I want to extend my gratitude to Navjot Singh of NSpeaks for pointing out a bug on my site. It seems my submit comment button was gone which resulted to readers being unable to post their comments.

I was wondering why it was a bit quiet here in my site. Hehe. Anyway, the bug is fixed and you can already post your comments.

Also, Navjot is having a $100 contest at his blog. The contest will end at November 30, 2007(Friday - 6:30PM IST). You might want to check it out. It’s very easy to join and $100 can buy you a lot of things.

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People read to gain facts, information, opinions or different point of views. Well, at least I do. It really doesn’t help me when I read articles that reviews a product and doesn’t even have a firm conviction of their own. After reading reviews like these, I feel no value in the contents.

You Cannot Please Everybody So Don’t Even Try

It’s a fact of life. You just cannot please everybody, so don’t even try. That doesn’t mean to pick a fight but it is better to stand up for your own convictions. We are different persons and each of us have their own point of views.

Your Opinion is as Good as Mine

Although others with more experience are more likely to have better opinions, it is not always the case. Sometimes their reputation or their being branded as an expert can be their own destruction. So, let us always keep an open mind.

Do not confuse this with being hardheaded. Sometimes our opinions are correct base on our limited source of information, until other information arises. My point is just to be open minded and respect opinions of other people even that of novices.

What do you think? Have you experienced this yourself?

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Talk about instant money. CashQuest, a PR5 and Alexa 20k site that earns $1300+ per month, has just been sold for $15,000. That’s roughly around 650,000Php. Wow!

The acquisition includes cashquest.com and cashquest.net domains, hosting at GoDaddy and access to all related Feedburner and Technorati accounts. You can check out all the details at sitepoint.

Other blogs that has been sold:
Shylock Blogging sold for $4,000
One Mans Goal sold for $8,500
Blogging Fingers sold for $6,000
Blog Oh Blog sold for $10,000

Just look at all those zeros! This just proves that there is indeed money to be made in the internet. You just need to leverage the vast online opportunities and you just might find yourself laughing your way to the bank.
With all these sites selling so much, do you think you should start selling your sites too? And if you are, how much are you willing to sell it?

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Akismet, which is the anti-spam plugin that comes bundled with every installation of Wordpress, recently welcomed a new competitor in the anti-spam market. And it was Defensio.

Defensio was welcomed well by the blogosphere with a lot of reviews. And a lot of bloggers including Yuga tried the new plugin. Because of the good reviews it was getting, I also tested it.

After a week of using Defensio, I have decided to switch back to Akismet. It might be because Defensio is still new, but the fact is, I’m not getting favorable results with Defensio.

Innocent Comments Getting Trapped in the Graveyard

Okay, I know Defensio is still trying to learn it’s way around on what’s spam or not. That’s cool with me. But after a week has gone by, it still can’t tell whether a comment is innocent or spam. Not cool.

Conversations are time sensitive and I just can’t risk the comments of my readers getting stuck in the graveyard.

Ease and Time Efficiency

Another reason I found Akismet better was the efficient integration with the Wordpress Dashboard. Whenever I log-in to my dashboard, I can instantly check for new spams and click the spam comment link to be taken directly to the Akismet panel.

In Defensio however, it takes me more time to check because it does not have a shortcut within the dashboard. I have to manually go to comments panel, and then go to Defensio panel. That’s a waste of loading time for me.

Akismet is Better (For now?)

In conclusion, Akismet is just downright better. It has better accuracy in my experience and more time efficient with it’s usability. But who knows, Defensio might get better. But for now, they’re nowhere near Akismet.

What do you think? Have you tried switching to Defensio yourself?

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Widgetbucks has made frontpage recently because of a change in their logo. Apparently, they want to make it rhyme. Well, the new logo looks good and the rhyming part is a great bonus.

If you still haven’t figured it out, the above paragraph is a joke. On the other hand, Widgetbucks is really getting frontpage news all over the internet today when they announced that clicks of visitors from outside US and Canada will not be considered valid clicks. In other words, you won’t get paid.

Honestly, I am not really affected with this sudden change because I have removed widgetbucks from my site way before this announcement hit the news. I wasn’t sure if they would really pay the publishers and I guess I was right.

Seriously, what Widgetbucks did here is just plain evil. After the countless efforts of blogs and sites around the world have given to widgetbucks, widgetbucks suddenly cuts off the very thing they were promoted for.

What do you think? Still interested in that free $25?

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