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I got an email this morning from Loud Launch which says they had some technical and manual issues validating opportunity payments, ie my Blog Payment for the month of November to the Christmas rush, which they were supposed to pay before the new year. So, OK, I got compensated for it, about $172 for the delay in payments.

Then then anti-climax of the sexual sort, the bummer. It’s like you vigorously boning it with the peak in sight and then you remembered that you forgot the rubber sort. The Quantity issue. Of the marketplace, there will be at least 10% of the bloggers who will be kicked out. Or Banned, or given the time out because they took too many opportunities in one day. Google Page Nuke is not helping either with payouts either. Most of everyone doing Paid Posts have had their Page Rank down to NOTHING. I had all except one which stands at a SINGLE VALUE OF ONE. Which don’t deserve it at all because I write crap on it. So how many are we allowed to in a day per blog?

It’s like you trying to give your partner multiple orgasms but not knowing the limit before she gets sore or before you run out of juice and from being a pleasure turning it into an ordeal. With both walking like a huge ball in between the legs for the next few days. Get the drift?

It’s also just like when you trying to figure out how to ‘cheat’ the system by maneuvering your ads into better paying ones like Glitterati and at the same time giving great value for money by placing Adbrite, Text Link Ads and Google Adsense to it. And knowing that the advertisers now will kill any ad spots if they smell any competitor like a paid post or something hurts bad too.

Well, I did promise some graphics and my friend Sya has been kind to forward something from Kak Elle about some graphics which you should read…

It concerns women and you men too… That means going for a mamogram

Had enuff??

And in no particular order actually.

And after all these years.. friends are always there to remind you of something….

Best regards

LOL ROTF…

PS : If you got issues with Nuffnang’s Glitterati and any other questions, please pop it here… Tim reads it often.. (seems he has been sneaking up on me and stalking me for my Espresso Frapracino Venti Triple Shot)

I know I don’t get that much traffic and I get personal at times. But then, THIS IS MY PERSONAL WEB LOG, and I don’t give a piss about what others think. It’s My Diary, what I think , do or even plan. Just like a filofax but personal and public. It’s just like anyone stopping by a house on the roadside, it’s THAT PERSONS’ HOME. You don’t go about telling him how to live his life, or what color to paint, and where he can park his car. It’s his personal space.

So to think I have to sell my own creature comfort just to accomodate some people, and that I have some ads I want to promote they don’t like, I say to em, F**K IT! Darn lucky I was not like some Ah-Lian middle aged mom who wanna get her time famous and cuss and swear in any language she likes. I don’t say P*K*-M** or cuss your mom. It’s just not right. There is a level of decency here , how crude I am or rude I was in the Army.

Yes, I was looking thru my written log of my life in the Army. We swear is a Standard Operating Procedure.A way of life when we don our uniform, but not when we took it off and wear a PT-KIT or Half-U. We are human then, Men with Brains. A creed over others. Civilian Discipline kicks in, and even with our Lt-Col of a useless CO, we become friends. Human nature. Yes our boss yet a friend when not in Green. Otherwise, he is our Enermy.

So coming back to the point of allowing advertiser to twist my tongue and allow myself to be bent that way, I saw HELL NO. You ain’t paying me enough to contravene my basic Human Rights and I am darn contemplating on taking a class Criminal Action for being Biased and Discriminant. Take against the company that pays your paycheck and you as a person. It’s a human thing. Irregardless of how I write down here, my ads has nothing to do with you. MY PERSONAL SPACE. You are just paying me for 200 words TOPS! That’s a 300px by 15 collumn advertising.

You don’t go to a paper placing a classified ad and tell them after it is published that you don’t want to be listed next to the obituaries. You tell them BEFORE placing it. Same as how I place my ads. I place my Google and Adbrite Contextual ads on the side of my post so it comes as a premium, and when you give me the full attention to reply to my ramblings, you see the more targetted ever colorful, dermographically specified advert relating to that kind of service, which pays me more. It’s a relevancy thingy.

