In June 2006, I started writing & publishing a blog dedicated to documenting my entrepreneurship mistakes so that others could learn from them and so I could remind myself that it's important to make more mistakes. In October 2006, I had to take a break from Make More Mistakes because I didn't have time to continue with it. I promised to return to it in January 2007. January 2006, Make ...

How to re-think your perspectiveKathleen Bright: Not ‘I need’, instead ‘I want’ or, How to get things done, changing your perspective. Don't forget to focus on how much you want to do what you need to do. If you're prone to procrastination, get as much help as you can, including changing the way you think about your goals. David Seah: Productivity ...

I love reading. I love the Internet. Cue the entrance of blogs and bam! Every spare second I didn't have, gone. But that's okay because I derive massive value from my favourite blogs and now I want to share that with you. Hence this entry. I mentioned this to a friend who said, "Favourite blog posts are good, because they'll boost your Google Pagerank. All those famous blogs with ...

In essence, my hosts experienced a series of hardware problems, so all my sites disappeared and my email addresses stopped working. On Thursday, 9th November, the hosting came back, sans content. Ian & I contacted our hosts who restored as much as they could. On Friday, 10th November, I had the exciting task of restoring the vast majority of my content from scratch: My database (for entries, comments etc), my ...

Summary: How to keep up-to-date with information on the Web, without clicking from site to site. You can browse headlines from lots of different sites in one place on your computer; with no spam or viruses. Plus, unsubscribe immediately whenever you want. Read: What is RSS? As part of Bright Resources: free Guide to Technology for Technophobes, I've written a straightforward definition of RSS & web feeds, including the ...

I'm doing well with the whole blogging enterprise so far. "If you want a powerful, publishing platform that gives you an enormous amount of functionality, you won’t do better than Wordpress." It seems I'm on the right track. Everywhere I turn, I see generalised endorsements of the choices I've made. I chose the right blogging platform, I'm focusing on the right advertisers, it's a good idea to be blogging professionally ...

On 9 August 2006, in Don't settle for Google AdSense, Erik of ProductWiki stated, "While I believe that AdSense is a great source of potential revenue, it is by no means perfect and, in my opinion, needs to be updated to meet the demands of its users... Shopping.com outperforms AdSense by a factor of 4.6!". A few days before Erik, I published my experiences with Google AdSense: On 4 ...

Revver is a company that allows people to upload & store videos of their original content for free & get paid by advertisers if/when viewers click ads at the end of the video. "The income from RevTags is always split 50-50 between Revver and the creator." There's even an affiliate program too. Revolutionary! Strangely enough, the staff members didn't seem to know what they were doing at first, but they ...

My plan is to make money from blogging. I know, I know - it's the same plan as many other bloggers out there. I'm doing a lot of research on different ways of making money online. Many rave about AdSense, but I've found that other programs work better for me. (Which is a shame really, as AdSense is by far the easiest & simplest to set up). Oh well, nobody said ...

I did quite a lot today. Moved My Bright Ideas - went very successfully, to my great surprise. Haven't worked out the .htaccess file yet though. Worked on some top secret work stuff - all very cool & exciting Excellent quality time with my business partner, Ian, lots of ideas bounced back & forth Customised All Things Bright some more - I still need to create a logo (& favicon) though! After ...