This is a part of the Blog Topic Idea series.
This is something I have been following to retain the stray thoughts that come to my mind.
The human brain is one creative machine with all its interconnected synapses. But it is real bad at retaining those weird ideas.
Make it a habit to note down everything that comes to your mind when you are awake. (If you can write when you are asleep, make it 24×7) Make it easier to record them. You need not write out the full text - just some stray words should suffice. You can use an online method but I would advice against it. A small notebook should be good, as you are not always hooked on to the internet.
Every week, go through your notes and you will find a lot many things to write about. Complement this with the other tips, and you will turn into an idea generating machine. :)
In this blogger interview series, I’ve done two interviews before and I’m sure that you must have found them interesting. This time around, I got the opportunity to interview Kuan Hoong. Let’s find out more about him and lets earn money online with Kuan’s help :
1. Would you like to introduce yourself to our readers ?
Hi guys and gals, my name is Kuan Hoong. I am a Malaysian and I am currently pursuing my Ph.D in Computer Science in Nagoya, Japan. I love photography, traveling and of course blogging. I love to make new friends and meet new people, that is why blogging is the best opportunity for me to do so.
2. If you could explain a bit about your blog and how you got into blogging ?
I started my first blog 3 years ago when I came to Japan. It was my personal blog where I tried to write down every single memorable event while I am in Japan. Recently 2 months ago, after gaining all the experiences I needed from Blogger platform, I started kuanhoong dot com. It is a blog where I share my knowledge of technology, search engine optimization (SEO) and Make Money Online. In a normal day, I would spend around 1-2 hours checking out the latest blog feeds and drafting my next blog post.
3. What are the various ways through which you make money from your blog and which suits you the best ?
I guess the simplest way for bloggers to start making money online is through Google AdSense. However, as the saying goes “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket”, there are other ways too. For example, I find Kontera and PayPerPost are two of the best examples that bloggers can make money online.
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This is a part of the Blog Topic Idea series.
This is something I have been using lately. It is not something ground breaking - but if you use the right tools, it can save you a lot of hassles wading through a lot of feeds in your feed reader.
You already will be having feeds to established blogs in your feed reader. But there will be a lot of blogs, and it can be a pain reading through all of them. Luckily for us, there are quite a lot of tools out there that can do most of the mechanical work for us.
Let me go by example of how I use this technique to generate topic ideas for my art blog, KalaaLog.com.
Among other things, “digital painting” is a key phrase that is very relevant to this blog. I go to Google Blog Search and Technorati search, and pop in this key phrase. They give me results, but what I am interested in is the feed to that result. If you are a bit less geeky than me, you can just use these feeds as it is.
But I went ahead and did a few more things with these feeds. I used the Yahoo Pipes to do some more of the mechanical works for me. I created a pipe, that took these feeds, aggregated them, filtered them for spammy words (you know them, don’t you?) and then sorted them by publish date. The result is not as glamorous as I want, but it is workable. I take the feed of the output of this pipe and use it in my choice of feedreader.
I just schedule a time of day as per my convenience and sift through them. By end of it, I have my head filled with topic ideas.