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I read about this term one time, BLOG ADDICT.

Yeah, feels like term coined by those who do nothing but blog all day. No harm done if blogging is something that makes one productive.

What I mean by being productive means there is some kind of a monetary compensation that can be had with blogging.

OR by being productive means one can learn a lot of things either by blogging (writing skills and thought processes, yeah right) or by reading others’ blogs (current events or simply taking a peek gossiping reading about the day-to-day happenings in other bloggers’ lives).

No, not that only monetary benefits can make one a happy blogger.

The blogger is happy, I know but of course, one has to consider the expenses when blogging.

Blogging = expenses and by expenses mean electricity bill, ISP bill, as well as time and effort. Yes, these time and effort can also be convertible to monetary equivalence too.

I know because in my line of work, we get paid by number of hours we worked.

I have written two posts about the Hazards of Blogging here when a man who blogs wrote that he was going to a US territory and maybe he forgot that he has a case in the mainland US. What happened next? Click here.

So how should one know that blog addiction is now running in one’s veins? That everything else seem to take a back seat because blogging takes precedence over all things? One more sign is that the “normal” daily routine of work, including house chores, professional work and other responsibilities are sometimes neglected not given much thought about yes, takes a back seat in lieu of blogging. Why does this sound like a funeral instruction.

Click here for anther entry I have written where you can read and check or maybe add some more symptoms about being a blog addict.

Now don’t go asking me why I came up with the things I have listed. I won’t tell you my sources, and if you are good, your guess is as good as mine.

Now here are other other sites where one can read about being BAD. Yes, BAD.

Blog Addiction Disorder. Some more 10 signs about blog addiction ( I don’t have some of those listed here).

Have fun. Blogging, that is 😀

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This is just an observation for bloggers who want to exchange links, not about linking or pinging back some of their posts with their current post.

In my other blog, I had one commentor who wrote something like: “I have linked you with my other three blogs and I hope you do the same”. I repeat, this was what the “tone/message” that the blogger has written, though not exactly as I have written. Did I link the blogger? No, I didn’t ask this blogger to link me in the three blogs that s/he has, why would I link the blogs to mine, I don’t even visit the blogs mentioned.

At the beginning of my blogging “career”, I found it necessary to ask for other bloggers if they care to exchange links with them. What did I do? Most of them, I emailed, asking for this favor. I wanted to have virtual friends and I did. I was right in choosing these bloggers for until now, we still get in touch. Some of them became good, albeit, virtual friends who later on, became my buddies. Some blogs that I regularly visit, why, I haven’t asked them to exchange links with me, even if I have them in my links and even in my Google Reader.

Anyway, I digress, I am yapping too much here.

The gist of my topic is just this: I read in a friend’s blog, a comment like this:

i don’t see my name here. did we ever xlinks?

What the…?

What say you, huh?

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There is a site for HTML tutorial for kids. Yes, its that modern already.

But take note, this site is also helpful for those who are not familiar with these technology terminologies that seem to talk in codes and well, still more codes.

You think being a blogger makes one adept with the technological terms that abound the www?

So what is .htaccess files or installing perl scripts or MySql database all about? Great, I am scratching my head here and would not be able to understand these, much to the chagrin of my hubby who can talk about these for hours but I would still end up staring blankly ahead 😉

Ok, here is the site: Lissa Explains

Do check it out. I know I will 😀

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What is a Google Reader?

This is the definition of a Google Reader, according to, well, Google:

Reader
Get all your blogs and news feeds fast

Once you have registered to get a Google Reader account, you can subscribe to your favorite blogs as well as to your favorite news sites for the latest news. It is a Web-based aggregator that can read Atom and RSS feeds online and offline.

No need to go to your favorite links and news sites one by one to check what’s new. Easy peasy.

1. It is has a user-friendly interface. First, the subscriber gets to see what’s new to the subscribed sites.
2. These can be organized according to your preference, either by date or relevance or whiever way the subscriber prefers.
3. Subscriber can also share items with other web users.
4. Offline access. Yes. Subscriber uses a browser extension so that online applications can work offline, and up to 2000 items can be downloaded to be read offline.
5. There is also mobile access.
6. The Google Reader subscriptions can be integrated with the Google Personalized Page (just like your Yahoo Personalized page where you get to choose the latest news)
7. For those who use Mozilla Firefox 2.0, Google reader is included there and can redirect users to the Add Subscription screen to be able to add the feed.

There, the different benefits one can have when subscribed to Google Reader.

Oh, and it also has a version specially formatted to the Wii, if you have one.

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