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According to an article in The Walls Street Journal, more and more Americans make a living out of blogging.

The numbers on your right,as provided by America’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, are quite staggering to say the least, as you can see here. However, there are something which requires further clarification.

Are these people making a living out of blogging full time? Or are they just making up the numbers who are just making few bucks through blogging?

As for me, no I don’t make a full time living out of blogging but yes… I do earn some money from blogging. What about you?

Read more at:

1. America’s Newest Profession: Bloggers for Hire

2. Blogging for pay: A reality check

Image credit: The Walls Street Journal

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If making USD1 a day is not appealing then Today.com is not for you. But if you don’t mind earning USD30 per month by making a post a day on any topic that interest you, go and check it out.

Today.com is both a blog network and blog directory of user generated contents. You sign up with them and created a blog where your blog will be created under a subdomain of Today.com. Yes… you will own the (sub)domain name and you can write about anything.

Once you setup the blog, you will earn USD1 per day for posting relevant articles in your blog. USD1 perday is guaranteed for one posting a day but if you blog more in a day, you will only be paid USD1. So your maximum earning is capped at USD30 per month. So you wont get rich blogging for Today.com but if you setup two blogs of different topics, you could make USD60 per month… but that will also not make you rich.

But having somewhere to start earning online is a great idea and Today.com maybe just the platform you would want to start off to test your writing skill and get paid for it. It will also be the platform where you could start ’selling’ your writing credential. Who knows this could be a good start for you and open up more online opportunity for you in the future.

If you are not into blogging for money, Today.com is still good place to read on many different topics created by their bloggers.

Good luck.

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Managing fax documents can be quite problematic affairs especially for large organizations with complex enterprise fax requirements. Imagine an organization with multi-location offices employing few hundred office workers. Setting up and maintaining a large number of fax machines around these offcies can be a real challenge to the office administrator.

Thanks to the advance in Information Technology, these problems can be solved quite easily with professional fax solutions that employs the use fax servers or fax appliances as part of the solutions.

Such fax solutions can be deployed by large organizations not only using fax software to manage enterprise fax requirements, but also by leveraging on the solution’s capability to manage documents as part of the office document management system.

Some of the benefits offered by having professional fax solutions for your offices are:

1. Ability to support large number of corporate users who can send and receive fax directly from Outlook or browsers
2. Integrated security options with interface to Microsoft Active Directory, LDAP or even IBM Lotus Notes domain servers
3. Track user access to the system with ease providing complete security over managed documents
4. Supports wide array of document formats such as image files, Adobe Acrobat files, MS Office files, internet files and text files
5. Ability to interface to various systems such as VoIP, analog and digital systems

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By STEVEN PATRICK

KUALA LUMPUR: If you are an ICT (information and communications technology) graduate and having a hard time getting a job, e-business specialist Skali has an offer for you.

It will train you and give you a job in the Managed Portal Services (MPS) project, which involves the maintainance and upgrading of the 102 state government and 471 federal government websites.

Skali announced that it was awarded the six-year project, which is worth RM258mil, on Wednesday and has openings for 4,000 graduates in its training programme.

Through the programme, called Spike (short for Skali Pioneers and Innovators in Knowledge Economy), the company hopes to help unemployed graduates further develop their ICT knowledge and become entrepreneurs.

“The trainees will undergo practical training in multimedia and business, programming, IT networking systems, and project management,” said Aimi Aizal Nasharuddin, president of Skali (also known as Alam Teknokrat Sdn Bhd).

During the first three months, the trainees will be paid an allowance of RM500 per month. Once they reach apprentice stage, they will receive salaries of between RM1,200 and RM4,000, depending on their level of skill and competency.

The training will be conducted at MPS support centres in Selangor, Terengganu, Kedah, Pahang, Johor and Perak, and has already started with a group of 300 graduates.

Applicants should surf to www.spike.com.my for more information.

Aimi said that at the end of the contract period, more than 400 companies would be set up to take over the managing of the government websites.

“The graduates we train will get the opportunity to become entrepreneurs because they will be encouraged to form those companies,” he said. Skali will also outsource other work to them.

