QBKL Media website goes live
Hello friends! This is one of those posts that keeps you updated with my activity (and prevents people to think that Blogsessive is gone). Again, it was a busy period of time, but one that has produced something that I’ve been waiting for while to happen: me and my associate, Adrian, have launched the website of our design studio: QBKL Media.
Between writing on Blogsessive and working on client projects I’ve hardly found the time to get the website together, but now it happened and I’m really happy. We went for a simple, minimal, one-page website that focuses on what we want to share with those that access it: Who we are, what we do and how to get in touch. It has already been featured on CSS Mania and Abduzeedo’s “Sites of the week #49″, and this makes me even happier.
Now, all that remains is to push hard to get the alpha version of DNPicker.com up and running. DNPicker is side project meant to take the place of the old “Domain names for bloggers” series on Blogsessive. Things have progressed well in the last week and if you wish to stay updated with what’s going on, follow DNPicker on Twitter. As soon as the alpha version will be ready, I will make available a few alpha-testing account that will be reserved only to those following DNPicker on Twitter to help the conversation, feature suggestion and bug reporting process.
This latest activity has influenced the posting flow on Blogsessive, but unfortunately, once in a while I have to make time for other projects too. Rest assured that Blogsessive lives on.
Thanks for being here!
Updates to Blogsessive’s Scripts and Design
Today I’ve done a couple of updates to the blog which include:
- Updated to WP 2.7.1 after adjusting a couple of scripts;
- Added links for “Subscribe to the comment feed” and “Jump to comment form” above the comment list;
- Separated comments from trackbacks to make it easier to follow the conversation;
- Added gravatar support and display to comments.
I would love to hear what you think about the changes and also if you have other suggestions as well.
In anticipation of a possible question, the “Respond to comment” feature has not been implemented because with the current theme, I believe that it will break the clean/clear flow of comments. Maybe at a later time.
Stepping into Blogsessive’s Second Year
With ups and downs, with periods of abundance of content and publishing breaks too, but most important, with many new friends each day, this March, Blogsessive has stepped into its second year of existence.
It so happened that March was also the busiest month we’ve had with QBKL Media’s projects, launching two projects and getting ready for 2 more and our own website. This frenzy was reflected in the publishing rhythm on Blogsessive. But, as I’ve always said either in interviews or here, I hate sacrificing the writing quality if my time does not allow me to dedicate myself as much as I feel fit.
Still, you have remained loyal to the this blog, waiting for new content to make its way to you through your feed readers. Friends, I can assure you the time is well worth it, and to prove it I’ll take you on a quick trip thought what’s coming from Blogsessive in the next few weeks.
One Year Celebration Contest
An event like this cannot pass uncelebrated. At the beginning of April I’ll launch a new contest to reward those of you who are loyal to this blog. As you’ve seen in my previous contests, I love to reward those who contribute valuable content to the blogosphere, and so, it will again be a group writing project. With this contest, one winner will get a nice “blogging package” which will consist in:
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Interviewed by Yan Susanto on ThouShallBlog.com
About a week ago I was asked by Yan Susanto of ThouShallBlog.com if I could answer to a couple of question for an interview on his blog. Needless to say that since I love the quality and enthusiasm you’ll find in Yan’s work, I immediately accepted.
Here’s a short snippet of the interview:
4. To what do you attribute your blog’s success?
As I said before, to faith and focus. Focus on the smaller – present – steps required in order to achieve the bigger goal. From point A to point B there are always smaller steps like A.1, A.2 and so on. Dealing with each one at its own time made a lot of sense and results did not fail to show.
You can read the whole interview on Yan’s blog.
Reader of the Month – Time to Give Back
Dear folks, I’ve been thinking of a way to give back some of the appreciation you’ve shown me since day one, a way to compensate for the time you spend reading these blog posts and commenting upon them.
Initially, the famous “Top Commentators” plugin crossed my mind, but since it will be hard to keep out those who (unfortunately) try to “beat the system”, I’ve decided to choose another method.
