So yesterday was the launch of the glitter club of a local blog advertising network. Did you opt in? I did not. Mainly because I do have money at stake on the other blog advertising network, I have already cashed out a cheque from them while my money is still locked to this account. I won prizes through this company while I did not win any from this company. Sure, I did not even bother to participate, seeing how the inner crowd are always winner. Maybe I don’t carry enough balls. Maybe it is because the boss “hates Ipoh girls”. Whatever it is, I am not going to declare my love and loyalty for one company.

While I also do not “love” the other rival company, I am not going to put my eggs in one basket. By declaring your loyalty to this said company, you are effectively closing the door not on this rival company alone but on ALL other South East Asian blog advertising companies.

Although there aren’t that many companies in the industry right now, who is to say there won’t be any in the near future who could offer us better terms without enforcing all these limitations on us?

Well, you may noticed that most of the spam comments you are getting are on one kind of drugs or another, if it is not about sex, porn or other adult material.

Lately, though, I noticed that these advertisers are getting bolder and prefer to pay to appear as blog content rather than hide in the comment section, if they managed to get through a blog and have at least a percentage of those spam comments published.

So far, I have resisted posting about them because of fear of being linked to “bad neigbourhoods”, as if I am not linked to enough “bad neighbourhoods” now but the carrot is damn juicy. Bah!!!

Tell me I am not THAT free lately….I have been blog hopping so much reading blogs because I have nothing to write and that is definitely a bad sign! Anyway, by chance I came upon a flight attendant blog just now and I think it is pretty interesting to read about about real experiences and lives of flight attendants. The blog is written by John and Linda who seem to be very well-versed in the subject. I wonder if they have a flight attendant career hence they have first hand experience and would be able to better share their stories with us!

Do you know, I had wanted to be a flight attendant but there was no chance at all for me to be even considered because I was not tall enough but some of my friends were selected to under go training at a flight attendant school in a neighboring country. How awesome.

I am not sure the quality and standard being offered by the flight attendant school but according to my friends, training was pretty tough. I think they must be at least as good as the International Air Academy!

It has been almost three months since I stopped writing my blog posts in advance. My friends used to laugh at me for writing in advance and said that I am just stressing myself out but I think of my unpublished blog posts as “ammunition” and would come I useful when I do not have the time to blog at a stretch of time. Keeping numerous blogs, it is not easy to write in advance because there will always be a blog that needs immediate attention.

Recently, I have been lazy and slacked in my blogging but on the flip side of the coin, I have had plenty of time to do other things like changing my WordPress themes on a few blogs and watching movies! I know I need to spare time to network my blogs but hehehe my laziness kicks in 😀

Well, I think I should start beefing up my draft posts. I get more stressed out seeing that my drafts stand at ZERO after such a long time when I have conditioned myself to write, write, write and keep them unpublished.

Some of you may know that I run a slew of blogs and websites. I was once asked, how do I know if my site is generating traffic, where do they come from and how would I know how they managed to come to my site? Well, I have implemented hit counters on each of my blog and website to track my traffic so that I could analyze my data and try to improve on it. By the way, I found out that the current “hot” keyword is “iPhone wallpaper”.

Installing a hit counter is pretty simple and it is free too. Yes, I use free hit counters because I do not see the rational in paying for one when I can get a free one that is just as good, or even better!

Hit Counter Expert has plenty of hit counter styles to suit the layout of our blog or website that we could use for free. Besides looking great and fitting, the hit counter from Hit Counter Expert is able to track our visitors in real time and allows us to analyze the detailed statistics so that we can see the behavior of our visitors. What are the popular pages and how long do they stay at our site? You know, as a webmaster, it is our aim to keep each and every visitor on our site as long as possible so knowing what works and what doesn’t is vital information that we could deduce from a hit counter.

I am sure you know by now that I like to play online poker. To be frank, I don’t know too much about it but learn as I go along. I know it is bad but then I don’t plan to be a professional poker player. I just like to play online poker occasionally when I have the time.

However, I do like to read all about Poker and I definitely could do with some poker tips and tricks. Another thing I like reading about is the lives of professional Poker players. I understand that there are professional poker players who travel to the world’s casinos to play and they could earn millions of dollars a year. I mean, WHOA! That’s a lot of money just “playing”!

This morning, I was told of a fairly new blog on Poker, so new that the administrators have yet to edit the default blogroll, which aims to bring the world of poker to us in a blog. Although there are only a handful of articles, I have been told that the authors will be publishing more interesting articles on everything Poker. I have already bookmarked this blog. If you are a Poker lover, you should too.

Just when I thought that I am making good progress with Double N, despite the glitch of a couple of days ago with A, I and all publishers of Double N received the news that they are rolling our exclusive membership for people who will only publish advertisements through this local company only, and not through any other advertisement brokers from South East Asia. Can I say poor baby Nuff?

I wonder how many people will go exclusive. I know that A also had plans to go exclusive before the debacle but now, they have to put it on hold unless they can come up with a deal that is almost impossible to pass up and see through with it.

I know that a lot of publishers are mad but do we really want to restrict ourselves of future opportunities. Yes, we may be paid higher or have a higher chance of winning in contests but if you don’t carry balls now, you also won’t carry balls even if you are exclusive and that would also mean that you will be at the bottom rung of the 100% of the exclusive publishers. Won’t that amount to the same thing?

Right now, being exclusive may mean that we are excluding three other companies only but we never know. Perhaps a better one will come along soon? I have already implemented new Double N ad codes on my blogs so I hope it will somewhat compensate what I will be losing from opting out of the exclusive programme.