This is the blog of David Armstrong, semi-retired writer of Motueka New Zealand.
David has a fair idea of what he thinks about a variety of issues concerning both Planet Earth and his home country, New Zealand, but usually tries to see other sides of the story as well as the view he is forming.
Often viewing the other side or switching roles of the agents helps him gain insights that hopefully draw him closer to whatever “the truth” may be.
David acknowledges that he may be wrong (sometimes or often), but he’s prepared to voice an opinion based on contemplation of multiple sides of an issue. He may be wrong, but . . . . he may also have some insight to offer.
David is a semi-retired website designer who in the past has worked as a teacher, scientist (physics and engineering), computer programmer and technology writer and editor for The Press newspaper in Christchurch.
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Thank You For This Blog, was added to my bookmarks.
You certainly deserve a round of applause for your post and more specifically, your blog in general. Very high quality material
This is a really good read for me, Must admit that you are one of the best bloggers I ever saw.Thanks for posting this informative article.
A very interesting read and a great post alltogether. Would you mind if I posted the same article on my blog (with a reference to your website)?
Great post and website! I have bookmarked it and will check back ofter. I also linked you to my site.
I don’ know enough about linking but it seems as some of the people responding to your blog are just trying to get backlinks to their pages – well me too but at least I’m a Kiwi interested in your topics and not getting any financial reward for putting your link on my page -I link there on merit as topical info on the New Zealand state of the nation. They’re keeping their comments very vague – I wouldn’t just allow reciprocal linking unless their website has some relevance to yours otherwise it can effect how google views your blog.
Ah, that’s interesting, I wasn’t sure if this spamming technique was indeed a backlink harvester or not, but you’ve caused me to think further about this. I agree, some of the comments have been very non-specific so I should bin them more often.
Best wishes.
David
Hi me again.
I checked a couple and they look like the same person doing wordpress blogs on different products very similar sites and though they say they’ve put links on their sites they haven’t. I suspect they’re spamming tons of wordpress blogs with the same msg. Could be wrong but it looks like it.
Thanks very much. I’ll definitely be more discerning about my choice of approved messages in future! David
I don’t often comment on blogs, but just wanted to say I really enjoyed yours. Thanks
Hi David
I found this article on ‘comment spam’. I’m sure that you’re getting it – especially all the comments that never actually mention anything specific about the article of NZ. I know it can affect the ranking of your blog, although I see you’re starting to get some quality comments. You’ve probably got some features within wordpress to tighten this up.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.03/google.html?pg=7
This helped me understand it more.
Thanks very much. I’m getting to understand this now, and the article you recommended makes it pretty clear. Still not sure how to tackle it myself as I don’t want to trash genuine but unspecific comment from some that aren’t obviously spam, but I have been trashing quite a few obvious ones over the past few weeks since being alerted to the practice by another of my readers. I appreciate your help.
David
Hey, I found your blog while searching on Google your post looks very interesting for me. I will add a backlink and bookmark your site. Keep up the good work!
You certainly deserve a round of applause for your post and more specifically, your blog in general. Very high quality material.