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Feb. 12 – Safe Internet Day

Published February 12, 2008 Uncategorized 1 Comment
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Heads-up: Hebrew links coming up…

Today, Feb. 12, is the Safe Internet Day in Israel. The initiative from the Ministry of Education, along with several businesses and organizations, strives at teaching how to practice ‘safe internet’, particularly for children, who are most susceptible to the dangers of the web.
Recent technological advances have created 2 conflicting trends: 1) the internet is more accessible; 2) anonymity thrives.

Most of the people I know are contributors now, UGC providers. They blog, comment, talkback, respond, speak – everyone has something to say. You can comment in good taste or not in good taste – it depends solely on your personality. I will never talk down or insult someone on the web, no matter what he/she wrote, either on their own or as a comment.

If you know Hebrew, you’re welcome to the ‘To the Surfers’ Knowledge’ website (free translation). It’s the website of the 45-min show aired today, covering many aspects of how to practice ‘safe internet’, and what dangers lay inside the web – phishing, talkbacks (Israelies are talkbacking more than 55,000 times a day!! I had no idea), guerrilla marketing, and much more. At the Safe Internet Day website there are more links for your benefit.

I really liked this clip of Uri Gotliv, a stand-up artist hosting a late-night show in Israel. After the first episodes, some nasty comments started to surface on the show’s forum, news reviews, blogs, etc. Uri decided to fight back. Here’s the result:

Keeping up with Bloggers, not Blogs

Published October 20, 2007 Uncategorized 2 Comments
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With over 70 millions blogs out there it’s pretty hard to filter the good from the rest and the best out of the good. Idan from Anecdotot has written a brilliant post on the subject of journalists, journalism, bloggers and blogs. He says (and I totally agree) that the evolution of the web has brought us a gift – journalists writing blogs, seeing the web not as an enemy but rather as another tool to publish their opinions.
Idan counts 4 reasons why journalism bloggers are successful:

  • Story telling: journalists are good at writing stories, and writing is like a muscle. The more you use it, the better it gets.
  • Knowledgeable in their respective field: when Ronen writes about sports, he knows what he’s talking about. The same for Raviv, Yuval Dror (technology) and others.
  • Involve their readers: a true social network. When ever they write, they’re plenty of comments. Yes, they are famous, seen on TV and all, but still – they involve the readers, and we all want that.
  • Crowd magnets: Again, relates to the last point. They bring new faces to the medium (web), and we all new the future is online…

You can read the full post here.

It was Idan actually that got me subscribing to Ronen Dorfman (Sports) and now to Raviv Droker (current affairs). I’ve been a fan of Raviv Droker for quite some time now – a young, ambitious journalist, who made it to primetime TV (Friday at 8pm), along with Ofer Shelach (Sports and news – basically everything).

If you have some free time this Thursday (the 25th), head over to WordCamp Israel, the annual event of WordPress in Israel, dedicated to blogs and bloggers, from all platforms.
With any luck you might just see me there, along with couple of other bloggers and media. You can see the full agenda here.

One last note, for The Daily Show fans out there:
No more YouTubeing scenes from the show. The Daily Show has posted last week over 13,000 video clips, dating back to 1999, on the show’s official website. We’re not talking about complete episodes, only short clips from each show. Thank you! Now we can admire John Stewart each and every day…

Mid 2Q Resolutions for a Connected Blogger

Published May 7, 2007 Uncategorized Closed
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Google added some time ago a new cool feature to its Google Reader web based (of course) application, Google Trends.
Basically, it tells you everything you want to know about your reading trends: when you read, which feeds, for how long, how many, which day/hour, etc. There are some nice graphs as well, for those who like results displayed in a colored matrix..

I copy-pasted 2 charts I feel summarize my experience so far, and those are which day and which hour I get my fix of feeds.. Surprisingly, or not, Sundays are my preferred reading days. Surprise because in Israel, Sunday is a working day, the first of the week, not part of the weekend. I can only assume that less work is getting done on Sunday.. The weekdays are roughly the same, just over 150 items per day.. I don’t read all of them, some I just scroll through
In the next chart you can see my reading hours. I would expect mornings and just after lunch, but it appears that mornings are just not my thing. Again, no surprise there as I’m not a morning person.. Noon is almost a peak, probably because I like to have some new gossip to talk about over lunch.. 🙂 Another interesting fact – I go to sleep late !! very late! It appears that I read 150 items between midnight and 2 a.m. ! wow…
Couple of action items for self, after this short analysis:

  • Stop working over the weekends. The week is long enough, and my office will still be there coming Sunday. I really tend to work over the weekends, and I do want to cut it down.. not healthy.
  • Go to sleep earlier. Not early, we’re not 6th graders, but earlier. Like midnight, 1 a.m at the latest. It’s hard, as my better half is usually awake, working her best in those little hours of the night, but I will make an effort.
  • Working evenings. With the laptop age, that isn’t new, the office is a very relative term. It can be your office-office, your home-office, your coffee shop-office, your shopping mall-office – no end in sight.. So, for the past week or so, I decided to keep my laptop in its hand bag, and not take it out when I reach home.. Nothing is that urgent..

I’ll keep you posted on my progress.. you can call them “Mid 2Q Resolutions for a connected blogger” items. Bit long, but has a nice ring to it…

Widgets are here.. widgetsbox.com

Published January 28, 2007 Uncategorized Closed
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Just saw an interesting article in TheMarker.com, an Israeli online news site, about the next thing (or the present thing) in blogs: Widgets. The article is titled “Blogs with everything” (nice..).
I don’t have to explain what widgets are, only that they can enhance (a lot) your personal website. This new site TheMarker mentioned is widgetbox.com, a very intuitive site, with hundreds of widgets that can be installed in seconds into your blog.

You can see that I have 2 widgets already, a weather report for Tel Aviv, Israel and a news feed for Digg.com. There are many-many more at their website.

Anyway, if you’re blogging, try it out..

US Presidential race begins – on the web!

Published January 22, 2007 Uncategorized Closed
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Conventional media should start to fear. If they haven’t already started to fear, they should now.
Whether or not you think this web 2.0 is a bubble or not, the recent announcements from 2 of the democratic candidates, are a sign or the future. The future of coverage of major events in a country’s history.

Both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have opted for the web to announce their plans for the up-coming presidential race. Hillary said in her blog “I’m IN”, and started her race.
Barack said on his website about his recent decision to form a Presidential Exploratory Committee. Interesting choice of media, for both. Why over the web and not a press conference? Starting the buzz from the bottom up perhaps? only time will tell…
Both senators have a large presence on the web, with Hillary in the lead: Barack Obama for President will give you just over 2 million and Hillary’s query will give you just under 5 million results.

The race is going to be interesting. The web allows both candidates to decide what they want to talk about, and are less dependent of traditional media like TV for coverage, but it opens up a lot of opportunities to undermine the campaign. In Hillary’s query, notice the 4th result – I will not support Hillary for President. Makes you think how Google’s algorithm is working…

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