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Two years ago, I posted How Google Helped Kill the Indie Web and How It Can Bring It Back. I outlined in 700 words how Google could restore blogging popularity while taking on the social media...
Read more →I wrote a SQL query to see how many blog posts I published by year - excluding the current year.  \ Seven years ago, I removed around 750 blog posts that...
Read more →This is a follow-up to my 2019 post on this topic. Months after that post, I gave advice to two friends that wanted to get started blogging. One friend was successful and one wasn't. I will refer to...
Read more →I recently released a brand new version of my radio tribute site NeilRogers.org. This is what I added to the footer of the site. > 2012-2021 NeilRogers.org is a project maintained by Michael Allen...
Read more →This is version 2 of this article, which was originally published on Jan 25, 2020. It has more updated information. One of the many complaints I have about WordPress is that it has become a magnet...
Read more →Remember that scene in the movie Titanic (spoiler ahead) when the ship started going down? The passengers were racing to get off the ship, but the musicians accepted their fate, sat back down, and...
Read more →After my last post, My Blog Was Hacked and WordPress Sucks I received an email from a reader that I want to share and respond to. > What a clusterfck, Just think of the headaches that would create...
Read more →This morning my blog was down. Some hackers uploaded scripts to mine crypto, which broke my WordPress install. With the help of SiteGround support, I was able to get the site up and running and free...
Read more →Well, not a huge mistake, but for me, a serious mistake. !I've made a huge mistake In May 2018, I sold the original domain for this blog (criticalmas.com) and set up shop here at criticalmas.org. At...
Read more →In my previous post, I called out Google as playing a huge role in pushing users away from blogs and into the social media silos. But bloggers themselves are equally to blame for chasing users away....
Read more →My hope is that someone that works inside Google reads this post and shares it with their co-workers. Maybe this post can get a conversation going about where the web is heading next. In 2013, Google...
Read more →Maybe as a result of breaking up with social media (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter), I've become more nostalgic for earlier times. I have fond memories of the early pioneer spirit of the independent...
Read more →In May when I sold the domain that used to house this blog, I considered moving everything over to Medium.com. It would have been a lot of work. I decided against the move. I got some good comments...
Read more →más MAS is a new feature I'm adding to the Critical MAS blog. These will be links to things that I'm doing that are outside of this blog. In this first edition, I will catch up on the first half of...
Read more →I'm putting this post together as a way to gather my thoughts on the current state of blogging. WordPress is a Bloated Mess I've been using WordPress now since 2007. I use it on 5 of my websites now....
Read more →Let me give my fellow bloggers an easy win tip for their blog. Run a broken link checker on a regular basis. And then, fix those broken links! There are a number of reasons to make this a routine. 1....
Read more →If you've never been in a negotiation to sell a domain, you may not know how it works. I've sold several domain names over the years an here is what typically happens. You'll receive a respectful but...
Read more →You've probably received a lot of emails in the last month related to privacy policy updates. This was all in response to the GDPR privacy laws. I had zero interest in figuring out if my sites might...
Read more →In my last post, I mentioned that I was approached by a company to buy the domain that has hosted my personal website since March 2000. That domain was CriticalMAS.com. The offer I received was...
Read more →I'm currently in negotiations with a party interested in buying the criticalmas.com domain. I was not looking to sell the domain. They approached me. All the content would still belong to me. They...
Read more →A year ago, I posted Medium and Blog Housekeeping. The plan was to republish some of my best posts there to gain new readers. After a few months, the stats told me that almost nobody was seeing my...
Read more →All the topics that I listed in Breaking CriticalMAS - A Return to Blogging? are now finished. In that post, I said: > I’d like to wrap up some of the topics I left open. At that point I may or may...
Read more →The deeper I get into nutrition, the more I realize I have no business blogging about it. There are nutritional researchers and bloggers online that are far more knowledgeable than me. There are also...
Read more →One of the projects I've been doing recently is going back into the archives, finding posts that have inaccurate information, and making 2017 updates where appropriate. I also run a broken link...
Read more →Over the years as my interests have changed so have the topics on my blog. From hiking to financial to fitness to nutrition to cooking to whatever sparked my curiosity. But there is one huge...
Read more →It has been almost a year since I stopped blogging. I outlined my reasons in the post Goodbye For Now. I've enjoyed the break and I'm not sure I want to resume blogging on a regular basis, but I did...
Read more →Ten years ago this month I relaunched this blog. Before that I had a blog from 2000 to 2004. And before that I had various pre-blog personal pages going back to either late 1995 or early 1996. I'm...
Read more →I need some feedback. Something has been bothering me for a while now. It has to do with blogging about health and nutrition. When hobbyists like myself learn new information, change our views, and...
Read more →I haven't been blogging as much this year and I wasn't sure why until recently. I wrapped up last year by stating that I was likely done posting on some topics. One was getting stronger in the gym...
Read more →This post is the conclusion of how I answered the questions raised in the post Feeling Destructive. Shortly after that post, I deleted 750 blog entries from this site. Mostly they were the type of...
Read more →I am not in the mood to blog. I haven't been in a while. I feel like destroying. There is too much noise. There are times when I don't want to add to the discussion. I want to pull away and reassess....
Read more →Recently someone told me I should write coffee shop reviews. As with most advice prefaced with the word should, it was bad advice. I'll explain why later, but first a little history. I've had a...
Read more →I finally got around to playing with the MailChimp application long enough to publish the 1st CriticalMAS newsletter. The theme was Summer of Moving. Not sure if I'll have a theme for every...
Read more →Yesterday I moved this blog off Site 5. My page draws were fast, the server was stable and with one exception the service was excellent. Why did I leave? Because my account exceeded their in house...
Read more →Looks like I will be forced to change web hosts again. Site 5 has turned out to be no better than the rest. In many ways they are worse. More on that in a future post. They claim I am exceeding their...
Read more →Yesterday I deleted about 12 blog post drafts that had been piling up. Most were from early 2014 and late 2013, although one I started back in 2011. As someone who has been blogging since March 2000\...
Read more →One of the things I most dislike about the health and fitness blogosphere is that certain people with some level of popularity can dismiss honest criticisms from less popular bloggers or commenters...
Read more →This is a post about my thoughts regarding permalinks and blogging. My opinions are likely different than what you'll hear from an SEO "guru". I'm not an SEO "guru". I'm just a blogger that has been...
Read more →I have some pretty strong opinions when it comes to the web, especially when it comes to owning and controlling your own work. In recent months I've become increasingly frustrated with Facebook. I...
Read more →This past weekend I got to meet and spend time with Stephan from Biohacks.net. We are both fans of each others blogs, so I was honored to be interviewed for his site. Interview with CriticalMAS
Read more →I love cooking and then food blogging about what I made. As honorable as sharing my kitchen adventure is to others might be, I realized that my primary motivation is selfish. Whenever I take on a new...
Read more →Not that Google cares about what I think or even bugs I've found using their products, but I thought of a simple solution to their Blogger FTP problem. Google states they are abandoning support for...
Read more →Every now and then someone will tell me what I should blog about. Someday I'll explain why I detest the word should, but for now I'll explain who the target audience is for the blog. Only after the...
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