Blogging Outside of Your Community By Not Blogging in Your Native Tongue — A person writing in a language that is not their own, especially when those words are published for all to read, may bear a responsibility to their readers to disclose that the language in the blog is not their native language, thus, giving readers a chance to forgive them before they correct them. — Read More… | Digg Story

I do agree with the author, that blogging outside your community has an impact on the number of people following you inside the community. For philsblogging.com, it has had a postive effect, too — at least on my blog, there are about 50% international visitors.

I am proud to announce that PHIL’s Blogging is now available under philsblogging.com! Due to some provider domain server delay the transition will be complete in the run of the next week. Nothing is going to change for you (RSS feeds, bookmarks, …), expect that you can now enter my blog via the new domain. I hope you like it. It’s neat. Sort of.

If you are still experiencing troubles with the new domain, try later. It might be your internet provider’s fault. Some check new domains overnight. Have a good one.

In case you are wondering why I decided to go dot com, here is an explanation: Well. My marketing department (a rather imaginary entity of philsblogging.com) told me to go for something they call label branding or whatever. Besides, they also recommended me to apply the Make-my-Logo-Bigger cream and the White-Space eliminator spray. Check out this website with a hilarious video on marketing must-haves.

UPDATE: There shouldn’t be anymore out there in the world wide web who experiences problems when accessing PHIL’s Blogging via philsblogging.com — In case there are problems, please contact me. The seamless transition was quite successful. The Wordpress system now runs on philsblogging.com!

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It’s quite common that bloggers, journalists and writers (the list is of course ordered by descending importance) try really hard to facilitate (make easier) the illustration of content.

So it is quite obvious that, say, when talking about incredibly lengthy lengths, enormously spacious spaces, unbelievably high heights, extremely speedy speeds — okay, I think you are getting my point — or fairly numerous numbers of people, you better compare (I also had to go back to the beginning of the sentence to figure out its ending. Thus don’t feel bad.) the incredibly lengthy lengths, [...] or fairly numerous number of people to something people can relate to and understand. Keep reading, it’s getting even better…

Being a geek can be a pain in the throat during high school, but isn’t it a thing of beauty to possess some sort of geeky tendencies — in real life? Well, today I’d love to draw your attention to this hilarious comic series, The Joy Of Tech. Picking up recent Apple and Web news (Tech is the short for technology, Thank You Captain Obvious) The Joy Of Tech comics tend to make fun of our beloved Geek Culture. Yeah loving that comic makes me geeky in two ways. 1. OAD = Obsessive Apple Disorder & 2. Comics

Please check this out, it is megatively awesome and in today’s entry, I’d love to show you some of my favorite “The Joy Of Tech” comics…

Tons of Words, but where to put them? — Well, the very essence of fostering good language speaking and writing skills is training. This training turns out to be quite dependent on the individual. Some like it hot learning new phrases directly in conversations, others need a specific example written down right in front of them to really pick it up (long-term).

Learn more about how to improve your performance concerning language skills. This picture actually made me crack up, because whenever I studied for some test in high school, I had some popcorn pop in the microwave. You wanna know why? Pretty easy. For every right guessed vocab, I “was allowed” to have one popcorn. Yummie. It’s psychologically shown that goodies can help you learning. Just like a dog wants its bone after making some super-magic trick.

Did you ever wondered what is the world’s biggest picture on the internet. There you go (harlem-13-gigapixels.org)! This rather astonishing shot is showing New York’s district HARLEM (Angles of Harlem — U2). It is just incredible how close you can zoom. By the way, it is a 13 giga pixel picture. Yeah, read twice. GIGA! Wohoo!

Jason Decides Reality Is Too Hard via Overheard Everywhere

Mom: Does Mommy look fat in this?

Toddler: Yes!

Mom: No! You’re supposed to say no!

Toddler: [Silence.]

Overyhead everywhere is my new PHIL’s Pick, since it gathering snippets of particularly dumb conversations. Love it! I suggest you subscribe to the rss-feed, so you won’t miss quotations that are kick-butt :)

Picture by rachaelvoorhees