Our First Podcast!
Here it is and I know that it is a really big file (next time I’m going to reduce the audio recording quality). But please have a listen and let us know what you think. In this first podcast I talk about how I produced the fake poster for the Ewok Massacre. To listen you […]
What To Do With My Adsense Cheque?
On Saturday, I recieved my first ever google adsense cheque for the princely sum of £59.18 (curse the strong pound and the weak dollar!). I recently posted on my blog a very important question: what the bloody hell should I do with it? I feel I should do something something more constructive than spending it […]
Internationalising your blog
On his money-making mission, Mike has made plenty of insightful posts, and no exception was his recent observation on just how global the internet is. Good one, mate, and then when you highlighted my ban in China, it really got me thinking. For the 65% of non English-speaking surfers out there, plus a couple of […]
Learning to Sign
I have often heard of mothers teaching their infants sign language so that the baby has more power to communicate before he/she is able to speak. I always thought it was a great idea and wanted to try it out with my own children. Of course when I had my baby real life got in […]
Blog Competition, First Entry
I woke up this morning, pleased to find we received our first review in the blog competition from Esplanade. The review is nice, and sets a good tone for the competition. After about 10 or so reviews, the competition will be closed and the voting will begin. The winners will receive 10$ for first and […]
$25 to blow on promoting a blog, what do you do?
Here is a blog promotion question, and it isn’t rhetorical, so please feel free to answer. You have a spare $25 and want to increase awareness and generate some buzz over at the new topfunnies blog. It is not a question of making money right now, just kickstart some targetted traffic that is interested in […]
A few sophisticated directories
It seems that the task of linking to directories always appear in the blogger’s TO DO list. PR4 and above sites are best. Reading through Mike’s weekly stats, he isn’t so convinced of their usefulness, at least as far as driving traffic to your site. I guess like all things, you have to weigh up […]
Shame-less Self Promotion
We’ve all been there, your blog is languishing in the depths of Technorati Despair, and nobody is reading what you have written. You fancy encouraging a spike of activity around the blogosphere, so what you do is post a few comments on your favourite blogs. Comments are the best form of getting comments, I mean, […]