"It's Too Hard to Make Money Online" ::: NO KIDDING! With every click of the mouse there's another "expert" beckoning me to download his/her pdf, throwing up an annoying pop-up screen screaming at me to subscribe - sending me another email thanking me for visiting. ENOUGH!

A month or more ago I ran across a relatively new blog that had more than 40 amazing comments. What was so amazing about these comments? Commenters included:

Mavis Nong from Online Business Tools

Kristi Hines from Blog Marketing

Stacy from Blog Tips

Janet from The Natural Networker

Devesh from Twitter Marketing

Marlon from productivity bits

Obviously, this blogger was doing something RIGHT! A "right" collection of comments, from all the "right" people, including some of the hottest bloggers of 2011! How was this accomplished? the blogger stopped by one of the blogs that these other bloggers were featured on, leaving a comment there, and in some cases asking that blogger to return the visit and check out a particular post. It worked like faery dust! (before YOU try anything like that, you'd better make sure you've posted a quality kick-ass article. This is one of those things you only get ONE chance at!)

Onto "too many visitors" - I have "too many" on this very blog! I briefly discuss the problem here.

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How many blogs do you reckon you run across on a weekly basis? Ten? Twenty? Thirty? Try hundreds. Of those hundreds, how many could you honestly say fall within the category of GREAT blogs, with interesting content?

Thousands and thousands and thousands of blogs have passed before my two weary eyes - and you know that when it all comes down to it, there are just a good handful of weblogs that I find myself bookmarking or digging or stumbling or otherwise simply committing the URL to memory. Loading-Info is one of them. Catchy title, eh: "Loading-Info"...

Take a moment to think about it. I find the brand "Loading-Info" to be quite appealing!

A quick peek at the blog reveals articles on web-hosting and dedicated serves, widgets for info-geeks and website-monitoring for advanced users. Whether you are a wet-behind-the-ears newbie or a problogger, you'll learn something new with every visit to Loading-Info... here's a small sneak-peek of a sample (click on the pic to visit the post):

Whenever you're out websurfing on the net, whether googling for something or bloghopping or scouring for information on a variety of websites, you are LOADING INFO. YES! From the internet - to your computer - to your monitor - through your eyes and ears - directly to your brain! Electrons to electrons!

There's no smoke and mirrors here! There's a real gal behind the blog: she is none other than Gian Faye Paguirigan! She describes herself as a web enthusiast: "a normal 19-year old geek on the block who discovered the Internet long ago" - she is musically gifted, multi-talented, loves cats and loves to watch the stars (as in astronomy!) She's also into "playing with codes, doing programming and spending time tweaking things on the web and on her computer."

Gian Faye blogs out of Dasmariñas City, Ca, Philippines.

Loading-Info is LOADED with blogging info, tips and resources - and Gian Faye is very active across a wide variety of social media:

Connect with Loading-Info's Gian-Faye:

Email Me

I give Gian-Faye an "A" for excellent presentation and a 5-star rating for her blog "Loading-Info" ... check it out!

Gian Faye is featured on:

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Filipino Book Bloggers - http://filipinobookbloggers.wordpress.com

WordPress Book Bloggers - Spotlight on the WordPress.com Book Bloggers

Bloggers | Top Philippine Bloggers - http://bloggers.com/Philippines/popular

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Add Gian Faye on:

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Shelfari - http://www.shelfari.com/gianfaye/shelf

Goodreads - http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/5099556-gian-faye

Bookmooch - http://bookmooch.com/m/bio/gianfaye

Add/Follow/Vote me on Bloggers: http://bloggers.com/gianfaye

Book Blogs - http://bookblogs.ning.com/profile/GianFayePaguirigan

Follow me on Twitter: @gianfaye | twitter.com/gianfaye

Like us on Facebook: facebook.com/dichotomyofonesthoughts

NetworkedBlogs: apps.facebook.com/blognetworks/blog/dichotomy-of-ones-thoughts

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Ever see those heart-wrenching TV spots for abused animals? If you haven't yet been moved enough to give something, take a look at each of the links below.

Nice Kitty, Dead Kitty

Sexy Asian Babes Stomp Kittens

Kittens abused and killed, then left dead in front of their mother.

