Blogosis

As you can see, I’m here and back working on Blogosis. I’ve been away for about 3 - 4 months now, and I just felt it was time to get back on track. You’ll probably notice, though, that Blogosis isn’t the same.

I’ve transitioned to a news/magazine style blog. This allows for a lot more freedom in the overall design and topics covered on Blogosis. I’m no longer just covering the topic of blogs and blogging alone, although that will still remain core to Blogosis and always will. However, I’m am spreading out the expertise of Blogosis to cover a vast range of topics from entertainment, politics, gaming and more. It is due to the fact that I am breaking away from just the blogging blogger niche, and into an alternative and opinionated source of news in blogging format.

The blog gives freedom to express one’s opinion and ideas, while news sources need to be factual and informational. There is no entertainment value to the news which is why I am here to change that. Opinion is full of entertainment and emotion.

So with that being said and done, I’d like to open the doors of Blogosis once again.

If anyone would like to join the team here at Blogosis (so far, it is just me), feel free to jump aboard. You get a shiny new @blogosis.com email, access to review current news with an opinion, let your voice be heard, and when advertising bonuses start rolling in, trust me when I say you will get a big piece of cake. Eventually, I plan to make Blogosis big enough to have its own office full of staff. Shiny.

E-mail me if you want in at contact@justindupre.com.

So I just got www.justindupre.com online. Yeah, its another blog authored by me. This one is about freelancing, and more specifically, freelance writing because that is the only type of freelance work I do. Check it out if you are thinking about getting into the business of freelancing.

Anyways, it wasn’t easy setting up this blog, and any newbs out there to blogging should know that it isn’t all sugar and candy. There are blog themes to discuss,  content you should prepare beforehand, marketing tactics, and hours and hours of time will be needed to do all this. Setting up Justin Dupre.com took me about 8 hours from searhing through themes to getting the couple posts and pages up with plug-ins and all the other blogging necessities.

Having a blog is a time user. You need to update it regularly, care for its aesthetics, write posts, configure it for more traffic, reply to comments and emails and all sorts of other tasks. So before you start a blog, just make sure you are prepared for this amount of time you will need to work on it.

Even if you aren’t the most free person in the world, logged down by work, school or other activities, there are several ways you can still maintain a blog. Some of the most popular blogs on the net only update once or twice a week. Try setting aside 1 hour on the weekend just to blog. Blog durig your work break, or during a boring class that you won’t gain extra knowledge from (listen to your math lessons though. Working on my websites has made that grade bad. Really, really bad. Heh). Write posts down when you don’t have access to a computer and type them later.

Eventually, you’ll get into the groove of things and be blogging faster than a pro. Or, you might decide this isn’t the path for you. Either way, it is still time well spent as it can help you learn more about yourself as well as time management

I know the secret to running a successful blog. Do you!?

It really should be no secret, and anyone who considers themselves professional bloggers knows exactly what it is. They did not become professional bloggers because they were the best bloggers in that niche at that time (although they usually become the resource for that specific blog niche). Was it a bit of luck? Perhaps. Did it take a bit of skill? Maybe. Did they enjoy it? Indefinitely, they loved it!

You need to love what you are blogging about! No one wants to see crap you wrote on a niche you are blogging about just because it is something you know will make money. I don’t run a blog bout blogging because I don’t want to and it will make me good money. I run it because it is fun. This blog entertains me when I start throwing together new ideas and mixing up what other bloggers are doing. I also love to write, which should be a passion of any bloggers actually. Combining these two forces, I am “Super…err Blogger Man!” Alright, it’s a bit cheesy. I can tell. If I didn’t enjoy blogging, would this blog be where it is at now. Most likely not even close to a blog like this.

Just keep that in mind when you are choosing what to write a blog about. Who cares if it is a crowded niche? Who cares if barely anyone reads about it? A blog is something you invest time into, so invest time doing something you would love. Inform others of things you like to do and read about. Entertain yourself while blogging. Blogging can get boring no matter what niche, no matter how passionate you are for that niche. The chances it will happen often is much more decreased if you blog about something you absolutely love.

So stop blogging about tampons and goat cheese, and jump into your favorite niches. However, maybe you enjoy writing about tampons and goat cheese. By all means, Captain, don’t let your 1st seaman steer you off course..

