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Money in 2008

Making a living from online activities is not always easy but there is no reason why anyone able to create and sustain a blog need not make some money from their activities. Especially where these activities tie into the subject one is passionate about. The money might be for yourself or for a charity or other good cause.

This might seem like a pipe dream and certainly if you want to do this full time then you will need serious determination but on the whole some income is a reasonable and achievable aim. In this post I will be talking about some of the ways that you, as an Internet user can make a little money from work you might now be doing for free.

You don't even need to put adverts on your blog.

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funny picturesMy cunning plan has run aground on the three evil dilemmas of kids, work and Christmas. This seasonal lark has seriously limited my ability to find time to write code. As a result my intentions of getting a working system to list the top Thanet bloggers is still at the design and inception stage.

The theory work and data design is done but the base class (template) for all the work is not. Drat this jolly red/green dressed fellow and the festival of over eating. Still it could be worse.

So a merry thingy-mi-bob to all and to all a good long wait until January to see what I have been planning.
 
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How to Revive Margate Museum and Old Town in One Day

This post details the plans on exactly how both Margate Museum and Margate Old Town Centre can be revived in a single day (with a lot of background planning before hand and good follow up). It does this by creating a situation where everyone has a lot to gain from joining in and actually makes something old has done useful. Not only that but it will put a bit of life into Margate (not to mention the boost and might get from it).

A clue can be found in a comment I left on the Margate Architecture blog recently. To be honest the whole things seems so obvious that I have had (a) a or (b) an idea so crazy but viable that no one has mentioned it.

This is that idea.

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Education as a key to future growth

As business people we tend to think of in terms of the next quarter, the next year, the next five years and the "long term" of the next ten years. This thinking is too stunted for somewhere like Thanet and a new paradigm needs to be considered. Rather than the usual short medium and long term periods we are used to dealing with we must content with scales that in some cases can be measured in generations.

As business people the year to year accounting period is not going to go away. It should be considered the smallest accountable unit. The year becomes the immediate term period while the next five should be considered the short term.

The medium term, and the one with the most exciting possibilities, is the fifteen to twenty year span. In that time scale our actions, as innovators, are seeded in new lives that grow to the early stages of maternity and the first tentative steps as contributing adults. If we squander that chance to invest we will not reap the rewards.

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Beating debt at Christmas

Keep an eye on the this Christmas season. The word with those that "know" is that are becoming ever more predatory in their sales of high interest loans. This is a strong sign of currently hidden economic difficulties as bank work harder to main profitable growth in the face of some tough times.

What can be done to escape from over spend? Lets talk about it shall we...

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