Have You Heard About The Blogging Scholarship?

Are you in need of a scholarship to attend college or university? A blogger who maintains weblogs? A US citizen or permanent resident? Well then you might stand a chance to win the $10,000 Blogging Scholarship which is awarded annually to those attending college.

Why a Blogging Scholarship?

At College Scholarships.org we believe that everyone deserves a shot at a decent education. And we love bloggers. Not for the least of reasons, because we blog, and one of the founders of this site makes a living as a blogger.

We believe passion is important. As the world gets more competitive, those who are passionate about what they do, and work close to their passions, will be able to become and stay successful even as technology and automation eat away at many business models. Those who are willing to share their experiences with the world help make the world a better place, even if most bloggers only consider blogging a hobby.

We believe those who freely express themselves are far more likely to find their true passions and connect with people to bring on large scale social change.

So what do you guys think about this? I mean, who says that being a blogger is totally useless and is not time well spent? Now whenever someone says something bad about bloggers, tell them that at least bloggers have chances to win the Blogging Scholarship which is only open to bloggers .

You guys have to admit the whole idea about the Blogging Scholarship is interesting, right?

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Google Knol The Wikipedia Alternative?

Google recently launched the public beta of Google Knol on the 23rd of July.

Knol is similar and yet different to Wikipedia in some ways. Firstly, Wikipedia users can create and edit any article they like (although there are some restrictions to seniority) but Knol is has articles created by authors who can choose whether to let other users or specific authors to edit their articles.

What makes Google Knol so interesting is that it allows you to place Google Adsense advertisements on your Knol’s, which means if you have a very popular Knol, you can earn a decent bit of income from it. As I had experimented a few days ago, Knol’s are indexed by the Google search engine, which means that your Knol has the potential to rank very high in the search engines results (just like Wikipedia) and if you have implemented your Google Adsense code into the Knol, you might earn a decent amount of cash. Who would have guess Google Knol becoming into a money making opportunity whilst building up reputation of the author at the same time.

Anyway, after learning about this I was kind of sad as I had gotten banned from Google a few years ago and as Google Knol currently does not accept other kinds of advertisement code on it, I guess I’ll just have to pass up this unique opportunity.

I’m still experimenting with Google Knol and seeing how it works and what other functions it can play, but for now it looks quite promising. And as Google Knol is still relatively young, we’ll give it sometime and who knows, maybe it might become the next big thing since Youtube

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I Received Complimentary Access To Britannica Online

2 days ago my application for complimentary access to Britannica Online got approved, which means I get 1 year subscription to Britannica Online totally free! This is good news for me as I can do research online much more easier, provide more information on things I write about which would benefit you all in the end:).

One other cool thing is that I can link to link to any Britannica Online article and you can follow it and read up on it at Britannica Online, even though the article requires a paid subscription to read. Double benefits

Dear David,
Congratulations: as a Web publisher you’ve been approved for complimentary access to Britannica Online. This message contains the information you’ll need to sign up for your free one-year subscription to our Web site, which includes the entire Encyclopædia Britannica as well as many other sources of information and rich multimedia.
How to Activate Your Free Subscription
To start your subscription, please follow these four easy steps:

1. Visit [EDITED]
2. Enter your email address and “promotion code” in the blue box. Your unique code is: [EDITED]
3. Fill in the rest of your info on the following page and submit the form
4. You’ll then see a confirmation page with a “Start Using Britannica Online” button that will give you direct access to our premium content (please disregard the button that says “Continue”)

I hope you’ll use the site regularly. It’s good for personal and professional research, answering questions, and for enriching your Web site with knowledge and information that provides context to and rounds out the topics you write about.
On that last note, let me point out that you can make any Britannica article available to your readers simply by linking to it from your site. That’s right. Even though portions of the site normally require a subscription to access them, there’s an exception: when a Web site links to a Britannica article, Web surfers who click on that link get that article in its entirety. You can link to as many articles as you like, as often as you like.
And please go to britannicanet.com for a host of special tools that will help you use Britannica features and content to enhance your site.
If you have any questions, please let us know.
Best wishes,
J.C. Miller
For Encyclopædia Britannica

If you’re a blogger, writer or webmaster, you can apply for your own complimentary access to Britannica Online here, and if you qualify they will notify you within a few days. And once you get accepted, you’ll have the power of Britannica Online for one whole yea:).

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News

The internet and the blogosphere is a big big place. It’s not only big but it is also fast-moving, so fast that is a struggle to actually keep pace with the latest happenings and everything. In this category “News”, I’ll write about all sorts of news, but for now I’ll limit it to more internet and bloggers related news.

By doing this, I hope to be able to provide a big picture of what’s going on in the blogosphere .

So yeah, the “News” category is now officially open .

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