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Blogging 101: 2024 – Positive Developments & Lessons Learned From 2023

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As we bid farewell to 2023 and welcome the dawn of a , it’s time to reflect on the positive developments that lie ahead in . From advancements in to economic growth, , computing, space exploration, medical breakthroughs, and cultural evolution, there is much to look forward to. Let’s dive into what we can expect and what lessons we have learned from the past year. Photo by Andreas Rasmussen on Unsplash

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Blogging 101: Gaza Crisis, Local News & Other Snippets

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photo showing inspecting the damage following an Israeli airstrike on the El-Remal area in Gaza City on October 9, 2023. Israel continued to battle fighters on October 10 and massed tens of thousands of troops and heavy armour around the Gaza Strip after vowing a massive blow over the Palestinian militants’ surprise attack. Photo by Naaman Omar apaimages

It has been more than a month and the battle between the Israeli military & Hamas in Gaza continues every day we are seeing more protests and casualties and definitely both sides are throwing their own facts & lies to influence global opinion on this crisis.

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Blogging 101: News Snippets As At 28 April 2021

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– Still remember this so-called Professor Kamarul Zaman who in 2018 was one of three panellists and was criticising and stressing why should not be a Prime Minister.

It was reported that the Professor wetted himself (which the Professor strongly denies) when Dr M gatecrashed the Shah Alam and posted on “I am here guys. Say it to my face.” Well, he is back with wild allegations of veiled religious conversion by using charity. Image source: Malaysiakini.

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Blogging 101: It Has Been A Challenging Year 2020

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One has to admit that year have been a very challenging year, not only for the country but for everyone around the world. One main factor that had shaken everyone left, right and centre have been the pandemic. Will things getting better in the coming year 2021? Image source: The Journal of mHealth

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Blogging 101: News Snippets As At 22 December 2020

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– Highland Tower condominium happened 27 years ago on 11th December 1993 and it was one of the worst tragedies in the country. 48 people died from the said tragedy – a tragedy that should not have happened. Image source: The Star

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Blogging 101: Time to move from the Classic Editor

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With blogging on WordPress, I always knew that this day would come even though I’m on a self hosted site. I guess it’s time for me to let go the and embrace the new .

With the introduction of the Block editor, the .com Classic Editor was set for retirement at the beginning of June.

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Blogging 101: 6 Boring Things To Do To Revitalise Old Blog Posts

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When I have free time for , I spent most of the time drafting posts for the upcoming publications. It has never been a smooth process considering that I have general ideas but when it comes to the details, I would just stare at the screen contemplating the words to use – to start the post off and then go clueless on what comes next. Cartoon source: Danziger / New York Times

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Blogging 101: 3 Types of Bad Youtube Videos You Should NOT Watch

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In these social media days, hardly a day goes by when one will not be in touch with social media like , Instagram, and of course, . Over the years, I have come to rely on sites for my dose of debates, motivation talks, travels, documentaries, interviews, how-to-do tutorials, comedy, music videos, concerts, movies and other forms of entertainment. Image Source: Photo by Kon Karampelas on Unsplash

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Blogging 101: Enriched And Rewarding, 15 Years of Blogging

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What is the biggest challenge that I have faced in all my years of ? The same as many other bloggers out there – time to do a post. Mind you, when I say the time, this includes the time to think of the blog post idea, the time to get enough research to be done, time to draft the content and finally posting it. source: Orbit Media

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Blogging 101: Which is Better – Frequent Short Post or Infrequent Long Post?

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Ever since I moved to my own site, I have been trying to be “more consistent” with my post of contents. Image source: elitecopywriter.com

In a way, it is a good thing because I am forced to be on my toe to look out for contents for the – fortunately there is no lack of source for the content, from current , photos, my dreams and travels.

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Blogging 101: 5 Fascinating Mistakes Discovered With Self Hosted WordPress

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I have been blogging on WordPress.com site since 2007 (earlier since 2005 in Blogger.com) and since it is a free site where certain things cannot be done or limited (like installing , monetization of the site, etc), all I had to worry about back then was ensuring that I had good content for the post. Image source: WordPress.org.

Seriously back then terminologies like SEO, AMP, Fast Website Loading, Caching, Backups, etc was basically sounded alien to me. Well not true exactly, I had some idea on some of the concepts as I have seen the same at my workplace but it was clear that using the free .com site, there was nothing much I could play around on this.

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