Scribe, ut possis cum voles dicere: dices cum velle debebis (Pl. Ep. 6.29)

Monday, July 10, 2006

Wrong

There's a Canadian guy who traded a paperclip for a two-story house. It looks like a true story. All he needed was a blog and a crazy idea.

There's an Israeli law school graduate who writes a blog in Hebrew about law, free software and most of all leftist politics (he left Meretz, because Meretz wasn't left enough for him; pun intended). It's fine, but not much that you can't read in Haaretz or Guardian too. He rarely attempts to be funny, but when he does, he's not bad. He has many readers and is often quoted in Maariv.

There's an Israeli young lady who writes a blog about her life, her geek pride, software and music she likes. I keep seeing links to her blog everywhere.

There's an Israeli young man, who writes a blog about his life, his geek pride, software and music he likes and also about politics (a mix of Israeli nationalism, environmentalism and libertarianism) and linguistics. Sometimes he attempts to be funny and occasionally people tell him that he succeeds. And sometimes he has crazy ideas too. That's me and i have no more than ten readers. It's not whining and not jealousy; i must be doing something wrong.

Am i writing in the wrong language? Am i unfocused? Do i use the wrong blogging platform?

Any help would be appreciated.

1 comment:

Amir said...

Oh my God, you read that entry far enough to find the f-words! That's more than i would ever expect. Did you actually understand anything?

Thanks for the suggestions.

Images will certainly come. Of all the things about which i procrastinate, this is the simplest to implement. I do take a lot of pictures, and it takes nothing to upload them. Will be done Real Soon Now.

Am i not writing enough about Jews and Israel?

What i really want to do is to change the platform. Most of the blogs that i read are on WordPress. It has wonderful features that Blogger.com lacks - non-blog pages, tags, better typesetting and generally far more flexibility; those things also make it more attractive for the readers. The problem is that on their free service (wordpress.com), i can't customize the template HTML code. I need to find WordPress hosting service which is both cheap and customizable. I already created a proof-of-concept "Aharoni in WordPress, ya mama" on my home PC, but i don't want to turn it into a web-server ... yet.

Advertising? To the best of my knowledge, the Israeli blogs that i mentioned don't advertise, but they seem to have great word-of-mouth publicity. The question is HOW????

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