| Today's Top 10: Date Night Restaurants in Europe | |
|---|---|
| 1. | The Library, Rome, Lazio |
| 2. | Clos Maggiore, London, England |
| 3. | Jola's Restaurant, Kinsale, County Cork |
| 4. | Bistrot de Venise, Venice |
| 5. | Ferryman Taverna, Elounda, Lassithi Prefecture |
| 6. | Pla, Barcelona, Catalonia |
| 7. | La Giostra, Florence, Tuscany |
| 8. | Restaurant Couvert, Bruges |
| 9. | Terasa U Zlate Studne, Prague, Bohemia |
| 10. | Bateaux Parisiens, Paris, Ile-de-France |
Monday, December 13, 2010
Today's Top 10: Date Night Restaurants in Europe
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The aura of the well-turned phrase surrounds John David Drake, who advises clients of Dynamics Online, Inc. how to manage their social web presences. When I elected to dip a toe in the blogging lagoon, I needed advice on tools, tricks, pitfalls and strategy. And since I didn’t have a clue, I needed to know how to get started. I asked Mr. Drake. Here is his excellent advice.
Q: How do I get started? What’s a good source of blogging tools/software/etc.? I want something with which I can just provide some text and pictures, the articles appear in reverse chronological order with the most recent at the top, guests can register and become “members” and set up profiles and comment subject to spam preventers, guests can flag some comments as inappropriate and I can remove them if I want, and I can put a strip of advertising along the left margin or across the top. And what else do you think I should want or expect?
A: As far as blogging platforms are concerned, the two big sites are Blogger.com (Google‘s platform) and WordPress.com. Both of these sites offer what you’re looking for (although neither are 100% spam proof, comments can be flagged).
WordPress offers free and paid sites. Their designs are cleaner and generally more professional looking, but there are many embeddable widgets, pictures, videos, etc. that aren’t compatible with WordPress.
I use Blogger. It’s not perfect, but it’s easy to use, connected with my other Google accounts, allows others with Google accounts to follow the blog (which would be their equivalent of becoming members of it), can easily be linked with Google Analytics, and Google AdWords, which would allow you to post the small sidebar of advertising. I wish I could do more with the format than what they allow, but that’s being picky.
I’m not sure what Web browser you are using. Blogger works fine in Firefox and most of the time in Safari. Explorer can do pretty much everything, too (except cut and paste for some reason).
If you want to also post pictures from your phone or text a thought or easily post a PDF, MP3, or other file, then you might also want to consider a Tumblr account or Posterous account. Both are simple platforms for casual bloggers that allow you to post all types of multimedia from all types of computers and mobile devices. They’re meant more for shorter posts (somewhere between a tweet and a full blog post). I’m not sure what their comment or ad capabilities are.
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- add a widget or two for your other social media sites (Twitter, Facebook) if you want your readers to learn more about you.
- add an RSS feed for your blog so readers can easily follow when you post (but don’t have a separate RSS feed for your comments, it’s more annoying than useful)
- Add a blogroll of your favorite blogs/websites
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- Keep most posts on the short side (~300 words) with a longer post every third or fourth post.
- Tweet a link to a new post, and post on your Facebook page.
- Establish a unique voice, blog about what interests you. Keep a running list of topics to write about as they come to mind. If you have free time, write a bunch of draft posts to stock up on and gradually post them throughout the week (I always say I’m going to do this, but never get around to it). If you can never find the motivation to write about a particular topic, chances are no one would have much of a motivation to read it anyway.
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The Big Match: Manchester United vs Arsenal
Traditional rivals Arsenal clash with Manchester United at the latter’s home ground, Old Trafford today. In a highly charged match that could have a severe impact on both teams title aspirations, anything and everything will be deemed to be of paramount importance and either manager will leave no stone unturned to make sure that the lack of a screw will not result in the battle being lost.
Arsenal may go in to, arguably, the match of the week without their star player and World Cup winner Cesc Fabregas, who has been sidelined for a few weeks with a pulled hamstring. Fabregas’ recent troubles in that area would surely be worrying Wenger, especially if the Spaniard is to miss key games such as this.
The man in the limelight, however, is another Arsenal midfielder, who answers to the name Samir Nasri. The Frenchman has been in imperial form this season, scoring 12 goals in all competitions, a few of which will be vying for the goal of the season. The 23 year old will be the man Arsenal looks to score or create moments of magic and one can be sure that Sir Alex Ferguson has devised a few strategies to keep Sammy and his snood at bay.
Much of Arsenal’s fortunes will certainly depend on Nasri, but he is definitely not the only game changer Arsenal possess. It is common knowledge by now that the signing of Chamakh has added a certain new dimension to the Arsenal game in the sense that Arsenal can hoist up a ball in to the box from the flanks and rely on Chamakh to fight for it and get a header in. The absence of this physical aspect of the game in Arsenal’s play has been much lamented over the years and may be this time, Arsenal will have a striker who can vie for the ball with heavy weights like Vidic and Ferdinand.
Andrei Arshavin has come in for a lot of criticism from many quarters this season for a string of lacklustre performances. The Russian sparkled in the season he arrived at Arsenal and even had a 12 goal season in 09-10 but he is yet to step up to the mark this time around. As a player who can create nothing out of thin air with the pitter patter of his nimble feet, Arsenal would be hoping that Arshavin can shake off the garb of non-performance and come up with the goods at Old Trafford.
As usual a considerable proportion of the noise has been about how the Arsenal defence sans Vermaelen will cope with the Manchester United attack. Rooney has been in a hiatus of sorts but showed a few positive signs in the Champions League game against Valencia. If the dangerous forward chooses today’s crucial six pointer to come in to form, Arsenal could well be done for. Rooney has a good big match temperament and the ability to shine in crucial moments. Add to the mixture Nani, the self proclaimed new Ronaldo of the League, Park and Berbatov and the Gunner’s defensive foursome will be on heavy duty. The question is will the men often labelled fragile be able to take it and stand strong.
In the absence of Fabregas, Rosicky is most likely to fill in. The Czech has begun to have a decent season after shaking of the shackles of injury and will be hoping to provide Fabregas like incision to extend Arsenal’s time at the top.
History is heavily on the side of the Red Devils, the home team having won five times, drawn twice and lost just once in the previous eight corresponding fixtures. It is not that Arsenal played badly in the previous years but United were clearly the better side on many occasions. Importantly, they had the killer instinct and the will to take the game past Arsenal.
It is definitely a time of reckoning for Arsene Wenger and the boys. These past seasons, the blame for many losses were often put at the door of inexperience. This time around,that may not have bee the case, for the team has had enough time to gel and there are players in the squad who have appeared in over a hundred Premier League games. A certain previous encounter between the clubs was branded as men against boys in United’s favour. Arsenal has to show that they have grown up and are not the boy band they were in previous years. It is sure to be a keen encounter and one might evenly say that it is almost evenly matched, though United certainly has a slight advantage. It is up to Arsenal to make United come untied.
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