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What’s Happening In The Community

written by John Chow on May 3rd, 2007

Here are a few things that members of the John Chow dot Community are up to lately. I love checking all the sites of community members. I have discovered many great sites this way.

The Fight Against Leukemia

Jacob over at Zero To Med is helping raise money for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society by going on a walk. You can make a donation to Jacob’s walk here. I’ll be giving $100.

The Fight Against Famine

My Dot Com Pho friend Greg is helping starving children around the world by starving himself. Greg will be doing a 30 hour famine for World Vision. I don’t think I have ever gone without food for more than 12 hours. You can donate to Greg’s famine fest here. I’ll be chipping in $100 and I plan to buy Greg something to eat after because I’m sure he’ll be hungry.

Peace Deals - Can We Talk About It?

kevan has a started a new site call peacedeals.org. Here’s how it works:
Let’s say you’ve got a problem with a fellow blogger, a seller, a gamer, or your wife, but talking isn’t working and court is too expensive. Take it to peacedeals!

Users sign up for an account, open a case, and send an invitation to the person they’re having a dispute with. Once both sides have carefully explained their side of the story, a mediator will ask each party any questions that need to be asked, and then render a fair, objective decision.

The “John Chow will like this” part is actually two parts: first of all, accepted mediators can make a great deal of money while making useful contributions to real life. Secondly, people mired in online and offline conflicts can use peacedeals to help them reach a peaceful resolution.

Does Commenting On Other Blogs Get You Backlinks?

Marc at Last Blogger is asking Does Commenting On Other Blogs Get You Backlinks? The answer is yes because he just got one.

How To Make $100 Per Day

Career Ramblings’ Jane May, who was voted one of the sexiest bloggers of 2007, has started her own blog call Jane May Blogs. Her latest post is how to make $100 per day. Is that even enough to live on?

MsDanielle Turns Thirty

Yes, Ms Danielle has turn the big 30. She decided to take a trip down memory lane and dug up a bunch of photos dating back all the way to 1998. Her conclusion from all this, “I’m out of shape!”

Gary Lee said on May 3rd, 2007 at 11:02 am

Man . . . 30 sounds old! ;)

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JaneMay said on May 3rd, 2007 at 11:19 am

lol…Aren’t you getting close to that Gary??

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Monetize Your Blog said on May 3rd, 2007 at 11:52 am

Jane, well done.

you look 22 to me

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JaneMay said on May 3rd, 2007 at 12:13 pm

I’ll take that any day! Thanks!! :grin:

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Monetize Your Blog said on May 3rd, 2007 at 2:47 pm

you’re welcome. it’s what i think anyway!

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Gary Lee said on May 3rd, 2007 at 12:37 pm

close doesn’t count .. . i’m living it up! hahahaha

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Monetize Your Blog said on May 3rd, 2007 at 11:43 am

how offensive. now i feel old

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Eric said on May 3rd, 2007 at 12:13 pm

haha, maybe you should… just kididng

haha

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Monetize Your Blog said on May 3rd, 2007 at 2:49 pm

thanks a lot…….. eric :grin:

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Ali said on May 3rd, 2007 at 11:51 am

Hey I’m 28 and I don’t feel a day over 18!

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Monetize Your Blog said on May 3rd, 2007 at 11:59 am

good on you ali

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Eric said on May 3rd, 2007 at 12:14 pm

Hey! I’m 19, and I don’t feel a day over 18 either!

Money

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JaneMay said on May 3rd, 2007 at 12:14 pm

My feelings exactly!

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Marc said on May 3rd, 2007 at 1:24 pm

I’m nearly 28 and don’t feel a day over 35…

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Monetize Your Blog said on May 3rd, 2007 at 2:50 pm

:grin:
hmmm, that’s another way to look at it

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Cheap Custom Content said on May 3rd, 2007 at 4:53 pm

You could be 90 and feel 18…look at Hugh Hefner, Larry King, John Chow (just kidding, man).

