Why I don't subscribe to your blog

Hey bloggers, I just wanted to share some of the thoughts, on why I skip subscribing to some blogs and reasons behind it. I have very specific approach to blogging, I see it as a way of genuinely communicating with other people and way to network with other people, creating connection and learning from them. Here is the list of reasons on why I don't subscribe to blogs:

• You aren't replying to your comments - people invested time in leaving their mark and reaching over to you, if you don't reach them back, I sense it's kinda selfish
• Your blog design is overcrowded - personally I am huge fan of minimalism and if you overcrowded your blog with banners, widgets and all that stuff, it repels me to a level where I can't see enough of the value to push you through to my Instapaper
• Your blog design looks to cheap - it might not be overcrowded, but it has one color background that repels me - same as previous just opposite
• Your blog didn't remind me of subscription options available out there
• You don't have "a Face behind your blog", if I can't see clear picture of you, I will be more hesitant to subscribe, I want to connect to real people, not brands
• Your comments require Captcha - this is huge turn of for me, if I can't seamlessly leave my mark on your work, without wasting time, than I will skip reading it altogether
• You post too much - anyone who has more than 15 articles per week is overcrowding my RSS feed - this was the reason why I ditched Lifehacker for example

What are your reasons for unsubscribing blogs? Or not even trying to subscribe?

Who are you listening to?

This post is inspired by the voices I heard today... Cleaning up my reader mess and read a lot of posts... What's going on, on the web? Seems like only people who are trying to earn money are talking about passions and what not. And execptionaly people in sales telling other people not to try to sell trough social media. I can sense the thick cloud of fog around many of those social media consultants, who will justify the lack of results that they deliver explaining how it's bad for your PR not to sell...

When on the web, turn your reasoning and critical thinking on. Who are you listening to? Are they talking juju or they are talking money? Try to sense the energy behind words and pictures. When you break it down that way, you will have a sense with who are you talking to.

Yes, just try to focus, and skip all those emotional traps that they are trying to enforce upon us for our money.

Let's take a look at my projects

For past couple of days I am consolidating my projects into streams and organizing them. Most of these projects are blogs of sorts, but I want to review them. Currently I am activly involved in 5 different projects:

• Increasing Workplace productivity - I am investing most of my energy and passion into this project, it helps me fuse all other work, because it's all about productivity
• Brilliant Mind project - this is collaborated project with my coworkers, where we are trying to make websites that are content distributors and are doing that over Twitter, monetizing on affiliate and Adsense.
• Disclosed company project - This project consumes a lot of my creative energy, because I am actively looking for solutions to project problems, unfortunately I am not disclosed to talk about it
• Mrsavljenje - this is weight loss website, which functions really well. I hired a journalist to write articles for this blog and I am distributing it to our great fanbase on Facebook and increasing followers on Twitter. We are locating people who are interesting in weight loss and delivering proper information to them.
• Racunari - I got hired to lead this project and it has really good start. The very name is native Serbian word for computer, so it's highly customized for all IT words. I established great Wordpress design along with social media integration.

It's kinda hard to track all these different projects, but when you look at it, most of these projects have common tasks, who if carefully organized can still be achieved with a breeze, without wasting too much time. Mind mapping is essential tool that helped me with this issue, as I wrote in a popular article that I recently wrote here. I must confirm that usage of mind mapping is genuinely increasing my productivity and creativity.

I am satisfayed and diversification of my projects and their development. They are adding up value daily and accumulating part of the web which I am editing. Internet is awesome, simply put.

My new Laptop background

What's going on in Bojan labs...

Hi peeps, haven't wrote here for a while, but there are good reasons for it. Since new year I am quite happy with my productivity levels and I am achieving a lot day by day. Development of my book is ongoing and you can read fragments of it on my producivity blog. I am reading a lot of blogs and reaching out to a lot of new people and this amuses me but also allows me to network.

Facebook is my biggest source of traffic, followed up by Twitter. I am trying to figure out weather to focus my efforts into one basket or keep them spread? I always had good results with Facebook, maybe I should stick with it? Not really sure... 

