Facebook demotes publishers by reducing reach
Facebook has made it nearly impossible for publishers to reach their fans without paying for ads. I spend hours a day writing quality (...)
February 12, 2014 – Jakub Marian – Blog
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Unobtrusive marketing with Amazon Affiliate links – the way to monetize educational blogs
As a user and blog reader, I regard ads as something distracting. But the only reason is that publishers have gone way too far in terms of (...)
January 14, 2014 – Jakub Marian – Blog
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‘Wptexturize’ (smart quotes) not working in WordPress
I have recently noticed that smart quotes (aka “curly quotes”) stopped working on my blog (they were replaced by the ordinary (...)
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Fix text rendered too large in Chrome on Android (as a developer)
I have noticed a problem with text on this website being rendered much larger than it should in Chrome running on Android. For some (...)
November 2, 2013 – Jakub Marian – Blog
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Render LaTeX in Wikipedia using Mathjax
Let’s face it—mathematical expressions rendered as images look ugly, especially in inline formulas. Also, if you, like me, have all (...)
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By the way, have you already seen my brand new web app for non-native speakers of English? It's based on reading texts and learning by having all meanings, pronunciations, grammar forms etc. easily accessible. It looks like this:
Why AdSense is not a good way to monetize an educational blog
Most bloggers have heard about Google AdSense. AdSense is an advertising network developed by Google. The principle is that Google (...)
August 13, 2013 – Jakub Marian – Blog
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Is killing a dog worse than killing a pig?
I read an article yesterday (on one of the major Czech news servers) about a man who threw his mother’s dog through a stairwell (it was (...)
February 26, 2013 – Jakub Marian – Blog
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A little criticism of Richard Dawkins
Recently, I have seen the following video with Richard Dawkins, prepared by Al Jazeera English and discussing Dawkins’s book The God (...)
February 23, 2013 – Jakub Marian – Blog
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What is dual N-Back and my personal progress
Dual N-Back is a game developed to enhance cognitive abilities, more specifically the working memory. Since my interests include a wide (...)
January 15, 2013 – Jakub Marian – Blog
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Common fallacies and truths about vegetarian nutrition
People who have strong feelings towards eating meat often claim it is impossible to stay healthy on a vegetarian (or vegan) diet to (...)
January 11, 2013 – Jakub Marian – Blog
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