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photo credit: Mel B. A recent study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project suggests that young people have grown bored with blogging. Meanwhile, the use of social networking applications (except Twitter) has been on the rise. Is this yet another indication of a fickle population with a very short attention span? While blogging [...]

Oftentimes when I’ve finished drafting a blog post, I think long and hard before I hit the publish button. I wonder whether my post makes sense at all. I wonder if it will hit some nerves. I wonder if I have made mistakes. I wonder if people will critique and criticize. And then in a [...]

My family is fond of watching cooking shows on the Food Network. Oftentimes, our favorite ones are those featuring Giada di Laurentiis. For some reason, whenever she cooks, prepares or even eats food on her shows, it’s not only the visual and auditory senses that get stimulated. But you feel as if you’re actually smelling [...]

Writers are a spoiled bunch. We have all sorts of habits–some strange, some mundane. Just like most creative individuals, a lot of writers need to be in the zone in order to be productive. That means we cannot be forced to just work. We need space. We need a great environment. Otherwise, the world will [...]

Since we both started working from home, my wife and I developed a habit of watching movies on TV or DVD during evenings when we didn’t have much workload. Lately, every Thursday evening, we enjoy catching the latest episode of Harper’s Island, which is a grisly suspense series not for the squeamish. The premise is [...]

Some discussions I’ve chanced by ask whether it’s better to launch many niche sites, or just launch one or two flagship sites, and build up smaller sites around them? Either way, I think it would take much effort and money to launch a lot of sites–at least if they’re launched at the same time. But [...]