The last week has been filled with (hopefully!) decent content, so I’m going to apologize for this post as it won’t give you
anything of much value… basically, I’m taking a break. 
In Dubai, the weekend is Friday-Saturday, so this is essentially the start of it; anyways, with four exams over the past few days, my mind isn’t really up for much quality content, and as there is plenty of it out there I’m sure you guys can survive a solitary day without something that helps you @ TUK. 
If you want something of decent value, read a couple of the mosts I’ve written in the last week, if you haven’t already – they can help.
1) How To Weigh Up The Credibility of A Blog
2) Partnerships… The Key To Success Online?
3) Interview with Buzz Marketer Dean Hunt
Some fairly decent stuff. Apologies for yesterday’s paid post, but I have promised myself that I will try to make some decent money blogging and paid posts are a way to do that – even though I’ve turned down 3-4 in the last couple weeks. Hopefully yesterday’s paid review was somewhat useful, as a lot of webmasters need reasonably priced content for their websites, and CWC provide that.
Giving into peer pressure
I promised myself I won’t do this, mainly because I couldn’t be bothered too… after being poked numerous times on instant messenger, I finally decided to give in. I’m talking about Twitter here. Twitter has been gaining quite a lot of buzz in the blogosphere, mainly after Problogger and then a few others posted about it… I don’t really see the point at the moment to be honest as it’s like instant messenger except slower, but it’s supposed to be good from what I’ve heard. There are quite a few big names in the blogosphere on it; anyways, feel free to follow me.
Blog Premiere
I finally bought the Premium News Theme (Gazette edition) and will work on setting stuff up throughout the next week – it was simply the theme that I liked best out of the lot, as it’s used a lot less than Brian Gardner’s Revolution theme (which is kick ass too). With the right bits of customization, I think it could be tweaked into something that looks fairly professional, as that’s the image I want to give off; anyways, will update here of course
I am still playing around with the theme and stuff but you can check out the website – it is up
Advertising slots
TUK advertising slots are in hot demand at the moment – I have just the solitary ad in the sidebar open (which I’ll be keeping to promote Blog Premiere) and although two advertising slots expire tomorrow, I have plenty of people that are interested in purchasing, so if you are too make sure you get in quickly. I’m also experimenting with an in-post ad, which you can see an example of above – I put this there as an example as I want reader opinion; if you guys think it is too much, I will hold off; if you think it is alright, I’ll keep it up. In post advertising of course offers advertisers to be displayed to the RSS feed, something that other advertising slots don’t; anyways, if anyone is interested on negotiating a price for that slot, ping me through email or MSN.
Blogs Are Still Worth A Lot
Not sure how many of you follow happenings in the blogosphere, anyways BloggingExperiment.com sold for five figures (that’s $xx,xxx) last week while One Mans Goal has gone under the hammer today with the current bid at $6,000 – considering it sold for $8,500 first time around and earnings/site value has only increased since then, it has a good chance of fetching five figures as well. The value of blogs are not as high as they were a few months ago (which was around $30/subscriber), however to see websites that are less than a year old… well, that’s the reason I started MMOKid. The goal with that is to develop for a couple of months, and then sell; you can help me by subscribing to its feed, as I have a few interesting plans for the website.
John Chow Smokes Weed
My last point for today, as I’ve put in a good few hours on work and stuff; anyways, here’s what John Chow looks like after a couple hits on the bong pipe
Hilarious stuff, although half of it was jacked from Russell Peters…
March 27th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
LOL! This vid was hilarious. Btw when will you create posts like Zac Johnson or John Chow about blog income?
I’m sure everybody would love to read posts like that.
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March 27th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
Ya that post on problogger created a lot of buzz.I also joined twitter.Mine is http://twitter.com/bloggeragent001 .Well that video was good.
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March 27th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
That’s an awesome video, why did he do that? How did you find it?
- Gratz on choosing the theme, I think it’s the best
- I still don’t get Twitter. Why would someone care if you’re going to houston, or whatdyamacallit? I just can’t see the point :O
xD
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March 27th, 2008 at 5:53 pm
lol. nice addon to summarize the blogosphere.
Best of luck with your mmokid. hope it gets 6 figure price.
blogpremiere look great, work on it.
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March 27th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
Blog premiere looks classy. It will look awesome once it is fully fleshed out.
Man, most of the bloggers seem obsessed
with John stickinthemud. Fail to see the reason though or is it just
my cranky ole self.
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March 27th, 2008 at 8:03 pm
I saw that John Chow video earlier today and laughed my ass off. Not necessarily at the content, although it was funny. but at the fact that he can literally spew out “shit” [pun intended] and make money.
I can’t wait until the day that my useless drunken posts and videos can actually earn me money.
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March 27th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
Spooky John Chow video…
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March 27th, 2008 at 11:09 pm
You are allowed to take a weekend off
But dear god.. stay away from Twitter. I can’t stand it LOL Some people just go nuts with it and it gets way out of hand.
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March 28th, 2008 at 2:29 am
That video is brilliant. Caught it on UberAffiliate – very funny indeed.
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March 28th, 2008 at 5:08 am
Blog can sell for that much if it is a good blog.
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March 28th, 2008 at 5:47 am
As for the in-post ad, I don’t find it to be that intrusive, as I actually did not even notice it until it was mentioned farther down in the post. I think most readers shouldn’t have a problem with it, and probably wouldn’t even notice if you didn’t mention it…
I subscribed to mmokid. Hopefully you can grow it a make a good sale off of it!
And the John Chow video, I can’t believe an internet personality that is so well known would put that out for the public to see….
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March 28th, 2008 at 7:07 am
crazy vid from j.chow. LOL.
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March 28th, 2008 at 9:56 am
how much you paid for that news theme. I think same or better theme is available for free . It is known as ‘Option theme’ with great flexibility. It can be found here http://justintadlock.com/archives/2008/02/24/options-wordpress-theme
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March 28th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
Interesting numbers on blogs demand. Anyway interesting video too.
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March 28th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
@Arun: I agree with JT’s themes. They are awesome, especially considering they are free.
I use his theme on most of my blogs. It’s just so versatile.
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March 28th, 2008 at 6:43 pm
Following you now John
sizzler_chetan is me there
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March 28th, 2008 at 6:45 pm
I agree about CHOW. What is talking about?…… half baked….. try all baked
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March 30th, 2008 at 5:16 am
Not quite sure what the deal that video was. haha.
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March 31st, 2008 at 12:33 am
What a pile of shit! He’s better at blogging. And, Christ, where’d he get that rug job done? :O
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March 31st, 2008 at 1:53 am
What exactly is a “bong pipe”? Do you know what you’re talking about?
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March 31st, 2008 at 3:53 am
@ CP, meant bong/pipe. Late nights do that to ya, sorry
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March 31st, 2008 at 4:17 pm
just want to ask, i live in uae as well… how on earth are you using twitter ?? etisalat has it blocked ….
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March 31st, 2008 at 5:24 pm
@ Ismail, use https://www.twitter.com
If you want to know a better way to browse any part of the Internet that you wish to, add me on MSN and I’ll fill you in
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April 2nd, 2008 at 8:29 pm
Ahhh, to me, Twitter is pretty stupid. But who knows, in 3 months, I might be addicted haha. Doubt it but let’s see
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