Archive for December, 2007
Following the blogosphere’s trend on these days, I want to make a little recap of my best posts, for all my new visitors and subscribers. Thank you all for your visits, comments and your support.
September
• Embed YouTube Videos in WordPress 2.2.2
October
• Ad revenue sharing forums
• Little SEO guide
• Breast Cancer – Quick Overview
• New researches on breast cancer
November
• A must to know about RSS
• WordPress database error: [Got error 134 from storage engine]
• 10 tips for a cool blog
• 5 questions about running a contest
• Great articles that should be read
December
• Free traffic requires hard work
• Great Top 13 lists
I have also organized the Resource for Bloggers Carnival, which contains a collection of articles related to blog posts ideas, blogs traffic, tools and plugins for blogging, blog monetization, writing, online marketing, advertising and other articles that could improve the blogger’s life.
• Resource for Bloggers Carnival – Edition 1
• Resource for Bloggers Carnival – Edition 2
• Resource for Bloggers Carnival – Edition 3
• Resource for Bloggers Carnival – Edition 4
And some of my best photos:
• 13 Autumn Photos
• PhotoHunt: Light
I wish you a great party on this night! Happy New Year to all of you and see you in 2008 
December 31st, 2007
It’s time to reward my Top 13 Commentators. Thank you all for making time to comment on my blog!
1. nimrodjo has recovered his blog and gave it a new look. Please visit he’s blog and tell him if you like it. He also made a gift to his blog’s visitors, so check it out.
2. Lana’s blog has two month old, so she share with her visitors a few thoughts of the season. And please leave her a comment if you have any suggestions on the themes of her future articles.
3. pelf has establish her blogging goals for the year ahead. She has an impressive work in 2007. If you like her articles and you appreciate her work, go and tell her. She would be very happy. And maybe you want to write as guests on her other blogs, Giving Hands and Turtle Talks.
4. Kukuh (Audee) wrote an useful tutorial about how to create water droplets in Photoshop. If you are a Photoshop user, you will find it very interesting.
5. c5 give some advice about how to not make New Year’s festive gluttony affect your weight as it normally should.
6. Moonbeam McQueen wrote some Christmas stories. You can check the final chapter of Survivor: Christmas Edition
7. Simonne has a beautiful Passiflora flower and she posted some beautiful photos about it.
8. Mark wrote A year round of blogging and SEO and he hopes that this coming year will be a fruitful one in consideration to sales and site revenues.
9. Life is Colourful with some friends are heading to the beautiful beaches in Goa to celebrate their new year. Though I think the New Year night without snow is a little weird.
10. Mitch at Money News was bored one day so he composed The SEO song. Take a look to have some fun.
11. Taylor Blue told us about Ashley Tisdale and Vanessa Hudgens’ best McDonalds trip! It’s a funny paparazzi clip.
12. Prince John held a contest and he told us how it turned out for him.
13. Jacob Cass wrote about how to get your first job. If you are looking for a job, you should check it.
December 31st, 2007
Photo by KI know that the trend these days is to establish goals for 2008 and to write about them. I’ve read some interesting articles about goals for 2008. But with my kid running, jumping and yelling around me, is a little hard for me to establish some clear goals for the next year. So, until I’ll find a little quiet time for myself to establish my goals, I want to write what are my hopes for 2008.
1. I hope my mother will be healthier
My mother had a stroke on March 9th, 2007. The rest of the year she spends her time immobilized in bed. She was half paralyzed and she needs to make many exercises to recover her arm and her leg. But after a month from her stroke, she want to make us a surprise and she try to arise alone from bed. She fall down and she twisted her ankle very bad. After that she made a bad depression and she didn’t want to do something anymore. She just slept and cries. Now, she walks very rare and very hard. And from a very powerful, cheerful and ambitious woman she turns in a very depressive one, who doesn’t want to do anything. I want my mother back!
2. I hope my son’s balance will be better
My son falls down very often. He hasn’t a good balance. He falls down even when he is standing. He also walks on his toes and he walks like he is groggy. And, of course, he is hitting very often. Many doctors said to us that the walker was the cause for all these. But we meet a doctor who said that the reason for all these is the fact that he was born with the umbilical cord around his neck and his part of brain responsible with the movement function wasn’t irrigated well. I really hope that with many exercises things will go better. Otherwise, he is a burly kid; he’s very smart, very beautiful and very cheerful. He is the sun of my life!
3. I hope my marriage will be better
My husband and I are married 18 years now. A lifetime! But in the last years we argue very often and I’m really tired of all this fights. Both of us are explosive and our altercations are really terrible. I hope, for the sake of my son, to be able to communicate one to each other better and more peacefully. We had spent some great years together. I want those years back!
4. I hope I could buy a little house with a big backyard
Well, I said it! I want a little house with a big backyard somewhere to the mountain, so I can go there with my family on holydays. Just right now, we spend our holidays in our apartment in a city and we haven’t too much money to go somewhere else on holidays. I want to see my son running and jumping and yelling and breathing fresh air while I’m blogging on my porch 
5. I hope days will have 25 hours a day
This year was a tough year for me. Carrying my mother, trying to find out what is wrong with my son’s feet, fighting with my husband, running my little business, blogging… Damn, the day is too short for me. Even if I was sleeping 3-4 hours a night, the day still was too short. I hope 2008’s days will be much longer so I could have time to do all I have and all I want to do.
Since I’m an introvert person, you should know that open my heart to you is quiet difficult to me. But this is my fight with me: to be more open with my friends. This would be my 6th hope.
What are your hopes for 2008? What are your deepest wishes?
December 30th, 2007
I’ve read several articles about how to answer to the commentators. And, in fact, I don’t even need to read them, because it’s common sense to give polite answers and not to offend your commentators. Until now this wasn’t a problem for me. But what do you do when there are comments that pissed you off?
Four days ago someone leaves me a comment on my post, Great Top 13 lists. For those of you who don’t know, it’s a collection of Top 13 lists, many of them with valuable information, many of them funny. I’ve choose 13, according to my blog’s theme. And the Joe’s comment was:
Your lists are ridiculous – whoever heard of a top 13? It is supposed to be top 10. I am a statistics major, so I know about these things and I am writing a book about top 10 lists too, so you see I know better than you. I am embarrassed for you.
And here was my answer:
Just because you write a book about top 10 lists it doesn’t mean that 10 are establishing by law. “whoever heard of a top 13?? Well, it seems that there are many people who heard about top 13 lists, who write top 13 lists and who likes top 13 lists. And that number could be whatever an author would be. You should check how many “top 17? lists there are, “top 26? or you can pick whatever number you want.
As a statistics major, you probably know more than me. But you can’t ignore the facts that 10 isn’t the only number for a top. And you can’t annul a top list, just because the number isn’t 10.
And when you say that you are embarrassed for me, it means that you are embarrassed for all these people who wrote these top 13 lists. Shame on them that they don’t wrote top 10 lists, so that you have what to write in your book
Oh, and happy holidays for you, too
Of course that statistically speaking, there are much many Top 10 lists than any other Top n lists. But really, if I want to make a Top 13.5 of something, I’ll make that list and I don’t care that Top 10 lists are more popular. And I don’t feel ashamed about my list. In fact, I think that more important than the number is the content.
Well, I’m asking you: what did you do if someone leaves a negative comment on your blog? Do you delete that comment? Do you leave it and ignore it? Do you give him a polite answer? Or do you give an edgy answer?
December 30th, 2007
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