Well, it looks like the whole technorati favourites exchange is really taking off.

A new site, Favourite.me, has been set up in order to automate the exchange of Technorati favourites, so those who still need more favorites, can now do it more easily. the user interface still needs a bit of work, but the site is still very new.

(Sorry for the extra-short post, but I thought that this would be usefull to a lot of people, and there really is not that much to say about the service)

Edit: Forgot to put in the link in the original post

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Sorry for being silent for so long… My offline life has been insane for the past couple of weeks, but things have calmed down a bit.

I realised a couple of things about the Technorati exchange:

1. People involved in the exchange do not always give the correct links… A couple of times they have put links in their comments to their favourites page, without giving me an easy way add them to my favourites… I normally just add them anyway, but in the future, make it as easy as possible for people to favourite you.
2. I am planning to start a niche blog, and I realised that the Technorati exchange idea will nt work for it, since my technorati account already has all the exchange-willing favourited, and I can only favourite each person once… I guess I could get a new account, but I am pretty sure that Technorati will not be happy about that.

Well, there are my thoughts. I know I have been participating in way to many link/traffic building posts without providing real content, but this will change soon.

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I have just found two articles that seem to speak directly to some issues that I am currently struggling with.

The first one, by the Urban Monk, is about how to accpet whatever situation you find yourself in, no matter what the situation is. Go read it!

the Second article, by Scott H. Young, made me realise why my energy levels have been so low latelly. I think its due to my lack of social contact. Go read it as well!

Technorati Tags: Self improvement, meditation, mindfullness, social energy

Recently, I have been looking into using proxies to make a little bit of money, after reading some good articles about the method.

Just today, I found an article warning against using adsense with proxies. This is the first time I actually felt glad for having a tomach bug, since without it, I would have already set up a proxy before reading the article.

I still plan to set up a proxy as an income strategy, but I will look into other monetisation methods.

Both of the links in this article come from Mubin Ahmed’s blog, which I have just discovered. It looks like he has a lot of good informaiton, but I will have to read deeper into it.

Technorati Tags: proxy, monetization, adsense

For those that take life too seriously:

From the always brilliang xkcd 

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A note for all of those participating in the Technorati Favorite Exchange: Check your spam plugin. I have just looked at mine, and found 6 messages from various people who have given a favorite to my blog, but for some reason Akismet decided that they were spam.

It always pays to check the spam folder, especially while you are still ‘training’ Akismet.

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James D. Brausch is offering a copy of the book “Your Money or Your Life” to the first person who trackbacks to his post, so I have decided to try and win it, since I have heard good things about the book, and have been planning on getting my own copy.

Technorati Tags: James D. Brausch, Your Money or Your Life

Just to let you, my faithful readers and commenters, know that I have installed and activated the dofollow plugin on this site, so that you will now get the benefits of linkage for all your comments.

For those of you who have no idea what I am talking about:

nofollow is a tag introduced by google a couple of years ago in a somewhat misguided attempt to prevent comment and trackback spam, by allowing webmasters to label certain links as ‘untrusted’, so that they would not pass pagerank to sites that they linked to.

By default, Wordpress marks all the comment links with a nofollow attribute, and I have installed a plugin to change that behaviour.

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Well, I have decided to start a technorati favourites exchange, inspired by DoshDosh’s attempt at the same.

It works like this. Add my blog to your technorati favourites, by using the handy button in the right column, and leave me a comment with your technorati username, and your blog url, and I will add you to my favourites. What could be simpler than that?
This way, we both get more traffic to our blogs.

So, what are you waiting for? Add me to your Technorati Favorites

Technorati Tags: Technorati, Favourites Exchange, blogs, traffic

Well, here is my entry for another John Chow Contest. This time he is giving away a Microsoft Zune. I am not sure what I will do with it when I win, but I like the idea of getting free stuff, and allows me to create a post for my blog without too much thought.

And all I have to do is link to John chow with the phrase “make money on the internet“. So, there is the link, all I have to do now is wait and hope.

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