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Become A Kindle Publisher

Aqeel Syed — Sun, 17 May 2009 17:22:11 +0000

Amazon.com opened up their Kindle publishing program to all bloggers.

All you have to do is make your blog’s feed available to the Kindle Store, and Amazon will do the rest, formatting your content for the device. According to the email from Amazon, after a few easy steps, your blog should be up and ready to go in the Kindle Store after about 12 to 48 hours of processing. Not bad.

Publishers get 60 cents per month per subscriber. So likely it kindle can become your new income stream. But unfortunately, even if you want to, you can’t give your blog away for free on the device.

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Offices of Few Popular Bloggers

Aqeel Syed — Sun, 03 May 2009 16:41:17 +0000

Ever wonder what the home offices of the Internet’s biggest bloggers look like? Do you need ideas for your own home office? TheWondrous is running a story about offices of some very popular bloggers.

Become A Kindle Publisher

How You Can Earn Money Through this Site?

Aqeel Syed — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:20:15 +0000

Many readers have recently asked in comments and emailed me that how they can earn money through this site? My answer is, “you cannot earn money through this site”. Off course you cannot earn money through this site but I can tell you how you can earn money online.

Purpose for this blog is to provide tips and guideline about establishing yourself as an online entrepreneur. Starting your career as a blogger/webmaster, creating content, building traffic and then monetizing your websites.

Initially I’d added awareness articles about blogging, tutorial for blog creation, monetization strategies, search marketing stratgies in future I’m going to further discuss these topics in depth and other approaches like freelancing.

I would love to hear from you, if you have any questions please feel free to ask and I will answer these questions here at syedaqeel.com

So What is a blog?

Aqeel Syed — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 07:25:47 +0000

Still in 2009, many people do not know about blogs and I have been often asked questions in email, IM and conversations, What is a blog? Who can blog? How can I blog? etc.

There are many definitions that I can give out but these can possibly dry your mind and make you itch your head

Confused yet? Don’t be – its really quite simple. To put it as simply as possible – a blog is a type of website that is usually arranged in chronological order from the most recent ‘post’ (or entry) at the top of the main page to the older entries towards the bottom.

Now lets discuss some misconceptions about blogs.

Blogs Aren’t Necessarily Personal

The main misconception regarding the definition of blogs comes from people that associate blogs with their content. More specifically from people that associate blogs with the content from one particular type of blog: personal blogs.

In other words, those people think that blogs are online diaries where people share their opinions, ramblings and personal events.

Wrong!

That is just one of the things that you could do with a blog.

Today blogs are being used for all sorts of purposes. You have companies that use blogs to communicate and interact with customers and other stake holders. Newspapers that incorporated blogs to their main website to offer a new channel for their writers. Individuals that created a blog to share with the world their expertise on specific topics. And so on.

Separate The Content

If you separate the content from the website, it becomes much easier to work with the definitions.

Consider a person that wants to publish a Questions & Answers column online. She could use several types of websites for that purpose.

She could create an online forum, for example, where each thread would be an answer to a specific question. She could create a static HTML website and publish all the questions and answers on a single page. She could create a wiki where users would be able to edit the questions and answers directly. Finally, she could also create a blog where each post would contain a question and its answer.

As you can see, the content is not attached to the website. The picture below illustrates that (note that only four types of websites were used, but there are many more).

So What Is A Blog?

A blog is basically a type of website, like a forum or a social bookmarking site. As such it is defined by the technical aspects and features around it, and not by the content published inside it.

The features that make blogs different from other websites are:

content is published in a chronological fashion
content is updated regularly
readers have the possibility to leave comments
other blog authors can interact via trackbacks and pingbacks
content is syndicated via RSS feeds

Keep in mind that it is the bundle of those features that should define a blog. An online forum could also offer an RSS feed for example, but that would not make it a blog.

Are you still confused? Would you like more information? Below are a few helpful articles on the topic – there are many more on the web – just do a search on your favourite search engine. Otherwise shoot me an email using my ‘contact’ button with your question and I’ll do my best to get back to you.

Rebecca Blood has written a helpful history of blogging for those who are interested in learning more about the blogging evolution over the past few years.
Harvard Law has a helpful article titled What makes a Weblog a Weblog
Trudy Schuett writes a good article title What is a blog and why do we need one?
WordPress: Introduction to Blogging

Tutorial: How to create a blog with Blogger

Aqeel Syed — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:55:02 +0000

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnploFsS_tY

This tutorial is for beginners. Need help getting started with Blogger Check out this quick tutorial!