I get about 20-30 spam comments per day.

Here are some examples.

I know Christian Louboutin would NOT send spam comments to me.

I checked their homepage.

This shows it’s no news to them -

they have a warning on their homepage…

It looks like Mike knows me.

But hey, he thinks I’m a man!!! oh men…

And Anna or Beth, I’ve had enough of your spam comments, thank you very much!

SPAM YOU!!!

Do you get a lot of spam comments?

Last week I wrote an article why Blogger bloggers are so stubborn?

and I got quite a few comments.

Some of them said that it’s pointless to leave a comment to say for example

“Have a great weekend!” etc.

I THOUGHT that it’s a nice way to leave a blogger (who I know) a greeting, so she/he knows I’ve visited – rather than say nothing.

Now I don’t know what to do.

I read an article here how NOT to leave comments.

I noticed that my way of commenting is totally out of date.

It was ‘a rule’ some time ago to say “stopping by from xxx” and now it’s a no-no.

We all knew ‘we belong to the same community’ but that’s not ‘in’ anymore.

I didn’t know that’s a no-no.

Now I do.

I need to improve my skills to say something relevant

or

shut up.

I thought every blogger would be happy to get comments,

even if it’s just greetings

(when you ‘know’ the blogger it should be enough interaction if the post is too long to read at that time etc.)

or

if you play a meme just to say ‘meme greetings’ without deeper messege

IF you don’t have anything to say about the actual post

BUT you want to say something because you play the same game.

How wrong I was.

From now on I stop saying nonsense. If I don’t have anything to say about the post

I shut up.

ps. I didn’t realize early enough that SILENCE is common way to say

‘I’m not interested’ or ‘I don’t need this kind of  comments’…

It took a while but I’ll learn!

I’m sorry if my comments have been ‘empty’…

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Links to share:

tips for commenting

and

No Money can buy a true Comment

How about you – does it matter what kind of comments you get?

ps. we all know how stupid “I’m here and now I follow you – please follow me back!” comments are.

I follow those who I WANT to follow.

The same with giveaways. You can’t buy my love with giveaways.

ps.ps. Thanks to all those Blogger bloggers who’ve changed their comment settings to Name/URL option!

Leaving a comment is much more easier now!

TED: Ideas worth spreading: Keith Barry, Nic Marks, Peter Molyneux, Eve Ensler

I love TED videos!

How about you?

Keith Barry does brain magic

Here’s the link to the video if you want to copy paste it…

http://www.ted.com/talks/keith_barry_does_brain_magic.html

Do you like brain magic? I do. But I remember there is the word ‘magic’ after brain…

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Statistician Nic Marks asks why we measure a nation’s success by its productivity — instead of by the happiness and well-being of its people. He introduces the Happy Planet Index, which tracks national well-being against resource use (because a happy life doesn’t have to cost the earth). Which countries rank highest in the HPI? You might be surprised. (Recorded at TEDGlobal 2010, July 2010 in Oxford, UK. Duration: 16:49)

The Happy Planet Index: Nic Marks on TED.com

Here’s the link to the video if you want to copy paste it…

http://www.ted.com/talks/nic_marks_the_happy_planet_index.html

A comment by Luis Perez from Costa Rica

“I like to consider myself a citizen of the world. However, I was born and raised in Costa Rica… and I’m still here! Nick is right, we are very happy We still have a lot of problems and we could do a lot better but we are happy most of the time… Could be our history, could be our weather, but most of all I think is all about “doing the best you can with the tools you have”.

Now, you heard the man:

1. Connect

2. Be active

3. Take notice

4. Keep learning

5. Give

There are a lot of interesting comments, worth to read!

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Peter Molyneux demos Milo, a hotly anticipated video game for Microsoft’s Kinect controller. Perceptive and impressionable like a real 11-year-old, the virtual boy watches, listens and learns — recognizing and responding to you.

(Recorded at TEDGlobal 2010, July 2010 in Oxford, UK. Duration: 11:16)

Meet Milo, the virtual boy: Peter Molyneux on TED.com

Here’s the link to the video if you want to copy paste it…

http://www.ted.com/talks/peter_molyneux_demos_milo_the_virtual_boy.html/

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“Eve Ensler, playwright, activist, created the ground-breaking Vagina Monologues,

whose success propelled her to found V-Day –a movement

to end violence against women and girls everywhere.”

Eve Ensler on security

Here’s the link to the video if you want to copy paste it…

http://www.ted.com/talks/eve_ensler_on_security.html

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Which one is your favourite video and why?

Why some Blogger bloggers are so stubborn?

Why is it so difficult to change your comment settings so that it would be

easy to leave a comment?

Why some of you give only google account option? Why, please tell me!

Why can’t you have Name/URL option?

That way we (other than Blogger bloggers)

would get linked to the right profile page at once.

Not via myopenID page or OLD Blogger profile page. That would save time – for all of us!

I’ve written about this 21.7.2010 here.

Or do you want to have comments from only those who are in Blogger? Please tell me!

Here are a few Blogger blogs which use EASY TO COMMENT options.