Adults drown kittens for fun



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Asian Women with White Men Suck?

from chinaSMACK ::: blogger Christine H. Tan explores the intricacies of interracial relations: here's a snippet or two:::

Just think about that for a while — without being politically correct, what is your gut reaction to Asian women with white men? ... "We're not all rich old white men with young ferocious Asian wives... but they do exist." ... I keep a blog where I’ve occasionally touched upon my type of interracial relationship, particularly in two posts, The Asian Girlfriend Complex, and Ending Bias against White Male and Asian Female Couples?. I wrote these posts because I am very much aware of the negative associations...

Little Mermaid, Revisited

A look back at Disney's 1989 classic featuring the human-obsessed underwater princess, Ariel. 119

By WILLA PASKIN (nEW yORK mAGAZINE)

We have a FOLLOWER! Trojan asteroid tags along on Earth's orbit...

The asteroid in the Earth's orbit around the sun has been hiding from view, mostly overhead during daylight, study finds. This celestial disciple could be the next off-world destination for astronauts from earth!

Something else is inching skyward...

GARBAGE CITY: EGYPT -- AFTER REVOLUTION...

bellavidaletty posted: Stirrings

“I’m not trying to be sexy.

It’s just my way of expressing myself when I move around.”

Elvis Presley

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I'm over the top! Going for the JUGULAR on this!

I've really had it with the JUNK TWEETS! Even people I follow on twitter because I am really interested in what they have to say and what they are doing have taken to sending out s**t!

I'm NOT talking about, nor am I condemning "advertweets" where the tweeter employs a service that pays them back for clicks. I'm talking about tweets referencing old outdated blog posts and/or defunct websites. What an embarassment and a smear on the reputations of some of the most wonderful bloggers around!

SHOCKING DISCLOSURE! A blogger whose tweets I once followed, let's call her "Miss M" --- she spent a lot of time bragging about her "5000+ followers on twitter" - until she discovered that because of all her junk tweets, several times a day, sent out via automated services - most of her followers had turned off her tweets - she was actually only reaching the dozen or so regular blogging buddies who spent hours commenting on hers (and one another's) blogs. Not only that, Miss M runs three other twitter accounts where she does the same thing! End result: she's wasting her own time and everyone else's... plus... she has delusions of internet grandeur! LESSON: unless you are following a celebrity, beware of anybody with more than 1000 followers on twitter!

Be more responsible about what you share - and with whom! Don't "junk up" your twitter account

Don't be a TWIT on Twitter!

Read my article: Are you reading the tweets of those you follow?

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Help cbs2 Find New York’s MVBs.

Calling all foodie, sport and mommy blogs! CBS is looking for the best

and brightest bloggers in New York to compete for the title of

Most Valuable Blogger in each of six different categories:

• Dining/Entertainment
• Sports
• Lifestyle

• Local Affairs
• Health/Fitness/Medical
• Everything Else

Here’s what you need to do:

1. Nominate the best bloggers in your community, as many blogs as you’d like. They can be your own, a friend’s, or just one you think deserves the title of New York’s Most Valuable Blogger.
2. Vote for MVBs in each category from August 16 – September 9. You can vote once in each category per day.
3. Come back and see who won. We’ll tally the votes and award a $50 Amazon Gift Card to each category’s winner. In addition, we’ll choose one editor’s choice winner per category for another Amazon Gift Card. Feel free to check out the rules for details.

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Evolution of a contest: after a measure of time, it became apparent that my blog contest needed a bit of refining. I laboured over making the adjustments. It is done!

OK - we're wiping the slate clean, re-setting the timer to "ZERO" --- after a very disappointing turnout, I awarded the 7 particpants who partially completed the requirements before Wednesday July 20th $10 each and I'm now OFFICIALLY revamping the Summer 2011 USD $100 Giveaway

If you don't have paypal and live outside the USA you can still enter and win! The prize money will be wired to you via Western Union or other service of your choice!

The LEGAL Stuffs::: Open to all! All winners must be 18 years of age or older.

Can YOU follow a simple set of directions?

