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Hannes Johnson is throwing a contest to raise his ranking in the Technorati Top 100 listing. Hanne’s is giving away some cold hard cash and PR4 link in his Featured Sites section!

Cash for Comments just started a link train of his own called the Jet Train where he somehow combo’d the idea of a link train with the promtion of a contest. This guy is one of Ms. Danielle’s disciples and is always coming up with crazy stuff. You really have to check it out, even it’s just for the crazy diagrams explaing link trains and video clips featuring himself.

Leo Chiang - Using a new tool that Leo found, I found out that I’m being listed as an A-List blogger. It’s basically a tool that takes into account how many backlinks you got through technorati. Now I know how Barry Bonds feels or at least how he should feel, gaming the system!

Jamaipanese - Interesting site about a Jamaican in love with the Japanese Culture. I’ve always been interested in understanding more about the Japanese, but never have taken the time. I guess I know where to look now if I ever have the time!

Contest Blogger - If you like the iPhone Giveaway Contest and just want to participate in more contests, check out this site for all the top contests out there in the blogosphere. Just on the first page, I see that there’s a total of $500 being given away, Google Lava Lamp, and t-shirts. If you’re in the mood, go check it out!

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This Week in Blogs got a lot easier with the influx of entries into the iPhone give away I started earlier this week. I’ve been chatting it up with a lot of people from around the world about blogging, the iPhone and each other’s part of the world a lot this week.

So, without further adieu, here are some sites that caught my eye this week:

Sandier Pastures - Dubai’s been recreating so many new tourist attractions and their version of the Venice Canals is no different!

World of Dreams - I just learned it’s Buy a Friend a Book Week and it’s FRIDAY!!! Can we count Danielle keeping one of my books for 6 months as my donation?

Egonitron - Just posted an article about how Google’s gonna get a PR 8. I won’t believe it until I see it!

Shawn Knight - Long time reader Shawn Knight just posted about Fried Food and even better, it’s southern fried food, so he gets a mention just because I’m a sucker for anything fried!

Make Money with Kassper - It seems like I can make money with so many people online now, so why not Kassper, too? He’s just saved me a post and talks about how Google is taking advantage of their new acquisition and intergrating Feedburner into Blogspot.

To Facebook or not to Facebook - Ed Lau just posted this question this morning and to be honest, I’ve been thinking about the same thing. I’m annoyingly tired of sifting through the garbage they call MySpace, Friendster’s a joke now and Bunkers Paradise just isn’t finished yet! What is a stalker, er, friend suppose to do these days to find people?

Hope you enjoy these blogs! If I haven’t pushed it enough, here’s my chance to . . . all these blogs were entries in my iPhone Giveaway Contest, so if you haven’t entered yet, what are you waiting for?

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After a two week hiatus from my TWIB series, I thought I’d bring it back to the old school and show some love to my blog homies and kumiko (who probably won’t even know i’m linking to her). With some blogs folding in the recent weeks, it shows a lot that these bloggers are still going strong with some really great content:

Career Ramblings - Start Thinking Like an Entrepreneur

Ed Edition - TV Year in Review

Nate Whitehill - 5 Ways to Make Your Posts more Readable

Kumiko - Free Sex using MyBlogLog or is that the other way around? 

DoshDosh - How to create your own niche blogging masterplan 

Samanathon - An actual post about an Apple product on Saman’s site!

Just a reminder . . . . the best workstation contest is ending at the end of this month, so take the time this weekend to clean up your desk to take some photos and win that Motorola Stereo Bluetooth Headset!

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I recently received a tag from my good blogger friend Hannes Johnson on a new 5 Must Read Blogs meme he’s participating in, which was started by The Paper Bull. It’s pretty simple as all I have to do is write something about my favorite blogs. Here we go:

DoshDosh.com - Maki’s blog was one of the first blog’s I added to my RSS subscription when I first started blogging. It was from his Z-List that I started learning about Link Trains and from that point on, I’ve learned many things about making money online with DoshDosh.Com. He’s been very helpful with focusing my blog and I had the pleasure of joining forces with Maki to make the Technorati Faves Exchange a huge success.

JohnChow.com - John Chow was the inspiration for my start in blogging. Reading his daily food stories to his tremendous success stories about making $8-12k a month through his blog keeps me motivated to succeed in my own blogging and internet career.

ShoeMoney.com - Another A-List blogger that I have read from the very beginning. I just conducted a interview with Jeremy and it shows how accomodating and in touch he is with his readers. ShoeMoney has a great blend of Jeremy’s personal experiences along with helpful blogging tips.

BlueHatSEO.com - I admit that I have no clue how to program or code, so reading BlueHatSEO.com is a little challenging for me to understand. No matter though, I still read this blog to make sure I’m up to date with what’s going on in the underground world of internet marketing.

AndyBeard.eu - Andy’s blog is relatively new to my RSS Subscription, but it doesn’t matter. He writes some of the most detailed analysis about any topic you can think of regarding internet marketing and making money online as a whole.

Tag - I’m going to tag Ms. Danielle, Jeff Kee (since Jeff Kee’s already done this meme, I’m gonna tag Ed Lau), and Jane May and much like Hannes Johnson, I’m going to tag two more people who comment on this post with something like than a 5 word sentence.

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I can’t begin to tell you how crazy this week has been, but I’ve survived and even had some time to surf around a little bit. With all the fave exchanges I’ve been getting from the Technorati Link Train, I’ve been able to read a lot of interesting blogs. To be honest with you, I still have a lot of blogs to catch up on since the train is moving way too fast for me now, so I’m going to give you some great posts from some of my buddies and a couple of new blogs i found from my fave exchange.

 Traffic Steroids vs. Natural Traffic - Nate Whitehill talks about the delusional grandeur of getting on the front page of Digg.

Optimize your Adsense - Saman writes a great tutorial on adding some simple pieces of code to your blog to make sure Google is analyzing the right parts of your website to properly monetize your traffic.

Google’s building a Rat Ship - Ms. Danielle gives us the lowdown about Google’s new plan to counter paid linking strategies across the net.

 Why you’re Not a Billionaire - Andy writes about how not taking vacations and sleeping EVER should get you to millionaire status real quick. You don’t want me to tell you what it takes to make Billionaire status!

Hot Women, er, People from MySpace - Ever since starting my blog a couple of months ago, I have neglected my man duties of checking out Hot women on the net until now!

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