A great photographer Stickup Artist

She has Name/URL option.

As you can see I can choose which URL I use (I have 3 blog addresses).

That’s it!

No hassle with google/blogger account options!

(Blogger/google option gives me a WRONG link because my blog has moved.

That means that if somebody clicks that link she/he goes

first to my Blogger profile page and from there to my actual, correct blog address!

IF she/he is still willing to do that! )

Olé!

Correct link

straight to the right place!

What’s bad about this option is that there’s no follow-up option.

Even if I get a reply from this blogger I don’t have no way to know about it.

Only option is to visit another time and check. That’s time consuming.

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Lisleman has DISQUS.

When you start commenting

you sign into DISQUS and keep login

until you finish your commenting tour.

One login saves time and energy!

IMAGINE IF ALL BLOGGER BLOGGERS HAD DISQUS

HOW MUCH TIME AND ENERGY WE WOULD SAVE!

I’ve never experienced any problems with DISQUS.

Lisleman has a funny, great idea of one post and a lot of comments to that.

Check it out here!

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Jayne has DISQUS too. What’s good about DISQUS is that you can follow-up comments.

If/when Jayne replies to my comment I get an email and can reply to her reply.

That’s called interaction!

Jayne is a great writer ! Check out her blog here!

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IF you don’t want commenting to be easy for

other than Blogger bloggers

it would be great to know why not?

IF you want comments please make other than Blogger bloggers life easier, thank you!

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Suomalaisille…

Olen useampaa teita pyytänyt vaihtamaan asetuksia kommentointiasetuksiin. Koska niin ei ole tapahtunut oletin ettei kommenttini ole tärkeitä ja lopettanut sanomiseni.

Samoin suurin osa niistä jotka eivät enää kommentoi täällä millään kielellä vaikka tietävät Suomen kieleni sujuvan vallan hyvin edelleen, näkemiin.

Sääli, sillä moni blogi oli kiva seurata. Joitakin olen seurannut melkein kaksi vuotta jonka olen tässä kuussa bloggausta harrastanut.

Ajat muuttuu. Niin myös bloggaaminen.

Yhä useampi lukee posteja Readerin kautta eikä vaivaudu kommentoimaan.

Moni odottaa saavansa kommentteja muttei itse vaivaudu näkemään samaa vaivaa.

Aina ei tarvitse olla syvällistä sanomista. Ihan niin kuin ‘oikeassa elämässä’ voi vaan sanoa moi! hyvää päivän jatkoa… Vai oletko törmännyt johonkin ihmiseen joka suhtautuisi nyrpeästi jos moikkaat?

Yksipuolinen monologi ei bloggaamisessa ole minun juttuni.

Jos olisi, sulkisin kommenttiosion kokonaan.

Toivotan kaikille entisille blogitutuille hyvää jatkoa!

Ne joiden blogeja edelleen seuraan: kommentteja tulee kunhan tästä ehdin!

Recently I’ve had several blogging problems.

I googled for help.

People who I asked couldn’t help.

No luck.

You know the feeling when you’re lost, totally lost and don’t know where to go next…

I was totally lost.

One day I noticed a blogger sharing tips. That’s how I met Lynda. Helping others. Sharing tips and help.

What was difficult for me was easy for her.

Lynda helped me!

Three keys to more abundant living:

caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

- William A. Ward

Please check her >>> digitalwoe blog. It’s full of tips. And beautiful photographs.

Here you find her finds >>> Friday Finds: Purple post with lots of hints included.

Lynda has her own >>> Flickr gallery – you should visit. And why not to join if you’re a photographer!

Thank you Lynda!

We care, dare and share – that’s what blogging is about.

Or what do you think, what blogging is for you?

Last week I got a Tweet from The Social Traveler – of course we wanted to meet him!

Ladies and gentlemen,

THE Social Traveler!

“Hi! I’m Bjorn and passionate about traveling and Social Media!

Since 2006 I’ve had the luck to be working in Social Media

and saw from upclose how rapidly a worldwide network of people took shape.

Now I’ve always wanted to travel the world, so I decided to combine both passions and I started working on ‘The Social Traveler’ idea.”

Bjorn showed his pictures on Picasa

We had dinner at Syrian restaurant…

His  camera has seen a lot of beautiful girls people – are you next?

We took a taxi to…

…La Bodega de Casablanca, Olé!

Bjorn has a similar picture on his Picasa album – I checked!

French expat life in Casablanca

It was nice to meet you all!

Maybe we’ll meet again!?

The Social Traveler is heading next (I copied this from his note):

“I’m now heading for Meknes, then Fes, then Merzouga, then Ouarzazate then by Sevilla to Belgium to see my sister. In Belgium I’m also gonna do the walk of death. 100km in 24h After that I’m going for a BBQ with my Camino Family in Germany.”

The Social Traveler.net also on Facebook

If you visit his site say hi from BLOGitse!

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ps. WO*IMA is back! THIS FRIDAY!

No, not on Monday as I thought… we go back to the old routine –

a picture on Friday (or late Thursday Casa time if I’m awake ) and

edited version is out on Sunday…