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Ever since I got myself into blogging sometime in August 2006, I am totally hooked into it. What had initially been blogging just for fun had turned into something that is both fun and rewarding. Within a relatively short period of time, I have transformed from a hobby-blogger to semi-pro blogger .. having secured blogger positions for sites such as Gadgetell, Profy (Note: I have ceased to be an author there), Techzoogle and lately Kuala Lumpur is Home, a Home Turf Media blog.

My involvement with Home Turf Media, a brand new city-based blog network, had sparked new interest in me in the area of setting up and managing a blog network. After some serious thinking and much research on the internet, I finally decided to launch my very own blog network. As a result, 12th February 2007, CJCMedia Network was born, although the ground works for the network had been going on for weeks prior to that.

CJCMedia Network, the first Malaysian blog network I believe, is a proof of my committment and passion for blogging. My ambition is to spin this Malaysia’s premier blog network into something that all Malaysians can be proud of in the blog network arena. That of course will not come easy as there are a lot of aspects that need to be taken care of in developing the network.

Although I am currently working to launch several sites authored by Malaysian-based bloggers, CJCMedia Network aims to pool together a network of talented bloggers from both Malaysia and the rest of the world.

I really hope this network will receive much needed support from everyone especially Malaysians. If you would like to know how you can be part of CJCMedia Network, here is a good place to start. Stay tuned for more news about CJCMedia Network.

Technorati Tags: CJCMedia Network, blog network, Malaysian blog network

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Darren Rowse of ProBlogger had some trouble for this week’s Speedlinking project. He had lost some emails with links in it that were meant to be part of his Speedlinking entries. So he quickly setup a project to ask his readers to submit some links he could use for his Speedlinking post, but it was extremely tight in terms of deadline, about 9 hours away when I found out about it in the private forum of Home Turf Media, a network of city-based bloggers, where I am the host of Kuala Lumpur is Home. Thanks to David of Brisbane is Home for the tip-off, I immediately submit an entry about earning money through using a search engine which I already posted a few days back in my blog here.

I didn’t really have high hope knowing Darren’s high standard so I wasn’t really expecting any miracle from it. However my hope went slightly up last night when I saw Darren’s face in my MyBlogLog widget, I knew Darren was checking on my post so I waited eagerly this morning and was pleasantly surprised that my submission was included in ProBlogger’s Speedlinking Reader Submission this week 17th Feb 2007. Thank you Darren for including me in your project. I have always enjoyed participating in ProBlogger’s project especially the Group Writing Project where I have participated twice. You can check it out here and here.

In the mean time, this is the list of readers-submitted entries that had made it to ProBlogger’s Speedlinking this week. Enjoy!

1. 4 Tips on Smarter Archive Use
2. Media Giant Takes Note from Christian
3. Very Cheap Web hosting
4. 9 Ways to make your new blog seem more established
5. Last week in China - An Open Letter to Google via Rick
6. 4 Great Blogs Teaching Blogging
7. Creating Blog Relationshiops Leads to Successful Marketing and Promotion
8. 12 year-old pro blogger? hardly.
9. Strange Google Adsense Ads
10. How to Blog - 1/8 Start Offline
11. CPC, CPM or flat rate, which is best?
12. Advice on Writing Blogs: What has helped me
13. The Venture Skills Blog is your linkbait not working? try writing instead
14. bla.st - the free visual directory, is offering a free card upgrade simply by linking to, or blogging about bla.st
15. Linked in Widget
16. Review Me, Review You: The Rolling Blogroll Has Launched
17. Blogging Strategy: Goals
18. 3 simple questions that will help you blog your city, like I do for Brisbane
19. Five Basic Lessons in Blog Advertising
20. Earn extra money doing what you do everyday… using a search engine
21. Are You Burning Blog Bridges?
22. SEO Simple
23. Persuasive Website Design
24. AGLOCO Will Not Make Money Online! Ever!
25. 11 Ways for a Beginning Blogger to Get Eyeballs
26. Blogging Content Matrix via Mark
27. Weblog Tutorials
28. WordPress 2.1 And Full Text RSS Feeds
29. 5 Steps to Make it on the Web
30. Diversifying from AdSense - Build a Sales Force, check out CPA
31. Recursos para Generar Nuevos Ingresos
32. WordPress.com vx. WordPress.org
33. The Microsoft Monopoly Is At It Again… via David
34. Free Money Finance Policy on Comment and Trackbacks
35. Master the Art and Science of Buzz Marketing
36. Revenue Sharing Podcasts for Blogs
37. Carnival of Home Business
38. How to Get a Free Link from ProBlogger
39. My Cheat Sheet: How to Make Money via Blogging
40. Adbrite: Make Money with Videos
41. Scraper Sites Steal Your Content. Use them to Build Your Traffic
42. BlixKrieg Theme - AdSense ready template via susiej
43. Win an Amazon Gift Certificate or WP Upgrade Credits - Group Writing Project and Contest #2
44. Find elements to reduce boredom due to blogging
45. Google Plans AdWords Algorithm Change; Expects Complaints via Matt
46. Google Adsense: Less is More? via nickel
47. 1 Quick Tip to Get More ReviewMe Reviews

Technorati Tags: Darren Rowse, Speedlinking, ProBlogger, Home Turf Media

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I have blogged about Home Turf Media before and we are going through some exciting time with the addition more fascinating cities into the blog network

The following Home Turf Media city blogs are either already online or will be on line soon:

1. Kuala Lumpur Is Home
2. Chattanooga Is Home
3. Scene and Herd NY
4. The San Diego Beat
5. East London Life
6. Brisbane is Home
7. Calgary Voice
8. San Francisco Voice
9. Homespun Honolulu
10. Las Vegas is Home

I am inviting all of you to check them out and be fascinated by the colourful cities as written by Home Turf Media city bloggers.

Technorati Tags: Home Turf Media, city blogs, blog network, kuala lumpur, chattannooga, new york, san diego, east london, brisbane, calgary, san francisco, honolulu

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With so much controversy generated in the blogosphere over the program pionered by PayPerPost, you’d thought there would not be new players pushing for similar concept, right? Wrong. SponsoredReview has joined the band wagon, and naturally as one of the proponents of such programs, I had registered myself and hope to start earning some advertising dollars from SponsoredReview as well.

I believe more bloggers than ever will join forces with blog advertising companies in a trend that I can say is gaining popularity and accepted by all parties (advertisers, bloggers and consumers) except of course some quarters that think it is unthical to receive money for reviewing products in blogs.

While SponsoredReview is not much different from other similar programs, there is at least one differentiating feature that I like. The advertising price is not fixed by SponsoredReview. Although it provides a guideline how much a blog should be paid for reviewing a product or services, bloggers and advertisers can negotiate their prices. This would be a plus both to advertiser and bloggers.

If you are wondering, this post is not sponsored by SponsoredReview, yet…

Read [SponsoredReview] via [Techzoogle]
Read [SponsoredReview Blog]

Technorati Tags: SponsoredReview, PayPerpost, make money, blog advertising

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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.

Read [ClickZ Network]
Read [The Blogging Times]
Read [Mean Old World]
Read [Tech Crunch]

Technorati Tags: PayPerPost, Performancing, acquisition, blog advertising, advertising, earn money

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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?

Technorati Tags: death, income, problogger, will writing, legal advice, insurance, blog continuity plan, blogging, internet economy, internet marketer

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