Alright, I’m tired of these Clickbooth posts just as much as you, but I am pretty empty on ideas right now and clogged up with client work and school. So, one of their reps contacted me on MSN to support their (allegedly) disintegrating image. There is good news from it though. That email was not a C&D letter, so I don’t have to worry about getting sued just yet. Yay! Anyways, here is what they had to say:

Justin - Freelance Content Publisher for Hire says:
Whos this?
Ziare says:
Hi Justin this is Ziare with clickbooth
Ziare says:
how are you
Justin - Freelance Content Publisher for Hire says:
Fine.
Ziare says:
I wanted to reach out to you about some of your blogs regarding clickbooth
Justin - Freelance Content Publisher for Hire says:
I figured so.
Ziare says:
We just wanted to have a chance to discuss the situation
Ziare says:
and clear up any misconceptions
Justin - Freelance Content Publisher for Hire says:
Ok.
Ziare says:
do you have a few moments?
Justin - Freelance Content Publisher for Hire says:
Yup.
Ziare says:
the email you received from us was not a C&D, just wanted to clear that up
Justin - Freelance Content Publisher for Hire says:
Okay.
Ziare says:
C&D’s only come from our lawyers
Ziare says:
but we still wanted to reach out and defend our reputation
Justin - Freelance Content Publisher for Hire says:
I think it might be a tad to late for that.
Ziare says:
why is that?
Justin - Freelance Content Publisher for Hire says:
It is ruined amongst the community. Not just an individual.
Ziare says:
thats not true
Justin - Freelance Content Publisher for Hire says:
Alright.
Justin - Freelance Content Publisher for Hire says:
So what is true? I am assuming most of the Wicked Fire members, as well as Jon, aren’t? Correct?
Ziare says:
well the allegations that we dont pay our publishers are false
Justin - Freelance Content Publisher for Hire says:
Of course.
Justin - Freelance Content Publisher for Hire says:
So they are lying?
Ziare says:
they are definitely mistaken
Justin - Freelance Content Publisher for Hire says:
Alright.
Ziare says:
how is thailand btw, I had a chance to visit bangkok a couple years ago
Justin - Freelance Content Publisher for Hire says:
Fine.

Yeah, I admit I was a bit cold with them. What do you expect, though.

Who likes the new theme? I’m trying to clean it up a little here and there, so expect a lot of changes.

Justin here is getting a little lazy. He wants to know if you want to blog for him! He’ll give you a dollar!!! Hehe

It is a great way to get your name out with over 50+ subscribers, and you’d be doing me a big favor as this week will be killer in school for me. Tests, applications for college, girls, partyin….. Just kidding about those last two. Anyways, I have no guest posters, and haven’t had any yet. If you want to see your post up here, just email me at justindupre @ blogosis.com! Alrighty? Cool.

I’m looking for another new layout for this blog. Always looking! Heh

If you are afraid of getting a little (bad) attention, stop blogging.

This whole C&D thing with me (as well as a few others) and Clickbooth has gotten ridiculous. I’ve been having a lot of trouble sleeping because of the email they’ve sent me. Can this be taken as the real deal? Will I get my butt sued off? Does it matter?

I don’t really know.

Is it worth it to go through what could be possible trouble for me? I could be facing a case against a company with millions of dollars to it’s name. What have I got? 200 in my pocket, and that’s for rent. Obviously, it would be mindless to keep the post up if these guys at Clickbooth are serious. Do I think they are serious? Yes, I do.  So why is the post still up?

I don’t really know.

I guess it is a pride thing. The freedom of speech, the freedom of communication, and the freedom of press (no matter what form it is in) are all things an American is born with. I’ve never been an outspoken person. I’ve kept quiet about a lot of crap in my life. I’ve backed down from a lot of that crap. Now isn’t the time to do it. I haven’t been sued, yet.

I’m sure if the threats increase, I will have to take them down. If I get a “real” C&D note from a lawyer, it will be removed. Getting an email from relations just isn’t going to cut it. Relations has absolutely no power in the law besides telling me to stop blogging falsities. Alright, sure. You got it Clickbooth. But I never told one lie in that post. I just informed what I allegedly knew about the alleged situation, and what everyone is allegedly saying you are allegedly up to… allegedly they say.

If you are going to bully someone around, bring in the big dogs the first time. This is absolutely ridiculous, Clickbooth. I don’t want to be sued, and you putting your money into suing me or any other little time blogger probably isn’t worth the lawyer fees you would undergo doing so.

Instead of suing us, why don’t you ask us what would make us take the posts down? How can you get on our good sides? How can you befriend Jon and the other Wickedfire members? How can you gain back the trust of a whole lot of affiliate marketers? How can you get your ads back in that marketing magazine?  Attacking us (allegedly) hasn’t seemed to have been of much help. And allegedly, it could mean the end of Clickbooth… allegedly. Thats my opinion at least, given to me by the 1st Amendment, thank you very much.

