Micro blogging is simply writing smaller blog posts.  It kinda of started with twitter and now is becoming more popular online.  Interestingly it’s a perfect fit for today’s busy world full of destractions.  It’s very hard for a reader to sit down and read a 500+ word article.  Ofter they just want the quick and dirty secrets or the shortcuts.  This is why micro blogging can attract a new audience of readers to your site.

With micro blogging usually one blogs multiple times per days, posting smaller posts which might have gems of wisdom or could just be simple updates.  Anyways have you have any experience with micro blogging or twitter?  I would love to hear your opinions in the comments.

Do you run your own blog?  I’ve been noticing lately a lot of more spam comments that have been bypassing the wordpress filters and Akismet.  If you are a blogger I would love to learn what you are doing to combat spam.  You’re more than welcome to leave a comment.

I find having to go through comments and clean up spam is tedious.  I’m actually considering turning off comments however that’s also annoying because blogs are all about conversations.  I mean without comments a blog is kinda of like a static website.  I guess I would just like to know what other bloggers are doing to combat spam in their comments and if there are any wordpress recommended solutions or plugins.  Thanks.

Who am i? Well you might already know my name is Andrew.  I currently live in Chicago, IL.  I’m 24 and I would like to tell you my story…

I was born in Egypt and I moved to America when I was 12.  Move here was probably the toughest thing I’ve ever done, it left me depressed for a year or two.  I didn’t know the language well, I didn’t have friends, and worst of all there were no ESL (English as a Second Language) classes in my small high school.  As a matter of fact I would have the teacher write down the homework assignments for me, and have my cousins translate it for me and help me do it.

I still remember my first year in an American school.  It was so eventful, almost like a drama.  I got picked on daily by a couple of kids.  They made fun of my clothing, you see I wore the same outfit twice in a shirt two days in a row this was fine in my country back home but I quickly learned it was a big NO NO here in America

One day this kid was picking on me and I finally had it, I was fed up.  So I grabbed him from his t-shirt, pulled him toward me, his t-shirt ripped, he got embaressed b/c everyone was watching at this point and he ran off.  After that no one ever missed with me again, and a crazier thing even happened…

It was a week or so before valentine’s day at the time.  When valentine’s day came up I got roses from three different girls (2 of which were pretty hot, yeh I still don’t get it, I think it’s because I was the new kid and it was a small town without any diversity).

Of course I didn’t even know what valentine’s day was at the time.  A couple of the girls even asked me to some dance our school were having.  Due to the language barrier and everything else that was going on nothing really happened…

to be continued?

If you’ve enjoyed reading this, please let me know in a comment and I will write some more about my story.

Update: I wrote Part 2 of my Story, you can find it here.

I’m sure you’ve probably thought about it many times.  Many assume that starting a business is tough, takes a lot of responsibility, many long nights and is hard work.  Well they’re wrong.  Because no ones starts a multi million dollar corporation from day one.  In fact most business start out as hobbies or something one does in his/her free time and eventually over months and years turn into an actual business.

So how do you get started.  Simply start using your free time more wisely.  Make a list of all your talens/abilities (especially ones that others have commented on or were impressed by).  Now see if you can make money by applying and combining those talents and abilities.  Lets say you can design websites…well then here is a great way to make money.  Build websites for people, many would be willing to pay you a small fee for it.  Many would even be will to pay you for consulting and helping them grow their websites once they are up and running.

Often we go through life in a very selfish state where all we want to do is take, take, take.  Kind of like that game “the hungry hippos”.  I had this thought the other day and questioned myself “would making more money, taking care of my health, or pursuing any other goal I had be worth while if I lived by myself on an island away from any other human being?”

While it’s hard to imagine, when I really got into it, I realized that NO, no goals are woth pursuing if I had no one to share my life with whether it’s a friend or a lover.  That’s when I kind of realized that giving back to others is almost like an inate need we often supress.  Giving back to others is the only way I know of to make friends however we often neglect it and just get stuck in our selfish thoughts.  What’s one way you can give back to someone today?