Sometimes it’s not about what you know or who you know.  Sometimes is just purely about how long you’ve been doing it. 

Many 2007 bloggers have come and gone. Most have drifted away or have been stagnate for some bit.  It seems the whole wave of make money bloggers has settled.  I have to admit sometimes people can get writers block.  It’s a frustrating concept when you hit a road block.  How many times can you circle around one niche topic?? Then you realize you have to go do your due diligence and research new findings for a good quality post.  Yes we all know that consistency is the heart beat of the blog, it keeps a rhythmic flow so that readers can come back on a timely manner.

When it comes down to it, all you have to is stick it out.  I’m a firm believer about rewarding those who are producing more.  Yet when it comes to respect in the blogosphere, it’s more about your longevity.  It becomes increasingly harder to maintain your position in blogosphere with time. 

Hard work does pay off; you just have to visualize it to achieve it.
 

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Good news! We’re going to the International CES on January 7-10th in Las Vegas.  Having a film crew really does help your chances of attending a show.  This show brings more than 70,000 140,000 attendees. Considering that Blog World was only 1,000+ this is going to be one hell of an event. [Thanks for the correction John]

It doubles the amount of the people that go to Disneyland in one day.  Blogging the Movie will be attending the show at with Press Passes.  It pays to do a documentary. =)

Let me know if you’re going.  2008 is going to be blazing with a great start.  You can find more information about the expo at CESweb.org.

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OCRegister.com | The Orange County Register

Blogs have come a long way from justing personal sites.  Different mediums have taken note that blogs can push content to benefit the community.  We’ve seen TV networks incorporate blogs to give a more personal feel to the audience with their individual shows. 

Now it looks like the newspapers have gone that route as well.  After reading John Chow’s advice in the article about his feature in the February Entrepreneur magazine edition, I started to contact the local papers.  His advice stated that to land a big article in the magazine we should start with our local newspapers. 

I’ve noticed that more newspaper sites like LAtimes.com and NYtimes.com are conforming to a blog format.  What I mean by that is that these sites have the general blog layout.  The simple header with a search box and 3 columns.  The middle column contains the article at which people and read easily by scrolling down.  In previous years, these sites were laid out in sections like a newspaper . 

My local newspaper, The OC Register, covers all of Orange County, CA.  Even though it’s the local paper it’s still has a huge audience.  While browsing around for the Editor’s contact information, I stumbled on this section called, “Publish your Stuff”.  I recently published a introduction blog on that site and now it’s on the front page of OCRegister.com with my little avatar.  I will be adding more content as time progresses. 

Blog are being integrated into other different mediums.  This integratation creates an extension of their own medium yet it allows instant feedback from the audience. 

Are there any other newspapers using this platform??

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It’s been a while since we’ve seen these trains. Google’s PR slap has caused everyone to play by the rules. Here are the official Google Guidelines. Google clearly states that you should not participate in “link schemes”. Well since this contest contains NoFollow Links we are within those guidelines. This is another guerrilla marketing creation from the Sneaky Bastard.

BloggingTheMovie.com is sponsoring the campaign to give a book to all the 10 winners and create a Stanley’s cup of blog prizes. The “Records Book”is another book that will be a signature archive of the 10 winners. So far the records book has traveled to SusanSuarez.com then to InvestingAdventures.com. It will hopefully travel the world through the hands of 10 bloggers. Once all 10 have signed the book I can finally sell it on Ebay and make tons of money. Just kidding. This book will actually have a small mention in the documentary. Here is the NoFollow Link Train Contest.

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Prize

1. Free 4-Hour Workweek Book.
2. A chance to have a permanent link on front page of Blogging The Movie dot com.
3. Sign the Records Book as it travels to 10 different winners.

Contest

This contest is sponsored by BloggingTheMovie - A featured documentary about Bloggers. This contest contains no-follow links. So it is Google friendly and by creating an original introduction you won’t be dinged for duplicate content. This is an ongoing marketing campaign. There will be 10 winners at which each winner will be able to host their own contest which will be sponsored by Blogging The Movie. 1st Winner: Susan Suarez | 2nd Winner: Investing Adventures | 3rd Winner: Can be you!

