GreenBucks

I read about this term one time, BLOG ADDICT.

Yeah, feels like term coined by those who do nothing but blog all day. No harm done if blogging is something that makes one productive.

What I mean by being productive means there is some kind of a monetary compensation that can be had with blogging.

OR by being productive means one can learn a lot of things either by blogging (writing skills and thought processes, yeah right) or by reading others’ blogs (current events or simply taking a peek gossiping reading about the day-to-day happenings in other bloggers’ lives).

No, not that only monetary benefits can make one a happy blogger.

The blogger is happy, I know but of course, one has to consider the expenses when blogging.

Blogging = expenses and by expenses mean electricity bill, ISP bill, as well as time and effort. Yes, these time and effort can also be convertible to monetary equivalence too.

I know because in my line of work, we get paid by number of hours we worked.

I have written two posts about the Hazards of Blogging here when a man who blogs wrote that he was going to a US territory and maybe he forgot that he has a case in the mainland US. What happened next? Click here.

So how should one know that blog addiction is now running in one’s veins? That everything else seem to take a back seat because blogging takes precedence over all things? One more sign is that the “normal” daily routine of work, including house chores, professional work and other responsibilities are sometimes neglected not given much thought about yes, takes a back seat in lieu of blogging. Why does this sound like a funeral instruction.

Click here for anther entry I have written where you can read and check or maybe add some more symptoms about being a blog addict.

Now don’t go asking me why I came up with the things I have listed. I won’t tell you my sources, and if you are good, your guess is as good as mine.

Now here are other other sites where one can read about being BAD. Yes, BAD.

Blog Addiction Disorder. Some more 10 signs about blog addiction ( I don’t have some of those listed here).

Have fun. Blogging, that is 😀

3 Comments »

Mark Cuban not only owns the Dallas Maverick but serves as chairman of the TV Channel HD.Net. He blogs too.

The finer points discussed in the NY Times article about blogging are the following:

1. Don’t expect to get rich.
2. Write about what you want to write about, in your own voice.
3. Fit blogging into the holes of your schedule
4. Just post it already
5. Keep a regular rhythm
6. Join the community, such as it is.
7. Plug yourself.

There’s this part in the article that fits exactly what I think sometimes:

In the end, the biggest threat isn’t that you’ll fail to learn to blog. It’s that if you blog regularly for long enough, and begin to get comments and links from other bloggers, you’ll have trouble doing your day job.

4 Comments »

A personal digital assistant or PDA is rewarding in so many ways.

What I am using right now, Palm T3 is quite handy, though this has been released years ago. There are many features that one can use repeatedly. These are some of the features: Calendar, Task Suite, Contacts page, MS Word, MS Excel, Real Player, Adobe Reader and a lot more features that one can ever need, well, as far as when this model was released 😉

Text twist? Photos? Vice memo and recorder? Alarm Clock? I got these too.

But of course, there is no wi-fi with this model. Can’t have everything. But, there is Bluetooth and it can be used to send and receive text messages, as long as my cell phone’s Bluetooth is connected.

If only the battery life will stay longer, I am perfectly content. Well, we really can’t have it all.

3 Comments »

Well, as of this moment that I am writing this. Borked, means screwed, broken, or not working, or whatever.

Maybe this happens when there is just waaaay too much of those linky love tags that will make one’s Technorati Rank go up as it clogs the site’s server capacity.  Or maybe not.

Me? I better steer clear of this as of now, what if Technorati suddenly thinks about punishing those who do these. Oh, perish the thought.

Here is a screen shot:

No Comments »

May 27 marks the fifth year of WordPress.

They have come a long way, from the first release of  WordPress on March 27, 2003 to the newest release WP 2.5.1

Those who are interested to see where the celebration is, click here.

No Comments »

This is just an observation for bloggers who want to exchange links, not about linking or pinging back some of their posts with their current post.

In my other blog, I had one commentor who wrote something like: “I have linked you with my other three blogs and I hope you do the same”. I repeat, this was what the “tone/message” that the blogger has written, though not exactly as I have written. Did I link the blogger? No, I didn’t ask this blogger to link me in the three blogs that s/he has, why would I link the blogs to mine, I don’t even visit the blogs mentioned.

At the beginning of my blogging “career”, I found it necessary to ask for other bloggers if they care to exchange links with them. What did I do? Most of them, I emailed, asking for this favor. I wanted to have virtual friends and I did. I was right in choosing these bloggers for until now, we still get in touch. Some of them became good, albeit, virtual friends who later on, became my buddies. Some blogs that I regularly visit, why, I haven’t asked them to exchange links with me, even if I have them in my links and even in my Google Reader.

Anyway, I digress, I am yapping too much here.

The gist of my topic is just this: I read in a friend’s blog, a comment like this:

i don’t see my name here. did we ever xlinks?

What the…?

What say you, huh?

12 Comments »