Finding time: To blog or to tweet !?

Lately I’ve been having problems finding time to write on my blog… that and the fact that I’m tweeting all my ideas.

I think that it’s faster to get the information out there using Twitter. Let me explain:

• you have to write only 140chars (including the link to a useful resource)
• you can do it very fast using a desktop client like TweetDeck
• you don’t have to think of a catchy title
• you don’t have to find appropriate tags
• you don’t have to write meta tags, meta descriptions and excerpts

Probably there are more reasons for using Twitter, but there’s one thing you cannot do on it, and that’s write something credible and of authority. If you have an article or tutorial to write, you just cannot sum it up in 140 characters.

So I realized that I have to find time to write all my ideas and facts I’ve come across on the blog and afterwards comment about it on twitter !

I hope to find time to write some new articles as soon as possible, as right now I have at least 5-6 topics.

You can follow me on twitter at http://twitter.com/mihaibojin, and I’ll most certainly follow you back if you’re not a bot and you have at least some remote interest about coding and/or technology !

A new blogging platform

I’m all for lightweight applications. Plus I really really liked the frankness of this guy’s post.

I also have to admit that have problems with other people’s code, but I feel wordpress is particurarly preety bloated.

… and I like the name: it’s almost WoW

So here it is: A new blog

The code is located at http://code.google.com/p/wordcraft

I hope Brian will have time to perfect Wordcraft or at least that I will find the time to also do one blogging platform as I’ve been meaning to for some time now.

Starting a blog

Boy, this wasn’t easy to do…

I’ve been meaning to start a blog for a long time now, but had no idea what to write.

I am passionate about my work, which is programming (mostly in PHP).

I like databases and I’ve been using MySQL since version 4.

I enjoy the guessing-game of SEO and I try to make all my sites as search engine friendly as possible.

Recently I read a book about Adwords, saw the system in action and what benefits it can bring to a new or existing website.

Also,

I enjoy reading Science Fiction books, a few of my favorites beeing Dune by Frank Herbert and more recently Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card.

I started taking photos about an year ago and discovered I like it very much, as it resembles art (painting or design), which I cannot do because of my lack of drawing skills.

I describe myself as a hardware freak. I have around 17 years of meddling with computers (PCs mostly and starting this year Macs). I have owned tens of computer components, around 8 PCs, 2 laptops and 1 Macbook. One of my other future plans is to open a blog about hardware, electronics, gadgets and sorts.

I love FOOD. I enjoy cooking but right now I’ve got no time for it. Unfortunately I’ve become a fast-food addict like many others. I eat mostly preprocessed food.

Like all people I have friends. I hope that they will help and support me here. Input is always welcomed as "content is king" :D.

If you want to find out more about me you can check me out at:

LinkedIn profile - Mihai Bojin

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