You know how in Wall Street movies they always show hysterical white-collar men shouting into phones, and at each other, with numbers flashing on giant screens, bells ringing, computers buzzing and coffee flowing?
Well, my investment portfolio has been pretty much the opposite of that recently, mainly because I’ve been living on a tourist visa in […]
How many sites do you run? I’ve noticed a lot of bloggers juggle several sites on different topics. I’m now one of them.
I’ve set up a site called Travel Minx. It’s very new and still requires some tweaking, but I wanted to create a site where I could write and share information about one of […]
I had an almost out-of-body experience shopping the other day at a well-known women’s clothing store. (Yes, I fell off the no-shopping wagon; Lazy Man knows how I feel.)
Anyway, the shop seemed to have about 200 employees. They smiled warmly; they touched my arm; they said, “Hi honey, my name’s Aisha and just let me […]
Get Rich Slowly hosted this week’s Carnival of Personal Finance which is a collection of money bloggers’ best articles from the past two years. I’m not in it; perhaps I missed this one, or perhaps my article wasn’t good enough to include (tears). Anyway, my three favorites are:
Advice from a Billionaire - bonus: it’s not […]
The other day I received a heartrending email that I simply couldn’t ignore. Please pull up a chair and I’ll share it with you.
Samuel wrote: Am samuel….am from Nigeria….i really need your financail surport.
The email was unfortunately lacking in detail. Normally in these types of communication I’ve won a lottery, or someone has a […]
This is an interview with Alex Geana, a blogger for hire, a playwright and soon-to-be-published novelist based in New York. He contributes to the Huffington Post, one of the world’s most-read blogs.
How did you become a ‘blogger for hire’?
I was asked and needed cash, so why not? I tried to monetize my first blog One […]
What’s it about?
Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything looks at how the Web 2.0 phenomenon is affecting companies around the world, in terms of seeking customer feedback, outsourcing, transparency and peer-to-peer interaction. It focuses on how big corporations are beginning to adopt trends learned from information-sharing sites like Wikipedia, YouTube and Flickr.
Main points
Open source […]
Running through the sites on my RSS reader this morning, my eyes began to glaze over.
“How to…” “10 Best…” “Why you should(n’t)…’
This is partly my fault for reading so many how-to-blog sites. These people are just doing their jobs and generally sharing very helpful tips. Plus, it’s more or less guaranteed that any headline with […]
Most writers go through moments of doubt. Is anyone actually reading my work? Did I just see tumbleweed blowing across my homepage? Am I writing about the right things? Someone should set up a Blogging Therapy website where anxious bloggers go to purge their worries. There should be a virtual couch.
But certain things encourage us […]
Where in the world have you been? These are the places I’ve seen so far, in red. The little splodge at the bottom right is where I call home. Clearly I need to visit Africa and Russia.
A lot of people ask me about my frequent travels and how I do it. Before I was 21 […]
