The Older Geek

Twitter is my social networking app of choice. I wasn’t initially too keen on it; the thought of being bombarded with thousands of chattering socialites 24/7 made my head ache. But now, it’s grown on me. Sure, there is a lot of unnecessary drivel on Twitter, but I am able to tune most of it [...]

Face it, Facebookers, there is no such thing as privacy on Facebook. Problems with Facebook: 1. They sell your personal information, and you have no control over who gets it. According to CBS News, Facebook sells your information to third party vendors, such as marketers and advertisers. This policy seems to change from time to [...]

Did you ever see a “dotcom” commercial that ran in the 90s? It showed a bunch of young people in their shop lamenting lack of sales for their hip new product. One of the young men had an idea– create a website and an online shop for the product. Next day, they check their orders [...]

Having tinkered with various blogging platforms, such as Blogger, WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, and others, I really like WordPress. The others certainly have their advantages, but I love WordPress because of plugins. Plugins have really made WordPress a terrific software suite. Not only is WordPress suitable for blogging, it is a superb content management software suite. [...]

Amongst all the other browsers out there– Internet Explorer, Chrome, Safari– Firefox stands out. Why? Addons. I love Firefox because of addons. I have previously mentioned some of my favorite addons in the post Some of the Best Firefox Addons, Ever; Part 1. There are so many good addons out there that I am compelled [...]

I am frequently asked by other bloggers how to publish a blog to Kindle. I’ve written numerous emails and a few guest articles on it– but to keep things nice and simple, I’ll also post a visually-rich tutorial here. I hope it is useful to you. Amazon.com offers a terrific service to blog writers: have [...]

StumbleUpon is a website/community that allows you to share and discover new websites. It was started up in 2001, purchased by eBay in 2007, and then sold again. It’s now privately-owned. StumbleUpon is very popular among bloggers; getting a blog post “stumbled” can increase traffic exponentially. I have had blog posts receive upwards of 10,000 [...]

A gravatar is defined as a “Globally Recognized Avatar.” We know it as a cool picture next to comments and profiles. Gravatar is now owned by Automattic, the folks who helped develop the WordPress software. They offer the gravatar service free of charge. Isn’t that nice of them? In the screenshot below, the first commenter [...]

I haven’t been able to confirm this outside of a few blogging circles and blog-journals, but it sounds like MyBlogLog is closing down in the near future. I admit that I haven’t been to the website (of which I am a member) in about a year. It’s been overshadowed by other social networks, such as [...]