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Here I am, it’s been about 3 weeks since I landed in Paradise! And it’s about time to let you know what I’ve been up to! Let me introduce you to the team of climate change activists I’ll be sharing my experience with. There’s Conor from London, Meg and Sabrina from California, Vicky my roomie, Jost and Simon from Germany, and our cool teacher Jesper from Denmark. We will spend the next 6 months together fighting climate change in St Vincent! There are 2 other teams present at the school for the moment, one with 6 people (who are leaving at the end of the month) and one with 17 people who will stay another 6 weeks. Plus the rest of the teachers and administration it’s about 35 people living here at the moment. There is quite a variety of backgrounds, nationalities and ages, most people are quite young, about 60% just out of high school! And the rest between 25 and 35 more or less! The people here have a very interesting view of life and are here because they want to make a difference and “change the world” in their own way! We are all a bit crazy idealists and utopists, but man people are so inspiring and motivating, the vibe is very positive! Living in a community is quite a different experience from what I’ve been living until now! It kind of reminds me of my boarding school years… 15years ago… 😉 But in a warm climate, in the middle of nowhere, and with the beach down the road!!!! We all have tasks and areas of responsibilities in order to keep the school clean and runnin...

Blogging and online publishing offer a 100% flexible schedule (among many other entrepreneurial pursuits). I do appreciate not having to ever set an alarm. I’m of the view that collateral perks such as flexibility, work from anywhere, be your own boss are probably not sufficient motivators to overcome a dislike of this line of work (or any line of work). I believe you need to like the work as well to be able to put in the monster, sustained effort required. However, I may be underestimating the importance of work schedule flexibility for some folks… namely night owls. Although I believe it’s safe to say all of us like flexibility. I’m a morning person so it doesn’t apply all that much to me. That said, I appreciate not having to set an alarm ever. If you’re a night owl, you likely suffer a big disadvantage in our society. If you work a 9 to 5 or have other obligations forcing you to wake up earlier than you’d prefer, you’re probably chronically short of sleep. Night Owl Study ​ I believe it. Forcing yourself up too early a day or two in a row, while unpleasant, is manageable. Having to force yourself up too early for your natural sleep schedule every day, year-in and year-out, takes its toll. 10% of the population are extreme night owls. 10% are extreme early birds. 80% fall on the spectrum in between [ Because night owls are the minority, the working and school schedule is what it is. Not only are mornings rough but nights are too. Many night owls on the 9 to 5 schedule g...

When food is ‘bae’, we can’t resist the eager to search for new recipes and gourmet other fellow foodies are into. Rather than turn to heavy cookbooks, many have turned to online food blogs and their much-loved food bloggers for those new casserole ideas and must-try Thanksgiving recipes. If you plan to become a food blogger I will help you get started. Check If you are new to this, a blog is simply an online journal thus food blogging can be explained as online journals whose content is inspired by everything to do with food. It is the representation of gourmet interest in cooking with a combination of The essence of food blogging may be characterized as: Cooking and Posting Blogs Cooking and posting blogs focus particularly on bloggers who make food and journalize their cooking experience and tell their stories with mouth-watering pictorials. They can be anything too original or authentic recipes or exotic dishes from Italy, Mexico, India and even African cuisines. You can read about the Restaurant Reviews Blogs like these are very popular as we count on them when searching for places to dine; be it in a new city or just a few blocks away from your house. They provide restaurant reviews in terms of food quality, ambiance, service, prices, and anything that makes the eateries stand out positively or negatively. Restaurant review blogs are a more comprehensive version of the “eat out” guide which usually includes tales about the love or hate of the restaurant experience, e...

It was one of those magical blogging nights As I’ve told you guys many, many times, I’ve had a long blogging career where I’ve found myself embedded in some of the biggest Internet stories of the last 12-14 years. I was online late one night in 2009 when a blogger friend of mine said he’d found what he thought were Erin Andrews peephole videos that had been uploaded to some video-storing website deep into the web. I remember the guy who tipped me off to Rex Ryan’s feet videos while I was sitting at my newspaper day job. I vividly remember the RG3 wedding eve drama (his first marriage) that had my email inbox lit up. I’ll never forget the big ones. Monday was a very similar day because we had the Married With Children and Baywatch. Delta ‘Karen’ won’t be anywhere near as earth-shattering as those other stories were for their time, but it’s one of those Internet stories with so many layers that it can carry a website for weeks. Patricia Cornwall, the lady charged with assaulting the old man on the Delta flight, has left the Internet with a treasure trove of content from her 20s when she was in bikinis or naked for Hef’s entertainment empire. And she’s flat-out nuts. Multiple arrests over the last year. Typically this is all the ingredients for an absolute pageview explosion. Clicks on clicks. Clicks, clicks, clicks from you maniacs. I sat here for hours today trying to track down the federal document that connected all the dots. Connected the Married With Children episode to...

The latest blog trends are still closely tied to how search engines direct readers to find useful content. In short, content creators and business bloggers have to develop an editorial plan and integrate SEO into that plan. Nothing new there … except: now, you have plenty of analytics tools to make data-driven decisions to target and retarget readers, while the internet itself is pummeled with useless content at best and fake news at worst. The goal is to optimize content to be both useful and visible with the aid of To make sure you are ahead of the curve when it comes to blogging, we have compiled some of the key trends in the industry. From the rise of interactive posts to the changing media consumption preferences of readers, this article should give you an idea of what you should expect in 2021 and beyond. This way, you can create better content for your readers and take your site to the next level. Blogs are deeply embedded in the day-to-day routines of internet users. So much so that 77% of them read blogs daily (TechJury, 2020). After all, these are where they get information on topics they are interested in. In some cases, these serve as platforms where like-minded people can discuss what’s what in niche industries. From a business perspective, blogs play an essential role in content strategy. With this, brands can proactively engage their target audience with substantial content. More importantly, it allows them to have a voice in their industry. However, as the ...

If you have seen the hype about blogging and are wondering how to monetize your blog without ads and making commissions, I can show you how to become an authority using different methods. Using these methods, you will not be missing ad revenue at all. The internet is filled with stories of bloggers who make money blogging with ads. Some are even making around $80,000 a month or more. But this is a small percentage. And most of the advice you see online today is hype, beginners should ignore. But what if you don’t want to put advertisements on your blog or maybe you have not been accepted by a ad network. Or worse yet, maybe you were using Google AdSense and now you’ve been kicked out for some dumb reason. And all you want to do is get a commission from every blog post. Well, fear not, there are many other ways to bring in the cash for a new and older blog. You just have to be creative and put your noggin and expertise to use. I’m going to share some tips I figured out along the way, some tips and anything else I learned doing this for 27 years. My Short Story With Ads I was making around $2000 a month with Google AdSense for about 5 years. I had one blog between 2005 to 2010. I was creating the best content I could and I really enjoyed it as a hobby while working a fulltime job. And then in 2011 disaster struck. I received an email from Google stating I was kicked out of AdSense. It was a regular day at work. I was in Michigan working for a company doing some IT work and I...

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