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Shaun Carter said on May 3rd, 2007 at 11:10 pm

Hugh Hefner gets some help from a little blue pill… :shock:

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Cheap Custom Content said on May 4th, 2007 at 1:18 am

I was thinking “from the waist up,” but OK LOL. :lol:

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msdanielle said on May 3rd, 2007 at 11:03 am

lol i may be 30 but i can still rock my converse! now i just need to take them for a run around the block a few times! hahahaha….

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JaneMay said on May 3rd, 2007 at 11:19 am

Don’t worry, I’ll run with you :-)

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Monetize Your Blog said on May 3rd, 2007 at 11:44 am
JaneMay said on May 3rd, 2007 at 12:14 pm

I was talking about on the streets…

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Monetize Your Blog said on May 3rd, 2007 at 2:52 pm

go girl, gogogo

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msdanielle said on May 7th, 2007 at 11:56 am

hmm wonder if a msdanielle + janemay workout tape would sell… LOL :mrgreen:

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Marc said on May 3rd, 2007 at 1:27 pm

I suppose “out of shape” is all relative…

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Chicago Web Design said on May 3rd, 2007 at 11:05 am

It’s good to see you giving back to the community — best of wishes and congrats for those of you that were linked :smile:.

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Monetize Your Blog said on May 3rd, 2007 at 11:45 am

it’s an incentive to write good contents

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Shaun Carter said on May 3rd, 2007 at 11:06 am

That’s a great list of sites. I’m glad to see so much support for those causes - you definitely have an influence on bringing attention to them to many more readers.

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Monetize Your Blog said on May 3rd, 2007 at 11:46 am

thumb up to JC, and these good bloggers

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Josh Buckley said on May 3rd, 2007 at 11:10 am

Nice to see that you’re giving back to your community!

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Marc said on May 4th, 2007 at 2:49 am

Agreed, John’s great that way. He’s always up for giving back to the community, but he does it intelligently. You have to write something worthwhile to have a chance at getting the backlink :)

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Jacob said on May 3rd, 2007 at 11:10 am

Thanks a lot, John, for the mention! I really hope that with the combined efforts of all the bloggers, we might be able to make a difference. Thanks a lot, John! :cool:

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Monetize Your Blog said on May 3rd, 2007 at 11:49 am

well done jacob. keep it up

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Jacob said on May 3rd, 2007 at 12:52 pm

Thanks a lot.

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Monetize Your Blog said on May 3rd, 2007 at 2:53 pm

you’re always welcome

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Wolf Stone said on May 3rd, 2007 at 11:17 am

Peacdeal sounds like a very interesting venture…and any act of charity or sacrifice for a good cause deserves commendations !!

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JaneMay said on May 3rd, 2007 at 11:18 am

LOL…”Is that even enough to live on? I’m working on getting that “Chow” status, but no where near that yet.

I should have prefaced…it’s $100 a day in adsense. :grin:

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Monetize Your Blog said on May 3rd, 2007 at 11:55 am

100 on adsense is decent.

is it enough to live on?

well, it depends where you’re. if you live in some third world country, then i’m sure you’d be regarded as rich

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JaneMay said on May 3rd, 2007 at 12:16 pm

Yeah. Southern California requires a little more than that to “live”

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Gary Lee said on May 3rd, 2007 at 12:39 pm

100 bucks a day would pay for the gas it takes to sit in Traffic on the 405 all day!

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JaneMay said on May 3rd, 2007 at 12:40 pm

FOR SURE!!!!! Damn LA Traffic!!! :evil:

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Tyler Ingram said on May 3rd, 2007 at 11:20 am

You’re asking if $100 per day is enough to live on?

Geesh I think I only make $3300 a month so that’s what $130 per day? I seem to do fine but sure I’d like to make more.