Since I already go through every comment I receive and appreciate those comments that contribute to the amount of quality information of this blog, every month, I will pick one of my commentators to be awarded as “Reader of the Month”.
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Results of 9rules’ Round 8 of Submissions
Tyme White of 9rules published today the results of the 8th round of selections for new network members.
Among the newly accepted blogs you’ll also find Blogsessive and OnSimplicity.net. I personally wanted to congratulate Sara from OnSimplicity for the achievement, as I have had the pleasure of interacting with her and she is such an amazing blogger!
Congratulations to all bloggers who also got accepted this round. Blog on!
Thoughts and Ideas for 2009
Hello friends and with a bit of delay, Happy New Year to each and everyone of you! Back in December I wrote a post letting you know that the activity on Blogsessive will be slow in this period and it has.
I cannot tell you how hard it has been to stay away from blogging, especially when so many interesting things have happened in the past one, one and a half month, but it was a really necessary time-out for me. I needed to focus my maximum attention on my recently started design studio and also to spend some quality time with my family (something I’ve failed to do in the past months).
Today, a post published back on January 10th on MastersOfSEO.com caught my attention and even if I planned my comeback for the following Monday, I really felt the need to write this post earlier.
As I said before, the time out was required in order to give my 100% to some other things that needed to be sorted out in my life, but that’s only half of the real reason. The other half of the truth is that, as many of you already know from your own experience, blogging and constantly delivering good quality resources can be a very exhausting task. Such a task proved to be fatal for some fellow bloggers, despite their enormous followship and appreciation.
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Blogsessive in December 2008
Dear friends, first of all, I’d like to apologize for the slow rhythm of updates in the past two weeks. In the activity of a design agency, December is a pretty busy period, and pretty short too, as everyone goes on vacation after the middle of the month and project need to be finished before that moment.
The past weeks have been crazy for me and my partner at QBKL Media, trying and succeeding at ending this year in a good state with all of our projects and clients.
Due to this, Blogsessive has suffered, but rest assured, I’ve been here everyday, reading and answering emails and comments. From the next week, things should get back to normal, and, just to get in the holiday spirit, I’m going to release a ‘Christmas’ color scheme for Simple Balance.
Thank you for remaining loyal to this blog through better or worse periods of time!
You rock!
Who Are You?
The last time I did this was back in May, when Blogsessive had ten times less subscribers and definitely less awareness. All this time, I’ve tried to write quality posts and give back to my community resources like the Simple Balance theme and the Feedsessive free RSS Icon set.
With each post, I put a small piece of me out to the world. Every reader can find out more about Blogsessive and me and I really love reading your emails, even it they are simply “Hello” emails or in need of advice.
The downside of it is that while concentrating on delivering quality through my actions and posts, I did not get to know more about you, the readers of Blogsessive. And I mean YOU. Who are you, are you a blogger? What do you blog about? What do you do for a living? Even personal stuff that you want to share. Feel free to ask questions, I’ll be happy to answer.
As I’ve said about a million times: my full respect and attention goes to my community, and a community is made out of real people, people just like you, the one reading this lines. So, give me 2 minutes of your life and let’s sit back to a friendly talk.
PS: First time commentator? Don’t be shy, join in! That’s how we become friends!
Blogsessive is a Technorati Top 10K Blog
I’m sure that those of you who have been following my posts for a while, know that I’m a pretty passionate blogger, enthusiastic and always looking to try new things and experiment.
I take pride in what I do since it’s what I love to do and wouldn’t want to do anything else, even more whenever my experiments and efforts are successful.
Today, Blogsessive hit another milestone in its journey in the blogosphere. This happened: 
According to Technorati, Blogsessive has become one of the top 10.000 blogs in their system, and considering the millions of blogs they watch, that’s a huge achievement!
My friends, thank you! It would have not been possible without your loyalty and friendship!
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