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Building a Blog Empire

I’ve always had a bit of entrepreneurial ADD, and I’m always thinking of the next project or idea.  Lately, I’ve been toying with the idea of building a network of websites, and to get somewhat serious about blogging, (well, as serious as I can be, doing it in my free time between work and family).

One of my hobbies and habits is to pick up domain names that match some “big idea” that I’ve had, and I’ll throw up a simple site or something, or just hold onto the domain for one of those “rainy day” projects.

I recently picked up a copy of WP Robot, which is an auto-blogging plugin which will automatically post and update a blog with content from ebay, amazon, articlebase, and other sources.  I think this will help me keep some of my sites updated, and hopefully be able to generate some affiliate commissions as well.  It is SLICK!  I showed it to a couple of my co-workers and they were impressed with how it worked, and how it simply automated a blog.

Now, I understand that SE’s and readers alike prefer to have genuine hand-written content, and so for my blogs, I’ll still post articles that I write myself.  As well as comment on happenings and other things.  But by having an automation tool, I can also have some filler things within my blog.
Who knows! perhaps in a year, I’ll have a nice little blog empire that will pay for a vacation to somewhere tropical. :)

Ye Flipping Gods! Too late to the party :(

For the past, oh, two years, I’ve had this grandiose plan for a really neat website service.  It would be an aggregator of web services, allowing you to link to all of your various accounts around the web.  I never really had much background in programming, so I never started to endeavor on the project.   Other things drew my attention, and it kept being pushed back as a “someday” idea.

Well today I just found a service: MyBlogLog.  Apparently someone else thought that concept would be a good idea too, only they were able to execute on the concept.  And it looks like a pretty neat service!  I would have done some things differently, but for the most part, it has all of the features I wanted.
I guess if you can’t do it yourself, wait long enough, and it’s bound to be done by someone else.

Time for an upgrade

Well, I thought it’s about time to upgrade from wordpress 2.0.5 to 2.6.2.  Hopefully this new version of wordpress is somewhat impressive, as I’ve been starting to lean towards MovableType as my new blogging engine of choice.

But we’ll see… :)