I haven't been spending a lot of time posting to my Blogger blogs lately. This is not because I don't enjoy writing here on Blogger, in fact to me it's a lot of fun and the format is great and the site is user-friendly; it's so convenient to have a free platform such as this.
But I've done two things that have preoccupied me and diverted my activity to other places besides Blogger.
First, there is my website. Yes, I've done it. Domain name, web host, and got my own website. Steadily I'm learning how much more is involved in having your own website than is involved in using free hosting like Blogger or creating user-generated content on revenue-sharing sites. Much to learn and lots of work to do, and I'm the one who's got to do it. So, the site is not really finished yet. It will be a place where I make regular posts, and it's a martial arts oriented site/blog. I have some more ideas for sites, but I have to finish setting this one up first.
The other thing I've been doing is participating on this site called Bubblews. The idea of the site is that users of a site should share the revenue; after all, we make up the content of a site, which essentially makes the site, so we should have a fair share.
Bubblews is like social media in a way. You post blog type entries, must be at least 400 character per post (which is around 100-150 words, not much), about anything you want, but you can't use copied content or use those traffic exchange groups; however, you can do things like talk about an article you've read, essentially summarize it in your own words and post a link to it. It's like using Facebook but you get paid for it.
You don't get paid if you cheat. That's why there's a slew of "Bubblers" claiming the site is a scam; but if you go to their profiles, you can see their content is all copied. It's easy to find out if someone's content is copied; you just copy and paste a piece of their text into Google and search and if another article comes up besides theirs, then you know they copied.
Also, you find these schemers on the site that will "connect" with you and automatically ask you to connect back. Connecting is the equivalent of "following". When you connect to someone you get notifications when they post something.
The other thing is loads of the articles Bubblers "write" do not make any sense. I think many of them are what are called "spun" articles; spewed out my a computer program to create varied duplicates of the same article. Or these unintelligible articles on Bubblews are bad translations of articles in other languages.
Anyway, I have been on Bubblews a little more than two weeks and I'm about a dollar away from pay out. You get paid when you reach $25. Oh, yeah. Each like, comment, and view are a penny. And you start off with a dollar automatically. The money accumulates quickly, though. The more you interact, the more views, likes and comments you get.
It's fun. I will have to see how it goes when I redeem what's collected in my bank.
Also, you can get paid through PayPal, a Visa gift card, or by check. Also, I guess you can ask them to buy you something, but I don't know exactly what that means or how it works.
So, that's what's been happening. I don't even hardly get on Facebook anymore. Of course, I'm still on the Internet all the time. It's what happens when you're house-bound taking care of your aging mother who has dementia.
That's all for now.
Anyone interested in signing up for Bubblews, you can do that here: http://www.bubblews.com/?referral=5161f1020784f6.82913798
Peace.
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