Explosion in Traffic!
So after I decided to mirror the suppose MacWorld Keynote leak content here, the traffic to this blog spiked like crazy! The story was immediately picked up by a share of fellow Tumblers and then made its way across the Interwebs.
The story appeared on several Tumblr blogs, like this one, and this one. Shortly afterwards it made its way to other blogs, like UK's The Digital Content Blog from The Guardian(!!).
All in all, its great to see all these people coming to the Void. Let's hope the Keynote leak turns out to be the real deal, but with Apple you never know..
In 2 days we will know what the whole fuzz was about. 'Til then, lets enjoy the pre-game crazyness that happens every year..
Labels: Blog Traffic, Blogging
Posted by Sebastian at 1/12/2008 06:22:00 PM | 4 comments read on
A Closer Look Into This..
When I started to look into a new look for Void, I took a look at the many of themes out there for Blogger first. As you may know (or not) because Blogger decided to change how it does things, many of the old themes don't work any more. Blame it on XML, blame on the satellite that beams me home.
So after lot of shuffling through, I stumble across this awesome , minimalistic theme which now is part of Void. Named "Hemingway", this theme is a port of a very popular Wordpress theme now made available to the wonders of Blogger. Perhaps a bit dark and emo for some, regardless I believe it works. It gives Void a more mature look.
At the bottom of the page you will find a random assortment of goodies. On the left, a syndication of my Twitter feed. In the middle, previous posts for your visiting pleassure. Finally on the right, a collection of links to all the other services I tend to use, as well as an archive of entries.
Since the conception of this blog it has gone through many re-designs. I believe this is the best yet. Hopefully you share this sentiment as well. There's somethings that I need to still tweak here and there (add fellow bloggers' links, for example) but everything in due time.
Labels: Blogger themes, Blogging, Design
Posted by Sebastian at 12/26/2007 10:46:00 AM | 1 comments read on
Welcome Back! - Part III
Let me just say, Man it has been a quite a while since I step around these places. More than four months to be exact. Funny how time flies.
In this gigantic (unannounced) hiatus period lot of crap went down. On the real world, I got done with my first year of University. Still gotta take some finals, but that's something to dive into another time. On the internet side of things, I started a Tumblr Blog, dropped more pics into Flickr, and as of couple of days ago I'm Twitterin.
I gotta say I wanted to come back to void sooner. Alas, procrastination at times takes the best of me. Today was the right time to set off to come back "home", and dammit I made it. As with any good comeback, gotta dress up for the occasion. So here we are with a shiny new look. Minimalistic, functional, cool.
My return to void is part of a bigger "corporate branding" plan of sorts. There's going to be a logo for the blog, and I will try spreading this look among the other services. If thing work out, it will look good.
The triumphant return to Void on Christmas, mark you calendars because here we go again for the 2008!
P.S. Merry Xmas to all, a bit late..but hey its the thought that counts :)
Labels: Blogging, Comeback, Design, Return
Posted by Sebastian at 12/25/2007 11:56:00 PM | 2 comments read on
EnragedAmigos(.com)
It all started as a good idea between my partner in crime, Tony and I. A collabo-effort on a single blog. Thus, EnragedAmigos.com was born. A place were we talk about whatever pops in our minds from games to random rants, its all there.
So far we have a nice quantity of posts under our belts. Again, a little of bit everything. It may not be rated-G content, but you wont find any naked chicks either (sorry!). Shameless plug aside, I believe Enraged can be a good daily off-topic stop on the blog reading cruise we all embark every day.
Labels: Blogging, Blogs, EnragedAmigos, Off-topic
Posted by Sebastian at 8/09/2007 11:50:00 AM | 3 comments read on