Rules

1. Write an original short snippet introduction to avoid duplicate content.
2. Just copy the section between the start and end.
3. Add your 3 favorite blogs with rel=”nofollow” in between the link on the code page. i.e. <a href=”http://www.url.com/” mce_href=”http://www.url.com/” rel=”nofollow” target=”_blank” title=”url name”>URL.com</a>. This is extremely important to ensure that Google won’t ding us. Make sure you contact the bloggers and insist they participate so they can keep this going.
4. Email your URL of your blog post to Free4hourWorkweek@gmail.com
[Deadline: 12/31/07 ]

Favorite Blogs

Betshopboy | DerekSemmler | Enkay Blog | MsDanielle | JimiMorrisonsHead | Siteguide.us | Darin.cc | JonLee.ca | Samanathon | MrGaryLee | KellyCho | SusanSuarez | RobertaFerguson | Bloggrrl | TheKingKongBlog | TheBeefJerkyBlog | LifeisColourful | MarketingDeviant | MaleWail | RomanDock | 40hourstogo | TylerCruz | JonathanVolk | Egonitron | SuncoastScribe | Gnaka | WorldOfAngel | MyBlogContest | TheGeekBoys | Add your 3 Favorite Blogs here (it is important that you change the link to rel=”no follow”)

If you were not tagged, you can still copy the list and add yourself on. No worries, it’s a win-win for everyone. So lets get ready. Get on the list to become the 3rd winner on the Train Contest

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Why wait until the New Year to come to start planning for the future? Change is now. Change is constant. Change is slow. 2007 has seen some emerging superstars of bloggers. You can find a some here trying to win the Blogger of the Year contest that we are hosting. The winner gets a 125 x 125 ad here on our site for 3 months and bragging rights for the year. To enter you can comment on the page with your URL. 2008 will be no different, however people will need to strive for big goals as the competition stiffens for the virtual real estate.

Make Plans

Dream big. There is no limit to what you can achieve. The only restriction you have is your own self-doubt. The hardest part of dreaming big is the first action of just writing it down. Remember trying to read a book for English? The hardest part was actually opening the book. Big dreams are no different. There are millions of great ideas, yet a remote few actually tried. So grab a pen and write a goal. Goals are dreams with a time line.

Break it down

Big dreams need to be broken down. Break your dream into 4 parts. Write down where you need to be at 25% of your time line, 50% and so forth. Once you break down these goals the image of where you need to be becomes more clear. Your vision becomes focused and mind becomes clear.

Baby Steps

With your goal broken down into quarters. You need to achieve small daily tasks to reach those goals. By completed daily task, it will inevitably push you forward.

Work is measured by distance times force (work = distance x force). For example if you push your force against a brick wall and no distance has been measured then no work has been accomplished. All that has occurred is wasted force. Work is based change no matter how little that change is. [- Prija]

Complete you daily task to reach your big picture. Just as if you were running a marathon you can’t physically see the finish line. You must complete mile by mile to reach that end result and pace yourself along the way. It’s all about the baby steps. The baby steps add up to the big picture.

Note:

• To be part of the Blogging The Movie brand you can help sponsor the free car giveaway.
• Winning the Web named us Winner of the Week for our efforts in creating a documentary.

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Another social networking site for grown-ups could see a possible buy out.  CNet News reports that they will have a follow up post after Thanksgiving.

Web 2.0 has seen some exciting news of mergers and acquisitions.  The difference between the first internet craze in the 90’s is that these companies that are emerging today have a huge audience base.  This base brings mounds real traffic and data.   These mounds have make a huge barrier to entry to reach a buyout opportunity.

Buyout

How does one determine what is the right price.  Friendster lost a huge opportunity for a buyout because they got too greedy.  They held out, thinking that their company was worth more than the offer.  The systems overloaded with the demand, and people eventually fled to MySpace.   Holding off on a buyout maybe be beneficial, however if you have a rising competitor that can take your share of the market place, a buyout might be the safe way to go.

Chance of a Lifetime

In business there are 2 things outcomes of a company’s life.   The first being that the business will fail for whatever reason.  The second is that the company will eventually get bought out.  Yes there are companies that will last longer than one’s life, however there will be a time that the company will be bought out to another merging competitor.  Greed has no 2nd chances.

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I was browsing the net and I came across this new internet show called Quarter Life. I was hooked after the trailer opened.

Dylan states in the trailer “What is a blog? Why do we blog? We blog to exist…”, I was hooked after that.

Click here for the Trailer

Synopsis

The Internet Series: QuarterLife

quarterlife is the new online series from Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick, the creative team behind “My So-Called Life,” “thirtysomething,” “Legends of the Fall,” and “Blood Diamond.” It is the first time a true, network-quality series has been produced directly for the Internet. And it’s the first time an independent project of this distinction has been owned and controlled by its creators.

