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So finally it happened. The trend of acquiring competitors has finally catch up with blog advertising companies. PayPerPost has signed a letter of intent to acquire parts of Performancing.com. What does it mean to you and me as bloggers and advertisers? Well I guess it depends on how much you earn money through advertising and pay-per-post and also how much you as advertisers spend on blog advertising.

The most important thing from my personal perspective of this transaction is the central issue of the credibility of pay-per-post scheme itself. The topics have been debated at length on many blogs and websites. Some professional bloggers think pay-per-post is not an ethical way to earn money for bloggers. At the same time, thousands of bloggers jumped into the bandwagon giving them another platform to earn something out of their blog writing. Many of them earned a handsome sum of advertising dollars from pay-per-post scheme and many more earned a little bit here and there, all depending on how popular their blogs are.

I think the purchasing of Performancing.com by PayPerPost has given some kind of moral boost to bloggers giving indications that pay per post is going to stay and thrive despite many negative opinions surrounding the advertising scheme. Given some times, I think pay-per-post will be accepted by more people in the blogosphere. As the technology and the methodology around pay-per-post mature, I dare to predict that pay-per-post will be one of the internet-economy driving factors for generating income through blogging, which is now very much dominated by Google’s PPC. Just my two cents.

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It is an interesting question isn’t? If you are a Problogger and your family’s well being depends on income generated by your blogs, you should do something about it. I am not a Problogger but somehow, a question pop up in my mind, what happens to my blog when I die? It’s not so much of the money generated by my blog because it isn’t much to start with, but rather what would happen to it?

One thing that comes to my mind is that, regular visitors to my blog (or for that matter anyone’s blog) will start thinking what happened to the blog owner? Is he sick? Is he busy? Is he still blogging? Is he alive? Is he dead?

For Probloggers whose family are dependent of blogging income, this should be a serious question and requires serious attention to getting an asnwer to it. This is especially true if your spouse is not a blogger herself. You should have a blog continuity plan, very much like a business continuity plan should a disaster strikes, in this case your death.

Here are some suggestions by Darren Rowse of Problogger how to prepare your spouse in the event of your death:

Contact details for partners - I have a number of blog partners that would be able to help her navigate some of the logistics of managing my blogs
Contact details for trusted other bloggers - a few others who know enough to be useful
Passwords and Contact details for Advertising Programs and Affiliate Programs - to be able to access and manage income
Contact details of bloggers who work for me - a number of my blogs are written these days by others.
Contact details for web hosts - without these the blogs fall over and income disappears
Passwords for Paypal accounts
Backup details - for blogs and computers
Blog and hosting passwords - to give her (or those who help her) access
Instructions on what to do - a few notes on what I’d suggest she does. Which blogs she could sell (and who could help her sell them), which to allow to run (and who to write on them), what my agreements are with different people etc

More discussions at Problogger, EricGiguere, Interweb World, Blogging Pro.

Obviously, new internet economy had presented a new challenge for internet practitioners with regards to business income continuity of these internet professionals. Lets hope, those involved in will writing or legal advice would come up with real solutions to these real problems potentially faced by a growing number of internet professionals especially professional bloggers.

It’s interesting also to find out if insurance companies would response to this new business insurance needs catering to professional bloggers and internet marketers. Any new idea anyone?

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I am currently using a camera that comes together with a Sony Ericsson mobile phone. While the handphone has all the great features I had wanted, the camera is not good enough taking pictures at only 2.0 megapixel. I want to take better pictures at higher resolutions. So I went to Kuala Lumpur PC Fair recently and got myself a 7 megapixel Nikon S8 digital camera. The camera is so cute and the picture quality is of course better than the 2 megapixel Sony Ericsson camera previously.

But once a human is always a human. Human never satisfied themselves. I began thinking what if I can get a 10 megapixel camera and a nice photo printer that can print really high quality photos. Hmmmm, it didn’t take me long to start looking for options available out there. And I am thinking about HP. Yes… HP not only produces excellent computer-related products such as personal computers and laser jet printers but also respectable digital photography products.

My search for a 10 megapixel camera landed on HP Photosmart R967 Digital Camera, voted as one of Top 10 Digital Cameras by PC World. Hmmm….. not bad, scoring 4.5 out of possible 5, the R967 seems very tempting. It has everything I want to have in a digital camera, and HP also has nice photo printer that can go with it too… I think it’s perfect combination. I want HP R967 digital camera…. I want! Hmmm if only I have enough cash. This post was brought to you by HP.

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If you are participating in PayPerPost, you should have been informed by now that all PayPerPost articles requires disclosure about its sponsored status. I have no problem with that. I have created special category for PayPerPost and for others, I have created another more general category Sponsored Post for all posts that do not require disclosure, but I want to disclose it anyway. All I am saying is that, I am earning some money from this blogging and if some of you don’t know about it already , now you do. But unfortunately, no.. I am not paid for this post… And good thing about earning income through blogging is that, you too can make money from blogging.

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Yes…. Darren Rowse of Problogger had launched another Group Writing Competition again. I had joined the project last time and I am definitely part of it again this time around. However, I am participating in the Group Writing Project from my other site Kuala Lumpur is Home. Check it out.. and have fun.

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Yes…. Darren Rowse of Problogger had launched another Group Writing Competition again. I had joined the project last time and I am definitely part of it again this time around. However, I am participating in the Group Writing Project from my other site Kuala Lumpur is Home. Check it out.. and have fun.

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