Blogging is Booming

And so is the potential for smart marketers who embrace this high-traffic phenomenon.

Uhm…

Do I agree?
AroundMyRoom has almost everyday new content. Fresh and not found everywhere (the links) .. But donations to live from the Weblog: no not possible in no way. I’ve not seen any donators from my home-country (or it’s my brother in law who donated 1 euro last year) yet.

Marketeers? No .. Google Adsense would not have me last year cause I was Dutch. And although my weblog was / is english; they did not accept it. (experiment from the low-lands). Other countries and people: no problem (similar websites)

I have a few nice Donaters (you can find their names somewhere in the left-side). They helped me (last year: 2003) to pay a little bandwidth/hosting bill but further: nope I did not and am not able to have this service running from donations *yet*

even the ‘Scrapedfeeds.com‘ which is running as a free news rss/xml aggegrator is still without any donator. People love to get things for free (no blame to them). So if people say you can earn money with you blog: tell me how ;-)

So blogging is booming, please donate.

Free HotSpot (wireless)

Today I found public-ip. A free hotspot software package.

1 ISO, boot from CD, Linux is started, enter your ID and I run a hotspot with authentication through public-ip.net.
AWESOME, finally I can protect our internet connection from people using my accesspoints without that I know it. (As we test a lot of AccessPoints we do have mainly no encryption active). Due to this my people need to have free access but other departments I want to keep out. WEP, or SSID is than no option.

People from Public-IP.net: Awesome and kewl job you did !

grmbl ..

My home dsl line seems to be disconnected.. Damn :-(
And i needed info from scrapedfeeds.com

Oh well .. as it is a hobby project without earning money from it: it can be offline. But why? I’ve no clue yet