If you can, you should be able to win USD $100.

Yes, this is a contest! There will be ONE winner! All you have to do is take the FIRST STEP :::

There are only FIVE steps. Just ONE winner! How to win? Here's your clue: THINK LIKE A SPHINX!

REVISED CONTEST RULES 22.July.2011

(1) Somewhere on this very page is a LINK that will ask you to do something (perform an action). Once you perform that action, I will be notified by e-mail that you have successfully completed STEP ONE and I will then direct you to STEP TWO of this exciting challenge!

HINT: You give something, you get something!
While you are waiting for further instructions, here's a checklist of tasks for you to perform and then, if you will, document that you have done so by leaving the info in the 'comments' area:

(2) Become a follower of my blog by pressing the "Follow" button on the right hand side

This will set you up to receive additional clues and other info!

(3) Leave me a comment on this post letting me know you are now a follower

(4) Head over to twitter and follow ME!

(5) Earn more chances to win by sharing my blog to others, including but not limited to:

• Tweeting the post (and following my tweets)
• Sharing on StumbleUpon, Digg, reddit.
• Mention this post on your blog (and keep in mind that every minute you spend here is a minute you aren't spending on your writing a post for your own blog.)

ATTENTION! Must have a minimum of 50 participants in order for the prize to be awarded. I'm leaving the contest open-ended for now, and will announce a closing date or contest deadline after 50 entries have been properly tabulated.

NO MULTIPLE OR DUPLICATE ENTRIES ALLOWED! If I find out you've been cheating, you forfeit everything you've worked for!

Good luck!

(H/T to Excel Spreadsheets Blog for setting a better example of running a $100 Giveaway, which I used as a model for this incarnation of the giveaway!)

More LEGAL Stuffs::: Open to all! All winners must be 18 years of age or older.

Dave Lucas is not responsible for and will not consider incomplete or incorrect entries, or emails sent or entries mailed but not received by me for any reason, as potential contest winners.

Winner of the contest will be contacted at the "sender" email used to enter the contest (the email you submitted when you found the first link and perfromed the required action), and the person receiving and replying to the winner announcement email will be considered the winner unless they specify another person within the reply email as the winner. Dave Lucas will transfer the contest prize to the email address supplied by the recipient of the winner announcement email. (The prize may also be sent by postal mail if conditions warrant).

Only one entry per email address... no person may enter the contest more than once by using multiple email addresses.

Claiming of prizes requires an email to Dave Lucas from the winning sender email address within 15 days of being notified of winning at the email used to enter. Failure to respond shall mean that the winner forfeits the prize. Dave Lucas is not required to award elsewhere any prizes forfeited by the chosen winner.

If the specified prize becomes unavailable due to unforeseen circumstances, Dave Lucas will substitute a prize of like or equal value.



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The Technium

McLuhan at 100 - It's Marshall McLuhan's 100th birthday. What would McLuhan have done? A flash crowd meetup? Or republish an old interview from Playboy in 1969? You may be amazed by The Technium article. If you don't read anything else today...

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton and Haitian President Joseph Martelly met in Port-au-Prince on Thursday (July 21) to discuss reconstruction efforts and visit a housing expo. A year and a half after the massive 7.0 earthquake decimated the capital city and killed hundreds of thousands of people, 635,000 of the country's poorest residents are still living in tent camps. Clinton, who as Co-Chairman of the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission has devoted much of his efforts into alleviating poverty in the Western hemisphere's poorest nation, lauded the efforts of Martelly, who took office earlier this year. (Watch the Video via NTN24)

Spat of the Day: Google+ Removes Business Profiles via the Wall Street Journal (blog) Yesterday Google axed pages set up by Sesame Street and Ford Motor Company as well as the blogs Mashable and Search Engine Land. The reason, Google manager Christian Oestlien later explained in a post and a YouTube video, was that the “platform at the ...

TechCrunch

Long Before Google+, Google Declared War On Facebook With OpenSocial - Google and Facebook are at war. We've known this for a while. Of course, neither side will admit to it, but they are. Winner takes the Internet.
Blogging Is Hard – With A Capital H! That's the word from Marya, posting on FamousBloggers!