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JaneMay said on May 3rd, 2007 at 11:39 am

Not enough to call this work yet, but getting there :-)

For now, back to the rat race :-)

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Shaun Carter said on May 3rd, 2007 at 11:49 am

$100/day is definitely enough to live on. That is over $35,000 a year.

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Eric said on May 3rd, 2007 at 12:18 pm

I’m averaging about… $0.75 a day right now! Impressive?

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JaneMay said on May 3rd, 2007 at 12:41 pm

we all have to start somewhere :grin:

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ricdes said on May 3rd, 2007 at 12:50 pm

hey jane, where do I apply for the sexiest male blogger? ;P

I was once the “Mister Esports” in germany… =) the old battlefield 1942 times :). I think I could manage the title “sexiest blogger of the year” very well :twisted:

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Monetize Your Blog said on May 3rd, 2007 at 2:58 pm

i’m not sure about that,ricdes, Jane beats you by a long mile!

well, you see, I’m a straight male :grin:

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Marc said on May 3rd, 2007 at 1:29 pm

I think I have you beat by a few nickels Eric ;)

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Monetize Your Blog said on May 3rd, 2007 at 2:55 pm

well, it’s a good start, hard work ahead if you want to earn a living full time online

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Cheap Custom Content said on May 4th, 2007 at 1:23 am

$100 a day is plenty, relatively speaking of course. If you’re going for dot com mogul status though…well, we all know that’s pretty weak.

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Jacob said on May 3rd, 2007 at 11:26 am

Hey, that’s all nice and stuff. I think I make a dollar a day, if I am lucky. Gotta love the college life.

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Monetize Your Blog said on May 3rd, 2007 at 11:56 am
Cheap Custom Content said on May 3rd, 2007 at 11:34 am

Great set of people and sites you got there, John. It’s good to know that people are not only making money for themselves, but also giving back to such worthy causes.

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Best CD Rates said on May 3rd, 2007 at 11:54 am

only 21 here and loving it baby :P

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Monetize Your Blog said on May 3rd, 2007 at 11:58 am

i envy you, what’s more, i Hate you with a big captial H.

:grin: :grin: :grin: :grin:

enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!

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Shaun Carter said on May 3rd, 2007 at 12:04 pm

21 here too… well for another few days at least. I guess there are no more fun birthdays after 21.

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Kevan said on May 3rd, 2007 at 11:57 am

John, thanks so much for the peacedeals plug! We’re really excited to bring this new service to the online community.

To all the fellow readers, if you think the service could bring good things to the Internet, feel free to re-blog it. We just launched the service on Tuesday, and we’re very interested to see how it will catch on.

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Monetize Your Blog said on May 3rd, 2007 at 2:59 pm

well done, kevan, thanks for sharing with us

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Internet Marketing Blog said on May 3rd, 2007 at 12:05 pm

A great effort by Greg (worldvision.ca) wishing him good luck.

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Amanda said on May 3rd, 2007 at 12:06 pm

30 is only 8 years away from me. and 3 years away for my fiance.

i remind him of that daily. hahaha

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Eric said on May 3rd, 2007 at 12:15 pm

I’m kind of disappointed that my Deal of the Day posts didn’t make it on here… I just started my blogg a little over 2 weeks ago, and I’m already reaching about 1,000 unique visitors a week. Not too shabby eh?

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Marc said on May 3rd, 2007 at 1:31 pm

Those are great numbers Eric, now you just need to turn that traffic into green :)

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Linux operating system said on May 3rd, 2007 at 2:42 pm

It is great! for a two week old blog? good!
Your content is good surely you will be getting more and more visits quite soon.
I like this one.

Don’t drive people away from your site

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Shaun Carter said on May 3rd, 2007 at 11:13 pm

That’s some great traffic for a new blog Eric. Keep it up man!

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Cheap Custom Content said on May 4th, 2007 at 1:26 am

1000 uniques, good job Eric. Keep it up, man!

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Eric said on May 3rd, 2007 at 12:16 pm

That was supposed to be blog with one g.

