I lost count of the number of times I changed templates for this blog. Manipulating page elements and customizing the over-all look used to cause me a lot of headaches, especially with the Old Blogger format. You had to deal with unintelligible codes which oftentimes will not work once you mistyped a code or failed to separate it with spaces. This blog used to have codes visible near the header simply because I didn't know how to get rid of it. Tweaking the code design and removing it simply made matters worse.
Which got me thinking: First the mass commercialization and acceptance of the PC became the norm, then the mouse facilitated its even broader practical usage, then the internet revolutionized everything, and then e-mail, chats, and personal sites like blogs. Blogs peaked last year, especially in China where expression of personal opinions remain restricted. I think this year is the year of the widgets. No, not midgets, widgets. Widgets are simply web applications or blog add-ons. Blogger calls these "Page Elements" that allow blog owners to personalize their sites to their hearts' content.
If I'm not mistaken, MySpace users were way ahead even of Blogger, as widgets were already a standard feature. Towards the end of last year, the New Blogger format became widget-friendly, and since it is the dominant blog platform, suddenly, widgets are everywhere.
Google is definitely the dominant internet portal, wresting market leadership away from Yahoo. The search engine remains highly preferred. Youtube and Google video are way ahead of other platforms, although I wish Youtube wouldn't limit it to just 10 minutes of playback time. Amazingly, I never thought I'd be able to watch almost-impossible- to-find video clips of great artists of the classical music genre. I am forever grateful. G-mail, although still in beta, is absolutely fantastic. Since I do a lot of research, just from the content of my e-mails, G-mail automatically displays related sites, albeit some are really for money-generating purposes. Still, it provides a lot of help for my research work.
Which got me thinking: First the mass commercialization and acceptance of the PC became the norm, then the mouse facilitated its even broader practical usage, then the internet revolutionized everything, and then e-mail, chats, and personal sites like blogs. Blogs peaked last year, especially in China where expression of personal opinions remain restricted. I think this year is the year of the widgets. No, not midgets, widgets. Widgets are simply web applications or blog add-ons. Blogger calls these "Page Elements" that allow blog owners to personalize their sites to their hearts' content.
If I'm not mistaken, MySpace users were way ahead even of Blogger, as widgets were already a standard feature. Towards the end of last year, the New Blogger format became widget-friendly, and since it is the dominant blog platform, suddenly, widgets are everywhere.
Google is definitely the dominant internet portal, wresting market leadership away from Yahoo. The search engine remains highly preferred. Youtube and Google video are way ahead of other platforms, although I wish Youtube wouldn't limit it to just 10 minutes of playback time. Amazingly, I never thought I'd be able to watch almost-impossible- to-find video clips of great artists of the classical music genre. I am forever grateful. G-mail, although still in beta, is absolutely fantastic. Since I do a lot of research, just from the content of my e-mails, G-mail automatically displays related sites, albeit some are really for money-generating purposes. Still, it provides a lot of help for my research work.
2 comments:
Great look! Simple and clean. You should add an email addie after the I, me and myself sidebar so The One could easily contact you if ever that person happens to read your blog.
I suddenly realized that The One portion is so corny haha I've decided to remove it :)
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