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Jun 29  09
Blogging Social Networking2 Comments

Last week was perfect. My wife, my daughter and I got in the car and drove to the south coast, near to the place where I was born, and spent 4 blissful days by the sea, staying in what can only be described as a hyper minimalist cottage. I’ll come back to the cottage, and [...]

The early morning interruption that produced a eureka moment

Jun 22  09
Blogging Money Social Networking8 Comments

$1,000 per month is often considered the break point for a blog. $1,000 not only represents a genuinely credible and useful amount of cash, it’s also a good psychological barrier that needs to be broken before moving up the pro blogging ladder. I’ve often been asked how much blog traffic is required to make $1,000. [...]

How many Twitter followers do you need to make $1,000 per month with your blog?

Jun 19  09
Blogging Social Networking18 Comments

It’s time to expose another Twitter scam. The Twitter Traffic Machine, the brainchild of self titled social networking evangelist and professional monopoly player Bill Crosby, makes it’s ugly presence felt all over the Twittersphere with alarming regularity. The reason for it’s obscene level of penetration is pretty obvious to anyone used to this sort of [...]

The Twitter Traffic Machine scam exposed

Jun 17  09
Social Networking9 Comments

Yesterday Myspace made 30% of it’s employees redundant. And, whilst I sympathize with those employees who are now wandering around employment websites, desperately trying find a job, this day had to come. There is no getting away from the fact that Myspace is over. And it’s been over for a long time. Unfortunately for the [...]

Is this the beginning of the end for Myspace?

Jun 12  09
Blogging Money3 Comments

The vast majority of my friends are musicians. That won’t come as a surprise to regular readers, particularly those who are aware of my career as a jazz musician. What might come as a surprise, however, is that many of my friends cannot believe that I am currently making a steady stream of income from [...]

The disconnection principle