I will never understand the hype about getting readers to subscribe to our blogs. Why the hell do blogs need subscribers? Give me a real live visitor anytime. Subscribing to blogs is not the same as subscribing to a magazine. We subscribe to magazines because we worry we might miss an issue if we buy [...]
Archive for August, 2007
Trendsetters of the Blogosphere
In real life, it is not easy to be a trendsetter and get worldwide recognition of the trend that you are setting. You can be a trendsetter in school if you start something crazy like dying your hair with multiple colors. You can be a trendsetter in work if your colleagues fancies the [...]
Blog Estate Speculation.
If this thing catches on, I think we will see a new trend in the Blogosphere. Remember John Chow having sold his prime blog estate for a cool $1000 a month and it was snapped up within the hour? The buyer is eleven21.com as I found out today. I was wondering what Advertisments he has [...]
High Ranking Blogs Don’t Like Adsense
I just read that John Chow is ditching Adsense or at least shelving it for the summer, and he has sold the space that he used for his Adsense Ads for a whopping $1,000 a month. Guess what, before his next post could be published, the space has been taken. John has reported that his [...]
How to create a not so successful blog
I have limited ideas on how to create a successful blog. However I do have plenty of experience on creating blogs that are not very successful but can be happily maintained because we have some loyal followings which never seems to grow in numbers. From these blogs, we can also happily write some paid [...]
