Author Archives: Bob

Ok, Twitter got me too

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twitter.pngI’ve finally given in and created a twitter account for myself. Well actually for my other self – the high profile blogger pseudonym. When twitter was all the hype months ago, I had a look at it and could not find a practical use for it. It seemed a limited, restricted way of communicating with others. We’ve all got instant messenger, forums, IRC, email – why use twitter?

Well today I found out that its still going strong, and quite a few other high profile bloggers have an account in which they interact with their readers and friends. Its a great tool to do some networking because anyone can join in on the conversation. Since twitter’s userbase is huge, I’m bound to pick up a few new readers and subscribers for my other blog.

Having the latest twitter updates intergrated in the sidebar, I’ll see how much of a following I will get in the next few weeks. Perhaps my first thoughts were dead on, but perhaps twitter will expand my online experience. Time will tell.

Why I’m sticking with the default theme

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thumb-wordpresslogocristal.jpgThere’s actually a reason for sticking to the default theme – I want people visiting for the content, not how it’s all packaged. Sure, there’s tons of great looking theme’s out there and I could probably get a nice custom theme made by professional blog design companies, but I’d rather stick with simplicity. The major advantage is probably the reduced loading times. No big fancy headers and stuff to load, so we’re not wasting your time here. I’m also keeping the amount of plugins to a minimum, just utilizing the ones I really love. Will do a post about the most useful plugins later this week.

I actually think that this is probably the most original wordpress theme to use these days as everyone else is using anything but.

Rejected a $30,000 offer

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dollar.jpgOne of my other blogs, quite popular, has received an offer of $30,000. It took me a bit of time to think it over, but I have decided against it – even though it would pay off the credit card and loans instantaneously, and leave a nice chunk for a nice long holiday. Fact is that its making money online for me and I’d only end up spending the cash in a matter of weeks. After that I’d be back to the old 9 to 5. So thanks but no thanks, I’ll be riding this one out :)

Thou shalt not waste a PR5

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pagerank.jpgWelcome to what used to be a Digg linkbait site. Crammed with weird photos and silly taglines, Google seems to have a twisted sense of humor and thus they awarded me with a PR5 blog.

Because it would obviously be a waste to throw away a perfectly good PR5 site, I’ve decided to add yet another blog to the blogosphere, but that’s just because I am a wordpress addict. It’s not my first effort at blogging, nearly a year ago I started with bobmeetsworld dot com (Which is a PR5 too) and about 6 months later, johncow dot com was launched (PR3, while this is a highly successful blog).

So my plans for this site? Well to stick with the name, I’m going to be posting a lot of emails I get from other people, that think I’m another Bob Jones. Luckily there’s only about a hundred million of us out there! Also I figured to hit back at the spammers that try to steal people’s money with scam emails like lottery winners, overseas millions that are ready to be collected. I’m sure you’ve all had a few of those before. Every time I get one of those emails, I will do my best to keep the scammers going with replies and wasting their time.