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Hello fellow netizens!

There’s a new study by the Online Publishers Association or OPA that says web users spend 42% of their time online on content sites. OPA segregated all sites into 5 groups: Commerce, Communications, Community, Content, and Search.

Commerce sites include the like of Amazon and eBay. Examples of communication sites are Yahoo mail and Gmail. Popular community sites include MySpace and Facebook. Search is, of course, represented by Google and Yahoo Search. Content sites are what make up most of the web with giants such as wikipedia, CNN, and NatGeo leading this highly diverse category.

Here’s the breakdown of the time spent by surfers in the 5 categories:

1. Content = 42%
2. Communication = 27%
3. Community = 13%
4. Commerce = 13%
5. Search = 5%

People’s habit of reading content sites was quite a jump from 34% in 2003. The study suggests that the trend is most likely to continue in the future.

Bottomline, people are reading content sites like blogs. We are right where the action is. If anybody wants to try and earn some money online, the general agreement is to develop a topic we are passionate about.

Opinions?

Source: DNjournal.com

Opera was my first browser back when everybody was still on IE and Netscape. I transfered to FireFox when I started dabbling with making money online about 3 years back due to its extensive plugin resources.

Opera was always known for innovations. Tabbed browsing was what made me adopt it instead of IE. Again, Opera engineers were busy doing their stuff in the lab for the latest version of Opera. They call it Opera Unite but it’s more than a name.

I took the Release Candidate of version 10 for a few minutes and there’re indeed a lot of difference under the hood. The main thing is Opera is no longer simply a browser but also a web/ftp server of sort (there might be a technical term for this).

Take a peek at Opera 10 here.

Do you think it will change the way we interact in the web? Or will it be a colossal failure?

Today marks the day Filipinos threw the yoke of centuries of foreign oppression, may it also signify the beggining of the end of the tyranny that grips our beloved nation.

Bayan kong Mahal

Ako ay Pilipino
Buong katapatang nanunumpa
Sa watawat ng Pilipinas
At sa bansang kanyang sinasagisag
Na may dangal, katarungan at kalayaan
Na ipinakikilos ng sambayanang
Maka-Diyos, Makakalikasan,
Makatao at,
Makabansa.

I am a Filipino
I pledge my allegiance
To the flag of the Philippines
And to the country it represents
With honor, justice and freedom
That is put in motion by one nation
For the love of God, nature,
people and
Country.

THANK YOU GOOGLE!

Photo was found at HaitiAction.net

BlogCatalog, Heifer International, and the blogosphere will focus attention  on the plight of the hungry today, April 29, 2009, with the theme Hunger and Hope. This reminded us of an article at National Geographics we stumbled into last year about the poor in Haiti resorting to eating mud cookies to stave off those twisty little prickly pains that happen when our stomach parts start grinding on each other.

We used to make mud cookies and mud pies when we were little kids but never did it crossed our minds to eat them. Although there were times when we did “taste” those cookies when our parents weren’t looking. But in Haiti, man, the cookies were staple.

More than a year later, the mud cookies are still in the news. Dirt-poor Haitians still rely on them to remedy hunger pangs. HaitiAction.net has an article entitle “Mud Cookie economics in Haiti” that permits us a glimpse why hope for the hungry in this country might only exist in hunger-enduced deleriums.

We found the following photos of  Haitians making the infamous mud cookies at Lelong News:

There was an inquiry at Yahoo Answers if this is true. We can’t exactly remember the words but one of the replies went this way, “People are eating Mud Cookies in Haiti, please help anyway way YOU can.” Shouldn’t it be, “help anyway WE can?”

Since late last year, ReapMoneyOnline was regularly flooded with spam. We have relied mainly on Akismet and BadBehaviour to keep this blog spam free but the latest versions of spamming software seem to get around these guard dogs. So we finally resorted to a built-in feature of WordPress to block persistent spammers, the comment blacklist.

The said feature can be accessed via Settings > Discussion and scrolling near the bottom. Simply place in the provided field any word, URL, email address, or IP we want blocked permanently. Be careful using words though, as a particular blocked word that is used in a compound word will also get the latter blocked.

This is how we got rid of  J*i*m Spen*ce and his “Friday, I was searching…” deluged of spams. Since using this feature, RMO now only gets a dozen or so spams daily. Certainly more manageable than the 260+ we once deleted in one setting.