There is an estimated 8,000 unemployed ICT graduates in the country, out of an overall 150,000 graduates in total looking for jobs.

According to Skali, the lack of working experience and “very bad English” are the main reasons why there are so many unemployed ICT graduates.

“If they sign up for Spike, we will be upfront and tell them where they are going wrong so that they can improve,” said Skali co-founder and group CEO Tengku Farith Rithauddeen.

The programme, he added, is also designed to push these graduates out of their comfort zone so that they will start to strive for themselves.

Source: Star Online

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You may be asking why do they want to to that? I think that because someone screwed up… and considering the parties and technology involved, the extent of damage possibly done, I’d say some one had comitted a big time screw-up. The government had issued four licenses to four service providers to operate on the 3.5-Gigahertz (GHz) frequency, only to find out that it had interfered with the operations of the Measat-3 communications satellite.

Are these guys telling us they didn’t know about the potential problems? Come on guys… you can do better than that.

On Thursday, Energy, Water and Communications Minister Datuk Seri Dr Lim Keng Yaik said use of the 3.5GHz frequency by the wireless broadband service providers was interfering with the operations of the Measat-3 communications satellite.

He blamed the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC), which had given out the licences, for the predicament.

Measat-3 also uses the frequency, which is employed by the broadband service providers to offer fast wireless Internet access to the corporate sector, as well as other related services.

The other 3.5GHz frequency licence holders are Airzed Broadband Sdn Bhd, TM Bhd, Maxis Communications Bhd, EB Technologies (M) Sdn Bhd, TTDotCom Sdn Bhd and Atlas One, according to the MCMC website.

So another finger pointing will just show how capable these people are in carrying out projects of national interest. Malaysia Boleh!!

Read [Star Online]
Read [Jeff Ooi]

Technorati Tags: MCMC, Malaysia Communication and Multimedia Commission, broadband

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The Pikom’s PC Fair 2007 kicked off last weekend in Penang, Malacca, Sabah, and Sarawak. This weekend the much awaited event will be held in Kuala Lumpur Convention Center for folks in the capital city of Kuala Lumpur. You would not want to miss this weekend if you are looking for great bargains of computer products.

Kingston will be celebrating its 20th anniversary at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Center so you wil have another reason to bring the family there. There will be lots of fun there with lucky draws, scratch card contest and instant prizes to be won. Share with us what did you buy at this year’s PC Fair.

PC Fair 2007 (I) Dates and Locations:

6 - 8 April 2007
11:00 am - 9:00 pm
Penang International Sports Arena
Jalan Tun Dr Awang, 11900 Relau
Mahkota Parade Melaka
Jalan Merdeka, 75000 Bandar Hilir, Melaka
Dewan Masyarakat Sandakan
Jalan Leila, 90000 Sandakan
Dewan Masyarakat Tawau
Jln Bakau, 91000 Tawau
Level 5, Permata Car Park Building, Kuching
Jalan Padungan, 93100 Kuching

13 - 15 April 200711:00 am - 9:00 pm KL Convention Centre, Kuala Lumpur (Route Map)
Kuala Lumpur City Centre, 50888 Kuala Lumpur
City Square Johor Bahru
Jalan Wong Ah Fook, 80000 Johor Bahru
Stadium Indera Mulia, Ipoh
Jalan Stadium Perak, 31400 Ipoh
Summit Shopping Complex, Batu Pahat
Jalan Bakau Condong, 83000 Batu Pahat
Berjaya Megamall, Kuantan
Jalan Tun Ismail, Sri Dagangan, 25000 Kuantan

20 - 22 April 200711:00 am - 9:00 pm Dewan Milenium, Kepala Batas
Bertam, 13200 Kepala Batas
Dewan Perbandaran Taiping
Jalan Taming Sari, 34000 Taiping
Sibu Trade & Exhibition Centre
Power Road, 96000 Sibu
Miri Indoor Stadium
Jalan Sukan, 98000 Miri
Dewan Dato’ Hormat, Tanjong Karang
Tanjong Karang, Kuala Selangor
Dewan Jubli Intan, Muar [carried forward from PC Fair 2006 (III)]
Jalan Arab, 84000 Muar

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