Just like if any O’ Advertiser wanna tell Wal-Mart that they don’t want their Snickers to be placed next to the Marlboro Ads near the Tills. That is a PREMIUM SPACE for product awareness, and just like any o shopper, they will see that product for a good 30-60 secs before paying for their shopping, and most likely to buy it!

Same concept applies in any Textual Advertising. The prime spot is my post itself. A good mention plus any other images. But if you think the advertiser beside you (google) is a competitor, I can just shut it off, if you SPECIFY BEFORE HAND! Not by any other cranny nookie!~

I spend most of my time tweaking the PHP codes and PHP takes alot of effort. I want the best for any advertiser so their SEO ranks go up and along with their backlink, I am taking a cruise.

So, it’s a matter of trying to kill that walking salesman BEFORE ASKING HIM TO PROMOTE YOUR PRODUCT. How silly is that? I had over 300 odd posts within the last 90 days and NO ONE COMPLAINED. I even got praises and recommendations by them as a TESTIMONIAL to their great job (and I get a good link back too thus the PR 7 on a site) so events says otherwise.

Yeah, so I am a small fry, and I am full of ideas. To hell what you think.I thought so.

Just wondering, will you take off your GOOGLE and ADBRITE ADS if PPP says so?Will you still be a postie?

I’m a real fan of Paid For Advertising.It keeps cost down and provides alot revenue for both parties. It’s the same as sponsoring a school newsletter or something like that.You get direct contact with your targeted audience. It’s the same in the world of Internet Press Advertising. We seen it all with places like Amazon, C|NET Central, MSN and others. It all started from barter trading of advertising revenue share with Books.COM and Amazon.

Now in this era of personal diary exclusives, deemed now as BLOG, everyone wants to get into the action. From Text Based Ads to Google Adsense, we seen it all. Now, the hype of blog advertising has come to port. It’s another way of people having HONEST opinion of a product,service or place. I am a techie. I charge at least $500 plus loads of freebies like free software and the product itself normally to review and make that push for sales.I still keep those softwares till now, some as expensive as $50,000!

In PayPerPost, they started a grab-it-quick system,similar to Loudlaunch or Blogitive.They gave 20 mins , then 30 mins to complete the whole post from the minute we click take Opp! In a real haste, we write as fast as we could, some with unethical means of cut-n-pasting or just plain rubbish. I did that, cos at times, the advertising does not let me fully grasp the concept of the product to review. Eventually a positive review become….well,crap.I had to rewrite and reword all over again.It has become not personal anymore. Alot of grammatical errors with loads of acronyms that should not be. Eventually, I was banned by 19 over advertising for being nasty. Some of the products need to be given an HONEST TRUTH, as how I always believe in, rather than to mislead the consumer.

Essentially the blogger will be held to account a good review which is actually NOT, as what described under Advertising Standards, Trading Descriptions and Fair Trading Acts.A small matter like that will tarnish your reputation FOREVER.

Segmentation is already here. At least we can pick and choose that is relevant to the site.However, they should at least reset all the counters and start it all clean! At least there is a fair share of happenings.However, the little guy has no chance in hell to get it cleaned up. Some of the bloggers don’t have full English Education so that will discriminate them, by means of them being Banned or what not.

I am quite sad now….eventually though there was a happy sentiment when I started this review. Looks like I have to go back and fish for more advertising revenue.

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It’s about time PPP is back up.
Well this time, the downtime is …well SIX HOURS, and in that period, I am happy to say Froggle, Dan, Trevor and his whole team a heartfelt Congrats, Job Well Done.

At least I don’t have to lay about doing nothing.I still got to port my stuff over from 7 ISPs and 30 odd servers to 2 ISPs on 2 or 3 servers.

It’s alot of work… and i know how it feels.
Credit is due to those who work hard.
Now…to eat. I’m starving and it’s 3am!

