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One person who has made a living out of blogging is Darren Rowse. A former church minister, Rowse lives in Melbourne and got into professional blogging almost by accident.
"In preparation for an overseas trip (in 2003), I started a photo blog to show family and friends some of the digital images that I took while travelling. I also posted a review of my digital camera. In checking my blog traffic, I found that no one looked at the images, but that the review was quite popular in Google. A light went on in my head and I began to wonder what would happen if I had reviews of hundreds of cameras."
This led to Rowse doing the occasional camera write up, along with gathering other reviews into his blog.
"I actually found that my readers wanted to compare multiple reviews of the same camera all in the one place." The blog soon turned into a collation of digital camera reviews and links from around the world.
Rowse now runs two blogs (www.problogger.net and www.digital-photography-school.com/blog) and is a co-founder of b5media (www.b5media.com) - one of the largest professional blogging sites currently online. b5media employs nine full time staff and contracts around 100 bloggers from around the world to write on a variety of topics.
to repeat or reproduce what has been heard, read, or taught, in a purely mechanical way, with no evidence of personal thought or understanding.I do not know to you but sometimes I was guilty of it specially when I start blogging last year. However, I learn quickly and make some experiment with different ways which gave birth to "Stentorized Blogging". And hopefully, I could make Bucks for Blogging.
With so many blogging communities out there, you might be asking yourself why you should choose BloggerParty.com? Let me just name some of the features we currently offer:How are you going to get paid? You get paid through embedding your adsense code in your personal account in the Blogger Party. You have a 50% chance that everytime your blog will be visited, adsense ads with your adsense code will be displayed.
- The ability to blog - about what you want, when you want.
- You retain ownership of anything you write on our website.
- Refer others and make more money.
- Keep a buddylist for easy access to your friend's blogs.
- Send and receive private messages through our site.
- Add meta keywords and a description to your blog entries for better search engine results.
- Upload pictures to be included in your blogs or to be kept in an image gallery.
- Receive "party points" for things you write, which can then be traded in for prizes.
- And best of all, get paid doing it.
creative consultancy pool that aids aspiring entrepreneurs out to the fields of the market to get the dream done. A place to help get things done.
I started to notice Kumiko Suzuki's blog when she posted the infamous "AGLOCO will not make money online! Ever!" last February 11, 2007 that stirred the whole AGLOCO community. I even commended her on the comment section of that post praising Kumiko and tell her "...That is so genius of you". Yes kumikosuzuki.blogspot.com is really a work of a genius and all her posts could justify that. Not to mention the traffics and earnings she got even she just started this blog last December 30, 2006.
Now a new look and a new domain transforming the old blogspot blog to http://www.cashquests.com will greet the loyal friends, visitors, and readers alike of Ms. Kumiko Suzuki. She really never ceases to make a genius move. Transforming her blogspot give her a sole ownership of her site which means total control on what will become of her new domain.
And in effect, she launches a competition as her way to share the joy of having a new domain the http://www.cashquests.com:
What Can You Win? ( Below are the details of the competitions which I quoted)
THE PRIZE:Gregoria de Jesus
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"Some of my important experiences during the Revolution are as follows: I had no fear of facing danger, not even death itself, whenever I accompanied the soldiers in the battle, impelled as I was then by no other desire than to see unfurled the flag of an independent Philippines, and I was present in and witnessed many encounters.
ALIAS
"Aling Oriang"
"Lakambini" (muse)
DATE OF BIRTH
May 15, 1875
BIRTHPLACE
Caloocan, Rizal, Philippines
FATHER: Nicolas de Jesus
MOTHER: Baltazara Alvarez Francisco
1st HUSBAND: Andrés Bonifacio
SON: Andrés
2nd HUSBAND: Julio Nakpil
CHILDREN: Juana, Lucia, Juan, Julia, Francisca, Josefina, Mercedes and Caridad
YEAR OF DEATH
March 15, 1943
USEFUL LINKS
About 450,000 were capable of launching so-called
"drive-by downloads", sites that install malicious code, such as spyware, without a user's knowledge.
A further 700,000 pages were thought to contain code that could compromise a user's computer, the team report.
To address the problem, the researchers say the company has "started an effort to identify all web pages on the internet that could be malicious".
Phantom sites
Drive-by downloads are an increasingly common way to infect a computer or steal sensitive information.
They usually consist of malicious programs that automatically install when a potential victim visits a booby-trapped website.
"To entice users to install malware, adversaries employ social engineering," wrote Google researcher Niels Provos and his colleagues in a paper titled The Ghost In The Browser.
The vast majority exploit vulnerabilities in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser to install themselves.
Some downloads, such as those that alter bookmarks, install unwanted toolbars or change the start page of a browser, are an annoyance. But increasingly, criminals are using drive-bys to install keyloggers that steal login and password information.
Other pieces of malicious code hijack a computer turning it into a "bot", a remotely controlled PC.
Drive-by downloads represent a shift away from traditional methods of infecting a computer, such as spam and email attachments.
Attack plan
As well as characterising the scale of the problem on the net, the Google study analysed the main methods by which criminals inject malicious code on to innocent web pages.
It found that the code was often contained in those parts of the website not designed or controlled by the website owner, such as banner adverts and widgets.
Widgets are small programs that may, for example, display a calendar on a webpage or a web traffic counter. These are often downloaded from third-party sites.
The rise of web 2.0 and user-generated content gave criminals other channels, or vectors, of attack, it found.
For example, postings in blogs and forums that contain links to images or other content could unwittingly infect a user.
The study also found that gangs were able to hijack web servers, effectively taking over and infecting all of the web pages hosted on the computer.
In a test, the researchers' computer was infected with 50 different pieces of malware by visiting a web page hosted on a hijacked server.
The firm is now in the process of mapping the malware threat.
Google, part of the StopBadware coalition, already warns users if they are about to visit a potentially harmful website, displaying a message that reads "this site may harm your computer" next to the search results.
"Marking pages with a label allows users to avoid exposure to such sites and results in fewer users being infected," the researchers wrote.
However, the task will not be easy, they say.
"Finding all the web-based infection vectors is a significant challenge and requires almost complete knowledge of the web as a whole," they wrote.
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Helen Brown
AKA Helen Agcaoili Summers Brown
ALIAS
"Auntie Helen"
DATE OF BIRTH
1915
BIRTHPLACE
Manila, Philippines
FATHER: George Summers
MOTHER: Trinidad Agcaoili
HUSBAND: Bill Brown
USEFUL LINKS
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