Archive for January, 2005

The Day After

Well it has been 12 hours since my blogathon of 2005 has ended and I’ve had a nice 7 hours sleep and a lazy morning away from the computer recovering.
The Stats - before I get onto the important stats - of how much we earned - here are some others from the day.
- 113 posts […]

Friday, January 21st, 2005

Last Post

The time has come to say goodnight after 24 hours! This is my 113th post (I beat last year by one!!) and the amount that we’ve raised has well exceeded last year also (I’ll have a final figure tomorrow hopefully but I have $670 USD confirmed already and am expecting another $250 or more […]

Friday, January 21st, 2005

Oak Tree Interview Q10: Vision

As my second last post for this blogathon I want to come back to the interview that I’ve been doing with Rebecca Monson from Oak Tree Foundation (the recipients of donations that you our wonderful readers will give through this blogathon). You can get the full inerview in the About Oak Tree Foundation category.
DR: What […]

Friday, January 21st, 2005

Business Blog List

Jeremy from Inside Blogging messaged me earlier today to say that Inside blogging would donate $5 to the Tsunami appeal for every business blog that I linked to today to a limit of $100. Sounded a fairly easy task at first but in considering it it probably left me with more questions than it did […]

Friday, January 21st, 2005

How to Research a Profitable Blog Topic

When I asked readers over at ProBlogger what they’d like to ask professional bloggers MM asked:
‘I want to know what kind of research they did before they jumpstart a new blog. How do they gauge the “marketability” or earning potential of a new topic?’
I’ll ask the question when I start my interview series - but […]

Friday, January 21st, 2005

Professional Blogging Topic Choice - Passion or Money?

When I asked readers over at ProBlogger what they’d like to ask professional bloggers Hashim asked:
‘Ask them do they choose topics they personally enjoy or just what will make the most money’
Good question - I’ll ask those I interview but will answer for myself here.
Update: I’ve moved this blog post to Do you start […]

Friday, January 21st, 2005

Hopes of a Professional Blogger

This post on the Hopes of Probloggers has been moved to ProBlogger at hopes of a Professional Blogger.

Friday, January 21st, 2005

Oak Tree Interview Q9: Hardest Bits of 2004

Today we are featuring questions and answers from an interview that I’ve done this week with Rebecca Monson from Oak Tree Foundation (the recipients of donations that you our wonderful readers will give through this blogathon).
DR: What has been the hardest thing Oak Tree has faced in the last year??
RM: As one of the […]

Friday, January 21st, 2005

Gmail Tips - The Complete Collection

One of the things I’ve noticed today by the heap of emails that have hit my inbox is the huge number of people that are now using Gmail as their primary email service. As a result I thought this Gmail Tips Collection might be helpful for many of you. Jim, the author of the tips […]

Friday, January 21st, 2005

1.10am Update

There are two hours to go! Wooohooo.

Its 1am here in Melbourne and I’m attempting to stay awake with a bit of late night TV (a silly move as its enough to put me to sleep) and a bit of last minute surfing to try and find some more TLD domains which can earn me $2 […]

Friday, January 21st, 2005

Bid for Over 2,100 Mouth Pictures on Ebay

Some people spend their lives doing the strangest things. This recent auction on Ebay is just another example of it - some guy is selling 2163 pictures of mouths. You can enter the bidding for this entire collection now for just 1 cent. They write:

‘2,163 male mouths are here for your viewing pleasure! They are […]

Friday, January 21st, 2005

Asian Tsunami Disaster Slideshow

Yahoo provides this slideshow of photos from around the region from the Tsunami disaster in the aftermath of Boxing Day. Some of the photos are so beautiful that its hard to believe that they were taken in such tragic circumstances. Please don’t forget that we are doing this blogathon to raise some money for the […]

Friday, January 21st, 2005