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Flight of the Concords will be the next HBO Series that I watch… as long as it doesn’t get too boring… The Sopranos ended and now Sunday nights will have to be glorified with the Concords. Cheers!

Business Time

Albi (racist dragon)

via: YouTube

via Sarah Shuster

Gracias al licenciado Harold Martinez por la vaina de Obvious Diversion Image Toy… a few of my own modifications in the CSS file and we’re good to go…

Which reminds me… I have to continue modifying the submit page on the Remolacha Beta page… People have forgotten all about it… including myself… I just don’t think that we are ready to contribute on the level we have to if in fact it is the way to go with sharing news about our culture… to many things to do before it is published… Vamos a ver que pasa… I’ll finish working on it and then take it from there.

Hasta que punto de esclavitud trabajarian ustedes por ganar $100k en su trabajos?

Que dejarian de hacer?
Que horario quisieran llevar?
Que tipo de trabajo llevarian?
Que estilo de vida llevarian?

-yes i know… it’s a taboo subject…

It’s that time for me to reorganize myself and focus on what it is I need to get done… For starters I’ll be refreshing myself with Calc, Physics, and my EE formulas… I can’t live without them and they are slowly fading away… Maybe I’ll post a few of my own lessons every two days on the blog… or maybe not… This will definately keep my mind distracted Monday thru Friday for the time being. I remember I used to take up to 5 pages of notes during calc class. I wrote tiny little numbers and script writing in quad ruled notebooks. Those notes were a total of an hour and a half of lecture. For physics, maybe three pages per class. For my EE classes, it didn’t matter what the topic was about… up to 10 pages and if we were lucky we got hand outs from the proffessor.

My first lesson will be… Intergrals… you can’t go wrong with them because they are the easiest equations to solve unless you have the wrong (+) or (-) sign in the wrong spot. Your basically evaulating an equation from point A to point B.

Upper Limit – Lower Limit

OK… lessons over… Everyone can go home and practice now…

via El Blogazo | Blog Pocket | Hetemeel

You say hello to each other, and you go on with your lives as if you have nothing in common… But thats not the case… You’ve walked seperate paths in your lives and perhaps that has been the reason why you share so little in common. And you still wonder what happen to the days when you would fight over petty things like the telephone or even the Boston Red Sox baseball hat that you now hate with a passion since you’re a Yankee fan. Do you remember how you got in big trouble for that? What would you do to have those days back?

Have I told you lately that I miss you too… I’d like to talk about my dogs really… That talking to you on a day to day basis is therapeutic for my well being. My dogs’ names are… I’d like to get “philosophical” but that would just make it deeper and harder to understand. Why do you want to know my dogs’ names for? I should be honest and say that this time around I’m just about ready to commit to something I’ve never experienced before… So back to my dogs… The feeling and thought of having to commit has not been in my nature for quite some time. How well trained are your dogs? The feeling and thought of having you there but not being able to see you or touch you is going to be one of those things that we have no control over. My dogs poop all over the place but only in the winter time and that’s only because they hate the cold weather. And the day that we do get together is going to be really special. But my dogs are always together, they like to smell each others butts! One thing I won’t be able to say is good bye. Dogs don’t talk… I almost always say, “I’ll see you later” because it makes it that much easier in my “despedida”. My dogs also sleep in the same cage… To know that I’ll be back to conquer your heart with the same sarcastic and loving emotions running through both of us.

Some people consider this bad blogging… or simply a bunch of … Others just don’t talk about thier personal lives on thier blogs… which is cool as well… I have no problem talking (in this case writing) about my personal life… after all, who else is going to listen to me at 5 in the morning… I’ve said it before and i’ll say it again… Blogging is therapeutic!

Termino de instalar el primer plug-in para la pagina Admin del CMS: Word Press. Ademas de ser XHTML valido y facil de instalar… aparentemente es muy popular. WP Tiger Administration es compartible con los browsers Safari y Firefox.

Chekerau: Polaroid-o-nizer toma cualquier imagen que tengas publicada en una URL y la convierte en una «Polaroid» a la vieja usanza. Puedes indicar el ángulo, el color del fondo, añadir un texto…[Mas...]

Vayan y Hagan su propria Polaroid-o-nizer para su Blogs!

Tambien se puede instalar el plug-in para el CMS: Word Press. ¿Como hacerlo?

Bueno… ahora se jodio la vaina. Este es el nuevo diseño del blog estilo Blogs Dominicanos usando el CMS: Word Press. Los blogs de “Noticias” y “Entrevistas” de Blogs Dominicanos usan el CMS: Movable Type. Todavía me falta el side bar y unas cositas mas… pero por ahora vamos a lanzar el nuevo look ya que hay unas cuantas personas preguntando que le pasa al blog…

Gracias a José por el tremendo trabajo con el CSS de Blogs Dominicanos… de cual yo modifique para poder ver lo que ustedes estan viendo ahora.