New stuff that I am trying out are related to standing table. It's in the early stage of development a habit of standing up, while working, but it seems really interesting. I have to brag that I got into a habit of writing and it does wonders for me. After a lot of contemplating I am thinking about starting to write for content sharing sites like Info Barell and Ezine Articles. Still not sure which "content farm" to visit and be regular guest at.

My marketing efforts from Warrior forum aren't brining in the traffic juice, so kinda makes it uninteresting location to market my website to. Or I simply need to generate more "karma" and get new there. I like the way they made signitures related to your WSO (warrior special offer). You invest 40 $ for a forum ad, and than everyone starts to post like crazy so their signitures shows up as much as possible in all possible forum threads. Long live sales, but that bog seems like it's overcrowded with crocodiles...

Beside a lot of work, I regularly find time to work out and go out at weekends. Hanging out with my regular friends and enjoying myself as much as I can. Just wanted to keep you updated on what's going on, I will make sure my gets more interesting for my readers in the future.

All blogging and no play, makes content boring. :)

Facebook got hit by virus, AGAIN!?

I am not sure weather you noticed or not, but there is new circle of viral virus flowing around the Facebook web. This is another fail that got Facebook on the list of unreliable companies. I already have a problem with them for their non open policy, but this disregard of users is the last drop in already filled glass.

I am not buying that, I am not buying that Facebook is that much powerful and yet again they can have flaws like these. Viruses slipping on their own platform, sorry but I don't feel protected as a user, when Mark Zuckerberg himself gets hacked. It's your problem deal with it, but your brand is not something that I will flock to and love. There is no kind of movie that will bring me back to you. I will use it as long as it's necessary, but you won't have my thrust, nor will you have my thrust in order for me to use you as my preferred email provider.

Sorry Facebook, the cup you broke, even after fixing isn't the real deal anymore...

Writers blockade... And negative reviews on Youtube, you gotta love it

For last couple of days I couldn't force myself to write, it was darn too complicated. Now that I have keyboard in my hands and determination I got myself back to it. There are stuff going on in my private life, that I am happy about and are related to certain someone... Anyway I don't know weather you're blogging yourself (my dear reader) or you're just browsing around, but there has to be something between you and blank piece of screen, that certain emotion that is going to drive you all the way to the end of an article. You just want to feel the creative force behind your words, thingling emotions that they might provoke while your reader is consuming your words.

Blogging is the corner stone of online publishing and everyone's got a chance to give it a shot, will you attract readership or not, it's up to netizens to decide. Your freedom of speech is limitless, but your reach is limited with how many people get back to your blog. Beside blogging I want to get my word out on other media channels, such as Youtube and Audioboo.fm. So I just uploaded a couple of videos and I get some weird comments from people, yep, people from my own country. They didn't even have the courtesy to leave an English comment, since entire channel is on English.

I guess it's called jealousy, because there is someone out there, who's outperforming them. When you start getting negative comments that means you are on the right track, especially when I face comments from people that are trying to pull you donw, since they can't do shit with themselves. It's way easier for them to leave a bad remark, than produce something of their own, everyone's affraid of critics, but figure out this. THEY ARE ALL LOSERS WHO GOT NOTHING BETTER TO DO, THAN PUT SHIT ON OTHERS PEOPLE WORK! When you face this truth, you will head in the right direction. Your word is getting out there... What particularly got me fond over this negative comment is that I didn't invest my time into finding people who might like it, I was just checking out how I look on cam, and weather it's appropriate for speaking. So here's the video that launched this article:

I would like your comment, don't be afraid to leave a bad one if you didn't like it :) But I will repeat myself, weather you're writing, making videos or podcasting, do it with passion. Passion will help you push trough negative remarks and belief that what you're doing is right will allow you to push trough any pain that envious people that want to put you back into the chains and norms that society imposes on us. Be affraid of these kind of people in real life, they might be masked as your friends and people that "care about you", but don't forget their envy and shine trough with your confidence! Belive that life that you imagine is something achievable, your mind is designed so it will find the way to please your wishes.

It doesn't necessarily have to be painful, because if you love what you do, you are enjoying your process on the way to your highs that you imagined! Your mind is powerful!