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The intended purpose of this feature is to find potential keywords in the article that will help it to be indexed properly by internet search spiders and ‘bots. This is potentially a very powerful feature as often even the good-to-great articles never get indexed properly due to bad choices or complete omission of effective keywords.

Writer’s Block and Blank Articles in the Drafts Folder…

Well, today with nothing really deep or important to write about I discovered that I had a ‘blank’ article in my DRAFTS folder. This is an article with no text in either the TITLE, DESCRIPTION or CONTENT fields. You cannot “DELETE” an article from the DRAFTS folder apparently. Certainly, a ‘blank article’ does not delete, -I have tried it. Any article in the DRAFTS folder can only be sent to “PENDING.” I know from previous experience about this seeming glitch and reported it at the time. I never received any feedback from Triond about it but I found that if I ’submitted’ the blank article to “PENDING,” I could then “delete” it before Triond published it. Triond would not have published the article without any text anyway. There is no profit or purpose to it and they (at the time) would have merely deleted it from the system. Now, they would most likely just send it to the “REVISIONS” folder to give the writer a chance to remedy the situation by adding some text, etc.  This is another very useful feature recently provided by Triond.

About the ‘Blank’ Article…

I tested a few words and short phrases in this blank article just to see what might come of it. Just about any ’swear word’ you can think of returns “adult” as the sole ‘suggested tags‘ keyword. I would have expected that.

Here are additional examples of my findings;

“minor league” in the “content” returns “Sport, MLB, Minor league, Sports, Baseball, Leagues“

“psychic powers” in the “content” returns “Psychic, Paranormal, Readings“

“internet publishing” in the content returns “Publishing, Business, Publishing and Printing“

“rocks and minerals” in the content returns “Earth science, Geology, Rocks and Minerals, Mineral“

“crystals and healing stones” in the content returns “Health, Alternative, Crystal“

…and so forth. Some of the Suggested Tags are pretty simple. A few I would have not guessed and I can see how their inclusion would be useful.

Sometimes, the “Suggest Tags” cannot find any answers for a word or words in the “Content” field.  “Love and Life” and “Vacations and recreation” return nothing. That is very …human. To ‘not be able to find any answers’ to these inquiries, you know what I mean?

I read some reader’s comment about the ‘Suggest Tags” feature having not provided them with any tags suggestions for a poem that they had written. I suspect that this feature is still learning how to parse keywords from content and match them up correctly with relevant tags. I predict that in time this “Suggest Tags” feature will become better, stronger and more useful.

So next just for kicks & giggles I pasted the word “delete” into the Title, Content and Tags sections of this ‘blank’ article as shown below in this screen capture below. There is no real content here, no Title, Header or Content information. Just one word. I would have expected this to yield no suggested keywords at all. Or at the very least merely return the word “delete.”

Let’s Try the Word “Delete”

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Notice the “Get Suggestions” button? Clicking this will parse the document seeking potential keywords and suggest them into the Tags line in an effort to make your article more indexable and easier to find across the internet.

And The Result Was…

The sole suggested keyword for the single word “delete,” was “WINDOWS!” I love it!

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Windows Bad : Linux Good

When I think “Windows,” I think “delete.” I think Bad Operating System, weak security, vulnerabilities, patches, and frequent upgrades. “Blue Screen of Death” was a regular feature in Windows_98. Proprietary every step of the way, busted by design and constantly in need of updates, Windows is unstable. By contrast, LINUX is a superior Operating System that has just about every utility that anyone could possibly want, and with new titles being added daily there is something for everyone. If there are any utilities that do not exist currently for LINUX or some favorite that only exists in the Windows-based architecture, the user can install WINE and make your Windows-based software run on LINUX.

“Wine” is the free software application that allows a Unix-like personal computer OS (e.g., any flavor of Linux) using the x86 or x86-64 architecture, to run programs that were written for MS Windows. For example, you want to run “Photoshop” on Linux? You can do that with some help from Wine!

If you feel that learning another OS (operating system) would be too difficult, do not worry. There are several ‘transitional’ flavors of Linux that are built to suggest intuitiveness similar to Windows. PCLinuxOS for instance has many of the same features and in the same general locations that you would intuitively think they would be if you are even remotely familiar with Windows XP. It has that ‘Windows XP look & feel’ to it but admittedly, with graphics that are a bit closer to VISTA (which was a miserable failure for Microsoft I might care to add!) Just because it is not Windows does not mean that it has to be completely different, difficult and arcane.

I used to live in DOS before the time of Windows. If I needed to copy files to a floppy disk, it was all done in DOS. Moving folders, contacting BBS services, -all DOS. Windows has somewhat spoiled me with the ‘click to go’ -everything. Slowly, Linux is moving in that direction too. Not everything needs to be done in the command terminal these days. Linux is in fact becoming quite user-friendly and increasingly so as they are making things more user ‘click-friendly’ all the time.

So yeah, “delete Windows” really makes quite a bit of sense.