Me tope con este articulo sobre los Blogs…

Weblogs
En un trabajo alterno presentado por el Pew Internet, se evaluó el tremendo impacto de los Weblogs en el 2004. Según el estudio elaborado en USA, al iniciar el 2005 aproximadamente 8 millones de cibernautas cuentan con su propia Blog.

El siete por ciento de los usuarios de Norteamérica tiene su propia página Web, un 2 por ciento más que al inicio del 2004. Pero el crecimiento no para en la oferta, ya que la demanda que disfrutan estos espacios es digna de atención.

Se estima que alrededor de 32 millones de estadounidenses visitan diariamente al menos una página blog, lo que equivale al 27 por ciento del total de usuarios en aquel país.

Eso no es todo, ya que a pesar del boom de este servicio en el 2004, alrededor del 62 por ciento de los navegantes en Estados Unidos desconoce qué es una Blog.

Impacto
Tomando como base estas cifras, las Blogs tendrán un fuerte impacto en las proyecciones a futuro en el ámbito editorial de Internet.

a) Los Blogs provocarán una transformación en el manejo de la información en la red, con base en el ejercicio de la libertad de expresión.

b) La proliferación de fuentes informativas por este medio provocará un debate respecto a normatividad en el manejo y contenido de las noticias.

c) Mediante los mecanismos de regulación, se tratará de eliminar las notas falsas, dando privilegio a las noticias con sustento.

Articulo de Diario Horizonte

Two days left till Blogs Dominicanos is launched!!! I am hopefull that it will attract more Dominican Bloggers, Readers, and Enthusiasts into what has been growing at a steady rate over the last few years…

Here are some articles on the history of Web Logs…

2/23/00: Wired. “Thanks to new easy-to-use software, the number of weblogs on the Net seems to be growing at an unprecedented rate.”

8/2/99: New York Times. “Summaries of news predate the Internet, of course. But in the digital era, when virtually anyone with Net access can operate an electronic clipping service, the genre has spawned thousands of news hounds — not to mention the news links on big portal sites like Yahoo and Excite. Yet, largely through grass-roots, word-of-mouse popularity, sites like Romenesko’s are catching on with a discerning crowd — including reporters and editors of many news organizations, who rely on the sites to help filter the welter of information on the Web.”

5/28/99: Salon. “Weblogs, typically, are personal Web sites operated by individuals who compile chronological lists of links to stuff that interests them, interspersed with information, editorializing and personal asides. A good weblog is updated often, in a kind of real-time improvisation, with pointers to interesting events, pages, stories and happenings elsewhere on the Web. New stuff piles on top of the page; older stuff sinks to the bottom.”

Just the other day, I commented on RSS Feeds and using them to catch up on news etc… Tim Yang has added to the top 10 list of “Things You Can Do With RSS Feeds”…

1. Get the news as it happens from multiple news sources
An RSS feed reader is an aggregator of numerous feeds from news sources (and nearly every major paper and TV news network has RSS feeds today). But now there are even feeds that aggregate other feeds. The new RSSmixer.com lets you combine all the news source RSS feeds into one single feed so you get news as it happens.

2. Collect your email from all your email accounts in your RSS reader
Easily done with mailbucket.org. And each Gmail account has an RSS feed too. Or if you’re a user of Mailinator.com, then you’ll be glad there’s a similar service called dodgeit.com but with RSS feeds.

3.Track Fedex packages
Ben Hammersley says Just add your tracking number to the end of a special RSS feed address.

4.Get notified of bargains at Ebay
RSSauction.com lets you specify the type of product, its description and even the price range in their customised Ebay feeds.

5.Get stock updates
There have been various paid services and limited unpaid ticker services around. Tim Bray made a customisable feed. Yahoo is introducing its own RSS ticker service.

6.Get the weather reports
Weather Underground has the weather of every city and town in the world. And each of them now has an RSS feed.

7.Find out what people are saying about you, your company or your product online
Services like technorati.com and pubsub.com offer something that’s popularly called persistent search delivery. You type in a search term such as your name and or your company name or product name and they will return the newest indexed references to you in a customised RSS feed. Both services scan blogs. If you want persistent search delivery from a broader range of sites, you have Googlealert.com.

8.Get music, radio programs and TV clips
Now you have podcasts and archives like podcast.net that have everything from freely-distributed music to instructional programs, documentaries and news stories in mp3s. And increasingly, like Comedy Central’s Daily Show, broadcasters are finding it effective to promote and deliver their shows in RSS.

9.Stay updated on someone’s schedule
RSScalendar.com lets someone input new events and meetings on their schedule for free. And if you pick up the RSS feed for that schedule, you’re always up-to-date on what’s going on in that person’s day.

10.Get cinema schedule updates
Quietly getting popular, a movement led by small local cinemas like City Cinema, rather than big cinema networks. But the bigger cinemas are delivering updates via email and these can be converted into feeds by mailbucket.org.

