increased the sense of intellectual protection.
Now in the web era, copyright restrictions seem obsolete and Creative Commons evolved.
Although, I find Creative Commons a great service,

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What if Google were CIA? or Microsoft? Would we react similarly to their projects as we do now?
Their relatively new project "Google Street View" is playing with the concepts of privacy, security, control and surveillance.
Most of us dislike it when we see thousands of CCTV cameras all over the streets, but we don't react

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A two month research on a brand new blog. Based on an extensive theoretical model this research shows how to drive attention to your blog - and your social persona in general.
The article is full of statistical proof, showing the increase in pageviews, unique visitors and subscribers.
It also analyzes what decisions brought

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The web waits patiently its evolution. We have all heard of the semantic web and its revolutionary vision for interaction between humans and machines. But that's not the only vision being prepared: The Web of Data hopes to succeed interaction between cyberspace and real, physical life and Scoble talked about a new Microsoft so

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Playing, studying and decoding two very simple games can teach us how to blog, surf and interact online. The rules of these games seem to follow a  universal pattern, which applies in every society and organism.

They are games developed in the field of experimental economics and if we all look a little bit closer,

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A conference in the annual exhibition "Transmediale" in Berlin brought up some very interesting issues about online privacy: Fistly, the definition of privacy was discussed. We all take the term and its connotations for granted, but it surely isn't so. Secondly the subject of true, absolute privacy. How can it be ach

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Some days ago, the World Economic Forum ended its discussion about the future of the world. The question "what to do to change the world?" was answered by many economical and political leaders. In fact not only leaders had the opportunity to participate in the discussion, but literally everybody. The davos channel

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Couple of days ago was the International Privacy Day. Although studies have shown, that people are getting more concerned about their privacy online, they also sometimes don't know what to do about it.

In this post the major privacy harms are expressed along with 6 simple ways to increase your privacy online. From enc

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Self-organized networks foster a tactic of diversity and independence. They give users the tools to create content, promote material and discuss topics. Such networks (like digg, stumbleupon, bloggingzoom, etc) do not interfere with the user interaction.
They practice a form of indirect control (blocking spam, improper behavio

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There are so many wordpress plugins out there, it is very easy to get lost and crazy. Actually, there is a plugin for everything (even battlestar galactica!).
But having many plugins slows down the performance of your blog and it just clutters it with visuals, which distract the reader from the content.
This is a list of the

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This one just hit the news and it really made me jump off my desk! Last.fm is enabling full length music streaming. It cooperates with major music labels (EMI, Sony, Universal, Warner) to promote artists and music in general. The business model is pretty simple and it doesnt involve last.fm printing its own money (unfortunately

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Did you get yesterdays hot discussion? Allen Stern (centernetworks) said that digg is not a user generated site. that it just links to user generated content. So it is an aggregator.
Josh Catone (ReadWriteWeb), thinks it is a UGC site, just not that traditional as say wikipedia.
The same principle applies for bloggingzoom an

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There are many ways to improve the traffic of your blog, but in the end it always comes down to quality content. But quality content implies only the body of the text; how it is formulated, expressed, written.rnWhat most of us usually forget to take into consideration is, that the structure of the content is also a fundamental key of the co

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This is a list of static and interactive tools, which will reveal how the town called social web work. The static tools are mostly visuals of well-known social networks. The interactive tools are free software, which will let you study your own social networks.
Purpose of this list is to provide the instruments to help you decode the social

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