Playing With Numbers

Posted by Viktoria Michaelis on April 17, 2013 in Internet | ∞

Statistics lie. We all know it, we all accept it and still, whenever something comes up involving this number of people that number of events, we accept whatever it is that has been said. Even, despite our theoretical common sense, when two sets of figures come out for exactly the same thing and are so [...]

Tags: Internet, Listings, Weblog

Making Cents Online!

Posted by Viktoria Michaelis on March 28, 2013 in Internet | ∞

I could have called this post ‘Making Money Online’ which might, almost, have been equally true, but making cents is closer when you actually look at what is available and what gets paid out at the end of the month – or longer! I’m talking about these get paid to view advertising sites, and there [...]

Tags: Business, Internet, Listings, Money

Dear Spammers

Posted by Viktoria Michaelis on March 22, 2013 in Internet | ∞

Dear Spammers, it is wonderful that you have taken time out to come and plague visit my site and you have no idea how much it isn’t appreciated. However, could I ask a small favor of you please? Rather than plaguing visiting one page or post and adding your worthwhile and intellectually enhancing messages, could [...]

Tags: Google, Internet, Listings, Spam, Spammers

Facebook: Eighty-Seven Million Fakes

Posted by Viktoria Michaelis on February 21, 2013 in Internet, News & Opinion | ∞

The title of this post is, perhaps, a little bit misleading because it is a figure which is almost impossible to estimate. However, if Facebook is to be believed, and I am sure they can safely make their own estimates when it comes to their side of the business, this is the number of fake [...]

Tags: Children, Facebook, Internet, Listings, News & Opinion, Security, Social Media

The Ultimate SEO Post

Posted by Viktoria Michaelis on February 16, 2013 in Internet | ∞

Do you check and see where people come from, how they get to your blog, where they land, what they look at and where they go on to? Apparently this is recommended by everyone who has anything to say about Search Engine Optimization (SEO), along with a liberal use of so-called key or buzzwords. The [...]

Tags: Google, Internet, Listings, SEO

So Many Facts And Figures

Posted by Viktoria Michaelis on January 4, 2013 in Internet | ∞

Society is in overload, at least as far as the flood of information we are confronted with each and every day is concerned. You cannot turn your head, no matter where you are, without seeing some form of news items, an advertisement, general information. It is almost impossible to keep up with everything that is [...]

Tags: Alexa, Education, Google, Internet, Life, Listings, WordPress

Unexpected Good Start

Posted by Viktoria Michaelis on January 1, 2013 in Internet | ∞

Some things really come as a welcome surprise, some as something of a shock. This one is the former, really unexpected but most definitely a boost not just to my morale, but also to the first day of the new year. My blog has been chosen as an Editor’s Pick of the Day on Bloggers, [...]

Tags: Internet, Listings, Weblog, Writing

Learning From Spam

Posted by Viktoria Michaelis on December 27, 2012 in Internet | ∞

I think we can all agree, spam is something that none of us wants in our inbox, on our web sites or blogs. Still, there are times when it can be enlightening, even if the spammers themselves probably have absolutely no inkling of what they have sent and whether it is relevant to the web [...]

Tags: Internet, Listings, Spam, Spammers

No, Wait, What?

Posted by Viktoria Michaelis on November 17, 2012 in Internet | ∞

I think I can quite confidently state: no software is perfect. We all have our little pet peeves over this and that, over something which doesn’t quite work the way we would want it to – and which we often can’t alter because the software isn’t Open Source – and that feeling of frustration isn’t [...]

Tags: Google, Humor, Listings, People, Photography

Content Farms: Outdated or Still Relevant?

Posted by Viktoria Michaelis on November 14, 2012 in Internet, News & Opinion | ∞

It is only a few months ago but, for some, it seems almost as if it were yesterday: the largest Internet ranking company Google announced that it would be penalizing web sites which fail to show originality, which are designed only to publish and publicize articles on whatever subject with the intention of gaining advertising [...]

Tags: Bing, Google, Listings, News & Opinion, Writing, Yahoo

Who’s Following You?

Posted by Viktoria Michaelis on October 30, 2012 in News & Opinion | ∞

In my last post – Who’s Watching You – I wrote about the marketing strategies of various Internet web sites, of advertising and the collection of data from individual visits to web sites while surfing through the Internet. Now I wish to take it one step further following an announcement by the German telecommunications company [...]

Tags: Life, Listings, News & Opinion, Telecommunications

Who’s Watching You?

Posted by Viktoria Michaelis on October 30, 2012 in Internet, News & Opinion | ∞

You’ll have seen it more than once, if you’re really interested in Social Media Networking, you’ll have seen it many times: Big Brother. Stories, articles, essays and a whole mess of scaremongering about what happens each and every time you log onto the Internet. Someone, somewhere is watching over you, peeking over your shoulder and [...]

Tags: Facebook, Google, Internet, Life, Listings, News & Opinion

Getting Involved

Posted by Viktoria Michaelis on October 25, 2012 in Internet | ∞

The other day someone told me that I am famous because when he put my name into Google a mass of entries came up. Well, that’s fine by me, but not exactly unusual. I don’t think there are too many people with exactly the same name as I have – although I’ve Googled my name [...]

Tags: Internet, Life, Listings, Society, Work

Search Terms

Posted by Viktoria Michaelis on September 20, 2012 in Internet, News & Opinion | ∞

Absolutely amazed to see that someone found my blog by using the term Man Hater this afternoon. I wonder how the search engines came across that and why I am listed? Or perhaps everyone who concentrates on women, or is a lesbian, automatically comes up as a man hater? Big discussions in Germany at the [...]

Tags: Internet, Listings, Men, News & Opinion