So, yeah, I should take the post down, just to save myself what allegedly…….. might be a lot of trouble. I don’t think I will though. Maybe I am just lazy, which I really am. Or maybe I just want to let others know what is going on with me and Blogosis. Because this domain is my property. What goes on my domain stays mine. It doesn’t all have to be valid fact, but I don’t go around pushing lies that can get me sued.

John Lemp, please, if you are still emotionally distressed from my posts, let me know. I know it must be tough for you. All that money in your pockets must not be enough (opinion/guess of mine… I’m not saying that could be false. Perhaps it isn’t enough. I don’t know). You don’t have to sue me to get emotionally stable. Write me personally, hell… call me!! (country exit code (I think it is 001 for the USA)) - 66 - 08 - 5617 - 0895. I will take all these posts down in an instant if you can prove to me it is hurting you. That’s no problem. Ask for Justin, and be aware I might answer in Thai (Hul - lo = Hello (Haha)). Alrighty?

I want to be cool with you Clickbooth. I want it honestly. I need to join some affiliate programs now that I got some shiny new credit cards. Its time for some extra revenue, you know? There is so much that could happen here, but I think you are just taking it all in the wrong direction. Maybe I am wrong though.

I really don’t know.

Okay, there are a lot of these going around. Lot’s of guys on the Wickedfire.com boards are getting these.

A note to Clickbooth - You know I could never afford a lawyer of any kind. And you know what I did was harmless journaling (albeit hurting your reputation, it hasn’t exactly been above the water for any time recently. What I posted in my earlier posts were my righteous opinions that I am entitled to, not only by American law, but by Thai law, as well. What I will post in this post is again, my opinion. The fact that you are chasing after 20 year-old college students living off of student loans is absolutely ridiculous. You can’t catch the big fish, so you fry the little ones that have absolutely no association to you? Great marketing plan if you ask me. At least it has gotten your name out. Before the post on Wickedfire, I hadn’t heard of Clickbooth. Now, I know and I am plenty glad to inform others of sources from my research that says you guys are (or so my research says, not my known facts, just my research and in my 1st amendment given opinion which I cannot be sued for) fraudulent. If you want to prove this false, then step up. Pay all those affiliates that you (apparently) haven’t paid, apologize to Jon and wickedfire members that (it seems that) you (may have, or might not have) pissed off.

If you want the posts removed, please send me a notarized C&D note that says Cease and Desist somewhere on it so I know its the real deal. Okay and thanks.

Anyways, here is the email I got.

Good afternoon,

Clickbooth.com. It was posted March 9, 2008.

The aforementioned post’s content contains defamatory statements referencing Clickbooth and its owner, John Lemp. The information throughout the post is considered libelous, and legal action has already been taken against another such individual publishing similar statements.

We consider libelous and defamatory statements to be an extremely serious violation as they harm the Clickbooth brand, John Lemp, and all Clickbooth advertisers and publishers. We must take all the necessary steps to protect not only ourselves, but also our partners against such fallacious statements and misrepresentations which have been made to intentionally harm the goodwill of our company and the character of Mr. Lemp.

Clickbooth greatly appreciates its relationships with publishers and advertisers, and we fully stand behind the quality our network has to offer. We care about our reputation within the industry and wish to do all that we can to protect it. We are a long-term organization that strives to make partners happy and keep them that way. We couldn’t remain as successful as we have otherwise.

We wanted to touch base with you and express our concern regarding these comments. We are asking that you please remove the post in question. We are also certainly more than willing to work with you in order to help you better understand the issues at hand.

Please let us know your thoughts and how you intend to proceed regarding this post. We look forward to hearing from you.

Yeah, thats the email. Here is what I sent them.

Dear “Clickbooth Relations”,

I was just reporting what I heard about the story. Because I have not done anything wrong in journaling what others have said and what I’ve heard about Clickbooth as well as adding an opinion of my own. Unless you can tell me exactly what loopholes you are going to string through the 1^st amendment, I will leave the post as is, and probably add this email copy to my blog.

Bullying may have worked in middle school, but this is the real world.

I look forward to not getting any more emails from you.

Justin

Yeah. I wasn’t too happy when I got the email. I’m sure that hurts me, but what can you do. If they are going to sue me, I’m probably screwed for life if Clickbooth can get away with it. Mr. Lemp would need some very, very expensive lawyers to argue the 1st amendment though. Here are some more places to chec out for more info on all this.

http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com/?p=240

http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com/clickbooth-doesnt-want-you-to-read-this.txt

And there are some in the comments of the older posts that are track backs.

