Promoting a Book

After spending the entire day at sulit.com.ph, I decided to repurpose this blog and devote it to advertising and promotion for my book project. In the process, I may be able to finish that weekly publication I have been thinking about and make it part of my plan.

I do not know how, but I will somehow integrate the contents I'm generating in my blogs and those at sulit.com.ph. Hopefully, I can reuse my blogs or knols for publication.

Social Networking at Sulit.com.ph

I wanted to turn my home page at sulit.com.ph into a weekly publication about how to earn money online. At about the same time that I was developing the idea, I decided to retire from clicking on paid-to-click sites.

I left a draft of my brief adventure on my home page. Its title: Paid-to-Click Newcomer Retires.

I stumbled upon the "Business / Earning Opportunities" section of sulit.com.ph to find a barrage of advertising praising the virtues of easy money from paid-to-click websites. I actually joined several PTC sites and clicked on every advert for more than a week, but I cannot seem to reconcile this "earning opportunity" and my investment philosophy no matter how I tried. Surely, there is something wrong here somewhere.

Instead of disparaging PTC and writing about its flaws, I will take this opportunity to start a publication for my own business opportunities. This will give me a chance to apply my business acumen and knowledge.

Today, I was browsing at sulit.com.ph and wandered in the forum section where I started posting comments. I noticed afterwards that my site currency or credits started increasing. I'm not actually sure but I may have earned some 200-300 credits today from posting comments and answering trivia questions.

As I was clicking all over the place, I realized that I really need to do some kind of advertising for my projects. And one way or another, the credits I earned will come in handy in buying advertising services.
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by Sulit.com.ph (kanshu)

Cannot Reuse Clipper Knowledge

I finally decided to start a wiki at wikidot.com. At first, I was just going to post links to my blogs at the two usenet groups I recently joined—comp.lang.clipper and comp.lang.harbour. When I started thinking about the kind of "conversations" I would be having with the members of these groups, I realized that I may not be able to maintain their interest and attention for very long with just talk of programming problems. Frankly, I'm not interested in them either.

So, after much thought, I decided to start writing a programming manual. Because of the way information is organized, a wiki is much more conducive for a book-writing project. However, opening the wiki to members who can edit content seemed problematic. In such scenario, either my work gets deleted or I get "spammed" by overzealous writers. The solution, of course, is rather simple—a blog dedicated to comments and suggestions by other people. Hmm. A place for everything and everything in its place.

After several iterations, I settled on the title: Cannot Reuse Clipper Knowledge with the subtitle—The Making of a Programming Manual—focusing and narrowing the scope of writing.

This wiki will be my sandbox for organizing my writing into discrete pieces of work. Hopefully, I may be able to design a work process that I can reuse in other book-writing projects I have lined up.

Why People Get Rich?

What if getting rich is a mathematical problem? What if there is a mathematically correct solution to getting rich? What if there is a formula for getting rich with predictable results?

Hmm. I wonder how many curious minds are pondering this very problem. Since it is a very interesting subject, I suppose that there are many who share my obsession for discovering this profound truth.

Alas! If the formula is not as simple and elegant as E = mc2, writing about it won't get me a slot in a bestseller list. But what if I keep it a "secret"? Now, there's an idea worth publishing for a long, long time.

Limits of Time Travel

It seems that my idea for using blogger.com to travel back in time has met a major obstacle. Apparently, I can only date-stamp my post no earlier than 1970. Technically, I won't be able to see the timeline as it really is. It is somehow skewed or warped to the year 1970.

I'm rather disappointed that I wouldn't be able to construct my online jurisprudence library Cannot Digest Supreme Court Rulings as I planned it or any of my ideas that depended on this tiny date-stamp problem. Hmm. Maybe I can contact somebody at blogger.com to fix this problem.

Anyway, on the bright side, my online repository for case digests looks very promising. I only managed to post two digested cases while the rest are fillers or blank templates albeit with links to the full text of the corresponding cases at lawphil.net.