Lemme go ahead and tell you kiddies about something downright horrible that has happened in the blogosphere. Over the last few months, an asshole named Ashwin Kanna decided to announce that he was running a blog contest where you could win $2,500. Blogging Contest immediately called him on it, calling it full of crap.
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A few days ago, Six Apart released version 4.0 of their flagship product: MovableType. MovableType was always a rival to blogging platforms Wordpress and Blogger, but unfortunately, it had a slight disadvantage: The cost of the software was absurd. While WP and Blogger were free for use, MT required a licensing fee to use their program. [...]

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As you may or may not know, I was invited to be a guest blogger on Lorelle on Wordpress, in celebration of her two-year anniversary of blogging. So far, I’ve written an article, and plan on writing one later today. After she posted a list of all the guest bloggers, I figured it would be [...]

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Taking the advice of commentator Jstrat, who runs the Emergency Trap Blog, I decided to set up an account with the service known as Ether. Ether allows you to be given an extension that people can call you from, after prepaying for a set amount of minutes that you want them to pay. After that, they [...]

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Last blog, I wrote that I was starting to get really annoyed with the words “Make Money Online.” It seems like the words “make money online” have been spreading like a drunken computer virus out to beat on everything in sight, all in the hopes of making Google’s #1 page result for “make money online.”
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Lately, I’ve been doing a little work with a website called Associated Content, writing various articles for them. None have been published yet, but one was already accepted for entrance, and should be published later this week. I’m slowly learning how to make money by playing with keywords…kinda like SEO.
So AC works as the “People’s [...]

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The Associated Press has reported that A group of bloggers have recently been attempting to develop a blogging union, similar to the primary union for writers: The National Writers Union. Unfortunately, there’s a small problem: It’s just not going to work. Ultimately, as TechCrunch points out, the movement will fail as a whole, simply because Blogging [...]

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Because I feel like having a little fun, I’m going to use this post to enter a few blogging contests by doing some quick reviews. We’ll start with a parody site:

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A lot of people out there want to monetize their blog. One of the best ways to do so is to use advertising, as we have covered previously. However, it’s important to realize that too much ads could seriously impact your readers, as nobody really wants to look at advertisements. As people also directly sell [...]

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The majority of bloggers out there want to make some money. Now, doubtable that we all could get to the level of Darren Rowse or Yaro Starak, but maybe we’d like to earn a sizeable income. That being said, I’ve identified the two primary ways most bloggers make their money: Through donation or through ads. [...]

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