Known for their incisive portrayals of relationships and experience during life’s key passages, in quarterlife Herkovitz and Zwick take on those crucial years between 20 and 30, when so many of life’s important decisions are made. quarterlife tells the ongoing stories of six creative people in their twenties. As with their earlier series, at the center of quarterlife is a commitment to realism, the recognition of universal human themes through the truthful depiction of the way young people speak, work, think, love, argue, and just goof around.

Starting with Dylan, a young woman whose overly truthful video blog (on quarterlife.com of course) spills the closest secrets of her friends, the show’s characters – filmmakers Danny and Jed, actress-bartender Lisa, geek-extraordinaire Andy, and still-tied-to-her-parents Debra – chart the sometimes excruciating, sometimes comic, often emotional experiences that comprise coming of age in the 21st Century.

The series showcases the what I go through everyday. Being 25 there comes a time when you have really understand that it’s time to make it. With the advent of computers and the net, there has been a rise in college applications. This is great, however that means there is a rise in college graduates.

A college degree is not what it use to be. To be more competitive we have to strive for greatness. MTV and other media outlets portrays that we can be something, that we are special. But living the harsh realities of post-college work hours, you feel cheated. Cheated that there should have been a warning sign in college telling you that work is really work. It’s hard and it’s not how media portrays it.

Its gratifying to know that this generation of 20’s somethings can relate to the struggles that this series will showcase. Maybe that’s why Friends was so popular?? Check out the trailer and let me know what you think.

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What is the proper etiquette for blogging through the holidays?

As Thanksgiving approaches most families will be spending their days off together.  Should one let the audience know that they will be away for a few days?  Here are 2 suggestions if you did not already know.

Time Stamp 

Everyone has this feature on Wordpress, yet I find that few actually use this feature.  It’s at the bottom right of the screen on the write post page.  It’s a very useful and easy to utilize.

Put up a notice 

Putting up a blog notice is an easy way to let your readers know that you’ll be gone for a few days / weeks.  Why? It’s just polite.   Having your readers come back with no updates is just rude.  It’s like going to your fast food restaurant and finding out that it is not open for business. 

Why is the WII still hard to get?

I’m not sure if it’s because I’m in Orange County, however the WII is still a scarce commodity at our local stores.  I’ve checked Game Stop, Target, Walmart, and Best Buy. 

Hot items this  Christmas:
iPhone
WII
iPods

What items are you looking to buy this season?

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While attending the BlogWorld Expo.  I came across this cool booth called Blog2Print.  It’s pretty much self explanatory.  It’s a company that produces your blog postings to a book format.

It’s great for a How-To site to publish themselves in a an easy format.  The price was only 24.99 for 20 pages.  Pretty neat deal.  I can see this working great for Cook Book, Holiday Gifts, even Valentines.

So, Blog 2 Print is part of Shared Book, which is a reverse publishing company that personalizes a book from the web.

SharedBook automates the process of creating books Â…and lets you add to the content as well. Pricing starts at about 30 dollars. Books about vacations, can include, besides photos, digital copies of menus or itineraries. The kinds of things that used to go into old fashioned scrapbooksÂ….brought into the digital age. Bloomberg Boot Camp, IÂ’m Fred Fishkin.

I might be interested in make a book just for holiday events.  Enjoy.

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A few weeks ago, I read on Shoemoney about this new site called Dance Jam. It’s suppose to be this mix of YouTube and Dancing. Quite frankly I love the idea. It blends this idea of So you think you can Dance and brings it to the web.

To that end, Hammer teamed up with Geoffrey Arone, co-founder of alternative web browser maker Flock, to create a new website called DanceJam that will offer slow-motion tutorials and other dance-oriented frills in addition to all the usual social networking tools. [Source: Wired]

Company Profile

DanceJam is a social media destination where users hang out and watch people dance, learn how to dance, or show off their moves online. DanceJam provides a community where users can watch and rate videos of people dancing, promote their profiles, compete in head-to-head dance-offs and competitions, register and get matched with people who share similar interests, and learn about local dance-related events.

DanceJam is founded by Geoffrey Arone, Anthony Young, and MC Hammer. [Source: TechCrunch]

Dancing is a hobby that can really be utilized on the net. YouTube alone has already seen these kids from all over the world try to become dance superstars over the internet. There is one thing for certain with the internet, it gives everyone the ability to show their talents and give hopes to many that they can become a semi-super star.

Why am I talking about DanceJam so much? Well, dancing is one of my hobbies as well. So I will probably be one of the few people who jump in on this social media network catered toward dancing. Maybe someone can merge American Idol to the web. Have a KaraokeJam? of sorts? That would make a killing.

Here is one amazing clip from David Bernal. This clip actually made him famous and he started to land commercials and gigs all over the world. Enjoy.

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