PAULA NEAL MOONEY

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 Now that my blessed friend Bonnie Calhoun over at Bonnie Writes showed me that my blog value is in fact increasing -- and not stuck on the $24k I thought it was worth -- by encouraging me to click on the "How Much is Your Blog Worth?" doohickey over there to the left in my sidebar, I've been wondering: How do you sell a blog? (By the way, I had to type in www.paulamooney.blogspot.com to get the highest value, so try different variations of your correct URL with and without the "http:" in front to get your highest blog value.) Googling stuff like "sell my blog," "blogs for sale," "sell your blog," and "blog for sale" will get you enough good tips. But I think these BloggerTalk guidelines in this thread is a good start: 1. This forum is for the listing of blogs which are for sale. Not domain names and not normal web sites (with the exception of domains which have the word "blog" in them an...

by Paula Neal Mooney I feel a little like Dustin Hoffman's character in All the President's Men , a book-turned-movie about two Washington Post reporters whose investigative journalism exposed what later turned into the Watergate scandal that forced President Nixon's resignation. It all started innocently enough, with the reporters covering what was initially thought to be a robbery at the Democratic Party National headquarters. We all know how that ended...if only some sleuth would get to the bottom of that Chappaquiddick incident... Anyway...my plight started just as innocently a couple of month ago, when I tried to submit a post to Digg.com and got an error message. Upon Googling the error message, I turned up not only other legitimate users who've also been banned by Digg, but plenty of accusations that Digg -- who prides itself on allowing average citizens to control their front page news -- and other organizations have paid people to Digg certain stories to the ...

by Paula Neal Mooney Well, you've probably found me 'cause you read Neil Patel's story about me getting unbanned from Digg. John Chow was unbanned too! Hurray! As Romans 8:28 says, "And we know that God causes all things to work together for good for those who love Him and are called according to His purposes." Anyway, here's how the saga unfolded months ago: Quick...Digg my Orble post about this on Digg before it mysteriously disappears... Never mind -- the DiggNation banned that URL too! Just before I added these cool Digg This Story buttons to my posts, around the same time Kevin Rose went on his drunken podcast spill about the iPhone , I started getting this error message when I tried to Digg my blog posts: This URL has been reported by users and cannot be submitted at this time. This URL has been reported by users and cannot be submitted at this time. This URL has been reported by users and cannot be submitted at this time. This URL has been reporte...

On The View today I saw clips of this new documentary called Deliver Us From Evil , which opened today in New York City. Directed by Amy Berg , the Lionsgate's documentary Deliver Us From Evil follows Oliver O'Grady, formerly Father O'Grady, a California priest who sexually abused dozens of children during the 1970s up until his arrest in 1993. Oliver O'Grady After serving only seven years of a 14-year sentence, "Father Ollie" now lives as a free man in Ireland. What is most striking about O'Grady is his sickeningly honest admission of being excited by young people, whom O'Grady is creepily nearby a lot in parks and such as Berg extracts his honest confessions. What is most heartbreaking are the accounts from the former young people he abused, now adults who weep in Deliver Us From Evil. One woman said that her last memory of O'Grady was intense pain before blacking out. What is most infuriating is that O'Grady was repeatedly protected and s...