Monthly Archives: October 2009

The Venus Project

Oct 30th, 2009

Spreading the word for Venus Project. Jacque Fresco Lecture Zeitgeist: Addenum and Zeitgeist Movement Venus project raises the question about sustainability and offers a different view on the future. Heard this the other day: doctors in ancient China very actually paid by the number of healthy patients they had, not the sick ones as it is today. Most important pillars of society are all upside down today. Military is paid for wars, not for sustaining peace.

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33 years old – seems about right

Oct 26th, 2009

Today I am turning 33, glad to say relaxed and happy. I am in my house on Island of Brac, making final preparations for the olive picking due probably on Wednesday. The weather is great for this time of the year, and I spent whole day yesterday swimming in the sea.

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Office stress

Oct 24th, 2009

You know the days when you are fed up with everything and are just ready to pop?Are cubicles humane?

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Tip for improving bounce rate: Ad-free homepage

Oct 19th, 2009

Here is a tip for improving the bounce rate on all kind of sites, but I think one that online newspapers can use the most. If you would like to improve bounce rate, have higher number of page-views, improved visitor engagement and thus increased advertising revenue the single most effective thing you can do is actually very easy to achieve. Remove advertisements from your home page. Think about it. Does a visitor coming to your home page want to see ads or what your site has to offer?

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Online Startup Idea: A Worthy Photo Editor

Oct 18th, 2009

I needed a simple photo manipulation the other day. Just to cut two parts of the image and bond them together. It turns out that none of the seven (!) online photo editing tools I tried can perform this simple operation. And not to mention preserving transparency on the image. Also while I am at it, it seems they all have a very serious issue with the business model. They are all free but then rotate ads as you work instead.