Found some time and energy to
- update WordPress to the latest 2.2.2
- update K2 template to latest snapshot: k2-Beta.2-revision-378-2007-08-17.zip
(update of AdAdvantage scheme in another post) - move to a new webhost.
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Time flies, already 2 weeks of 2007 came and went. Is 59Ideas dead?
Not at all! I’m tempted to blame the recent Taiwan earthquake that caused connection outside of Asia (and China in particular) to slow to a crawl for the laziness to post.
As the first post of 2007, it is a must to reflect on what I had done last year and plan for this year.
Last Year
Last year started with high excitment as I set a target to achieve $1000 of revenue purely from online activities. This was how 59Ideas and many of my sites came about. The journey was traced in Seeking Revenue. Things started fine but as half year went by, the target still look elusive.
Again, I’m tempted to use the excuse that I was also running my business offline. But the what did me in was an underestimation of the time commitment and over-stretched myself. In the end, I burned out before the end of the year and things grinded to a halt.
This Year
All was not lost though. Last year’s exercise gave me plenty of insight into how to create revenue online and where the time and effort went.
Right now, my monthly income average $200-300.
My plan this year is to reduce time spent online maintaining all my sites but yet increase revenue 100%.
Just approved a few comments with some dating a month ago. Since using an offline blogging tool, I hardly sign into WordPress admin and didn’t notice the comment waiting.
Happened that I bought a new notebook (acutally was a used, traded in my HP) and have not installed BlogDesk. So I went in and found the comment wait.
Wonder why I did not get any email notification…
I did not mention it but AdAdvantage, my K2 3 column scheme (the one that you are looking at right now), had been updated a while back and is sitting on the scheme page.
Thanks to all those kind soul that send me message to ask, yes I’m still updating it. I’m using it on a number of my blogs and my plan is to sync up with the K2 development as much as I can.
During the last sync I noticed that K2 is doing some integration with the sidebar widgets themselves and interfere with the Automattic’s Widgets. K2’s version is also not complete and cannot support 2 sidebars (as of my last sync).
I’m planning an integration as soon as I find some time and when K2’s version become stable. Thanks for all your feedback and comments.
In keeping with my plan to make donation from my online earnings to opensource softwares that I use, this month donation goes to cwRsync.
cwRsync is a packaged rsync client and server for Windows. Rsync is an open source utility that provides incremental file transfer.You may not be familiar with this application as it is not featured widely. I only found out about it last month as well.
For the last 1 month I had been using it in the background and am very happy with the result. cwRsync solves part of the backup solution that I had been looking for.
This project deserve more attention. I’m doing my little to give it a small donation and promotion. Check it out!
In a few of my blogs I had started to change my identity from 59ideas to Ken. I think more people prefer to know a person by real name than a nickname.
Not that I have anything to hide behind my handle (does anyone know what this word mean anymore?). I disclose about myself in the about page and if you like to know more just ask me.
Anyway, I’m see gradually more transactions lately and I plan to expand my online presence. So I want to assure everyone that you are dealing with trustworthy person, albeit in an unfamiliar part of the world.
Took me a long time before getting around to sign up for an account with LinkedIn.
If you are a regular or just curious about the guy behind 59ideas (namely me), let’s network!
Payday! Another Adsense check, another donation.
It feels good to be able to give back to projects and efforts that had helped me make my income. As promised it will be a regular thing.
This time I am making a small donation to BlogDesk.
BlogDesk is an offline blogging tool. It allows you to compose your blog offline and upload it to the server. Some of its most attractive featues includes
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can manage multiple blogs
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resize and upload images
- templates
Look out for a full review on it in Free Biz Waresoon.
While BlogDesk may not be as feature packed as other blogging clients, it is lite and does the job for me.
BlogDesk is developed by Johannes Oppermann, a very helpful guy. I counted in my mailbox 50 email exchanges where he tried to help me with an upload problem. Truely he deserves your support.
If you are looking for offline blogging tools, definitely give BlogDesk a try.
My previous donations
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