This must be the most blogged about topic in the blogging world right now, even the top blog sites are posting about it although perhaps not very detailed yet. Considering that a lot of people are using Wordpress as the basis of their blog, this is not a very surprising thing. I myself use Wordpress for building my blog and so far I have to say that I am very satisfied with it. Besides allowing people who have nothing or minimal knowledge in web building to have a very professional blog, it is also easy enough to install.

If you want to build your own blog, Wordpress is quite frankly the best choice for you, because most hosting companies now provide the tool to build Wordpress with just a couple of mouse clicks. Read the rest of this entry »

Oh dear, it has been a while since I last wrote my take of the American Idol Contestants’ Performance here. I sure missed a lot of opportunity to write about them. My last post about AI is about a week ago, when there are still 11 contestants left. But now they are only 9 contestants left from that 11, time sure flies fast, doesn’t it?

The last 2 weeks saw David Hernandez, Amanda Overmyer, and Chikezie failed to get enough votes to keep them staying. I already write about why I think David Hernandez is the first to go on my last post about American Idol. Actually it is better considered a semi-post rather than a full post about American Idol, but you get the idea. Oh, I also happened to read somewhere in the internet that David Hernandez is auditioning for a part in Broadway’s hit musical ‘Rent’. Read the rest of this entry »

If you read my last post about PayPerPost then you surely know that I am waiting for their approval regarding my blog. Yesterday they contacted me via e-mail saying that my blog has been approved and I can start looking for opportunities that I can write a review about. But before I started looking for opportunities, I want to share my experiences and opinion of PayPerPost so far.

I like the fact that PayPerPost is willing to give new blogger a chance by taking into consideration blogs that is only around 30 days old, and have around 10 unique posts minimal, where other website(s) usually only consider blogs that is at least twice as old and also have twice or more posts. I think that showed how much PayPerPost actually cares about new blogs and blogger.

I first found out about PayPerPost from another site in the Internet. At first I thought that it is hard to make money from the internet, even if I love what I am doing. But since I found out about PayPerPost, I begin to realize that perhaps there are ways to actually make money from the internet, especially if I look and try hard enough. I learned a lot since then, I even make some new friends along the way. I also learned that the persons who actually manage to make money from the internet is also the ones who gives a lot back to other people.

Such people I believe is also the people behind PayPerPost. You earn what you give, they said. And it is evident in PayPerPost blog ethics, in the values that they uphold such as honesty and the spirit of giving. And I hope I can be a part of it, which is by giving my best more and more. I also hope that someday I can make money from the internet and use that money to help myself and my family and also to help others who is less fortunate. Once again I thank PayPerPost for giving me a chance to actually do that, and best wishes for the future.

If you happened to read my previous post about internet connection in Indonesia which I wrote around 3 weeks ago, then you should’ve known that right now, I am using Fastnet internet service from Firstmedia. As of now, they own the only cable TV and internet network in Indonesia, they are also the first one to offer unlimited broadband internet with speed ranging from 384Kbps to 3Mbps, and not to mention a very reasonably priced internet service. As of now, they have the best price for internet service in Jakarta, Indonesia.

At Firstmedia, a 384Kbps unlimited internet connection is priced at IDR 99.000 (around USD 10) and that is as cheap an internet connection that you can find in Jakarta at the moment. But in order to subscribe to their internet service, they also require you to be a subscriber of their Cable TV service. With a basic plan priced at IDR 99.000 it brings their most basic plan of internet and cable TV service to a fee of IDR 188.000 (around USD 20) and that is in my opinion, the most reasonably priced internet connection in Jakarta at the moment. Read the rest of this entry »

As any webmaster will tell you, in the internet the most important thing is traffic. Even if your writing skill could earn you a Pulitzer prize, if no one is actually reading your writing, then your writing skill will do you no good. But if your writing skill is good or even just okay, and there are hundreds or even thousands of people who read and actually likes your writing, then you have much more to gain.

When you write about something you like, or if writing is one of your passion, surely you don’t want people to plagiarize your writing and claim it as their own. But since there are literally millions of blogs out there in the Internet, finding out whether one or several blog has done just that is almost, if not, impossible. Read the rest of this entry »