You might have noticed the exclamation mark in the title.
Sorry if I’m a bit excited, but this has never happened in this site before. Usually, I get 50 - 60 hits tops each day. Today, though, I got a whopping 110 hits! I was shocked, of course, quite unbelieving when I saw the data. My first thought was that there was some sort of glitch in the matrix, but then it checked out. I did get 110 hits in a day.
I had to check the …

As a blogger and reader, one thing I’ve realized is that there are some blogs I don’t bother to read at all. It’s not that these blogs are horrible; alright, some of them are. However, my point is that I don’t take time to view some blogs that might actually be worth reading, simply because getting them to open is a difficulty in itself. A lot of times, we find blogs with interesting titles, only to get bored halfway through because loading takes a few minutes …

I can’t quite figure out how to say this right now, but thank you thank you thank you and a dozen more thank yous to Plotdog Press for giving me the Arte y Pico Award. The award is given to five blogs you believe contributed somehow to the blogosphere, regardless of topic or language.
Based on the rules of this award, I should pick my own Top 5 blogs that I think deserve the Arte y Pico Award. This can be quite tricky, considering I have made a lot …

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You know those weird, nagging questionnaires that bloggers answer, post and pass around? The thing has a name.
“Meme”.
A brief consultation with my best friend, Wikipedia, reveals that a meme (pronounced “mim”), “consists of any unit of cultural information, such as a practice or idea, that gets transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another.”
Though it doesn’t exactly define meme as an “annoying viral questionnaire or quiz”, there are some points in this definition that suit the blog meme. First of all, the blog meme is …

Just a few months back, I had no idea what Entrecard was, let alone heard of it. I had just started pro-blogging and was as green as could be. In fact, I didn’t even want to sign up with Entrecard, simply because I thought it was some sort of nonsense site that spent its time gathering email addresses it could then sell to the online black market.
Obviously, I was wrong.
Now I’m a happy member, gleefully racking up credits through occasional dropping. I’m still not one of those …

What exactly is that orange square supposed to mean?
If you’re a blogger and you still have no idea what that tiny button means, you’re in trouble. That tiny square thing is not Spongebob’s drier cousin; it’s the near-universal symbol for Really Simple Syndication, better known as RSS.
I won’t go into the technical details; it’s unnecessary to go the jargon route, anyway. For us bloggers, the only thing that makes RSS worth noticing is its ability to increase traffic. It’s one of the best and most recommended means …

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Thanks for all the love!
XOXO,

Oh well, you can’t keep a girl from trying.
It’s a little bit like gambling, this addiction to contests, only I don’t have to spend any of my hard-earned money. As I mentioned a while back, contests are the way to go if you want to generate a lot of feedback. As The Net Fool’s recent contest proved, you can really earn a lot of traffic, popularity and readers through prizes.
Lots and lots of prizes.
Now that everyone’s cooking up contests just to beat the competition, what’s a blogger to …

You might have noticed two prominent additions to this website this week.
First, I posted an entry on my inclusion in the W.O.O.F. Contest newsletter of sorts as hosted by Plotdog.Com. Unlike most contests you find in the blogosphere today, WOOF doesn’t actually promise you any of those grand prizes we’ve come to know (and love, of course). What it does, though, is that it allows writers to submit their best articles and creative writing projects for inclusion in a specific week’s newsletter (of sorts). Fellow writers vote …