Lately I did not have the time, or rather the passion, to update two fairly similar blogs. Smashill, a blog about creative capital, and svensworld, my blog about everything that interests me have been more than sidelined. I have been spreading myself too far between projects, that are far too similar, and have decided to change smashill into something that fits the name far better. A blog about one of my passions besides art, surfing and teaching, which is Mixed Martial Arts, and I will use that place to write my one sided, hopefully entertaining comments to the stuff that is happening in the world. Oh and if someone from the UFC reads this and needs a photographer or reporter for their next event here in germany, who won’t write about the UFC as a Bloodsport and rather about the beautiful chess game and fighting art it is, don’t hesitate to get in touch with me
I will tweak the design a bit over the coming weeks to be able to integrate videos in a bit bigger size, as this is one of the things that is bugging me with the design at the moment. Enjoy the new found spirit and take the time to browse through all those cool and smart *pat on my own back* articles that you hopefully find here by now

Enjoy the time off, spend it with your family & friends, don’t be irrtated by all the red and the obligations that come with christmas, after all you should simply spread some love, bake a few cookies even though they are unhealthy and just have a good time.
Enjoy the holidays & take care,
Sven

This theme is just running since the middle of april, so I finally took the time to even out a few bugs. You can’t do that fast enough. It’s just 8 months and no one complainded, which just underlines that there are only people trying to get their link on my site when they post their comments.
Content related changes hit the info text on the right side, the subheadline (that is not even displayed on this site as I did not incorporate the call in the design, but hey, never judge a book by it’s cover ) and furthermore I reduced the titel to “living in svensworld”, as this is what the blog is all about.

Refined Comments

The comments had no background, so they were kinda hard to read, I changed the commenting policy, so you can still post comments on recent posts, but you can’t post comment on posts older than 14 days. Happy time. I added a different, even more in the face than before introduction to the comments. Maybe some people will take time to read it before they attempt to spam. Still I really enjoy deleting the hand written spam, as it takes more time for them writing it than for me deleting.

The plans

You can always tweak and rework a site until you have enough, but after all this design is still lovely. *patting my own shoulder* The only improvement that is on sight for this blog is a higher posting frequency. Which will do more than any redesign could do.

It is insane.
This blog recieves very little traffic. Roughly 200 visitors, and it says no keyword in the comments, which should at least tell you that I don’t like spam and take care of this site, as comments are not FFA and moderated.
It’s funny, my other sites, that have more traffic and content, do not recieve this amount of comment spam. I really wonder why this is happening to good old svensworld. Is it that the topics are spam worthy? Or that the domain is very old and people want to get backlinks from it?
Anyways, to all the people who want to push their sites: Do what you have to do, I have no problem with deleting.
In other words, keep on wasting your time.

It was about time, after 3 years of blogging svensworld jumped the plank. It’s amazing how good it feels to remove junk, it frees your mind.

the new start

svensworld is a place to share thoughts, findings and tough love. But it’s been like that before or not? Utterly wrong, before this tablua raza it’s been about nothing useful at all. To make a long story short, everything that crosses Sven’s life and is interesting enough to be passed over to tzeh readerz of this blog.
The fresh start did not only restart the whole content of this blog, moreover it refreshes the design and gives it a new groove.

is a restart smart?

Hearing those voices in the back of the room asking, was that a smart move to make? You will be punished by the almighty google! You will lose your readers! Seriously, this page has a pagerank of 2, which already is a joke and to be honest, which readers? There are almost no readers left besides the spammers posting their keyword stuffed links on a nofollow blog and the occasional friend passing by. To answer the question:

yes it is a smart move to make.

Enjoy it and have fun.