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Sunday tips: RSS test drive.

Sunday, August 26th, 2007

After a short vacation and two weeks of re-adjusting myself on both professional and personal levels I am back on track. To stretch up a bit I will start with a post about RSS-feeds.

RSS-feeds are essential part of nowadays’ life. It is not a discovery that the mankind is now on a level of informational society and information is the most valuable asset. Especially when your activity is based on new technologies, web development, internet marketing, etc you need to keep track of all news in your field, to read your colleagues’ opinions on the subject or catch new trends. For me RSS-feeds now are the same as weekly newspaper for our fathers. It’s both habit (morning paper with coffee before breakfast) and the only way to get fresh news (as I believe now news appears on the web first). And of course, the main advantage of the RSS-feeds is a possibility to keep all your sources of information in one place, sort them by priority and “interestingness” and quickly access them.

I caught up on RSS-mania a year ago. I tried to add almost every blog or community to my RSS-reader which was at least somehow interesting for me. Of course I ended up with more than hundred feeds in the reader and hardly could make my reading through one third of the feeds.

I realized I have to do something to save my time and to keep my attention on what is really important for me.

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Being a web-designer

Tuesday, May 15th, 2007

Designers, developers, project managers. Writers and editors. Information architects and usability specialists. People who make websites…
A List Apart: Articles: The Web Design survery

An online magazine for web designers “A List Apart” included all people who anyhow contribute to website creation in a term “web designer”. And I can’t agree more, as any of the participants design their own aspects of website and influence overall user experience.

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Copyright and bandwidth theft

Wednesday, February 21st, 2007

Here we go! The site of Crew 12, the part of which I am, has been lunched and now it is just a total pleasure to look at statistics of my portfolio. Anton helped me and installed BBClone statistics system on my photo-woman.com and now it’s so interesting to follow my visitors. I actually see what pages they visit and how long they stay at each page, so I can analyze and understand what they are looking for or what was interesting for them.

Also statistics provided by my hosting server revealed several referrers to my site that were really surprising. Anton searched in log files and we found one friendster and one myspace account which used my picture as a background for their profiles. So that of course made me flattered =) But c’mon people, if you want to use my picture – I don’t mind, but at least save it and put it somewhere on your server or any free service for uploading images, there are tons of them. Please, don’t confuse my statistics and me with your referrers. And stop stealing my bandwidth! …
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