I was really going thru PayPerPost’s Blog posting by Ted Murphy today, and basicly, I feel that they are going into the direction of a mixture of ReviewMe and Adbrite. I try my best to be as tack and non-intrusive with my site, having to justify to PPP every other day that my sites are based with the life in the United Kingdom, and our current Walkabouts in the Far East. Yes,I run alot of sites, even one right now,I am about to fully launch with little regards to my Memoirs while “In the Army Now”, and a localised happening updates with Travel Sector, and the Point of View in a Citizens’ Level.

Firstly, I hate ADS. Honest. Even with over 50,000 advertisers in agreement with my network, I selected only 38 for my banner, mainly the UK Insurance Sector and EBAY, being me in their circle of Trust.Not to be discriminant to anyone, I added JDate, for our Jewish friends. I have Nothing against the Jews or Christians or any ‘GOOD’ religious faith.I even eat and drink with my friends who are Sikh,Taoist,Christian,Buddist and Hindu …all on the same table…from the same plate, while we were in the forces. Yeah, it’s VEGETARIAN,so we tend to be a bit flexible, amid that it’s only Roti Prata or so.

The fact that I chose only High Click Thru Earnings ads,meaning, earning worth at least $50 per sale.I pick and chose who I wanna be in alliance with.At times, yes I do a Price Runner.Allow me to give my readers (you) a possibility to choose and pick which items to buy, in relation to my personal review.Though it’s only 10c a click, it’s going to my Charitable Causes kitty, not of my own!

Now that I heard that PPP is going into Contextual Ads or Bubble Ads as they put it,I am VERY RESERVED to what I want to place in my sites. My main sites had a HUGE DROP in my returning visitors. A good yardstick is at Athira.NET where the Google PR went from 6 to ZERO with a NO PAGERANK PASSED indication, and My wife’s Food and Recipe segment , well..I don’t wanna comment.

While I think some ads won’t make the go away deeply,but a contextual ads which I have no control over is really really dangerous.I placed a huge control over Adsense itself,so I see only “KIDS RUNNING ABOUT” advertisements, and as in accordance to Advertising Standards Agency regulations.

It’s ugly enough that I have to place an icon (This is a Sponsored Ad by PayPerPost),with a color schema that does not fit my own site, like what PPP tried on their ‘Oh Bugger’ platform when segmentation kicks in.Honestly, FLORECENT GREEN?? What were they thinking??Even at Bidvertiser, which I really hate, allow me to successfully customise my own color schema, to a certain it does not look out of shape, and they,just paste what they think is great?

Take a look at this PAID POST I made about Loudlaunch, and amid my reservations of their DISCLOSURE POLICY,the end wordings are, to me still acceptable.Though I prefer not to, so that a product I launch looks seemlessly as if it’s a normal day-to-day life diary entity. Like who don’t wrote product reviews? I do alot BEFORE Payperpost. That is Way Before they even know what the Internet is all about. It’s called Book Reviews.And we, as a site publisher, place advert linking for you to BUY THAT BOOK or similar books in the same sector,or by the Author itself. We don’t get a free book for that, other than the occasional gift vouchers given to affiliates by Borders or Amazon for getting x amount of people coming in or even entries. Some, we barter trade our commission for similar products, even personally autographed book by the writer. I do still remember that Harry Potter book I had while I was in Glasgow. Even my Lord of the Rings trilogy book is still here. And my kind sponsor at that time, Microsoft, sponsored alot of my books, from the inception of Site Builder Network to Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer program, I have it all, sponsored so that I can learn the tips and tricks of the Microsoft System and then promote their server programs to others. I write every day what I learn , the hacks, tricks and round-a-round.But I do not have to boldly say I am sponsored by or brought to you by Microsoft right? I worded it, that Bill Gates wanted you to know about…..and then it’s understood. We know it’s sponsored or somewhat like that. We get our freebie already.Even Network Solutions sent me to Singapore 500 pieces of T-Shirts (Which I still wear) of my Domain Name and it said, Domain Name : from Network Solutions. I even get to customise what slogan I want,” Your One Stop E-Point”

That is Corporate Sponsorship.Costed them alot of money for postage and costs alone, not just to one, but to SO MANY. Even my relations with Commission Junction is from their early days, till I has to wind up my US Company and restart, they are supportive. Promotional stuff,plus cash is MORE THAN WELCOMED. Heck I even put a large icon saying “Get your Freebie here” , bigger than the PPP icon to let people know who is sponsoring.

