Thoughts

Problogging in Israel : The Globe case study for a successful Hebrew blog

Written on November 30, 2007 by Fili

It's been a while since then, but it's well worth the mention. Microsoft Israel hosted Yuval Dror of the Globe to talk about how his blog turned into Israeli's most popular (self-hosted?) Hebrew blog. With 1100+ RSS readers and thousands of daily pageviews, Continue Reading →

Israeli Blogosphere Awards: My favorite Israeli blogs

Written on June 30, 2007 by Fili

Blogerim.net is hosting the "Best (self-hosted) Israeli blog awards". I've been quietly following the Israeli self-hosted blogosphere for the past few months and have come to appreciate the growing number of quality bloggers in the small Israeli Continue Reading →

Israeli Problogging and the Israeli blogosphere – Dakar as a beginning

Written on June 28, 2007 by Fili

There are no probloggers in Israel. Not yet, anyway, and so the question of the Israeli blogosphere remains whether an Israeli problogger is even possible with a small market of about 3-4m Internet users, most of whom think blogs are for kids and that they Continue Reading →

Security experts’ common sins

Written on July 6, 2006 by Fili

In reference to Omer Taran's 10 most common security experts' sins, here's my humble addition to that list. I'm doing a very bad generalization rule of some security experts that I've met throughout my IT years, and referring to security experts as "them", Continue Reading →

Techies – Problem solving and searching discussed

Written on March 30, 2006 by Fili

“You’ve been preaching for us to do all sorts of nasty to our computers, like telling us to disable the Automatic Updates service for our machine to run faster with your “tweaking post” and then write us about using Firefox that doesn’t Continue Reading →

An old Windows XP machine optimization tweaks

Written on March 26, 2006 by Fili

It makes sense that not everybody has the money to refresh their specs every year or so. Seeing some of my friend's machines I'm usually overwhelmed by how bad things are and how much time they waste because of a lack in knowledge as to how they could make things Continue Reading →