Blog News Watch

Yeah, I’m all about the shakeup. We’re moving the weekly roundup to Fridays now, and the TalkBack thread will now happen on Tuesdays, starting next week. So, this week, no “Talk Back.” I’m going to refocus this blog’s scope in the upcoming weeks - after brainstorming a bit this coming weekend - and want to make sure I continue those two features. I may well be moving to more frequent but shorter posts.

I’ll keep you posted!

This sounded like one of those “too good to be true” things at first, but the more I looked into it, the more it looks legit. So, I’m going to let you all in on a cool little “secret” - AGLOCO. It stands for A GLObal COmmunity, and it wants to pay you for the time you spend surfing the ‘Net. Up to five hours per month. But that’s not all - it also wants to pay you for all the people you send its way who sign up to get paid likewise - no limit - as well as for all the people those people refer - up to five degrees of separation away.

Think about that for a second, and let it sink in.

It requires you to download a toolbar - no malware, no spyware - and when you’re ready to start the clock on your monthly five hours, just open it up. It sits at the bottom of the screen and displays ads (which you ignore) and monitors your usage for its advertiser and marketer subscribers. (The toolbar’s in beta right now but will be available soon.)

Now, I signed up - and this is my referral link, of course - but I haven’t been doing it long enough to get paid. So, I’m going to monitor the activity and the whole experience, and blog about it further. Everything I’ve read about it, though, seems completely legit.

But in the meantime, looks like you’ve got nothing to lose and a lot to gain - go ahead and try it now! Click here to sign up for AGLOCO.

In case you haven’t got the news yet, our 451 Press network is having a comment contest for our readers. Every quality comment(Not spam, and related to article you are commenting) made on one of 451 press network blog (excluding 451press.com) between now and January 31st will be entered in a random drawing for prizes. Every comment you leave will be considered an entry, so there is no limit as long as you leave quality along with quantity.

So what do you get in return?

• There will be one (1) $500 cash prize and five (5) $100 cash prizes. That is six prizes in total will be given to randomly selected six commenter.
• Off course by commenting you are adding values to the discussion

When you are commenting, don’t forget to give your real email address , as 451press official will contact you through that e-mail if you win. Remember from now till January 31st every comment you leave is an entry. The winners will be announced on 1st February, 2007. you can get more details on this contest here.

Note: We, the 451Press bloggers are not eligible for this contest, means the contest is exclusively for our readers.

comment Contest, 451press

Happy new year to everyone. May 2007 brings you prosperity and happiness to your life. Well some people might consider setting a New Year’s resolutions is too lame idea, for me I found it effective over the years. Setting a target keeps me going, it’s gives me spirit for working hard (keep me on course) to get to my targets. Well wise people says “if you don’t have a goal, you have nothing”. Yes it’s true we don’t know the future, some situation might trigger change of plan even addition or subtraction too. But if you have a plan it easier to coup up with your goals, as well as unforeseen circumstances.

So as a part of setting goals for 2007, I put a list of resolutions for “Blog News Watch”, which will help me provide more productive news and information to readers. My New year resolutions for “Blog News Watch”—

• Minimum 730 posts at a rate of 60 posts per month containing decent full length information.
• Each week at least one analytic article featuring state of blogosphere/social networking. You will find that under 451 Weekly Chit-chat.
• Each week I will open an open discussion article, where everyone can contribute their opinion on discussed topic. At the end of the week I will add all the comment(s) that added value to discussion to the main article. Purpose of this kind of article is to collect opinions(not just vote) which will help blogosphere.
• I am adding up a category called “Lost Treasure“, which will feature weekly one blog from any corner of blogoshere. The purpose is giving reader access to good quality blogs that hidden behind SEO/marketing/Advertisement obstacles. You can submit your entry through contact form(add Lost Treasure Entry on the subject) every week from Monday through Friday. The eligibility requirement for “Lost Treasure” blog entries–
  • Blog must be in English, subject line can be anything. Sorry for general readers I have to make it English only.
  • Blog does not contain Nudity/adult content, hatred(Criticism is fine but not bluntly expressing hatred) or racism.
  • Blog is more then four months old, publicly accessible, contain regular entries, and Google page rank is zero.
  • Blogger observe general blogging ethics (No Plagiarism,No spam, free flow of comments etc.).
  • The blog has not been featured previously in “Lost Treasure”.

