Hacked! Google’s Blogger.com Defaced!
July 31, 2005
Just yesterday there was an article here about the ever increasing rate of hackers ,hacking Blogs.
And here today Google’s own Blogger was Defaced…question now is…is Your Blogspot.com account safe anymore?
"Google's Blogger site, has been hacked. The hackers have demonstrated their skills by defacing and granting admin priveleges to all members of blogger on Google's own "Blogger Dev Network Blog" according to Dirson today. They've redesigned, and posted three messages detailing the exploit they've used to crack the site."
Make Money Blogging
July 31, 2005
You have created a blog and your blog is dedicated to a niche industry. Have you ever thought that the blog could make money for you? We would look here in this article, ways and means, to make money blogging. Lets first have a look at what are the prerequisites for a blog needed to make money:
1. Blog needs to be dedicated to a niche market.
2. Updated regularly.
3. Enough back links (Don't worry for it. Directory submission would be enough to begin with)
4. Good blog host or application (blogger, Xanga or typepad recommended), and
5. High quality articles or news items supported with images.
Get the above criteria in place and Hurrah… You are ready to Make Money Blogging.
Top 5 Ways to Make Money Blogging
Lets now take a look at top 5 ways using which you could make money blogging:
Tips to prevent your blog(s) from being hacked.
July 30, 2005
I’m sure by now many of us Bloggers, be it professional or personnal bloggers, would have known about the ever increasing rate of blogs being hacked
Why are hackers targetting Blogs?..It’s a question that is yet to find a conclusive answer.
New Paper reports:
" Last week, well-known blogger Wendy Cheng, or Xiaxue, filed a police report after her website was hacked and her data erased.
This week, The New Paper learnt that the blog of another Internet personality, known to the public as Nikki, the anti-Aids campaign poster girl, had also been hacked."
In this article I’m tryng to get responds from fellow bloggers on how to prevent our blogsfrom being hacked. Please use the comment form below to share your opinion 
Tips I can think of:
1. Change Passwords often:
This can’t be stressed enough..it’s the root of all hacking problems,
as this is how it happened to Wendy Cheng (Xiaxue)
Always try to mix your passwords with Number and words & upper and lower case combo’s.
and try…in fact You must NOT!! use the same Password for other sites..prepare 1 unique
password per site.
2. Don’t connect your e-mail with your Blog.
To simply put it..try your best not to let the potential Hacker know which e-mail address
you are using as your point of contact from your blog.
Example:
I’ve seen many blogs with the “Gmail e-mail add bar”
This is quite a dangerous thing to do, because you are unknowingly giving the hacker
the exact e-mail add that you are using.
Also, always make sure that your e-mail Password and your blog password are completely
different.
That is all i can think of at the moment, i will update this article if the need arises.
What action can be taken against a hacker?
According to the Computer Misuse Act, people who hack or deface a website can be jailed up to three years or fined up to $10,000.
Have an opinion or Tip(s)?
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*Unconfirmed Report - suggest that popular blog “engadget” had been hacked
Defining the Relations Between Blogs, E-zines, RSS and E-mail
July 30, 2005
Although RSS and blogs are slowly reaching mainstream, they are still missuderstood by most marketers in relation to eachother and in relation to their relatives, e-zines and e-mail. How do these four really relate and what does this mean for your internet marketing strategy?
The most common missconception is comparing blogs and e-mail, with many bloggers actually touting blogs as a replacement for e-mail. The truth is, there’s no comparison at all, just like comparing apples and oranges.
The second missconception is believing that RSS and blogs are somehow strongly related or even that RSS is good only for delivering blog content. The result of this on one side are marketers who do not see RSS as a full-powered communicational channel, and bloggers on the other side who refuse to see e-mail as a viable content delivery vehicle.
Let’s set the record straight …
RSS and e-mail are content delivery channels; the tools that enable us to deliver our content to end-users, and in the case of RSS, to other websites as well.
Blogs and e-zines are two different internet media content formats, differing in how/what content is provided and presented through them.
Explained in even simper terms:
Blogs and e-zines or newsletters are “the what” — what you publish online … the content side.
RSS and e-mail are “the how” — how you get that content or information to the reader … the delivery side.
RSS/e-mail and blogs/e-zines cannot be directly compared. Blog content and e-zine content can both be delivered via RSS and e-mail, and there is no direct business/logical relation between, for example, blogs and RSS.
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Adsense: Why Bloggers dont get it!
July 29, 2005
Lets’ face it, we’ve all been there, The adsense high’s and low’s as it were.
We’ve tried text based adsense, banners (468×60,skyscrappers)
Played around with the colors,placements,tried our best to integrate it with our content, etc..
Well today i came across a blog that actually gives some good practical advice for bloggers
with an adsense account
I recomend that you check it out
*PS..i need to learn too
” you can still use a blog as your online diary or journal, but nowdays it’s just as likely to be used as a commercial blog. Yes, I did just say commercial blog,”
“Graphics should be simple, understated, and support the content, not overpower or compete with it”
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