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To Be “Freshly Pressed” by @WordPress @WordPressdotcom

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I almost cried when I saw that I am “Freshly Pressed” on WordPress.  I was so excited.  I didn’t know what to expect from being on the front page and the #1 spot out of anything else.  To many it may seem as a big deal because they only want to have fame from being “Freshly Pressed“, but my reasons for being excited was I have been blogging for over 4 years on wordpress.com and being blogging ever since 2000 in total when people have never really knew what blogging was.

As of December 2010 I decided to set on the journey to be one of the BEST bloggers in the Blog-O-Sphere and never look back at my average posts as I use to do.  I wanted to be more personal, more creative, more interactive and more social with everyone.  So I decided to put my life in the everything I do.  This was the why I held my WordPress Blog and My YouTube Channel as my top priority and I said I am going to do it and never stop.

Thanks to WordPress and it’s motivational and inspirational goal to help bloggers by creating the challenge “PostADay2011” and “PostAWeek2011” I was definitely hype to get on board and grow as a blogger and challenge myself to produce great content.  So I started doing “PostADay2011” and set my goal to be featured one day on “Freshly Pressed” in 2011 as of January 2011.  I wrote everyday and posted everyday to make sure I on top of this challenge and NEVER FAIL.  I was a bit discouraged that others were being featured and I felt I was writing great content, but I said to myself that me writing blogs and content is NOT for FAME, it’s about doing me and enjoying what I do everyday no matter if anyone ever sees it.  I loved blogging and I ready to set my progress.  Also I was always helpful and spreading the good word and tools that WordPress offered.  The best advice I could give to everyone, was START TODAY and JUST DO IT and NEVER STOP or LOOK BACK (only to reflect from where you are coming from).  So after 6 months going on 7 months I reached to where I am now, Freshly Pressed and one of my GOALS to MYSELF in 2011 accomplished by being featured on the main page.

There is only one thing that can express my feelings to being “Freshly Pressed” and that’s just a BIG O SMILE.

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I want to thank WordPress first and foremost and EVERYONE who visited my blog and left a comment with kind words and even to others who have subscribed and have asked a great deal of questions.  I am very thankful for the support and the love.

I wish everyone luck on blogging and hope you follow the post and the extremely great tip of just remembering your audience and making sure you comment on others blogs and make sure you reply to whom have commented on your blog.

Remember my BEST ADVICE TO YOU:

“START TODAY and JUST DO IT and NEVER STOP or LOOK BACK“

Thanks for reading and for all the love,
Richardo

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Tumblr: The Unspoken Truth – Don’t Talk About TUMBLR

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The users of Tumblr are a very serious bunch.  They have created rules about they world of blogging.  The number one rule of Tumblr is to NOT TALK ABOUT TUMBLR.  I find it to be a very weird rule.  But in the minds of it’s prime users, its a double edge sword.  They want you to visit their blogs and they will tell you to visit their blogs, but you are not allowed (or they will hurt you down and hate you) if you judge them on their choice of posts on tumblr.

My take on Tumblr.  Tumblr is a pretty cool blogging network of people that are very visual and expressive.  Tumblr is the Twitter of the blogging world, in which you follow the people who post the things you like to see.  Tumblr is what Twitter could of been if it was to compete with Facebook.  Tumblr to me, is filled with copyright infringement media and porn.  Tumblr may claim more views than other blog services such as WordPress, Blogger, Typepad, LiveJournal, but it’s value for words and content is not there.  Tumblr has a hard time to be indexed into Google based on its very much overly used reblog feature of content and lack of originality, with it’s primary users re-blogging very explicit photos and other self promotional content (in which is considered more of duplicated content and spam).  Tumblr is more a perfect setting for the younger crowd to express themselves and what they actually enjoy seeing, though not wanting to be judged on their likes.

So the question is do I have a Tumblr?  Why yes, but for me to use it, I rather create something original and rich of content than follow the crowd of unoriginal re-noters, re-bloggers, and more…Please note there are amazing blogs and content by people that uses Tumblr as their main blogging platform, but it’s very hard for them to be noticed based on the overcrowding of spam and not being able to greatly be indexed into google and other search engines.  Also being side tracked by other reblogging the same exact popular posts and failing to including new and amazing posts.  Also haters too.

I love WordPress, and it’s my number one blog service of choice.  But you be seen you can always share your writing (aka distribution) to other places and services.  Always remember to back link your WordPress post as the original writing.  Hopefully I can bring some awesomeness to Tumblr.

What do you think of my post?  Do you have a Tumblr?  Do you use WordPress, Tumblr, Blogger more than the other.

Thanks for reading
Richardo

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3 Simple Things I Love To Eat [#Food]

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When I am out and about, I am a very simple eater.  People mistake my love for certain food as being cheap, because I have a habit of calling out prices of things out loud, but I love what I buy to eat that’s why I do it.  If you want to ball out of control on what you want to eat when we are hanging out or you are eating out, knock yourself and eat what you want to eat.

Here are 3 Simple Things I Love To Eat: (They might be a bit healthy and low-cost also, lucky me 😉 )

Salads: Boy oh boy how I love salads.  I usually grab a side salad off the Dollar Menu after a workout from Burger King or McDonalds…what’s a dressing of choice? Ranch or Caesar so so so YUM.  Oh yea I love salad’s from Wendy’s.

Bagels: When I want to take a break from the world and just want to have a relaxing time reading a book or browsing through couple of my magazine subscriptions, with my music blasting through my headphones, a lovely bagel is my snack or food of choice, with a cup of coffee. Panera Bread or Barnes and Noble is my places of choice.

Yogurts:  Every week you can definitely find me going NOM NOM on yogurts.  I think I pretty much buy them every week and usually love all brands so finding a sale each week is a breeze.  I like the 3 for $1 sales at my local grocery or 10 for $5 at Pathmark.  Yogurts makes for a good snack and tastes so good.  There are so many flavors and new flavors always coming out.  I think people get the wrong idea about yogurts and the great taste that is within, thinking only people who are watching their weight likes yogurts.  Come on, everyone should chow down on some yogurts.

The cool things about my 3 simple food of choice I love to eat, is that they are EVERYWHERE.  So if I am not checking out new restaurants or cooking a lovely dinner at home, I can always have a blast eating any of the foods I listed.

Do you like Salads, Bagels, or Yogurts?  What is your favorites in each category?  What are 3 of your favorite foods you love to eat?
Let me know….

Thanks for reading
Richardo

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