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#259 What blogging means to me, and why my blog isn’t popular: A view through Blog Analytics
Published June 28, 2009 Aditya , Technology 5 CommentsTags: aditto, Aditya, analysis, analytics, blog, blogcamp, blogger, camp, hits, marathe, Photography, popular, pune, Travel, wordpress
#258 Of cluttered websites, pop-up ads, and breaking news!
Published June 18, 2009 India , Life , Technology 14 CommentsTags: aajtak, ad, advertisements, bbc, channel, content, flash, ibn, irritating, ndtv, news, pop up, popup, websites
This blog post contains a comparative study of different news channel websites on their utilisation of browser space to show news content and advertisements. I also try to calculate the most efficient system of showing news and ads on a news website. I have not considered any weights for content, but for browsing experience and irritability.
For people like me, who have lived a long time in hostel, and then as bachelor working guys, having access to a television, is a door-ki-kahaani. India has come a long way from what it was at the beginning of the decade. Regardless of the fact that you don’t have sufficient water, sufficient electricity, sufficient infrastructure, sufficient sanitation and sufficient good food, you would always have a working broadband internet connection. When you move to a hostel, or into a new apartment, the first thing you would venture out to get installed is a broadband internet connection!
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#257 Setting up NS entries and some more things for your domain
Published June 13, 2009 Technology 1 CommentTags: a, aditto.info, blog, blog.aditto.info, cname, dns, domain, ip, mx, name server, ns, settings, subdomain, Technology, website, wordpress.com
So last week I decided to fiddle around with my domain aditto.info but ended up deleting a lot of important entries in the settings page. The whole issue was to point www.aditto.info to the domain hosted on byethost.com and blog.aditto.info to this blog which is hosted on wordpress.com.
So the most important thing a domain name needs, is a domain name server (DNS), or a name server (NS). A name server essentially contains address (A) records that map the domain name to an IP address. That is, a NS contains an A record which says domain.com is actually IP 192.x.x.x and so on. When you type in domain.com in your web browser, the browser tries to find the IP address via the A record, which it seeks on the NS of the domain!
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