There are some more resolution, but I decided to keep it simple for the mean time. All these resolution can see the lights of success, if and only if you the readers become active, contribute your valuable opinions. Happy reading through out the year.

New Year Resolution, Blog News Watch

I always has great respect for Aussie bloggers, it’s not just because I have quite a few close friends from Australia, but the contribution of Aussie bloggers to blogosphere. Darren Rowse, Duncan Riley, Martin Neumann,Des Walsh… so many great blogger came from the land down under. Aussie’s are certainly most blogoholic (in creative way) then any others in the world.

The Aussie’s has “tentatively” announced an Australian blogging conference, due March 8, 2007. The conference will be backed by Queensland University of Technology and ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation. The conference will be held in Brisbane,Queensland. As the organizer, Peter Black indicated—

This will not be a conference in the traditional sense. It will be relatively informal. Instead of lengthy presentations, people will be invited lead discussions on various topics throughout the day – some practical, such as how to build a better blog, and some theoretical on the role, influence and future of blogs.

There worn’ be any registration fees to attend this conference. The organizer,Peter Black also seeking for sponsors. Any organization wanting to connect with the Aussie blogosphere, the university sector etc - should contact Peter at p2.black@qut.edu.au.

[tags]Queensland, Brisbane, Australian Blogger, Blogging Conference/tags]

Fellow bloggers and dear readers in this festive season I would like to greet each and everyone happy holiday. Not because it’s Xmas, new year is also just a few days away. So no matter what religion you have, what country you from, my warm wishes to you and your love ones. Enjoy your holiday and may the new year brings you lot more happiness in your life.

Though Xmas isn’t actually my festive, due to my religion(I am a Muslim) but my wife who happens to be a Roman Catholic, celebrate it (if i say i don’t enjoy it that will be a lie :P). Due to this festive season my post might get shorter and lesser, but i will continue to post even on Xmas day. So i apologize for this inconvenience. Right back after Xmas everything will be back to original state, promise :P. Thank you for understanding. Happy Holiday!

Earlier today Darren Rowse announced this years last “ProBlogger Group Writing project“. This project’s topic is “Reviews and Predictions”. As expected this writing project has attracted a lot of attention. This time the bloggers will compete for 10 prizes worth between $2000 to $2500 USD! Our beloved 451 Press giving a Wii(worth $250) to one lucky winner of this writing project, which I guess would be hot target for a lot of blogger.

Darren posted a very brief and easy to understand guidelines/ how-to participate in this exciting Writing project. Remember submission deadline is Thursday 21 December. So what are you waiting for get your butt moving and join the fun.

Darren Rowse, Group Writing project, ProBlogger

Our most beloved Creative Commons, which we adorable call CC turned four on Dec 15, 2006. Over the past 4 years CC licenses have grown to 140,000,000 plus and have been covered nearly 30 countries. I am hoping this will increase exponentially in coming years.

CC through a cool birthday party in San Francisco,Songbird from 8pm - 2am. Not only that there was a virtual addition of party too, which not so surprisingly hosted at SecondLife. This day is marked as “ccday”.

Congratulation CC, we love you! Keep up the good deed.

ccday, Creative commons, birthday 

Blogger Star C Foster died during the weekend for a pulmonary embolism caused by a tumor in her leg. Star C Foster was well known for her humorous & geeky blogging in Shiny Shiny, Girl’s Gadget guide blog. She also co-edited the Phillyist and contributed to The Bitter Quill writers’ blog, as well as numerous other writing and blogging projects. 

Shiny Shiny won’t have any post today because of this. Though i am not a very regular reader of Shiny Shiny but quite often i used to read her own personal blog Sarcasmo’s Corner, where her last entry was Friday December 7, 2006. My condolence to her friends and family for this sad moment. Blogsphere will miss a good contributor indeed.

Star C Forster, Shiny Shiny, Sarcamo’s Corner 

Well this is almost end of year 2006, which has been full of heart pounding blogging action. Blogosphere has achieved recognition as source of viable information and news sourcing. It is about time to pay tribute to bloggers who has spent their time, resources and money and bring blogosphere at this state. So I decided to put a list of top ten most influential blogger of 2006. They not only influence blogosphere but also their contribution to blogosphere is enormous. The factors that I counted to pick these bloggers are-Global audience target, credibility, feed subscriptions, unique visits-page view ratio, comments and interval of blog postings. Without further due let us go down to the list of these blogging heroes—

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