May
16

Advertising, and other Thoughts

2008 | Filed Under This blog | 2 Comments

I’ve been showing Google ads for a while now, and I’ve been experimenting with one or two other ad systems.

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May
7

Anti-Spam Counter Measure

2008 | Filed Under This blog | 5 Comments

Over the last few days Blog from Italy found itself slowing sinking under the weight of an ever increasing number of messages from people with funny Greek sounding names, who were peddling porn and a series of drugs I had never heard of. In other words, lots of spam.

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May
5

Too Much Tweet!

2008 | Filed Under This blog | Leave a Comment

I discovered the joys of Twitter not too long ago, and I thought it might be a fun thing to use it to blast out a barrage of news from Italy updates every evening or so.

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May
3

Bullet in the Post? Not Yet.

2008 | Filed Under This blog | 5 Comments

In Italy, one of the signs that you are ‘getting too close’ or ‘are stepping on toes’ is the old anonymous letter with a bullet in it. Stories of such happenings, whilst not common, do crop up in the news here from time to time.

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Apr
27

Poll System Offline

2008 | Filed Under This blog | Leave a Comment

The polling system stopped working as a result of a security upgrade. Therefore I’ve shut it down for the moment until I can work out a work around.

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Apr
24

Who says Technology is Anti-Social?

2008 | Filed Under This blog | 5 Comments

Admittedly being stuck in front of a screen typing away would not appear to be a particularly social thing to do, but, as a result of tapping away, I’ve got to meet, both virtually, and in reality, some great people.

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Apr
21

Well, I do do a little bit of everything

2008 | Filed Under This blog | Leave a Comment

My friend and Blog from Italy researcher, Gaetano Salvo wants to sell his house, so I’m going to put an on-line brochure for it here on my blog for all the web to see.

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Apr
20

Parental Approval

2008 | Filed Under This blog | Leave a Comment

My folks dropped in here the other day, said that they enjoyed reading my blog, and that they like the journalistic style of the post I wrote for Joe Tangredi over at Volette.com.

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Apr
15

An Investigative Journalist

2008 | Filed Under Blogging | 2 Comments

Where I am often to be found, which also happens to be the HQ of one of Italy’s major newspapers, I often bump into a nice chap who happens to be a form of investigative journalist.

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Apr
14

The curious case of BlogBabel

2008 | Filed Under Blogging | 6 Comments

BlogBabel, for those not in the know, was an Italian blog indexing and ranking service. To all intents and purposes it was similar to a system like Technorati, or the Italian service BlogItalia.

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Apr
11

RSS Feed to Blog from Italy Updated

2008 | Filed Under This blog | 1 Comment

Thanks to reader Rajab Bader, those who follow my blog via the RSS feed may be pleased to note that the feed is now supplying complete versions of my posts.  Before, according to Rajab, my posts were being chopped.

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Apr
11

Don Bosco and Joe Tangredi - The Dry Canal Project

2008 | Filed Under Blogging | Leave a Comment

Yesterday evening I had an interesting chat with one Don Mario Bosco, an international law specialist and entrepreneur who heads the $2.64 billion CINN project concerning the construction of a ‘dry canal’ in Nicaragua.

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