Now that they want to do bubble ads and such…I have to wait and see. Yes, we Oriental Operators may not be what you guys want, but we provide more indepth information than what you can get elsewhere. If you hate us so much, then don’t watch YAN CAN COOK, or any of Jackie Chan or Bruce Lee movies. Yes, we are the emerging markets,which the Europeans only seems to realise and try to get their feet in.To Globalise. Realising what Prophet Muhammed said, about find knowledge till ends of China. Cos why? They made their empires colonising the Far East and Asia, now they learnt their lesson and with deep roots, they know how and who to get into. US, the BLOGGERS. Even reviews in Chinese are well sought after if you want your car to be assembled and sold in China! That’s almost 2 BILLION CUSTOMERS. Far more than the average American buying power, and all IN CASH.No card,No Credit. Plain Cash.

So eventually, I will have to see if this is going to be worth for me, and you the readers. Alot of you are just silent bloggers,who back link and trackback (thanks).Eventually, it may seem that I have to revert to my old ways, and get my good old friends to pay for a good mention.

Any Freebies Anyone?

Oh Ya,did I forget that the FREE DOMAIN NAME offer still stands (or a months hosting fee refunded) compliments of …someone.That is my own personal offer.

From my review at http://www.MarlindaRadzi.com/?p=825, I must really now get that new cell phone for the wife, cos MarTeeTa has gone kidnapping….or PhoneNapping that is.Phone Napped Tia’s Hello Hello.

So eventually, I had to rewrite a nice review for our friend at WireFly, who said they will sponsor me that one of their best selling cell phones in the market, the Motorola RAZR. Yes. This one in particular:

And my apologies to Wirefly for that trashy review I wrote earlier on, was real haphazard too. Being sick and busy doesn’t cut it, I know.But I must say,that our american friends have less choice in the GSM world, as they are predominated by CDMA and TDMA carriers like AT&T,Verizon, Sprint and the works. Thus why main reason why our global markets of cellphone don’t get into the US market due to the GSM1900 availability issue, compared to the Global Standards of GSM 900Mhz and PCN 1800Mhz.

But I will see that the iPhone will be a popular one in the US. And those with 3G capability,Email and everything in it will do the best as how it was back in 1998. Back then no one in the US know what Texting or SMS (Short Message Service) was, all till the American Idol kicks in and everyone started voting using SMS. Those with WiFi and addon capability will prevail further with the addons like SKYPE and alike makes it more useful.Cheaper calling rates.What I see is that users will publish their SMS Capable VOIP phone number, and when he is in a WiFi zone, answers all calls on his cellphone thru VOIP, and when he is not on a HotSpot, reverts back to Cellphone calling.

That’s my 2c worth though.

Advertiser, please comment, if my prediction is good enough for the year.

Though, I don’t fancy it that much, cos it’s a flip phone and without any WiFi or 3G Video Calling, it is sleek though. Not as sleek as the KRZR that I mentioned earlier on. That comes with a RM1699 price tag here. Nah too expensive. Not that I won’t get it for Valentines Day or what, cos the risk of Tia grabbing it, and well, putting it out of commission.

I know that I do not live in New York (though I used to work close by years ago), but I like the services provided by Maid For You New York. That hit close to home because I am in the process of hiring some housekeeper for our home here. Yes, I know there is only three of us, but with both of us working full time, and with Tia running the house down (not to mention me, too heh heh), it gets too much for my wife.

I know to keep a place clean, it would take a lot of work, but I believe if everyone (especially in a household) chips in, it would not take much effort at all. That is the same thing that Maid For You wants everyone to realize, especially in New York. They offer gift packs, and also free estimates, too. AND, they would do commercial AND private cleaning services. They would want to keep New York clean!