Not long ago I wrote a post on dzone, signaling a problem about the voting system and suggesting some solutions.
If I'd have an option to cast my vote in the same place where the content that is producing it is located, I wouldn't miss rating one link.
The post became one of the most voted on dzone, and it actually caused a reaction.
A big problem at DZone is that you have to remember to go back and vote for links you have visited, and this Firefox add-on solves that problem beautifully. Every time you visit a link from DZone, this add-on places a small, unobtrusive widget on the target page to let you vote. Simply click the widget to cast your vote, and it will be registered just as if you had gone back to DZone. It’s a simple and convenient solution.
The extension does exactly what it should, and I strongly recommend it to any dzone user.
This was one of the coolest things I got from blogging. Making some difference on a larger scale.
Something that I enjoyed more, and less on a precioussssss ego-ride way, was the comment I received to this post (some very specific technical problem) on wordpress.
Man you saved my job. You performed a miracle just by solving this on your own. :-) May you prosper in life.
Despite the exaggeration, it's good to know that it helped someone. The post seams to be quite useful, it constantly gets 5-6 hits per day, and I'm happy for this.
This brings me to the point. It's a well written post (SEO and all) solving a real problem. It will make someone grateful, but it won't get me a subscribed reader. Thank God I'm not fixed on getting readers :). When I started writing in English, what I wanted was a place for experiments. And it's serving it's original goal well, I've learned many things that I expect to put into use for something real at some point. Everything else is a bonus :).
Happy new year.