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Make Money Online said on May 3rd, 2007 at 12:20 pm

why am i not on here?? :mrgreen:

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Make Bank Online said on May 3rd, 2007 at 1:07 pm

Wow awesome news. should have posts like this regularly! :razz:

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ricdes said on May 3rd, 2007 at 1:26 pm

Well, I think i’ll be 19 in 2 months and I’m in a very good shape. Thanks to soccer and jogging… otherwise, with my job, I’ll be doomed aswell.

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Monetize Your Blog said on May 3rd, 2007 at 3:01 pm

now i’ve got another reason to envy you. Damn it :lol: :lol: :lol:

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Marc said on May 3rd, 2007 at 1:34 pm

Thanks a lot for the feature John. I really appreciate it :) While not as altruistic as the first three, I’m always happy to see that people like the things I write :)

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ricdes said on May 3rd, 2007 at 1:34 pm

Yeah Eric, I like your blog, specially the domain appraisal option :) I’ll get back to you about that ;).

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DMOZ said on May 3rd, 2007 at 2:30 pm

LOL, $100 a day I think is good enough, but the cost of living is cheap around here!

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Linux operating system said on May 3rd, 2007 at 2:34 pm

JaneMay is really cute, at least in that pic :)

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Monetize Your Blog said on May 3rd, 2007 at 3:04 pm

agree, i think she is real nice!

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JaneMay said on May 3rd, 2007 at 5:04 pm

:oops: My attempt at blushing…Thanks guys! Hope to see you around my site!

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JaneMay said on May 3rd, 2007 at 5:04 pm

You’re pretty cute yourself! hehe

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Linux operating system said on May 3rd, 2007 at 2:35 pm

I think I am one of the olders reading this blog,
I am 33, I don’t feel old anyway. :)

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Monetize Your Blog said on May 3rd, 2007 at 3:05 pm

come on, linux op sys, 33 is not old. you’re in your prime and same here

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Linux operating system said on May 3rd, 2007 at 3:21 pm

Thanks, now i feel better ! :)

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BundaWAH said on May 3rd, 2007 at 3:05 pm

oh my oh my 30 sounds old. Means for this young community I’ll be called granny :roll: ?

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Monetize Your Blog said on May 3rd, 2007 at 3:08 pm

hi, bundawah, don’t read those silly words, you look real nice

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Linux operating system said on May 3rd, 2007 at 3:19 pm

I think it is not that we over the 30s are old, it is just they are too young! :)

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Linux operating system said on May 3rd, 2007 at 3:22 pm

John, I think your blog is not yours anymore, maybe this is not a blog either it is now our chat room, all John Chow’s community chat room :)

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Marc said on May 3rd, 2007 at 3:30 pm

So long as the paychecks continue to have John’s name on them I don’t think it matters that much :razz:

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Linux operating system said on May 3rd, 2007 at 3:49 pm

Good point! I haven’t think about that!, but anyway he is helping in someway us to have our own checks

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Market Matador said on May 3rd, 2007 at 4:28 pm

The $100 per day site is pretty humorous. She doesn’t really tell you how to get their. Just the basic and fundamental path of how any other site does well with AdSense. RESEARCH, RESEARCH, and a little more… Well, you guessed it… :wink:

-Sam from MarketMatador.com

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Cheap Custom Content said on May 3rd, 2007 at 9:43 pm

John definitely has a strategy. He offers high quality content, he lets the community build user-generated content around it, and others build on top of that. Great organic strategy. Unfortunately, many online publishers think online content is a one way/top down situation. For sustainability, nothing beats having a community grow around your content.

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TheBeginning said on May 4th, 2007 at 8:03 am

Hey maybe a JC money making forum is on the horizon?

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Cheap Custom Content said on May 6th, 2007 at 2:25 am

Peacedeals online mediators…not a bad idea at all!

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green said on May 10th, 2007 at 8:49 am

Hehe very nice, keep it going up :mrgreen:

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