It's been a while since I mentioned anything about making money online and that's simply because I don't want to compete with those people who are targeting that phrase. Nevertheless, I keep answering email from people looking to break into the business of making money online and particularly, how to make money online in the Philippines. A failed email reply (a bad Yahoo email address, I suppose) prompted me to write this for that individual and if he gleans anything from it, then you may glean something from it also.

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Have you guys ever wondered why a lot of bloggers seem to blog about blogging? I have… a lot. But the answer is pretty simple. It's a question of popularity. You see, I have visited a lot of social bookmarking and networking communities and it seems that only certain topics keep getting more and more popular, no matter who writes about them. With no offense to communities like Digg and BloggingZoom, it appears to me that the majority of topics that become popular are the ones that either talk about technology, celebrity gossip, politics or (in the case of BloggingZoom) making money online through blogging. In fact, I think about 80-90% of the topics submitted to BZ fall into the category of blogging about blogging. It's about finding the lowest common denominator in this instance and that is blogging.

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