SuperBowlSingleGirl-CyberBegging in The Big League

The Super Bowl hopeful — a 5-foot 6-inch, 110 lb. brunette — plans to raise the money to purchase a thirty second commercial through online gifts via PayPal as well as traditional fundraising efforts–SuperBowlSingleGirl Amy Borkowsky has had a hard time finding Mr Right, so she wants to raise three million dollar to buy an Ad in the Superbowl. The Super Bowl Single Girl website says that Amy is best know for her Amy’s Answering Machine-which I am guessing doesn’t quite pull in 3 million dollars on a regular basis. Amy Borkowsky made it onto The Today Show to make…

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How Much is Too Much Cyber Begging?

I was reading a blog post the other day about online begging-(sorry I don’t remember which one). It was about a man that was begging for the new Hasselblad digital camera-which cost about 40,000 dollars. The blogger talking about this bit of chutzpah didn’t seem outraged that this fellow was cyber begging, but that he was cyber begging for so much. She herself is trying to sell Cafe Press items in order to raise money for a new camera. But Cafe Press is a little bit different from out and out begging. I have read other bloggers that think any…

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Blogs and Money

Busking is the practice of doing live performances in public places to entertain people, usually to solicit donations and tips. -Wikipedia Is blogging a performance art? Maybe. Does reading a blog entertain? Sometimes, sure. Should people pay for the privilege of reading you diary? That ball is still in the air.I recently ran across a blog called Blogging Experiment-lots of interesting stuff going on there. Mostly about making money with your blog and getting more readers and stuff like that.Ben Cook is an old hand at blogging and is using all the tricks he has learned over the years to…

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