GreenBucks

GreenBucks went to the WordCamp Philippines last September 6, 2008.

The lectures that I have attended were the following: Blogging 102 which is basically about how to advertise and have contests (plus where to get the prizes to be given away) to increase the blog’s juice on readership and traffic.

Then I attended the Building a Blogging Community. This is very timing since my friends and I just launched a new group writing blog, the FilipinoMomBlog.

I also attended the lecture on plug ins and SEO.

Then Mr WordPress himself Matt Mullenweg, presented the new developments for WordPress including the WordPress 2.7 which will be available in November.

I had fun learning new things except for one major mishap. My (Sandisk) SD card decided to go nuts so I lost all photos of the lectures that I took. I just took several photos again but the new WordPress 2.7 photos were in those that were probably lost

Incidentally, some of my photos were recovered last night. Woohoo! (insert Plurk banana dance here) Thanks hubby!

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Web hosting.

What is web hosting? How does one have an online account, a blog, a corporate website? How much does not need to put up for these services? What are the best web hosting services being offered in the market today? Is the web hosting provider secure? What about data recovery? What about the other technical aspects of web hosting?

These are just some of the questions that would-be bloggers and corporate/business owners would want to know details about when they get interested in setting up online sites. Blogging and putting up corporate sites is not just about writing and putting up photos. One should learn at least basic technical aspects of putting up such sites.

If one wants to have his own domain and be hosted by web hosting services, then one should be able to understand the basic ins and outs of this endeavor.

One of the best ways to learn about web hosting is to read articles and web hosting tutorials. Sure, it is good to listen to the advices of friends who know about these things but reading makes one understanding these things better. Web hosting rating should be scrutinized too, to know the leaders in the market.

Also, one of the concerns would be the cost of the web hosting package. For would-be bloggers, they can opt to start with a starter package. They can probably get a different package once posts have been made and traffic to the site has been increasingly going up.

For corporate sites, they can opt to get the packages for exactly what they need to accommodate everything they may want to put up in their site.

If its any consolation and also for added credibility, better check web hosting awards to also know which companies have been given due recognition in the field of web hosting services.

Check out this web hosting site to view the packages being offered.

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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

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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:

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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?

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Earning online. Who wouldn’t want this? That is what a lot of bloggers aim to do. Why not? It is a very rewarding experience to write about the things one likes to write about and earn from it. Not bad, in my opinion. Earning through blogging can be done through different avenues, such as Bloggerwave.

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