11.Read your favourite comics
Many daily and weekly comic authors publish online and have an RSS feed. Dilbert of course has one. Best way to locate the feed is to type in the name of the comic into either Feedster.com or Bloglines.com (both are great RSS feed directories). And even if your favourite comic doesn’t have a feed on its website, a good comic will have someone somewhere creating an unofficial scraped feed. Comicalert.com has a large updated list of both official and unofficial RSS feed list of hundreds of comics.

12.Find out what other people surfing
I don’t mean spyware. A lot of people use online bookmarks which they make public. Places like del.icio.us, feedmarker.com, furl.net and the new wists.com are three such online bookmark services that create RSS feeds for each user.

13.Automatically backup your weblog posts
If your RSS feed is being picked up by an online feed reader service like Bloglines.com, they will store all your entries on their server. Unfortunately, they don’t have an export feature. But at least all your entries (if you have full entries in your RSS feed) are safe and dated.

14.Get software updates
Popular software downloads sites like Download.com and versiontracker.com let you keep up with all new releases via RSS. So you can also be alerted when your favourite softwares have a new version or when there are better releases.

15.Get the latest bittorrent files and ahem, p*rn
As they say, if its worth something, it’s worth more illegal. Bittorrent directory Torrentspy.com was the first to have an RSS feed that lets its users know what has just been uploaded. And the online p*rn industry, being always on the cutting edge of online business, was probably the first to take to blog CMSes and use them to generate traffic through RSS feeds. I’ll refrain from linking to one here, but it just takes a Google search to find several.

via: Tim Yang.com

Damn Yanks… 5 Runs in 2 1/3 innings leads to yet another loss against the Last Place Tampa Bay Devil Rays…

And I got bored so I added the theme switcher…

This question always pops up in my head constantly… Truth be told that when I ask somone if they ever heard of “Blogs”, they look at me funny and say they have no clue. I even question myself on this entire phenemenon and what pupose does it serve. For me, I get to read these “RSS Feeds” from Web Logs and catch up on the latest news at work and at home… being that I hardly watch TV, it serves it’s purpose…

RSS is in its infancy–the earliest stage of its adoption–but the velocity and mass of its adoption confirms it to be one of the most important developments in the distribution of media content in a number of years.

We strongly believe that RSS is the web’s Next Big Thing. It is potentially most disruptive to email and applications relying on email, though it is important to understand that RSS is not at all likely to replace email. New media rarely ever replace old. Indeed some RSS aggregators need a traditional email client to function.

RSS adoption will aid in the active, real-time, automated filtering of an ever-growing supply of content. Smarter content filters will drive up the value of prospect access. As consumers take more active control of the messaging and content they consume, reaching them gets tougher. Concurrently, as Search Engine Optimization loses its mystery, popularity and relevancy vie for dominance as content searches become more automated and span a number of different communication channels.

via Media Think.com

I’ve recently downloaded RSS Reader so I can keep up with the many blogs that I try to read… I’m not much of an organized “Blog” reader to be honest… I visit random blogs, comment on them, and go back to them a while later. Unfortunately, those that I do comment on don’t often return the favor… pero nah… yo sigo dejando mis pensamientos en esos Blogs hasta que le den las ganas de decir algo por esto lados… Que se puede hacer?

Yankees Alex Rodriguez: 3 HR’s and 10 RBI’s paved the way for a 12-4 victory over the Los Angeles Angels. A 3 run home run… good lord, the man was on fire… All that as I try to forget about their 4 game loosing streak a few days ago…

I’m starting to wonder if Blogging is “Good Business”. Personally I maintain this Blog just to keep in touch with reality, I may also use it to vent personal stuff that really shouldn’t matter to anyone but myself, and my most recent use was to make some money off of it with Google AdSense. Don’t get me wrong, I basically had about 20 bucks in about a month, which is more then enough to host this site for free if I want to. Not to mention that it was to my surprise that people were actually clicking on the advertisements. But then again, you get a check from Google when you reach the $100 mark. Maybe I’ll reconsider and put it back up.

The type of business I’m talking about is the marketing and public relations aspect of Blogging. Creating visitors from external sources such as the NY Times, The Daily Record, big name websites such as Yahoo! and so on and so on. I don’t have the slightest idea on what the rates are for internet marketing, so if you tell me that the cost of advertising on a web site is in the range of $2-4,000 for 3 Months is a “good price”, I’d have to look at you kind of funny because there’s no way I’m coughing over any money. I assume you would need to have the income/resources to support that type of advertising campaign and it’s certainly not something that you can simply jump into unless you have the funds readily available.

Then we have web-designers that have jumped into the Blogging world in hopes of cashing on this crazy phenomenon. Web designers that have obviously looked at the business aspect of Blogs and created a market for it. Nothing out of this world in my opinion. I will say one thing… “Build It, And They Will Come”…