Category Archives: Stream of Conciousness

An rss feed to life.

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Rss (wiktionary) : Really Simple Syndication, a newsfeed technology that standardizes the publication of regularly updated Web works, such as blogs and news articles.

If you are reading this, you have an e-mail account.

It is the perfect digitization of  your home address. It is the most private social network that you ever created and it will continue to grow as long as you are interested in it.

  • Location: It has a top-level domain (generally refers to your location, co.uk/.com/com.tr).
  • Name: We all know that it is not as strictly regulated in comparison to you real-life name and address, but your inbox has a name which is how you want to be recalled, within the social purpose you create that account.

To your post box you are likely to get relevant information about the restaurants in that are close to you or within the potential budget of your neighbourhood, your bank statement, court orders… as well as irrelevant information (spam) posts that are sent to wrong recipients es or any other information that you do not subscribed before.

Please note the correlation of the action ‘subscribing’ within the context of relevancy.

After you create your inbox, you are likely to share your e-mail address with people or the organizations that you want to stay in touch (stay relevant/stay up-to-date), with whom -you think- wouldn’t cause noise in your communications within your circle of relevance. Connectedness pertain itself through the syndicated exchange of information and gestures over time. The rsseque notion to the continuous flow of information we get from people whom has our e-mail addresses.

This brings me to the point, where the difference between inbox and the rss reader fades, as well as your contacts book and your bookmarks bar.

LloydsTSB fails to deliver

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I recently subscribed to LloydsTSB’s informative weekly balance text messaging service, and scheduled it to Thursday in order to be ready for the weekend ahead. Didn’t pay much attention to it’s content at the first couple of weeks. Once I needed the information it provides, and made an adjacent transaction I was unpleasantly surprised as I didn’t have enough money in my account. You know  the story, you have to resort to your instant cash or fled the store in shame and under the egging mispleased eyes of others…

So in order to understand how much money I can actually spend I went online to see how much money I have in my account. I was not wrong I had enough ‘balance’ in my account but with some further digging in the interface (after 1 more click), i found that there is a statement such as ‘Available Funds’ showing how much money I can actually spend. Wonderful, within the context of online browsing and planning at an online bank profile. But when I am mobile and shopping if unsure about my level of disposable cash I am vulnerable and destined to spend more and more time online to do planning and budgeting.

I am aware that this post would be due to my lack of understanding of the concept of ‘balance’ to what it might refer in Finance/banking, but LloydsTSB should realize that they are trusted to be the interface between me and my money. Therefore when building services to offer customers on-site information, they have to keep the context the user would be in when they are using the information they are provided.

The more relevant you stay, the more sense you will make.

Maintaining a blog vs Blogging

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I owned this blog for about 1.5 year or this illusion dates back to May 09.

At first i designed it myself with the thinking that “it should be genuine”, very noble and useful thinking, this allowed me to improve my php and entertained me a lot.

But times have changed as my needs did, I then started install themes and plugins, so that everything in my blog will have a sense of professionalism, and i will be able to focus on my creative flow and most intended sharing via blogging.

At the third stage of my blog-o-rama i found myself doing weekly maintenance to my blog instead sharing nothing about myself or my collectively generated creative out, or at least my reflections about what i come across within my sight / perception.

I have always been someone who pays attention what he is doing (trying to be self aware) and tries to employ the best practices (subjective) in my practices without being competitive*, but i am living the continuous realization of “Hey! I am wasting time on my blog than my blog should spend on me”

Currenty  I am in the having tons of drafts phase in my blogging life.

Conclusion :

In  one of Faster Future Consulting Blog posts,  Clay Shirky touches open this please do carry forward (Life is better when explanations are made by others).

* I really don’t care being competitive with people you point finger at, one should be set their own ranks  and limits to achieve as pleased.

How not to blog? | Self-reflective spots

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Hi,

The following is how i not blog. Please be aware and reminding.

1 – Work on multiple drafts.

2 -  Waste ridiculous amount of time enhancing your posts, insert unnecessary mp3s, try to draw illustrations, try to contact that deviantart user for that one and only image your post can not do without. Have more themes then your blog posts.

3 – Procastinate the hell out of it. When there is something to be done requiring your manual input(typing) it is always easier to go for the free entertainment (watching, reading). Be deprived of main joy of blogging.

4 – Blog on your own. Do not ever share your links, posts with your friends and family, they are your initial chances of motivation.

5 – Ignore the most important function. Work on installing widgets, gadgets work millions of hours on the way it look.

6 – Don’t focus. Enable every other activities to interrupt your writing process.

7 – Have a supreme sense of perfection / be insecure about “anything with regards your entries”

This entry is an initiative, is a cry for self-provocation.

Looking forward to see myself got rid of my drafts.

Best,

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ilkut