Like photo-taking – but not earning anything? Maybe it’s because you haven’t been ’seen’ enough around the Internet. The Internet is a very visual medium, and so if you take pictures for a living (or hope to) the ideal way to get started is to get your photos out there...

I was yawning through a article on the perils of running a home business when I decided to read the comments: What a piece of total fluff this story is... it ignores the most challenging problems faced by people adjusting from “workin for the man” to running their own show...

Success breeds success – and one example of that is the ‘JohnCow.com‘ competition on their blog. And no, this isn’t JohnChow.com, which makes about $30,000 a month – this is a site making a play off the name (and possibly getting traffic from the misspelling). Nonetheless, I’ve been watching the...

I was reading a blog post today in which the author talked about the high price of blogs and how expensive they are to sell (he noted that blogs regularly sell at twenty times the monthly revenue). I feel the problem with trying to sell a blog is that you’re...

What is Pinging? The word ‘ping’ has a long history both off and on the Internet. In 1983, Mike Muus wrote a tool to check if other sites were up and accessible (http://ftp.arl.mil/~mike/ping.html) Somewhat like a sonar ping in the submarine movies, a single packet was used to see if...