OL.U.NID: Money Your Blog

OL.U.NID: Money Your Blog: Blogging has become a new international pastime. It is a way to keep up with family and friends, share your opinion with others and mak...

Money Your Blog

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Blogging has become a new international pastime. It is a way to keep up with family and friends, share your opinion with others and make a difference in the global community. 


Also, your blog can become a way to supplement or create a major stream of financial support for you.

Well, the first thing you have to have to make money this way is a blog. Blogs were first of all online journals. They still are because you post articles most days of the week and they are kept in reverse chronological order. But, blogging is now so much more.


Including advertisements on your blog is the most obvious way to derive an income from your blogging efforts. Ads can come in the form of text links or banner ads, and advertising options are available that you can easily tap into through pay-per-click, pay-per-post and affiliate programs online. Google Adsense, Amazon Associates, eBay Affiliates and Pay-Per-Post are just a few of the most common advertising programs available to blogger.


Many bloggers add a donation button to their blogs asking readers to make a monetary donation to keep the blog alive. Donations are also solicited with clever taglines such as, "If you like this blog, why not buy me a cup of coffee?" The donation link leads the reader to another website such as PayPal where the individual can easily make their donation.


Another simple way to monetize your blog is by selling merchandise through a service such as CafePress who will work with you to create custom items for you to sell through your blog.


Link from paopao

OL.U.NID: iGoogle will be retired in 16 months on November 1...

OL.U.NID: iGoogle will be retired in 16 months on November 1...: What's happening with iGoogle? iGoogle will be retired in 16 months, on November 1, 2013. The mobile version will be retired on ...

iGoogle will be retired in 16 months on November 1, 2013

What's happening with iGoogle?

iGoogle will be retired in 16 months, on November 1, 2013. The mobile version will be retired on July 31, 2012.


How did you come to this decision?

We originally launched iGoogle in 2005 before anyone could fully imagine the ways that today's web and mobile apps would put personalized, real-time information at your fingertips. With modern apps that run on platforms like Chrome and Android, the need for something like iGoogle has eroded over time, so we’ll be winding down iGoogle on November 1, 2013, giving you a full 16 months to adjust or easily export your iGoogle data.


What will happen to the data stored in my gadgets?

All of your personal data stored in other Google products will continue to be available via those products, including Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Finance, Google Docs (now Google Drive),Google Bookmarks, and Google Tasks. Other gadgets, like the to-do list, allow you to export your data - look for the “Download all” option under the drop-down menu tied to the title of your list. Most iGoogle gadgets are created and maintained by third-party developers. If you’d like to export your data, you should contact the gadget creator directly.


I really like iGoogle -- are there any other alternatives?

On your mobile device, Google Play offers applications ranging from games to news readers tohome screen widgets.
If you’re a fan of Google Chrome, the Chrome Web Store provides a similar range of options like productivity tools and applications to check the weather. In addition, just like iGoogle, you can personalize Chrome with a theme.

Link from support.google.com

OL.U.NID: WHAT GENERATION ARE YOU?

OL.U.NID: WHAT GENERATION ARE YOU?: Amidst from modern technology new generation doesn't know about the use of a DICTIONARY.  MY OLD WEBSTER DICTIONARY  (1960's EDITION) ...

WHAT GENERATION ARE YOU?

Amidst from modern technology new generation doesn't know about the use of a DICTIONARY. 

MY OLD WEBSTER DICTIONARY  (1960's EDITION)

GENERATION X

The generation born right around the end of the 1960s baby boomer cultural takeover, basically anyone born after 1965 (Dylan going electric) and before 1977 (so that's ME hafta be at least 1 yr. old when Star Wars came out). The title Generation X was designated by the media to indicate a distinct group population for marketing purposes. Generation X members are generally considered laid back (slackers), market savvy (having been inundated by the mass media and MTV since their pre-teen years), prone to psychological disorders (the first generation with a majority to have grown up with absent or divorced parents), and considered less important than baby boomers (who are by the way the egomaniacal bastids to make that distinction in the first place, Sheesh). Generational trends however suggest that Gen Xers are smarter than people think, are more capable and hard working than expected, and will eventually rule the world by lining up the baby boomer bastids against the wall when the revolution comes! 

Also, the name of a punk band I think.

Well, as it said GEN X are hard working.  Yes, I strongly agree with that.  See, if we have assignments, we do our research thru school or city library.  We read books, ALMANAC, etc.  We make sure we have answers on our assignments.  We really depend on books and newspapers then.

Generation Y 

Born between 1980-1994.  Is also called the Echo-boom generation because their parents are Boomers. This is the last generation to remember the 20th century and the time before the fully digital age. Some grew up with no internet, others remember when dial-up was the big thing, before HDTV, before cell phones were commonplace, when CD players were a must have, when basic cable was a luxury and when you went to the video store to rent a VHS and remember the days of the Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis.

While some of Generation Y is certainly over obsessed with social networking and is very narcissistic, it is still the last generation to remember the pre-Friendster/YouTube/Myspace era and to have a connection to the 20th century. Early years remember the Cold War, good MTV and all year remember when kids TV meant something. Their icons include Michael Jordan, Will Smith and our pin-up girl was Pamela Anderson during the Baywatch days.

Todays teenagers. Growing up with too much information being pushed upon them, usually about DEATH and THE WORLD ENDING. Thus making them constantly ask "WHY?" as their addiction to information becomes stronger.

They all have the answers in just once click on the computers.  And they forget the basic, the BOOKS, NEWSPAPERS, MAGAZINES, ENCYCLOPEDIA and the DICTIONARY for research and updates.  

This is what we called the GENERATION Z

FACEBOOK, INTICHAT, BETA FRIENDSTER ONLINE GAMES, TETRIS BATTLE, GOOGLE CHROME BROWSER, ROCKMELT BROWSER these are just examples of popularly use of  today's generations in net surfing.

In my observation not good.  As I see my kid's depend so much to computers. Everytime they have an assignment, though so simple to answer because the answers are already on the book they still want to ask GOOGLE about it.  Children cannot properly estimate the validity of the information they find on the web. They rely upon search engines and accept information in visually appealing easily accessible pages.  But I agree that the Internet now is a primary educational/developmental tool for children today but we should put guidelines to it.  Especially to us parents, we are the most responsible for this development we should be on guard.  

Potential exposure of children to controversial information on the web resulted in many practical guidelines on Internet safety for parents and children and the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 on the Internet.  This act provides an official definition of a website directed to children. However, despite the abundance of web sites for kids, principles of web design for children are not yet well defined. Kids' active, extensive and rapidly growing presence on the Internet poses both a challenge and an opportunity for researchers and web designers.


In my own opinion, though we are now in this GENERATION Z era, hope we can still teach our children to use their MIND...to THINK and SEARCH and not to depend always on the internet.  Go back to BASIC.  Use the BOOKS, NEWSPAPER, MAGAZINES, ENCYCLOPEDIA and the DICTIONARY.  After all,  we all grow up as TALENTED, KNOWLEDGEABLE, BROADMINDED Citizen even if we belong to GENERATION X.

OL.U.NID: Minute Burger: ALL TIME FAVORITE MERIENDA

OL.U.NID: Minute Burger: ALL TIME FAVORITE MERIENDA: Minute Burger is a widely recognized brand that provides affordable and great  tasting burgers that appeal to the palate of the Fi...