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  • Should Bloggers Use Twitter?
    Should Bloggers Use Twitter?
    Using Twitter I first started Twittering on my iPhone some months ago after downloading the excellent Tweetie app. My first impression of Twitter was very good. With Tweetie’s excellent interface and a full range of Twitter options (like geo-tagging and URL shortening), I found myself twittering throughout the day. What made the experience even sweeter was using the iPhone 3GS camera to eff...
  • Macha Latte – My Coffee Alternative
    Macha Latte – My Coffee Alternative
    A couple weeks ago, I walked into a coffee shop during the evening hours. There was no one else in line, so I didn’t feel particularly rushed and I took a moment to ask the girl behind the counter what would be a good alternative to my regular cup of organic dark roast coffee. She called out an exhaustive list of specialties and flavored drinks, but nothing really caught my attention. Then,...
  • Do Follow Blogs: Altruism Online
    Do Follow Blogs: Altruism Online
    Sometimes you’ll hear me mention that Aibal is a Do Follow blog. But what does that mean exactly? A Do Follow blog allows commenters to drop a link pointing back to their own website when they comment on mine. In addition, a Do follow blog permits such backlinking to be fully recognized by the major search engines such as Google, Yahoo and MSN Bing. This benefits the target website, as sear...
  • Guitars and Sandwiches
    Guitars and Sandwiches
    Have you ever walked home from work, went into a deli, bought a sandwich, felt good about the sandwich, walked into the guitar shop next to the deli, and bought a guitar? That’s kind of what happened today. And by ‘kind of’ I mean ‘exactly’. I assure you, this isn’t a regular habit of mine – certainly not on my budget – but the funny chain of events played out exactly as I des...