Following the recent threats that were targeted at a prominent female tech blogger, Kathy Sierra, many people have called for a b Blogging Code of Conduct. Yet, there are people who are against the very idea of a “Code of Conduct”. As with everything in life, there is a group who is FOR, another who is AGAINST.

I personally would like to know, is there a need to for a Code of Conduct to keep us bloggers in line, much like primary school children. I mean, most of the bloggers are legally adults. However, staying behind the screen, one tends to think that “anything goes”.

I would rather we have self-discipline and stay within our own space blogging our own thang, rather than be keep in line by a Code of Conduct. Don’t you think so?

For a more in depth write up on the Blogging Code of Conduct, please refer to Monsters and Critics.

I came upon this poem written by Adam Rulli-Gibbs with the title, Community Creatures. This poem is based on various groups of people and tools that make up the internet as we know today.

I think Rulli-Gibbs has nailed it on the head with the poem. It is sad that many people spend so much time on the internet, blogging, hanging out in the forums and whatnot, that we almost lose our own identity in the real world. Now, everyone knows another by an online ID and not our real names since most of our friends are now people that we met online.

If I could write poetry, I would definitely have some more lines to add to this masterpiece. There are so many more things that one could talk about the different aspects on the internet!

Recently, Rocky Bru’s blog hit the one million unique visitors mark as tracked by his Site Meter. He was so happy that he threw a party at the National Press Club. If my blogs could garner a million unique visitors cumulatively, not only would I throw a party, heck, I would even pole dance. Only problem is, by then, nobody would want to see an eighty year old pole dance!

But I digress….

What does it take to achieve a million unique visitors? There have been a handful of Malaysian bloggers who have reached that mark and as far as I know, they are all so-po bloggers, blogging on socio-political issues.

A blogger friend once told me, sex, controversies and politics sell. I once wrote about sometime controversial and my traffic shot up tremendously. However, I am no attention whore and I wrote that piece without an agenda, unlike some people who purposely blog on the latest scandals, gossips and what nots.

Yes, traffic, Alexa and Technorati rankings and Page Rank are important, more so for sponsored blogs, but there’s no point blogging on something that you have no passion for but only striking while the iron is hot.

Since the day I began to blog for pay, I have been blogging more, flooding the internet with my words and thoughts, so much so that I feel that I have already written a novel as thick as a telephone directory.

Am I a better blogger? I am not sure if my writing has actually improved or by how much but I think I have been writing like I have always been, naturally. Is that good or is that bad? Only the reader can decide, I guess.

I was asked if I would still see myself blogging seven years from now. I most probably will still blog, only perhaps at a slower pace. Will I still be blogging for pay? I guess so, if there are still such demands.

Whatever it is, I am enjoying my time blogging while it lasts.

If I thought that the other spam comment was funniest, this one really made me ROTFL. It was left on my post, Keeping Allergens At Bay, three hours after the post was published. Mighty efficient, I must say!

This spammer has actually left me a comment previously but this one is so funny, I just have to make a post for him, sans his link. To understand what his comment is all about, you’ll have to read my post, Keeping Allergens At Bay.

You are so lucky to have time to play with animals and i am so busy that have no time to take care of them. I have seen some lovely pets on [URL deleted]* and really want to buy one of them. It is so wonderful to live with an animal.

The URL that he left, and that I have deleted, is actually of a dating website for black singles. Tell me, is that funny or not? Is he calling the members “lovely pets”?

It still beats me how I am spammed and spammed in context to my post too!

A friend of mine has just ventured into blogging this April. In two weeks, he has published more than 30 posts. He asked me if it is possible to earn money from Google Adsense because he read in the papers that one of our local bloggers, who was interviewed, claims of earning a hundred bucks per month.

Yes, it is indeed possible to earn a hundred a month from AdSense or even a few thousand depending on traffic. I personally know of people who are receiving cheques from Google AdSense every month and they have really high traffic, that they earn even without clicks on the ads. For me, I haven’t even withdrew my first hundred bucks although I am on course! Can’t wait for the day!

Achieving passive revenue on my blogs is of course way better than writing paid reviews but I am not complaining!

So anyway, my friend said he has problem with fresh content. I think all bloggers do face this problem sometime or other. For me, sometimes I lack motivation, and sometimes I just have so many things to share that I can write more than ten posts in a day, although I will not publish more than three original posts in one day.

A veteran blogger friend on the other hand, has no problems publishing 250 posts in a month and that works out to be about eight posts in one day. Do you think that is excessive?

Even now when he has more work to do in real life, he is still publishing two posts a day. I wonder where he has so much to write. He must be an ultra busybody man!

A friend of mine has just started a blog. This is his first blog so he is all enthusiastic about building his network. He asked me for a link up and of course I obliged. I told him that I will link him up on my other blog, but to reciprocate, he has to link up this blog on his blog.

He did not understand why. Well, my other blog has a Google Page Rank of three. It is not great but it is better than this, a blog that was started after the previous Google Page Rank update so it is still unranked.

Hence, this blog has no value to him but my Page Rank 3 blog will add some weight to his new blog. He asked me why he has to link this blog on his and not the other blog, which has his link. To have an unrank blog link up a ranked blog will actually pull down my rating. So, thank you very much!