Will Houston get a free Wi-Fi trial period, and for how long?

While I was in Corpus Christi over the Memorial Day weekend, checking out EarthLink's Wi-Fi network, I was pleased to see that access was being offered free for a limited amount of time.

Once EarthLink took over after buying the network from the city of Corpus Christi, it offered a 30 day period in which it didn't charge for access. The network had been free to residents before acquisition, as well.

The free ride ended on May 31, but the Corpus scenario raises a question -- will Houston's citywide Wi-Fi network, built and operated by EarthLink, also have a free period?

Make money from Google's new project with Cleveland Clinic

Google's efforts to engulf the world's medical records will begin in Cleveland.

Google announced a joint project with the Cleveland Clinic, an 87-year-old not-for-profit medical center, that will see between 1,500 and 10,000 of the center's patients entrust their personal records to Larry Page and Sergey Brin.

Yes, between 1,500 and 10,000. Presumably, Google and the Cleveland Clinic anticipate that a few thousand patients will ultimately decide this idea is way too creepy.

In any event, the project marks the debut of a long-awaited/long-dreaded online health service from the Mountain View, California web giant. Google has previously said that this store-your-medical-records offering would be available to the general public sometime in 2008.

Similar services are already available from arch-rival Microsoft and a startup known as Revolution Health, backed by AOL co-founder Steve Case.

Google bills its password-protected service as "a new kind of healthcare experience that puts the patient in charge of his or her own health information." The Cleveland Clinic already stores patient records on an in-house database, and it will soon give a chosen few the opportunity to move their records onto Google's servers, including information regarding medical conditions, allergies, and prescriptions.

Now comes the money making part - You will be able to integrate AdSense ads using iGoogle gadgets using the Medical Records portal. If you want to share data from these gadgets with your doctors, you will all paid medical treatment by the revenue generated from using AdSense. Besides this you will be able to also get more revenue if you create iGoogle gadgets to share the data to your Insurance company and by embedding AdSense. The possibilities of earning revenue through Adsense are endless!

Can the traffic girl speed read 1000s of Best Blogs in Minutes ? TrafficJam.com Can

TrafficJam.com uses data from the BlogRush Network. BlogRush is a content syndication widget that's currently used by thousands of blogs (and more everyday) from all over the Web.

TrafficJam.com uses technology to analyze the click-through rates of millions of blog post titles across the BlogRush Network, along with other factors such as time spent on a particular blog entry's page, and attempts to estimate the 'popularity' and 'quality' of certain posts based on similar data from other blog posts of the same topic.

If you would like for your blog's posts to appear on TrafficJam.com start by applying for a BlogRush account. BlogRush is completely free but requires each blog to meet certain quality guidelines. Every new blog is manually reviewed by a content specialist; this helps BlogRush maintain a high level of quality and stops spammers and others from trying to abuse the network.

After your blog has been approved by BlogRush (and you have followed the instructions) a special widget will appear on your blog. This widget will automatically display all of your blog post titles across the network (based on a 'credits' system of what you contribute to the network) and your posts will be eligible to appear on TrafficJam.com.

Helium writers invited to join National Press Club

Here's a wonderful career-enhancing opportunity for Helium writers. If you're a Helium writer with five writing stars and want to make more money from Helium, you are invited to apply for membership in the prestigious National Press Club. It's the first time in the Club's 100-year history that citizen journalists have been invited to be members.

The National Press Club is the nation's most notable organization of journalists, government officials and top news sources. According to National Press Club President Sylvia Smith, "The Club welcomes to its membership communicators from traditional and non-traditional media. The Helium model helps us find citizen journalists who are good candidates for Press Club membership."

Check out some of the exclusive benefits for NPC members:

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How to get your post approved with PayPerPost

Most of you have been using PayPerPost and Kontera advertising for money making techniques on your blog. Recently I was told by some readers that their sponsored posts were declined by PayPerPost with the reason that

After the page fully loads there are pop up links to "Content links"
add's. Please deleted these from your post and re-submit.

If you want to avoid these types of negative rankings and bans for your blog with PayPerPost and still wish to continue with Kontera, here is the tip on how accomplish this using Kontera filter tags:

Filter Tags are used in order to define an area of the page where ContentLinks™ should not appear. All other areas of the page are valid mark areas. Please use these tags with caution in order to prevent a situation where large areas are filtered unintentionally.

