The Struggling Blogger

I thought that I can brush it off. Unfortunately I have to read it again… and then again… and then some more. I’m talking about bloggers who look down on fellow bloggers. I read it on forums, some even blog about it.

Does being in a free-hosted blog makes me less of a blogger? Are self-hosted blogger better bloggers? Maybe they meant well, saying that it is a must that a blogger must have his own domain, a self-hosted blog, even if he is just starting to blog. Because, as they continues, a free-hosted blog gives an impression that it contains crap. And this coming from a supposed to be respectable blogger.

I, for one have seen free-hosted blogs who contains useful information, a far cry from the crap being referred to by the above-mentioned self-hosted blogger. And have seen too, self-hosted blogs who contains crap, if not altogether trash. Yet, I do not bash on them.

Maybe they are spending on their blogs and we don’t. Maybe they earn better and we don’t. Still, that doesn’t give them the right to look down on us.

Someday, when I can pay for my own domain, including it’s maintenance, I hope to have a self-hosted blog. But if and when that happens, I will not look down on fellow bloggers - even if they are on a self-hosted blog!

It frustrates me so much that I have to disable comments on some of my posts here as well as in my other blogs. Why? Because those stupid bots keeps on putting links and other unnecessary comments on them. With almost all blogs comments today being moderated, do they really believe that they would get published?

I really wish I could learn how to operate those spam blockers, so that I wouldn’t have to manually tag these bot comments as scam… err, spam. I just don’t understand why do they have to be such a nuisance! And they are so persistent! They surely know how to irritate a blogger.
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I logged in at EntreCard yesterday and I noticed the the latest buzz posted at the dashboard: “announcing something BIG very soon…” and that’s it! just a single line with nary a hint in it… just something BIG. But I’m sure it’s enough to arouse curiosity in the EntreCard community (well, I’m curious), and I’m sure I am not alone in anticipating the details of this announcement.

I do hope it will top the biggest EntreCard contest which was just finished. And I won 1,000 EC credits in that contest, my lucky streak at EntreCard has begun and I’m pretty sure I’ll get something bigger this time.

Or better yet, I hope I could be given the chance to join the list of sponsors for the contest, like they did to the others before. Well, I do have 1,000 EC credits to spare. It will be a good opportunity for me to put my winnings to good use.

But whatever is cooking, I sure hope they reveal it soon. I’m sure EntreCarders are already excited and anticipating what could this BIG event be. Perhaps they might finally give away Graham’s car? No, I guess it’s something bigger than that.

One guess is really as good as the others, so the best thing to do is just wait for it. I’m sure that once it is reavealed, the whole blogospehre will hear about it. With the more 15,000 active blogs already registered, it will definitely create a buzz ( a loud buzz). And if you’re still not one of us… you’re missing out!

After winning my 1,000 EC credits, I still don’t know what to do it. I have no plan on advertising on those high ticket blogs… call me cheap but I ain’t gonna do it. I would only advertise on those 64 ECs and below… they needed it more, right?

But unfortunately, I’ve been busy lately that I haven’t that much time dropping my cards on other blogs, much more log in to Entrecard. And if ever I logged in, I would only drop cards on my friends just to see the latest on their blogs. And most of them requires at least 128 ECs and above, so that means I wouldn’t advertise on them lol

That means, the 1,000 EC credits that I won will be with me for quite a while… until of course I find a way on how to dispose them - to my benefit. Although right now, I cannot think of anything…. what would I do with these 1,000 EC credits? Sorry, donation is out of the question, as I still have other blogs that has low EC credits or none at all. Distributing it to my blogs is one of the option.

But I’m still thinking… perhaps there could be a better way… I do hope, I can get some suggestions - real ones please, of what I can do with the credits.

I am open for suggestions… anyone… how can I dispose these 1,000 EC credits to my benefit?

Thanks!

While the next posts in my blog are still in draft form, I found this in my old files and thought that I would post it here. Some of these maybe already be outdated or already a common knowledge, but I didn’t edit any nor remove any and just post them here the way I got them. From where I got them, I can’t even remember.

Useless but fun Trivia
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