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150 Ways To Break Into Your Blog (Hacking For Dummies)

Few days ago my blog was hacked. It is up and running now with minimal losses. My hosting provider, www.bluehost.com, helped me quickly to recover by restoring recent back up of the system. I decided to put some time and energy to research the topic of threats and countermeasures related to WordPress. image
by Randy Son Of Robert
Let me state this upfront – there is no silver bullet. Very few can protect their blog to the max (99%). It requires significant investment. Most of the bloggers just cannot afford it. What you can do is apply simple, first line defense practices readily available to everyone. These practices can significantly reduce the chance of being hacked.

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From Flash Fiction To Flash Blogging

What’s the most painful challenge for a blogger? Keeping a solid pipeline of topics? Getting traffic? Finding good partners? Comments? Link love? Maybe. Have you thought about writing style? What’s the best writing style for a blogger to catch the fire? Flame sketch # 53 by Ctd 2005.
by Ctd 2005

My take is - Flash Blogging.

In Flash Your Fiction: Writing Exercises, Melissa at Writing Forward shares an interesting writing technique - Flash Fiction. She writes:

…go through the story one last time removing as much as you can without making the piece unintelligible. A traditional example is:

Boy meets girl. Boy gets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy wins girl back.

Of course, this is an oversimplified example, but it certainly gives you an idea of just how much a story can be broken down into its basic movements

That is exactly what I need - adapt Flash Writing to Flash Blogging.

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Become The Next Great Mind - Now

What does it take to think like great minds do? Albert Einstein, Bill Gates, Thomas A. Edison, Bruce Lee, Sergey Brin, Shay Agassi, David Allen, Ken Blanchard, Steven Covey, Tim Ferriss, Darren Rowse and many more.
The answer seems to be pretty simple:
I love the idea.. by apesara.
by apesara

“Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.” - Eleanor Roosevelt

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