Luke Carbis

Once a clean, fresh (if not so intuitive) MySpace alternative - now a spam ridden hell hole of useless applications. If you’re not met with a veritable plethora of applications each time you log in to Facebook, then you’re a minority. And if you don’t hit that damned ignore button at least 10 times a day - you might consider decalring Facebook bankrupsy, and creating a new account, to save yourself the hours of ignoring that are saved up waiting for you.

The question that came to mind yesterday is a question I’m sure many have pondered. Is it possible to take Facebook back to the “good-’ol-days” - before pirates, ninjas, warewolves, vampires, super-walls, scrabble, and any other application you could possibly be bothered to imagine?

The answer: Yes, and it’s not too hard. I like lists, here’s one to help you clean up your Facebook account.

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I read all my blogs once per day.

Often, I get quite annoyed when someone hasn’t updated their blog in a few days. It makes me loose interest in the blog, and I remove it from my list. Others only check their blogs maybe every second day, and might be too overwhelmed with blogs that are updated multiple times daily. With too much to read, the blog drops off their list.

My point is this: A key factor to retaining readers is knowing how often they check your blog for updates.

Here’s how to do it (It’s really easy).

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Those who know me know that I bookmark all my blogs, and read them everyday.

Some of my friends use a nifty little thing called RSS, which allows you to quickly view all the new posts from your favourite posts, conveniently arranged neatly in the one spot: your RSS reader.

I can’t stand to do this.

Why? I’m glad you asked.

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I remember when Favicons first started to appear. It’s so nice to reminisce on the development of the internet.

We should start this post with this: What’s a favicon?

The favicon is the little icon that appears alongside the address bar in most browsers, looks like this:

They make your site look that much better, more professional.

Next question: How do I get a favicon? (more…)

During the 5 minutes that I spend focusing and planning everyday, today I made a list of what kind of person I would like to be. I figure the first step to being more comfortable with who you are, is defining exactly what is is that would make you comfortable.

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