Showing posts with label internet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label internet. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 4, 2007

Hilarious Cat Pictures

Her quest for success on the internet

A seventeen year old girl is making millions from her website. This is about her quest for success.

Already she's made 1 million dollars and shes still making it. Recently she refused a 1.5 million dollar buyout. Her site is whateverlife.com she specializes in layout and graphic design for myspace pages. An ingenious idea that has made her quite the success. Currently she make something like $70k a month and 60% of that is from Google Adsense. She now makes so much money that there was no need for traditional education so she dropped out of high school and focused on her site. A good strategy for improving the quality of her site.


Above is a snapshot of her homepage

Why so many blogs fail!


One thing I have noticed is how many blogs fail, these are my thoughts as to why they fail:

  1. Laziness; people are lazy and won't do something unless there is benefit for them. They might start a blog and say, "hey this is easy I can be successful in no time." But after a few days or weeks the novelty wears off for them and it ain't worth it. Most successful bloggers have been in the business for many years, and they enjoy blogging. Success takes time.
  2. Not enough personality, each blog needs it's own personality right now I am trying to establish one for this blog. If you notice on successful blogs articles are written in a certain way. I usually like to have a YouTube video along with an article on my blog and some people draw pictures to sideline a post.
  3. Lack of Ideas or Imagination, is a problem it's hard to always have something to write about. Maybe some days you lack the spark others you have all the ideas and not enough time. So write them down, have a notebook accessible to you to write about blog ideas wherever you are. For example I always get ideas before sleep, it just happens I don't know why.
  4. Doubting oneself. Many people doubt their blogging abilities, they think that they can't write well enough or they don't have good ideas. Well most people do, but they don't realize it. Most blogging applications have spell check don't worry about spelling and grammar isn't too important, it's the idea that counts. Check other blog compare ideas make sure you have good ones.
By Ian

Check out this video for novice bloggers:

My Quest to Success

My Quest to success on the internet.

I am trying to make a successful blog here so everyday I will post my earnings and page views. By day 7 next Tuesday i hope to have 500 viewers a day.

Yesterday: views: 40- 50
Money: $0.34

Today I am going to focus on interesting articles things that must be read.

Monday, September 3, 2007

Disaster on Wikipedia: THE Wikipedia scandal


We've all heard of it Wikipedia the free encyclopedia, a great tool for anyone. Most of the time writers have good intentions and tell things the way they are. But sometimes people write about false information. Many have know that this is the case, they just didn't know to what extent. To figure that out Virgil Griffith student at the California Institute of Technology created the Wikipedia scanner. It is a program which scans articles and finds the IP addresses of people who have edited articles on Wikipedia. What was found surprised many. Employees of large companies were assigned to edit and delete information painting a bad image about the companies. People added falsified information to articles and organizations added references to themselves on articles not pertaining to them at all. An employee of Exxon Mobil deleted the entire section about the negative affects of oil on the environment from a Wiki page. Spain's royal family edited information, and one guy at fox started flaming people calling them losers and retards online. Although this may seem like a lot of bad compared to good, I can assure you Wikipedia is still trust able. I believe in time Wikipedia will replace actual encyclopedias. You can find anything on Wikipedia from the best Star trek uniform to the Roman Empire. So right now I am going to go learn something new on Wikipedia.

By: Ian