Blogger’s Online Habits

In a first ever study regarding the online habits of blog readers, UC Irvine researchers have unearthed several interesting facts about blog reading. Previously, most studies have been centered on the blog writer, not the blog reader. With this study though, all that is about to change as the writer will learn how to connect more effectively with their readers. The researches found that there are readers who frequently love to post comments while others just “lurk” around a blog despite being a frequent visitor.

In addition, they also found out that readers have varied opinions on what makes a blog an actual blog. For example, readers conclude that blogs should have technical aspects such as trackback bait, social aspects, RSS feeds, and personal content. This is opposed to the academic opinion that a blog is basically a web page which has dated entries in reverse order.

In addition, the researches found out that blog reading becomes less content oriented as readers make it a habit to read a particular blog. And similar to reading their e-mails daily, reading blogs is becoming part of the user’s routine when they go online. In fact, it has been noted that the usefulness of the content can take second place to the activity of reading and skimming a particular blog to fulfill the person’s routine.

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US Air Force Blocked “Blog”

The United States Air Force has put in internet filters that will block user access to any content that contains the word “blog”. This is because their superiors noticed that internet surfing has caused a decline in productivity and contains misleading information that can even compromise security. According to Wired, the Air Force has eliminated troop access to almost every site with “blog” even as questions about the effectiveness of this method are being asked.

Air Force personnel can still access primary sources of information over the internet though such as CNN, MSN, and the New York Times. The basic idea of this measure is that non-legitimate sources must not be read during work because of credibility and security issues.

But this measure can still change as the Cyber Command spokesperson said that they are adapting the block first and review later policy. Some of the tools being used by the Air Force include the Secure Computing SmartFilter which categorizes web sites into groups so that selected groups can be blocked. In addition, the Air Force has already blocked the access to MySpace and YouTube because it is eating up too much bandwidth. Many are concerned about this measure though because the same sites that are prohibited to the soldiers can be easily accessible by their enemies.

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Google Unveils Mac Developer Playground

Google has finally launched a mac developer playground where mac users can find various products to suite their various needs. Google initially had many products that were available for desktop and mobile users but there was no specific are a for mac users to find products that were just made for them. Seeking to the needs of the mac users Google rectified this problem by opening the mac developer play ground where the users of mac can now look for both open source projects and other demos.

The mac playground has opened with six projects online that are Stats, GData, MacFUSE, iPhone Disk, Cover Story and Quartz Composer Patches. The Google product manager Karen Grnberg explained to mac world is the project on the mac world are the product of the 20% of the time that Google allows its employees to have to work on their side projects. The engineers also use their spare time to work on many other projects. He also added that there won’t be any specific schedule for the products that are soon going to be available on the site. These products will be developed and released when they are ready for public comsumption.

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Download Top 500 Fonts Existing Over Cyberspace

Checking through free font sites is not a very productive time or even an enjoyable one. Those pop-up ads are quite a pain in many uncomfortable parts of the anatomy, if you know what I mean. In any case the quality is nothing to write home about! Here’s an exception. Fonts500.com provides the top 500 fonts collection gathered from all over the web.

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BitTorrent’s battle for available bandwidth increases

The increase in the rate of downloads of free multimedia content from the internet like movies videos etc and the vast download of available music on the internet some ISPs are now putting a stop on the free flowing transfer of bandwidth. Comcast is one of the leading isps that have started to target the bandwidth sucking applications like Bit torrent by limiting the amount of bandwidth available to these applications.

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