Recently, I have been getting some nasty comments. I have no qualms deleting them thanks to the practice I received deleting spam comments with eyes closed.

I know that there are spammers who would come and check if their spam comment has been published, since I moderate all comments, well too bad their comment will never see the light of day. I trash them all.

I salute those who take the time to spam, come and check, see that their comment has yet to be published, and come and spam again with the same message. That shows how much faith they have in technology, thinking that their comment did not come through. Haha! No apologies given, though!

It’s funny that when I was new to blogging and had only one blog, I was a little worried each time I did not get to update it. I felt like people were expecting my new posts. But no matter how sometimes I wish that I could public a couple of new posts a day, life could get in the way.

Then I started more and more blogs and frankly, I am immune to the feeling of guilt when I do not have the time or mood to update them. I came to realize that even if we do not update it for months or in some cases, one year, the blog will still be there. It will not erupt and self destruct or whatever, as long as we keep the domain name and hosting alive. LOL

So yes, if you feel like you are “chained” to blogging, perhaps it is time to get a breather and stay away from your blog(s) for a little while. I know I do that a lot of the time. Try it and see if you will feel more refreshed when you start to blog again.

Finding it difficult to make some pocket money from blog reviews? Then you probably need to expand your options. If you have read about my post on iHype.com a couple of months back, then you should be glad to know of iHype.com Launch.

I am registered with them and have two approved blogs but so far, have not made any money through them. However, I still let a couple of friends know about iHype.com and they signed up too.

Recently, iHype.com received from negative hype in the blogosphere, for what reason I do not know. My main concern is that they hand out work to us and pay us accordingly. Things are pretty quiet in there right now and strangely, their link redirects us to the website of an energy drink.

Anyway, since I never believe in putting all my eggs in one basket, a new blog review marketplace is always welcomed. While things may be slow right now and though I am unable to reach them via their contact form, I trust that things will soon pick up once they are over their teething problems. Most startup companies will go through the same.

So when business picks up, my friends and I will be ready to work with iHype.com!

PicApp is giving one lucky winner an all expenses paid trip to Las Vegas for Blog World Expo. OK, when is Blog World Expo, you will need to check it up yourself. The thing you need to do is to embed PicApp images in your blogs, maximum two images per post, and the person with the highest number of PicApp images used will win.

I think this is a great marathon contest, except that they need to be transparent and add a little tally widget on their site. I would love to join as well, god knows I have so many blogs that require images, but then I hate the little box at the bottom of the image AND I can’t get away on long international trips for the time being so I am letting this contest go. Yes, contest freak me.

Who is joining? Will you let go this free trip to Las Vegas?