Here’s how they work:

Like any tag it has an open tag (< span name="KonaFilter"> ) and closing tag ( < /span>).

The following is an example of how they work:

< span name="KonaFilter"> Content to be excluded from analyzing < /span>

Make money with private advertising for your blog

As you may have noticed, many make money online blogs are slowly moving away from advertising networks like Google Adsense and moving toward the much more lucrative strategy of private advertising. This is a fairly simple transition for a blog of this size, but if you don’t have the audience size of John Chow — most of us don’t — then it can be pretty difficult to solicit private advertising. What can you do?

To address this very need, PlaceMyProduct.com was created. It’s described as an online auction site for product placement, sponsorships, and ads. They work as an intermediary, but unlike other networks, PlaceMyProduct takes a cut that’s much smaller than 50%. This is the eBay For Web Publishers and Advertisers

The major difference between the PlaceMyProduct online auction site and other advertising networks is that the pricing is not set in stone, but you have the scope to make more money with the higgest bid for the advertising space on your blog.

Just in a matter of few hours of creating my auction, I got a $10 bid for a 125 X 125 banner ad on my blog. Here is the proof, click on the widget and see for yourself.

I think this is a great platform to bring private advertisers and bloggers together in the marketplace for a win-win situation and maing more money online from private advertising media.

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Archaeologists unearth 2,500-year-old city in India

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have dug out the remains of a 2,500-year-old city - believed to be bigger than classical Athens - from under the ruins of an ancient fort in India's eastern state of Orissa.

Identity theft of models

Google News is reporting that models around the world have been stripped of their identity in what appears to be the largest case of identity theft to date. Since my blog is about models and money, I would suggest all the readers to got through LifeLock Reviews to have your good name immediately protected with Lifelock identity protection system.

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HIGHEST commission rate to blog from BuyBlogReviews.com

Monetize your Blog with the new BuyBlogReviews.com... BuyBlogReviews offers the HIGHEST commission rate to the bloggers where you can earn 70% from each review of Blog Advertising. They charge only 30%. You don't believe? You can check other competitors' rates they had offer.

BuyBlogReviews.com is the ultimate platform for bloggers that have taken the time to create a quality blog and want to monetize it. Advertisers can pay bloggers to write opinion posts with links back to the advertisers site, and Bloggers can now get paid to blog.

Signup for an account at BuyBlogReviews.com as a blogger to earn huge monthly income to advertise on blogs.

1. Signup for an account at BuyBlogReviews.com as a blogger and add your blogs to your account that you wish to Get Paid Blogging.

2. They manually approve your blog and email you, you would then take available offers to write posts and get paid for it.

3. After you login to your BuyBlogReviews.com account you would get new opportunities for adding on the paid blogging advertisements in your blog and are listed with what price they offer and other details like guidelines etc.

4. There you can accept the opportunities you like and as soon you accept it, that specific opportunity is removed from the new opportunities list and added to your Pending Tasks list for approval.

5. Online reviewing in BuyBlogReviews.com is a pretty good deal for advertisers also—no need to plead the higher PR website owners for link exchange program. Here they can get perfect service at very nominal rate. You can pay only for the posts you approved.

What is interesting about this program is they pay out 15% of total money spent on first transaction of advertisers or bloggers. Like if you refer an Advertiser and if he purchases reviews worth $500, they’ll pay you $75. If you refer a Blogger and when he gets his first order they pay you 15% of the money spent.

Signup now as Blogger using my referral link and I will share $2 of my referral earnings with you!

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Two $40 Coupons for Digital TV switch set for early 2009

It's almost official: Starting one year from today i.e. Feb. 18, 2009, millions of televisions in American households will go black unless they're outfitted to receive all-digital broadcasts.

The word about the digital television switch-over seems to be getting out to the masses, and the Federal Government has started to accept voucher applications for the digital converter boxes you'll need on February 17, 2009 if you have an analog television set.

They will issue up to two $40 vouchers per household towards the purchase of an digital-to-analog converter.

Will you need a converter?

