A month back, when I thought of taking up writing as a hobby, I expected to do many things. None of them, strangely, involved blogging. But, of late, I have realized that writing is only about blogging and that its so pervasive that these days even the stray dogs in my neighborhood blog - mostly about their travails of chasing down the latest model cars at midnight. Not wishing to miss the train, I have also decided to board “The Blog Express”.
Since that fateful decision, I have been swept up in the vortex of various dreaded technologies, like HTML, CSS, CPM, CPI, etc. With my several years of experience in the IT industry, you would be thinking, why this queasiness. Its just that my experience though in IT industry has been focused mostly in the Telecom domain. Now, what, you may ask, is the difference anyway? Apparently, it is same as the difference between a Brain and a Urology surgeon. Much as the medical degrees accumulated by the Brain surgeon that could fill up a XL sized hoarding on the national highway, couldn’t come to his rescue when asked to perform an elementary stomach operation, I, with the bare minimal and ubiquitous BTech, can be understandably clueless with the web jargons (Ahem!)
Regardless of the daunting task, I had spiritedly envisioned a snazzy website, with gleaming icons and enticing links and a profile to match a celebrity, while the most pertinent ads, after measuring the clicks from visitor, calculatedly keeps scrolling in the background. Very Understandable. Perception of how one’s dream home should look like is at the best, umm.. dreamy. Eventually, one could see this dream home taper down to size of match-box after seeing their home loan sanctioned - due to various pocket wrenching constraints imposed by the banks. With the umpteen serpentine hostile technologies (like widgets, javascript, etc.) that were baring its hood, my dream blog site, similarly, has paled to the skeletal structure. From there, things unraveled, as I found that the owner of the blog site can be eligible for earning one cent for every twenty million (only!!) clicks that the site attracts. Focusing my blog for revenue generation, I have now patched my web page with the numerous ad sites. With these innovative strategies, I can already see the fruit of my labor as my blog tops the chart in customer readership over the most interesting readers’ article - the software license agreements.
At the moment, my blog has set sail in full mast. Hopefully, I can keep upgrading my yacht to a commercial ship while sailing in this rough weather.
