Make Money Online Trial / Error Method

You have a choice to listen what other bloggers say about making money online, to follow their steps or you can try it for yourself and learn from your own mistakes. My choice was to make mistakes.

I have registered with Triond a very long time ago and during this period I have published about 25 articles. I did fair share of promotion on Twitter, StumbleUpon and other places and my income is $3.69 until today. Some might say 25 articles is too little, but I was rather taking in account time spent on these articles and not their amount.

My calculations show that with regular blog and only Google Adsense ads and with same time spent on promotion I would earn much more money than this. There was no 'long tail' earnings with Triond, none. In days when I tweeted my links, cents were coming, but in other days 0 visits.

Now, here is one good advice. If something doesn't work for you, don't do it! Give yourself some time, a week, a month or even 3 months to try out some making money online service, but when that period ends and if it isn't working for you, search for something else. This is why I deleted 'recent articles Triond widget' from my sidebar.

Just one more thing. Keep an eye on Entrecard, they have new owner and they are finally moving in right direction.

Inkscape Cloning Examples Project

It's time to post little more on Inkscape and some of the advanced tools. One of those is very useful clone tool. For quick start, create new document, draw simple rectangle and select it. To use advanced setting of clone tool go to Edit > Clone > Create Tiled Clones ...

New window opens up with different tabs: Symmetry, Shift, Scale, etc. To create next effect leave default settings except for this changes: number of rows 1, number of cols 60; Rotation cols 6; ShiftX col 90 and ShiftY col 1. Click on create button.

Now, why this post has Project in its title? Simple, my plan is to collect a couple of most interesting Inkscape clone examples from my work and publish them for free in a form of e-book in near future. All examples will be presented as set of images (like one above) with cloning settings text, cloning object and cloning effect result.


Feel free to subscribe and stay informed when e-book is published.

Wanna join the project? Contact here or via my twitter page.

Celtic Style Invitation Card

My new client requested Celtic style invitation card without explanation what actual event is all about. So, all I have to start from is one word : Celtics. I have few days for this one. Here is my first try:




any ideas?

How to hack Twitter Trending Topics

How to get involved in Twitter Trending Topics?

When you sign in to your twitter account via web, on your dashboard, just below search form you have access to twitter trending topics. These terms are most talked about and mentioned keywords on twitter at the moment. Right now, some of those are Harry Potter, Spongebob and off course Michael Jackson. So, who decided what's trendy? Actually, you do, together with the rest of the community. It's an easy way to track popular or important events like #iranelection obviously is to many people.

Tweeting about trending topics can get you more attention from other twitter users, but also, be aware that more and more often twitter spam invades trending topics and you should be aware of this to understand why some tweets you see don't have anything to do with actual topic.



Is it possible to predict next trending topic and get involved early on to gain more of community attention? Some will say that you need special psychic abilities to predict future events, BUT there is a hack to do this in some cases. Off course, nobody couldn't predict Michael Jackson will become trending topic, but even you could predict Harry Potter will with every new movie, right? That's one way, to track previous trending topics and make conclusion about future ones.

Here is another good one. If you use Firefox you may have installed eQuake alert addon which warns you (shakes your browser) when new earthquake strikes. Few days ago, while I was doing my online stuff, FF shook so hard I though Earth is fallen apart! eQuake reported new strike near New Zealand with 8.2 magnitude which is a lot. Right that moment I tweeted about it. CNN reported same quake 6 minutes after me! Then I watched how New Zealand enters Trending Topics and goes up to second place, just below Harry Potter (it seems like Mr. Potter shakes the Planet with grater magnitude). Later I realized that some people reported the quake even before me, but I was one of first few and that made great experience.

What's your opinion? How would you predict next trending topic?

Get Free Dot Com Domain Every Monday

I did! If you know about Domain.com, you might even know about their twitter account, but not many people knows about it (they have around 400 followers) and that's exactly where your chance is.

Every Monday they give away one .com domain to follower with most interesting tweet about why your Monday is miserable? Since not to many people knows about this (yet) I won among just few contestants with this tweet:

You have two days to prepare yourself for next contest.

Pereca