If you purchased a television after March 1, 2007, probably not. Federal mandate orders that sets manufactured after that date must come with digital tuners, standard.

If you subscribe to a cable or satellite service, definitely not, as your over-the-air broadcast channels are being sent via coax or fiber.

Who will need a converter?

Homes with older analog television sets, those using rabbit ears, or those without a subscription to a cable or satellite service.

For more info and the voucher application, follow this link.

What consumers will get with Digital TV?

More capacity, more channels, more content.

Technology and entertainment stay winning.

FREE Blog Reviews

If you cannot afford a review from ReviewMe then Review Back may be useful to you. The boys from AdGridWork have came up with a system which I am suprised hasn’t been done before now.

In short, Review Back is a review exchange system whereby you write a review of another blog in exchange for a review of your blog on theirs. By browsing the bloggers listings you’ll see they have close to 100 blogs who have signed up to use them already. I can see this surpassing 1000 blogs within the next 2 months.

Clearly, Review Back are targeting the lower end of the Blogosphere however, I really think this will prove to be a popular service on the whole as it’s such a simple concept and one which will fill a void that a lot of bloggers can’t afford to fill.

FREE Contextual Advertising with AdGridWork

Internet marketing and advertising is always easy when you paying for it. To get more traffic for a site, you can purchase advertisements or text-links through programs like Google AdWords. What if you don’t have the money? Fortunately, you can have this free version of contextual adverting with AdGridWork.

The service, called AdGridWork, is focused on giving you free ads for quick backlinks to your site. All you really have to do is submit your blog to their network, and you’re ad will be shown on other blogs that are displaying AdGridWork Ads. It is free, which is nice, but you won’t benefit from it unless your blog itself implements the ad code. So it’s a win-win situation for bloggers.

You help blogs get traffic, they help you with yours. The more visitors you give them, the more visitors you will get. Take a look at an active advertisement below.
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After signing up, you’ll be asked to enter your website details in terms of what you want your ads to look like. Put in some contextual keywords and your ads are set. Remember, your ads won’t show on other blogs if your own blogs don’t use them.

Earn 500 Bonus Delta Skymiles from Ameriprise Auto & Home Insurance

Earn 500 bonus miles for a qualified auto insurance quote from Ameriprise Auto & Home Insurance.

Note,this activity only applies every 6 months, so may not be good for some of you.

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This offer for Delta SkyMiles is valid for qualified auto insurance quotes and will be awarded to SkyMiles members for only the first valid auto insurance quote every six months. A qualified auto insurance quote is one that receives a rate and is not declined or incomplete.

FREE $5 Sears gift card

For a limited time (1/30 - 4/6/08) recieve a FREE $5 Sears gift card if you sign up for Sears Ad Alerts. The email alerts you whenever a Sears Ad is available online for your local Sears store.

Here is the link for more information and here is the actual form for signup.

Please note: To receive your free Sears gift card, be sure to fill in the address fields when you sign up for ad alerts.

Offer is valid 1/30/08 – 4/06/08. Limit one free gift card per household. Gift card will arrive via USPS 4-6 weeks after registration has been completed. Offer valid only for Email, Desktop Alerts, iGoogle and My Yahoo! users. Free Gift Card offer does not apply when signing up for text alerts, adding sears.com/digital to your web browser favorites or when you choose Add RSS Feed. Offer good while supplies last.

FREE $50 Best Buy gift card from Ford

FREE $50 Best Buy gift card from Ford for testing their 2008 Ford Focus with Sync.

Link to the test drive offer

Just enter your email address and fill out with appropriate information.

Fill out form as follows: (taken from another site)

Fill out form Completely - Answer the questions below as:

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B) What type of vehicle do you plan to purchase or lease? ANSWER: CAR

C) How did you find out about this Ford /SYNC promotion? ANSWER: THRU A FRIEND

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FREE Jamba Juice Coupon

I found a Jamba Juice coupon. It's buy one get one free when you purchase at Functional Jamba Juice Smoothie. To download the Jamba Juice Coupon, click on the picture and print it out. Take it to your Jamba Juice and get a Free Smoothie!

Functional smoothies are the new smoothies that Jamba Juice launched last month.

They include:

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