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I have started this blog more than 5 years now and many times I wanted to give up and stop blogging. But I kept on going with lots of ups and down, stopping for some periods then posting heavily.

Meanwhile I have launched some other blogs, Krikomatic, Skambla and Kibo and as my main blog, most of the time, I have failed to maintain them on a continuous rhythm for many reasons.

Until few days back, I got to a blog post from my twitter timeline with the title saying: “Nobody Cares About Your Damn Blog”, written back in May 2011 by Joey Strawn.

One hundred and fifty-four million, four hundred and forty thousand blogs go completely and utterly unread.

Let me write that number out for you so you can really take it in: 154,440,000

That’s not even the number of blogs yours is actually competing with, those are just the ones that no one felt were worthy enough to even be read in the first place. If you had even one reader on your last post, you’re doing infinitely better than millions of others out there right this very minute.

So, with all that indifference running around for blogs, what makes you think anyone gives a damn about yours and how can you make sure that someone actually does?

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So this took me back to the old question that hunts me every now and then: to blog or not blog?

Given the few thousands of visitors I get monthly to my blog, I have decided to keep it alive at the same tempo, just to share my thoughts.

Thank you for visiting my blog.

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You have a domain name and would like to have a self hosted WordPress blog for free? I will be doing this for you, and yes for FREE.
So I will host 1 blog for free and here is the catch, all you have to do is to comment on this blog post and tell me why I should pick you and host your blog, you can say all the funny thing you like.

P.S. this is valid only for Lebanese (in and out of Lebanon) – closing date 31 March 2011

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Blogging company Six Apart has acquired micro-blogging startup Pownce for undisclosed financial terms. It looks like one of those acquisitions where the buyer was more interested in the people than the product — the Pownce service will shut down in two weeks.

Yesterday Leah Culver (co-founder) posted on the official Pownce blog: “We will be closing the service and Mike and I, along with the Pownce technology, have joined Six Apart, the company behind such great blogging software as Movable Type, TypePad and Vox.

We’ll be closing down the main Pownce website two weeks from today, December 15th.”

Mena Grabowski Trott, born Mena Grabowski on September 16, 1977 (age 31), is a co-founder of Six Apart, creator of Movable Type and TypePad. The company name originates from the fact that Trott and co-founder/husband Benjamin Trott were born six days apart.

Trott is president of Six Apart. She helps lead management and business efforts, and makes the company products aesthetically pleasing and functionally intuitive. She made her first efforts in weblogging at dollarshort.org in 2001.

Movable Type was originally developed by Mena Trott and Benjamin Trott during a period of unemployment in late 2001 for Mena’s personal blogging use.

Trott was named one of the People of the Year by PC Magazine in 2004. That same year, she was named a member of the “TR 100,” (now known as the TR35), an annual award given to leading technology advocates by Technology Review magazine.

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Usually people travelling do not enjoy those long waiting hours at the world airports, but in Hungary, if you have a laptop, you would really want to stay as you can have an incredible wireless connection in the terminals for free, yes for FREE.

So I have decided to blog LIVE from the airport and post my Hungary trip stuff in the coming 1 hour I have before I catch my flight to Milano.

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It seems the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, with his tight schedule about his country’s nuclear file deadline at the end of August, is able to manage his time to blog, while I always search myself for more time to take good care of my blog.

Despite his agenda, he found time to brand himself and his country, his blog can be found at http://www.ahmadinejad.ir

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Blogs are everywhere and now corporates are catching on. But an eternal question have been raised about where a corporate blog should see-the-light and live? Shoud it have a subdomain address on the corporate main domain (ex. blog.company.com) or it would be better to have a new fresh name different from the company domain (ex. NewBlogName.com)?

My answer is simple: “Get Your New Blog Domain Name”.

For example, if a personal care product company has a blog about health and wellness and it is called www.FeelYourBeauty.com, it will, for sure acquire more links and hits than Blog.PersonalCareProductCompany.com.

I think the “link-capability” of the blog is what will give any blog a long-life in the blogosphere.