Remember that post on Clickbooth I did about a week ago? Clickbooth read it. Hehe. Looks like they might want to take legal action against me. I got an email that could be considered possibly threatening from their relations department. While I am not sure how far this will actually go, I won’t say too much now. I know this is a bad update, but once I am sure I can’t be sued, you will get an update.

Hey all! I’ve been gone a few days! Did you miss me?

I actually haven’t been anywhere. I was fiddling with my computer when the hard drive exploded. “Fantastico” I said with a few less vowels and a ‘k’ at the end. I used the rest of the money in my bank account to put a new one in (luckily I knew something like this was going to happen so I also invested in an external hard drive the day of my last post and backed my important files (Peak/Pancake images) up.

So I get booted back up in my… ick he installed Vista… Windows Vista machine ready to start blogging. I head to my admin panel. Oh, look at that. User name and password. I take a few cracks at it to no avail. I attempted to enter the email and user name for the account to recover the password, but that didn’t work. How could I have been so stupid as to not write down my own user name and password to my blog!? I was pretty steamed and not ready to look for an answer. I thought I was screwed and Blogosis would be no more.

I took these past two days to reflect on what I would do. Should I continue to play with Blogosis? I contemplated selling it to some sucker without the password. Should I wipe my databases and start anew? I just don’t think I could have pulled through with that after all the work on these posts. Should I hire someone to copy all my posts and paste them on a new blog? I was just to lazy to recreate this one. I looked for other options.

For all of you that don’t know your admin password, have no fear. Justin Dupre has found your answer! Emergency.PHP is an amazing script that lets you load it up to the database, go to that URL, enter in any user name already integrated on your Wordpress blog and change its password as easy as that. Remember to delete the script from the database when you are done, or others may discover it and easily “hack” your blog. The Emergency.PHP script can be found at Village-Idiot.

Or to avoid this kind of trouble, save the password and user name in a safe place when you create a blog.

I’ve been away for a few days. I hope you guys didn’t miss me that much. What have I been doing? I’ve had a big project I have been working on for a client. That’s been steady, buy easy work. Other than that, I have been doing absolutely nothing. I’ve been bored to death, stuck in my room, without a thing to do. I opened the write page on this blog, but the words never came. I really do love to write and I find it extremely easy to do, but it only seems like I can do it when I am stimulated to do so.

This is probably why I haven’t been on here very much. You’ve seen when I blog that I have a reason that I do so. I write a story, or tell you about something I did and relate it to blogging. Well, doing absolutely nothing leaves me with absolutely nothing to write about. When I say I did nothing, I mean nothing. I left my apartment to get some fried chicken and eat it in my room. That has been about it.

I love my freelance work, and I do it a couple hours a day. What is my stimuli? Money. I love writing for money. I adore it. I cherish it. It’s easy to write 500 words in 15 minutes, check it for grammar and spelling errors in another 2 minutes, and email it to the client 1 minute later. Then I get a new payment received notice in my email with $20+ dollars attached. It’s good money, and worth the quality work I put into it. I do admit, I probably wouldn’t do any work for free, unless I was exchanging services that would be essential for my business.

So, I am going to try to get something more to stimulate me into blogging here. Either you guys have to start buying my ads (I’ll sell them for 5 bucks now), or I have to take it into my own hands. I am thinking it would be easier for me to find something to get me to write than make you buy advertisements on this blog. I’m going to try spending a little more time away from the computer, and a little more time outside.

I’ve got a trip to my girlfriend’s house planned tomorrow. Her parents live a little outside of Bangkok so it might be nice to take a break from the hustle and bustle (of my single room apartment?) of the city. That should be a nice sidetracking venture to settle my mind.

I’ve also decided to completely move out of Bangkok for 2 months. I’ve got to start saving money, and renting 2 apartments means I am spending 200+ extra dollars a month. Talk about inefficient.  I will be back in May after I finish my first year in university. Crazy to think that it is only 2 months away. I plan to ace my classes, except my Formal Logic class. English is great, but figuring out formulas to create truth tables and all that crap is ridiculous. Socrates or Plato or whichever one of you other Greek or Roman or whatever guys that did this are crazy. Any who, as long as I get my C, I get my credits, and that is all I need.

Oh, I’m giving away 3 125 x 125 ad spots here. You don’t have to buy them like I said. Be the first commenters (3 of you) to comment here with anything. You can write another language, I could care less. Just want to see if any of you read this post this far. :p

After you comment, send the 125 x 125 ad to contact@justindupre.com. Tis my new email and domain, but I only have a little tiny blog up there for now. I still need a design. This will be my freelance blog, by the way. Subscribe now! Haha.