Bloggers: A Series of Unfortunate Events

Recently, a blogger, Raja Petra Kamaruiddin was called in for interrogation regarding articles posted in his blog, Malaysia Today. He was released yesterday, after he was questioned for 8 hours.

Two week ago, another blogger, Nathaniel Tan was remanded for 4 days also regarding his blog, jelas.info.

What's next unfortunate events?

Related News:
Webmaster Raja Petra questioned for eight hours
Nathaniel Tan remanded for four days under OSA

The Stars of Blogospshere

Here's a peek of 5-stars bloggers and their earnings:

1. Boing Boing. Revenue: Over $1 million a year.

2. I Can Has Cheezburger? Revenue: Estimated $5,600 a month.

3. ShoeMoney. Revenue: $12,000 a month.

4. Overheard in New York. Revenue: Estimated $8,100 a month.

5. Kottke.org. Revenue: Estimated $5,300 a month.

6. Talking Points Memo. Revenue: Estimated $45,000 a month.

7. Perez Hilton. Revenue: Estimated $111,000 a month.

8. Gothamist. Revenue: Monthly average of $50,000 to $60,000 over the past 12 months.

9. TechCrunch. Revenue: $200,000 a month.

10. Go Fug Yourself. Revenue: Estimated $6,240 a month.

11. Mashable!. Revenue: Estimated $166,000 a month.

12. Problogger. Revenue: Over $100,000 a year.

13. Michelle Malkin and Hot Air. Revenue: N/A.

Not enough? Checkout BusinessWeek: How Top Bloggers Earn Money.

Transformers: Relive Your Childhood!

I've not seen the movie, yet. But, while I was drifting I heard someone said that the audience were clapping their hands when the movie ends! Woah! Not sure who they were clapping their hands for, Decepticons? And, not sure whether they were standing or sitting when they were clapping.

There you go. Can't wait to see it. Hope I'll relive my childhood fantasies!

Started My Blog!

Phew! Today I've created a blog called Blogdrift. Took me a day to come up with the name. Not sure whether it''ll stick. Hope it will. Not sure it means anything. Maybe you do.

Next, to choose the right template...