Habla.news (Nostr app)

 Habla is a Nostr-based platform designed for creating and managing blog posts. 

While it shares similarities with Medium, Google blogspot, wordpress, ghost, substack, etc ...  Habla offers a unique and enhanced experience. What sets Habla apart is its integration with the Nostr ecosystem, making it far more versatile than traditional blogging platforms. 

This integration ensures seamless interoperability with a variety of other Nostr apps, enhancing user engagement and experience.

Furthermore, Habla leverages the Lightning Network to facilitate instant rewards for valuable contributions. If your content resonates with readers and is deemed valuable, you have the opportunity to be instantly rewarded with bitcoin – widely regarded as the most innovative form of currency humanity has ever seen.

Microblogging and ping-o-matic

Ensuring that search engines discover your latest blog entry involves a few steps:

1. Submit Your Sitemap: Create an XML sitemap of your blog, listing all the URLs, and submit it to Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools. This helps search engines understand your site structure and crawl it efficiently.

2. Internal Linking: Link to your new blog post from other relevant pages on your site. This helps search engine crawlers find the new content while they navigate through your site.

3. Social Media Sharing: Share your new blog post on social media platforms (facebook, instagram, tumblr, pinterest, whatsapp, etc ...). While this doesn't directly influence search engine crawls, it can attract users to your site, increasing the likelihood of search engine discovery.

4. Ping Services: Some services, like Ping-O-Matic, can notify search engines and blog directories about your new content. This can prompt them to crawl your site sooner.

5. Quality Content and SEO: Ensure your blog posts are well-optimized for search engines with relevant keywords, descriptive meta tags, and proper headings. High-quality content tends to get indexed and ranked faster.

However, keep in mind that search engines have their algorithms for crawling and indexing content, so there's no guaranteed way to enforce their crawl. It may take some time for them to discover and index your new content naturally.

Ping-O-Matic is a service that notifies multiple search engines and blog directories about updates to your website. It's been a popular tool among bloggers for many years. However, it appears that their blog hasn't been updated since 2015, which may raise concerns.

The Mystery has been resolved

Have you ever found yourself staring at a photo, completely stumped about who's in it? Yeah, me too.

This has been going on for months, scratching my head over who could be that cosplayer, and I posted a few articles using this picture, hoping someday to find a match in google lens.

Enter the hero of this story, an online gentleman by the name of cliffordpadraig, who had the answer!

With a keen eye he identified the person in the photo as none other than the fabulous Fabibi World cosplay! 

The mystery of the "unkown Cammy Bison cosplayer" photo  was solved, and it was all thanks to this amazing individual.

Online small act of kindness have big impact. 

It not only cleared up my confusion but also reminded me of the power of online communities. 

Here was the picture:

Fabibi, the Chilean cosplay phenomenon, has graced stages at conventions worldwide, dazzling audiences with her diverse costume creations. Cammy White in her various flavor (Classic Cammy, Killer bee Cammy, and Bison Cammy).

Here is the link to clifford's blog: https://blogclif.wordpress.com/

Once again, thank you very much, good Sir!

Best of from 'myMix'

1. Blonde girls and Internet Celebrities : they can't fail!
2. Cammy is back, fighting Morrigan Aensland
3. Making a Calendar using Gimp or Photoshop
4. Inkscape - customizing keyboards shortcuts
5. Discovering GIMP FX Foundry
6. Cammy and Morrigan gif files

Blog, microblogging, and returning for more

Blogging used to be the king way to publish content on the Internet back in the 2000s

Historically, wordpress, blogger, livejournal, and all these platforms used to be receiving enthusiastic bloggers daily content, that would start great exchange of ideas, experiences, tutorials, and that precluded the arrival of the game changer that was youtube

Blogs were superior because - they were searchable, using keywords

youtube videos - are searchable via keywords too - but when there is a 2 hours lecture of Tom Campbell, I don't think you could retrieve a particular video by typing a sentence you heard, and remembered - because it is a video and searching text within a video is not yet possible.

Currently writing in blogger.com seems to be like typing in an empty place - the blogger.com platform is not well designed for exchange.

How do you end up on this blog? probably via a google search

well, once you (reader) have found the content you were looking for, you leave and never come back

That is where the second game changer has arrived, facebook

This social platform from 2010 - is more like a microblogging platform - you can spend your entire day there on facebook and type 2 lines updates or post a meme, and leave - but then the next day most people are returning ; because their friends are there, their family and that will push them to come back.

Nobody has a family setting up a blog for each member, and typing their life experience, and exchanging there - because it is not a forum.

Wordpress now is that blogging social platform, that looks a bit like a cross between blogger.com and facebook - from there you can set up a reading list, add new content, but also like and reblog from other blogs you are following ...

Instagram too, in a way is enabling such social platform where the content (photo) is king - and allowing the exchange between users.

for more How to Write Great Blog Content

Blogger is kind of dead

Try googling content from blogger.com or blogspot.com

using a syntax like 'keyword -site:blogspot.com' and see what is coming up

Remember google wave, google plus ...

Feels like blogger is about to go down - that is just a feeling, but let's just say

that most of the blogger.com content is either spam, or plain crap

soup.io is dead

Soup.io is dead and all the time spent there is gone in smoke

also 2021 has started and January is almost over

Trump is gone for good (hurray!)

and there is a Worldwide lock-down because of covid-19

fun times

Tumlbr: Massive Exodus

Tumblr new policy on adult content

The decision has been made by Tumblr management to ban all adult content mid-Dec 2018 - this means most of the Tumblr as we know it, will disappear
As most users will fly away - Tumblr was acquired by Yahoo - and most of the users would think back then that this kind of "cleaning" operation was to be predicted.

Where to go?

there are other microblogging like soup.io - but this one is in a very bad shape right now
another interesting alternative is sharesome.com as it is from the start oriented for adult posting - but is relatively new therefore unstable and another one is mastodon - which is still unstable... but has many communities to chose from