I am a relatively new blogger. Started blogging with Friendster a couple of years back but slacked off due to lack of time (okay, readers). Been blogging steadily for only half a year now, and was at first overwhelmed by the wealth of information that I need to take in so that my first site would at the very least have a decent number of visitors, enough to keep me blogging. It was frustrating, at first, because I am totally clueless as to how I would go about promoting my blog. I cannot remember how I came upon LinkReferral (LR). But I am glad I did, because this is, by far, the best site that enabled me to increase my page views in the three months that I have been yapping about my life at my site.
I have been a Firefox user for as long as I can remember. My reasons? It’s customizability and the nifty little extensions that the browser, in partnership with external developers, offers to their users. Now we have all been through the debate of who’s a better browser, IE or Firefox. Obviously, I favor the latter for surfing. Aside from the two already mentioned reasons for using it, the browser is also very user friendly. And for a dumb computer user like me, that counts for a lot. Anyways, to get to the main point of the discussion, what are the most useful Firefox extensions that are available today? Useful here, of course, would be relative term, as we use the Internet for different purposes, so functionality would vary hugely from person to person.
With this in mind, Firefox has made it easier for users to select extensions to suit their needs and preferences. They introduced the Fashion your Firefox feature (found here) which makes it a breeze to add a personal touch to the browser. Firefox recognized the differences in how we utilize the Internet, so with this, they came up with categories that groups people according to their usage of the Internet. The categories, specifically, are as follows: Finder and Seeker, Social Butterfly, Shutterbug, Digital Pack Rat, Rock Star, Decorator, Shopaholic, News Junkie and Executive Assistant. Of course, what’s included in the list are mere suggestions and do not constitute the full list of available extensions, so for a full list, you go here.
A little background here on what the frack I am talking about. myLot is an online community that pays you for starting discussions, posting responses or comments to current discussions, or referring friends. These discussions can range from the utterly spaced-out “Do you eat in front of the computer?” to the somewhat interesting “Should marriage contracts have expiry dates?” Okay, so both questions were started by me and I am self-promoting, so what? This is, after all, my site. Bleh. So what I am implying here is that you can talk about anything under the sun. Unless of course it’s against the discussion guidelines, which can be found here.
As to the referral earnings, you will receive 25% of your referral’s (referrals’, if you have a lot of them) discussion and image earnings. Image earnings?! Yes. You earn something for each relevant image that you post with a discussion, provided that the image is not copyrighted. Now as for the earnings algorithm, myLot says that they “are calculated based on a proprietary model that rewards quality responses, relevant discussions and images”. They say that they do not publicly reveal how they compute them to avoid people trying to game the system. In fact, they have a discussion guideline that specifically prohibits community users from inaccurately explaining the myLot earnings algorithm. That’s fine by me.
Mar
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New Look. Sorta.
Made a header tonight and I think it looks good on my site 
. Lately, I’ve been liking the brown and pink combination, only God knows why. Now all I have to do is create a webset which matches the colors and I am 
to go. Although right now is not the best time to do it since a serious backlog of work has descended upon me and I am up to my nose in it. 
Haven’t started on anything else for WAHMaholic. Augh. 
Poor baby. Mommy’s not doing her duties well. But, at least here’s a progress. I hope to improve in the days to come. And DO tell me what you think of my header 
