*But it has to be profoundly stupid.

By profoundly stupid I don’t mean extremely stupid, because that’s just plain stupid.

A profoundly stupid statement is both profound and stupid at the same time.  It can be dismissed as plain stupid by some people while regarded as profound by others– profound in the sense that they could relate to it in some way, perhaps by reminding them of something or triggering their minds to think a certain way.

Honestly, I’m perplexed as to why I’m writing this, other than to have another blog entry written and to add to the enormous fodder that is already polluting cyberspace.

I think the idea is to “think outside the box”.  Thinking outside the box doesn’t necessarily mean you have to come up with something completely novel and revolutionary.  If you can figure out how to put a new, humorous spin on something as mundane as taking a poop, for instance, you may–and I emphasize may– be thinking outside the box.

So you think you’ve got something clever to say? You, me, and maybe a hundred million other bloggers out there.  So, be careful when following this mantra– if everyone thought outside the box, then no one really does. And when you think you’re thinking outside the box, you’re really thinking inside the box. Think about it.

It’s just like bashing those poor rednecks in West Virginia. In the U.S. race is a touchy subject.  But there seems to be some degree of social acceptance for making fun of  working class whites.  When some TV or radio personality wants to appear “politically incorrect” and have a little fun at the expense of a certain group of people, they could always bash rednecks without being accused of hating or racism.  What they’re actually practicing is politically correct political incorrectness.  If they were truly politically incorrect, I can assure you they’d have their show buried– by the mighty thought police, of course– faster than you can say “political incorrectness”.

There, I’ve just said something stupid, but I’m not too sure about the “profound” part. Thinking outside the box is just that: outside the box.

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Come to think of it, a blog is sorta like an anus: everybody’s got one, nobody wants to look at yours.

So why are you looking at mine?

Technorati tracks some 115 million blogs on the web.  Nowadays  it doesn’t take much money or technical skills to start a blog.   You don’t necessarily have to be a good writer, and, as evidenced by this post, you don’t even need a speck of intelligence to write a blog entry.

You can blog about anything that comes to mind– talk about your daily activities, bitch and moan about life’s 1001 injustices,  offer your $0.02 on things (as if anybody cares)– without having to worry about winning the Pulitzer Prize or flunking your eighth grade English class.

Not to take the tasteless ANALogy any further, not all butt-h…um, blogs, are unappealing.  The question is, how do you make yours stand out above the crowd?

Do you dare to be different…to be yourself?  I think the word is gumption.  Gumption means courage, initiative, or simply “the balls” to do something. It takes gumption to be different, to assert one’s individuality, to take the road less traveled, to thumb your nose at convention. And speaking of gumption, your blog needs that extra “umph” to have gumption…yeah, whatever.

Anyhow, people visit blogs for various reasons –  to connect with friends and family, to find information on a certain topic of interest, or simply to kill time. You probably got here while looking for tips and advices on how to make money online.

There are many fine blogs out there that offer valuable information and insights on making money on the internet.  This one is a refreshing change in that it doesn’t offer any. Just joking.  As you can see this is a brand new blog. Having lived off the internet for the last 15 years, I’d like to think that I have something valuable to share…and I will in the ensuing posts as long as people continue to look at my, um…, blog.

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Obviously, this is a new blog. I’ve set it up to share tips and advices on making money online, drawing from over 15 years of experience living off the internet.

I initially started this site on the popular Blogger platform.  After only a few days after launch, however, the Blogger robots decided that my site is a “spam blog” :

Blogger’s spam-prevention robots have detected that your blog has characteristics of a spam blog. (What’s a spam blog?) Since you’re an actual person reading this, your blog is probably not a spam blog. Automated spam detection is inherently fuzzy, and we sincerely apologize for this false positive.

We received your unlock request on February 18, 2010. On behalf of the robots, we apologize for locking your non-spam blog. Please be patient while we take a look at your blog and verify that it is not spam.

I’ve since decided to get this site its own hosting and migrated to Wordpress. I’m quickly reminded of an important lesson from this minor ordeal:  Whenever possible, host your own blog!  There are many free blogging services out there that let you quickly set up a professional-looking blog in no time, without the troubles of getting your own hosting and installing a blogging script.

But the downside is that you have much less control over your blog.  In my case, the Blogger robots decided to lock up my blog because of “characteristics” of spam.  I suppose anything that deals with “making money online” is a dead giveaway for spam (heaven forbids that anyone other than Google, who owns Blogger, tries to make money on the internet). Plus, the domain I chose for this blog, makemoneyonlinenow.INFO, is another telltale sign of spam.  As you may know, Godaddy has been offering .INFO domains for $0.99 for quite some time, leading to massive registrations of .INFO names by spammers. Last but not least, I initially decided to populate the site with a few articles which I had  published elsewhere so that it wouldn’t look so empty. Taken together, the duplicate contents, .INFO extension, and “make money online” theme, seem to scream out that this is a spam blog.

Except it’s not!

On behalf of the robots, we apologize…

Thanks for the geek humor.  In all likelihood some real humans will finally come around and realize that this blog isn’t spam.  I wouldn’t be too amused, however, if this were an established site and I relied on it to pay the bills.

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