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Bending the Web: Become Popular in 2 Months

By robojiannis 278 days ago from http://superbloggingtips.com

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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Tags: blogging social networks attention economy research science social web


Games that teach you to blog

By robojiannis 289 days ago from http://changemod.com

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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Tags: blogging cyberspace collective intelligence community game theory participation


Achieving true privacy

By robojiannis 291 days ago from http://changemod.com

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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Tags: internet privacy security web


How to protect your privacy online

By robojiannis 297 days ago from http://changemod.com

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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Tags: privacy internet security protection safety


Why is Kaioo better than Facebook

By robojiannis 312 days ago from http://changemod.com

Several blog posts lately have argued that Facebook is loosing its prestige. It is completely cluttered with useless applications, it encourages a commercial view of social networking. Although it made a good-will step towards data portability, it still considers itself owner of your network.rnKaioo is a non-commercial alternative, where ch

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Tags: facebook social network kaioo community


I *heart* Last.fm; redesigning the music industry

By robojiannis 303 days ago from http://changemod.com

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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Tags: mp3 music last.fm social networks music labels free music


15+ essential plugins for wordpress usability and minimalism

By robojiannis 302 days ago from http://changemod.com

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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Tags: blogging google seo plugins wordpress usability minimalism promote tagging technorati


Are you the creator of your content?

By robojiannis 304 days ago from http://changemod.com

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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Tags: blogging blogs social networks bloggingzoom digg authorship user generated


Open source: the new monopoly?

By robojiannis 309 days ago from http://changemod.com

Alex Iskold wrote the other day, that free software and the openness of the web may not be such a good thing after all.
It encourages the monopoly of large corporations, it can become a problem to traditional economics and it nourishes a generation, which wants all services for free.
Is it really so? Is openness an obstacle to the evolution

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Tags: open source internet free software


3 sad facts about web content (+ a happy challenge)

By robojiannis 305 days ago from http://changemod.com

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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Tags: blogging writing authorship meme content traffic structure


5 reasons why probloggers remain probloggers

By robojiannis 308 days ago from http://changemod.com

I'm subscribed in almost 100 sites, following their daily report. In most cases I enjoy the content they provide. But sometimes I notice blogs - actually problogs - which publish bad quality posts in a really user-unfriendly design.
But they remain on top. Their loyal subscribers (sometimes thousands) remain and their ranks constantly go u

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Tags: blogging blogs problog probloggers google technorati ranking attention linking rss


How to get quality out of StumbleUpon

By robojiannis 309 days ago from http://changemod.com

There are many social sites, which are promoting user content. But from all of them, it is sometimes hard to choose in which one to participate. The question that emerges is: what kind of readers do you want? Quality readers who provide feedback and submit comments, or quantities of readers who are just lurkers?rnThis post on StumbleUpon a

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Tags: blogs stumbleupon social networks traffic


3 simple (and certain) ways to increase your blog traffic

By robojiannis 311 days ago from http://changemod.com

many, oh so many guides have been written to increase blog traffic. There are actually so many out there, that it makes the whole process seem difficult and complicated.
Well, it isn't. It might require hard work, time, creativity (and a bit of luck), but it isn't difficult.
These three points, might not be that extensive but provide food

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Tags: blogging attention community traffic


Banning students from using the web

By robojiannis 312 days ago from http://changemod.com

If anyone has been a student during the digital age, he/she will know, that using wikipedia as an essay source is a tabu in the academical circles. But the decision of a lecturer to ban her students from using online services, has raised some interesting issues: Should students be allowed to use wikipedia and google in their university essays

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Tags: school university research books study wikipedia google knol