Read an interesting article titled Growing shift from blogs by Verne G. Kopytoff in NST dated February, 28 2011. The gist of the article was about the waning interest in blogging by the younger generations who prefer social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter to blogs. Do you think that blogging is at its ending? For me, I just don’t think so..
Blogging started about 10 years ago by services, such as Blogger and LiveJournal, became so popular that Merriam-Webster declared “blog” as the word of the year in 2004. I remembered that.. Now, blogs are being challenged by Facebook with its all-purpose hub for posting anything under the Sun and Twitter that becomes part of the so called microblogging services, which allows messages of no longer than 140 characters..
Let me share some quotes from the article that would be of interest to bloggers..
According to Elisa Camahort Page, a co-founder of BlogHer, “If you’re looking for substantive conversation, you turn to blogs. You aren’t going to find it on Facebook, and you aren’t going to find it in 140 characters on Twitter.”
“The act of telling your story and sharing part of your life with somebody is alive and well — even more so than at the dawn of blogging. It’s just morphing onto other platforms.”, said Lee Rainie, director of the Internet and American Life Project.
How is Blogger, owned by Google, doing? It had a 2% decline, to 58.6 million unique visitors in the United States in December 2010 compared to a year earlier. However, globally, its unique visitors rose 9%, to 323 million. Have you ever wondered what would happen if Google decides to shutdown Blogger?
On the other hand,WordPress and Tumblr, which also calls itself a blogging service, seem to have avoided any decline. Isn’t that interesting? According to Toni Schneider, chief executive of Automattic, the company that commercializes WordPress blogging software, bloggers often use Facebook and Twitter to promote their blog posts to a wider audience thus making them complimentary rather than competitors. He also mentioned that WordPress is mostly for serious bloggers, not the younger novices who are defecting to social networking.
“There is a lot of fragmentation. But at this point, anyone who is taking blogging seriously — they’re using several mediums to get a large amount of their traffic.”, said Schneider.
Looks like blogging will still be around for a long time folks!
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I hate complicated things and naturally, I would look for shortcuts while fully aware that most shortcuts do not work… Tau tak pe…
This time, I took the shortcut in redirecting my sub domain under http://bbd.kisahberuang.com to http://kisahberuang.com.
The shortcut that I am referring to is using the redirect function in my cPanel.
So, after importing all entries and comments, I selected Redirect with or without www and then selected the Wild Card Redirect as well. It was supposed to make your old links go to your new links when people click on them. So it said…
Done. Tested. The main URL has no issue and it got directed to the new domain. But, the old links, such as from search engine results, gave a page not found instead… Hampeh betui…
I saw Sam of serverfreak online and asked him about my problem. He gave me a solution. That’s why I changed from my previous hosting to serverfreak. It has the best customer services so far. Promote dia sebab dah tolong for free… If you need a reliable hosting, give serverfreak a try. Go to http://www.web-hosting.net.my/.
The solution. Changed the .htaccess file in the subdomain. Changed the original,
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^bbd.kisahberuang.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.bbd.kisahberuang.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ “http\:\/\/kisahberuang\.com$1″ [R=301,L]
To
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?bbd.kisahberuang\.com [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^kisahberuang\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.kisahberuang.com/$1 [R=301,L]
Now, I managed to get any URL referring to the old domain to go to the new domain. Yes! Aku berjaya…
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Still could not figure out how to get old links/entries to go to the old links/entries in the new domain. Camna ek?
It is good to be back after a few days away due to the celebration of Aidil Adha recently. I have been receiving a few queries on how to put the link to my RSS feed using the widget at the bottom right of this blog page and therefore, I might as well share it with all of you who wants to have that as well.
Before I go on, please take note that I am not a programmer and therefore, my explanation would not go beyond my limited technical knowledge. Furthermore, I found this piece of code while hopping around from one blog to another and I could not remember where I learned this but this method was mentioned in a few blogs out there. So, blog hopping is not really a waste of time after all…
This method is the simplest that I have found so far. The other method that I learned was more complex and required that you have access to your hosting server. So, for the benefit of those who are not self hosted, I have decided to teach you this simple coding and it is what I am using too.
CAUTIONS: I am not responsible for any damage to your blog so do this after you have backed up your code and at your own risk!
Below is the code that you need to copy to your HTML file.
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