Marya is a passionate writer, blogger and a thinker. When she is not writing online , she is often found mimicking the properties of a bookworm, or enjoying delicious food - cooked by capable restaurant people. Catch more of her posts at Writing happiness. Follow her @WritingH.

Scoop: Oracle scrubs site of embarrassing Java blog

via CNET- Jul 22, 2011 by Jay Greene The beginning of Sun's Jonathan Schwartz's 2007 blog post praising Google's use of Java in Android. In the midst of its nasty legal battle with Google, Oracle seems to have resorted to a bit of Web site scrubbing. ...

chinaSMACK

The Great Pretenders: China’s “Unfire-able” English Teachers - The majority of China’s private ESL institutions are considerably less legitimate.These schools hire English teachers with one, basic requirement: a white ...

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The World Media Awards and Event will take place on October 26th at the PayPal building in San Francisco.

Publishing experts at the event will conduct practical workshops where attendees can learn how to use cutting-edge technologies and techniques to maximize their publishing potential. The event will celebrate the best in blogging and media creation and double as a means to exchange publishing best practices.

Tickets to attend the event are selling for $50 ::: entries to the Media Awards are $45.

The first 100 bloggers to blog about the event will receive a free ticket and/or entry to the awards for posting about the event.

Space is limited to 500 attendees. Contact event organizer Murray Newlands for full information or see www.themediaawards.com

The event is for authors, bloggers, media creators, media owners, PR practitioners and businesses.

Statement from event founder Murray Newlands:

“I love blogging and wanted to create an event to celebrate the best in blogging and media. I meet lots of publishers and want to be able to create an environment where they can exchange knowledge and creativity.”

“We are pleased to have eBay as lead sponsors of the event. eBay is keen to support the publishing community.”

The eBay partner network is increasingly reaching out to support bloggers. Among the other sponsors are Growmap, VigLink and Trancos.

World Media Award judges include Tanya Alvarez, Adrian Harris, Steve Hall, Sarah Austin, Chang Kim, Julie Wohlberg, Pierre Zarokian, Ivka Adam, Cheryl Contee, Krystyl Baldwin, Jeremy Wright, Rob Bloggeries, Dave Duarte, Dana Oshiro, Tom Foremski, and Judith Lewis.

Media partners include Adrants, Bloggeries, The Affiliate Marketing Awards, MediaVision, Read Write Web, My Blog Guest, Web Traffic Control and FeedBlitz.

For more information visit www.themediaawards.com

Murray Newlands is author of How to Make a Blog Book and Online Marketing; a User Guide. He is also founder of the Affiliate Marketing Awards. Born in the UK, he now spends his time in San Francisco and New York. Murray works for Audience Mindshare and consults for Trancos Ins as well as being an advisor for VigLink.

Tags: the World Media Awards, Murray Newlands





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One of China's most promising young gymnasts, Zhang Shangwu seemed destined for Olympic glory before his career ended in injury. He has been found begging on the streets of Beijing, prompting criticism of the country's Soviet-style sports system.

Sean Hoare, the former News of the World showbiz reporter who was the first named journalist to allege Andy Coulson was aware of phone hacking by his staff, has been found dead, the Guardian has learned.

Yemen Protests 2011

via Global Voices : 18 July 2011 20:40 GMT

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Young supporter for Yemen protests, Washington DC, USA. Flickr: Messay Shoakena (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

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State of NoVa | Va. aims to become Hollywood East

Washington Post (blog)- Jul 18, 2011- Sure, there are a lot of blogs and a lot of blah-blah-blah out there. But here at The State of NoVa, we've culled through a few hundred or so, and bring you our list of the Top 31 fun and fascinating blogs...

TechCrunch

Inbox Overload Begone: Taskforce Exits Beta, Goes Pro With Paid Version - Email is an essential part of our daily communication, but it can also be a real pain in the ass.

QUOTE OF THE DAY ::: This comes from the 'comments' section in a post appearing on Lisa Irby's blog ::: "On Google you can connect with people who are actively looking to solve their problem. But people don’t go to Facebook to solve problems. They probably go there more to avoid their problems."

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