PAULA NEAL MOONEY

by Paula Neal Mooney I woke up thinking about Bill Maher . Perhaps this is because just a few hours before I went to bed, I was arguing with 51-year-old Bill Maher . Calm down, people. I'm not his latest piece of carmel arm candy. Bill Maher was once again pontificating on his new season of Real Time With Bill Maher this weekend. "I think all religions are crazy," said Maher, dogging out Mormons whilst encircling both his ears with his pointers. "That's a religion!" I argued back. "Believing in nothing is its own religion!" My hubby bristled while I ranted quietly, "This is exactly what Ann Coulter writes about in Godless: The Church of Liberalism !" (Ann Coulter, by the way, recently gave a suprising blurb to liberal writer and genius Michael Eric Dyson for his new Debating Race book. Maybe she's trying to quell the whole Kwanzaa mess . Maybe I am, too.) But back to Bill Maher. Like Prince sang, "I -- how you say? -- I wonder ...

by Paula Neal Mooney Yesterday I left a comment on John Chow's blog at John Chow dot Com , and whilst in the comment approval process no doubt, John Chow stopped over a my blog! I was so ecstatic that I saved a screenshot as proof. I had barely heard of him till Mario Walker led me to John's biggest Google Whores post. If you don't know who John Chow is, let me explain. Dubbed a "dot com mogul," John Chow is a rising superstar in the world of blogging for the love of it (and the bucks have followed) and much more. Here are ten great things about John Chow's blog: 1 - John Chow just monetized his blog back in September, and five short months later he's making good money. He actually breaks down for his readers exactly how he makes money in popular monthly recaps. Here's how he made $3,440.66 in January 2007 . 2 - Chow's daily pageviews numbers are great, plus he's got close to 2,500 subscribers as of this writing. 3 - But even with all that a...

by Paula Neal Mooney Atoosa Rubenstein has launched her much-awaited site , Atoosa.com Who is Atoosa and what's the big deal about her lauching Atoosa.com ? That's the same thing I wondered when I saw her mentioned in MediaBistro today, smarting that Atoosa has close to 44,000 MySpace friends. No doubt Atoosa.com will have a ton more readers than that. Basically everthing I've read thus far about this 35-year-old former editor-in-chief of Seventeen (a job she left to follow her bliss and focus on her web business!) and creator of CosmoGIRL! has me nodding my head in agreement that the next Oprah won't be birthed on TV, but on the web. Atoosa.com's launch has confirmed my own decision not to write a niche blog -- a blog focused tightly on one central topic -- though many folks have found success doing that. But me? I'm interested in too many topics to write singularly, and I don't want to segment my traffic into a bunch of little blogs. Besides, it...