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“Boredom is the conviction that you can’t change … the shriek of unused capacities.” – Saul Bellow

When you were a kid, did your parents ever tell you off for complaining that you were bored?

Sometimes, when you visit a favorite blogger online, you can read a post and get left with the distinct impression that the author has lost all passion for the subject, and has reached an impasse. This translates in to the material of the site, dragging the content down and leaving a sense of disappointment in the visitor.

We Humans are an impatient lot, aren’t we?

With the rise of technology over the past few decades, we’ve come to expect results on most things much more quickly than previous generations.

We want to see television on demand.

We expect meals to be heated in seconds.

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Every now and then, I get asked advice about blog writing.

The problem with coming up with tips for bloggers is that writing is a pretty subjective thing, and we all have different styles we like to write in.

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Can you remember the first time you got an e-mail with an emoticon in it?

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The equivalent of celebrity spotting for Hollywood fans, Google’s releases spawn a whole host of conversations such as what name the update will have, what significance it will hold, and who came up with the new development for improving search engine returns and reducing spam.

Have you heard the recent news about online content?

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The way the key search engines are working to analyse sites is changing.

For years, Google and others have been trying to find ways of enhancing their search returns when people look things up online, in a bid to improve the data presented to customers when they pop in a search request.

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You want to increase your blog traffic but sometimes, there’s nothing you feel less like doing than sitting down and writing a blog post for your site.