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After looking over some older blog articles, I have decided that I will focus Gdovin.net’s content primarily on certain areas instead of the wide array of subjects I have covered in the past. This should provide higher-quality content and hopefully, more interesting articles to read. You may have noticed that the categories have been re-structured, I simplified them and then also organized them better than before. I also have changed the site theme again because I wasn’t happy with the previous theme. The content categories that I will focus the future articles on are already topics I have been writing about a lot so none of them should be a surprise, the topic focuses are:

1. Apple
2. Cloud Computing
3. Video Production
4. Product Reviews

These will not be the only things I will be writing about, but most of my future articles will fall into these categories because they are what I am most interested in and have great article ideas for. I also will most likely do only one bigger guide. This way it will all be in one place and  I only need to write one article.

I think making these changes will improve Gdovin.net much better! I look forward to writing great new posts and developing great new content!

Mike Gdovin

When I found out that The Weekly Spin was going to have to go oh hiatus while Plaz travels to China, during the month of January, I decided that I should start a new production project so I don’t just waste the time we can’t be recording The Weekly Spin. I decided to launch my new show, Screencast Weekly, which is a video series of screencasts that have both how-to videos as well as product tours. My goal is that these video will help the viewers get the most out of their computers and be able to do more with their computer, that they never knew they could do before. Screecnast Weekly comes out every Monday and is available on screencastweekly.com as well as iTunes, Youtube and Vimeo. This is an exciting project and I enjoy making episodes and hope everyone enjoys them!

Although, according to the original schedule I set in the beginning of the Holiday Gift Guides shows that this Friday will be the final gift guide, I have decided to extend the gift guides because I have so many products I want to include. Because of that, I will be posting a Gift guide three times next week, Monday, Wednesday and Friday. So instead of having 4 total gift guides there will be 6! This way I can cover everything I wanted to and give you more ideas for your last minute holiday gifts!

It is Black Friday once again and that means  that it is time for the Gdovin.net Holiday Gift Guide. This is the third year of doing this and each year I have expanded the guide. The first year, it was just a single post, last year I did 3 posts, and this year I am going to do 4 posts and a best of at the end. I have already picked over 30 items to cover this year so this year’s guide will be more extensive and will have a best of post at the end covering the best items from the entire gift guide. I am looking forward to the third annual Holiday Gift Guide and can’t wait for you to be able to read them all! The first post will come out today and will continue until the Friday before Christmas and the last Friday will have a regular post and then a few days later, there will be a the best of post.

Without me realizing, last Monday, October 19th was the 3rd anniversary of Gdovin.net. I knew it was coming up but I was so busy with other things I completely forgot to find the date of the official founding of Gdovin.net! Although in the earlier days, the articles I wrote were extremely in frequent and not always the highest quality, I persevered and I now have 223 articles written! Gdovin.net has also had some videos as well as written content expanding the amount of content on the site! I am very grateful to my readers over the years and although, this year I have no big plans for Gdovin.net to celebrate the anniversary, I plan to continue writing articles and informing all my readers! Next year, maybe there will be a big celebration of some kind but, for now I will continue writing as many articles as I can and continue to inform everyone!

I just wanted to make a quick announcement that I have now added an portfolio page to the site to showcase some of my best video work. I have only videos right now, however, I will eventually add works from my scriptwriting class and other written scripts as well in the future. The new Portfolio page is at gdovin.net/portfolio and will also be the home of my Resume. That is all!

Tecker 911 has finished it’s 100th and final episode. It has been a great three years and we have taught a lot to our viewers in the course of our 100 episodes. Please check out our website to view all 100 episodes. I would like to thank the  whole crew for their hard work and I wish we could keep producing the show but, three of us have to go off to college and it could not work.

Cloudscoop has been a great project and I feel I have put a lot of content on the site but, I have run out of ideas for new posts. I have moved all the Cloud Scoop content on to the Gdovin.net Cloud Computing Section so you can continue to read the content there and I will also write a more about cloud computing on that site. I am also becoming a full-time college student this fall so I probably won’t have a lot of time for multiple websites so, it will now all be a part of Gdovin.net! As for the domain, I  will have Cloudscoop.com redirect to Gdovin.net cloud computing section until the domain expires! I would like to thank all the readers andother people who have help Cloud Scoop in it’s run. Please enjoy all my future cloud computing  content on Gdovin.net!

I have been doing posts 5-days-a-week now for several months and although I enjoy it, I am going to end it for a couple reasons. First, when I schedule posts, I am forcing myself into doing 5 posts a week and making sure that I have all the posts that I need and force myself into writing lower-quality articles. Instead, now when I have a good idea for a post I will write it and post it that day. Also, writing daily posts is keeping me from trying other projects and I really want to start some new projects. Finally, I am going off to college this fall and I am not sure if I will have the time for a daily blog post anymore. I still plan on writing frequently and doing a lot of coll stuff just not everyday but, I still will write a lot of content and will be starting some new projects as well.

I am pleased to announce that after months of work, I am launching a new site all about cloud computing. The new site is called Cloud Scoop,this site will be the newest part of the Gdovin Network and will inform everyone about cloud computing because it is a major shift in how people use their computers and acess their data. This site will help everyone understand how to use cloud computing and will review the best services and show how to use them. I encourage everyone to check the site and continue to check it frequently for new information.