Allegedly, blogging has therapeutic benefits:
Scientists have long known the therapeutic benefits of writing about personal experiences. Blogs provide another convenient avenue for writing about personal experiences. Research shows that it improves memory and sleep, boosts immune cell activity and reduces viral load in AIDS patients, and even speeds healing after surgery.
What if you often drink while you blog? I guess, in that case, it will only improve your sleep.
I believe I am antisocial. I generally don’t want to participate in conventions, seminars, eyeballs, social gatherings and the like. I have a number of reasons why I am like this but for now, I’d like to disclose one: I’m too lazy to go somewhere.
Now, trying to socialize online is another story. I don’t have to go somewhere to “mingle”. I just need my laptop and an Internet connection. Read more »
So, you blog… and your blog is hosted on either Blogger or Wordpress.com. You write well (or you think you write well) but still you think something’s wrong with your blog site. What could it be? It’s right at the tip of your tounge. No, it’s not your cigarette. Riggght, the URL of your blog is not quite cool or catchy. Read more »
Last month, I resigned from my day job to concentrate with my blogging. It generates about the same income as my day job and it’s less stressful. It’s more fun that I don’t treat blogging as a job. Thinking about SEO and page ranking is like anticipating a new school year - you never know what will happen but you hope for the best. It’s fun fun fun.
I could have doubled my monthly earnings by continuing with my day job while blogging. After all, you don’t need 8 hours to maintain your blog, right? Well, I like to stop and smell the roses. If I can earn enough to feed me and my family and spare some for a little bit of extravagant life, I’m good.
Apparently, blogging makes people happy. I agree a little.
I guess it’s understandable that some shy people get out of their shell when chatting, blogging or updating their social networking sites. In fact, I know somebody (my elementary school classmate, I don’t know if she knows me) who was very reserved. By accident, I came across her web site 10 years ago and blogging was not a hit then. Her words in her Web site “betrayed” how I knew her then. I didnt’ know that she was very articulate. Looking back, it seems to me now that she is a natural writer who really has a passion for writing. Her words were bubbly, highly contrasting her silent demeanor. I e-mailed her but she never replied.
The Internet also makes everything highly accessible. You can say anything without having to open your mouth or standing in front of a crowd. Naturally, there’s a great chance somebody is “listening” (reading), which leads to a great chance somebody will be interacting. This makes networking, collaboration or discussion faster than actual personal contact.
That is why I agree a little that blogging makes people happy… that is until the blogger starts to monetize. When the blogger tries to monetize via advertisements, his/her focus would be divided between writing/interacting and making money. When this happens, there will be long stretches where the blogger won’t be that happy. When he/she eats, all that he/she can think of is “monetize”. When he/she takes a leak, he/she thinks “monetize”. When he/she…. You get the drift.
For some time the blogger will not be that happy… that is until he/she starts earning. And my guess is that he/she will be happy again.
So, you just bought a new desktop or laptop and it came pre-installed with Windows Vista. You decided to maintain a blog and you would like to customize its theme. You know that customizing a theme is tedious so you decide to setup a local version of your blog. You download the Windows version of Apache, MySQL and PHP. Problem is, with the supposedly more secure Vista system, you can’t make some of them to work with the other.
I’m sure you’ve guessed by now that I’ve experienced this. Using the ever trusted Google, I found this. It’s very neat - it has a video of how to install Apache, MySQL and PHP on Vista.
Pingbacks and Trackbacks are really very new to me. I found this site that articulately explains them. However, you know the Net is widely used as much as it is widely abused. I’ve read some posts that say quite a number of sites turn off their trackbacks (am not sure about pingbacks) because they are spam magnets.
Wow, the Net really complicated our already complicated lives, don’t you think?
I guess it’s good news to hear that a number of Filipinos already have the “official” list of bank codes. This gives us a bit more confidence when dealing with PayPal transfers.
Although I am not a big earner in terms of making money out of the Web (in fact, I have yet to earn my first cent), I’m really very happy about this development. About 3 to 4 years ago I had a business idea that revolves around the Net but couldn’t push through with it because I didn’t have the right resources to receive payments. That discouraged my Internet-related business plans altogether.
Now, I can’t wait to earn my first cent.
