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Who is reading my blog

If I take this challenge literally, the answer is easy: Lorelle. At least, there can be no doubt about that when you look at my wordpress dashboard. It makes me so proud to have comments and links from the one blogger I worship most, [more]

A decreasing life expectancy

Recent studies (although fortunately controversial) in the US and France show that life expectancy could soon be decreasing because of the obesity and diabetes ‘epidemic’, chemical poisoning and other lifestyle-induced effects. Hard to believe when everybody has always told us that we would live longer and longer. In a recent radio broadcast (see [1]), agricultural engineer and whistle blower Claude Aubert provides the following explanation. [more]

Who is my blogging persona ?

Lorelle on Wordpress, in her compelling blogging challenge, encourages us to give more details on who we are when blogging:

Who and what is your online blogging persona? Is it different from who you really are in life? How? I’ve been asking who the hell are you for a while now. Here’s your chance to tell us. Who are you, the blogger, when you blog?

At first, I thought: [more]

I had originally posted this text as a comment to Lorelle’s post ‘the debate against anonymous bloggers’, but now that I have a functional blogging platform, it can fit nicely in here too (albeit with much less traffic). Lorelle underlines that readers need to know somehow who is behind the keyboard when they read something. [more]

Answering Lorelle

In a recent post, Lorelle on Wordpress has gathered interesting resources on readability test tools. She invited her readers to have a go with the tools and post the results.

So I’m curious. Take the test and see what it has to say about your blog and tell us about it.

In the flood of comments that followed, I picked up the very interesting reply [more]

This is a story about misery, prejudice, injustice, humiliation and grudge. One I had completely forgotten about until my brother told it as a family joke at a family gathering some years ago. It is a symbol for all the psychological tortures that younger children endure from their elder sisters or brothers.

My brother was probably five years old. [more]

I had been beating around the bush for some months now, wondering and pondering, and brooding my grand blog design. But still nothing was published, apart from the odd comment I would leave here and there on literate blogs. And then Lorelle launched her blogging challenge and is got me diving head first into the cold and turbulent and exhilerating creek of the blogging world.

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