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!

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?

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!

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.

 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!

Now, this Week in Blogs

Career Ramblings – 4 Cover Letter Secrets - I’ve been in the process of hiring a marketing team here in Los Angeles and you don’t understand how frustrating it is find people these days because of their lack knowledge in applying for jobs. This article along with many others at Career Ramblings should be a must read for all job searchers out there!

IKEA Hacker – Getting the Most out your IKEA furniture - I could of used this site in college to really pimp out my pad. Some great tips and photos from some really creative people. 

Here in Idaho – Pretty good Humor Site - I just found this site through the Queen of Musings since she dedicated a whole post to checking out her obsessions.

Noodle Whore – Anthony Bourdain’s personal Southern California Asian Noodle Expert

808Talk.com – A Supporter from Back in the Day. Check out his Podcast if you’re thinking about going to the Islands! Mahalo VB!

• Simple Maui Wedding
• Not So Boring Life
• Naki Chiam
• Trail Blogging
• Malaysia Love Agloco
• David Paul Robinson
• Nice4Rice

*Updated – Almost forgot about the Nice4Rice Review*

If you want to join in on the reviews, feel free to write one and let me know. I will link to anyone who writes a review on my site and it doesn’t matter what you say. Just as long as you follow the rules, then I appreciate the time you’ve taken to write about my site – Click Here to Read the Rules & if you’re feeling up to it, check out the Workstation Contest!

As a reminder, you will be linking to a site with the following stats:

• PR2 with a Predicted PR6 (according toe iwebtool.com/tools) at the next update
• Technorati Ranking – 23,817
• Alexa Ranking – 227,713 (under 100k weekly for the past 4 weeks though)

The 20 Greatest Historical Myth. I found this while stumbling and I am now more loaded with useless knowledge than ever before. Bring on Jeoparody!

In a time with increased media exposure, the Best Player in the NBA just doesn’t get the respect he is due.

A Great article about important SEO Ranking Factors. Something we should all read up on to prepare for the upcoming PageRank Update!

Another result of stumbling, so I hope you’re installing that toolbar right now. It has made surfing the net a little bit more fun. Look at what I got to do with one of my pictures using this mosaic tool (feel free to use it as your wallpaper), which uses flickr images to recreate your favorite images:

I’m going to try my best to surf the net and show you what has been catching my eyes as I surf around the net during my 80+ hours/wk on the net.

1) Ed Lau – Notorious B.I.G.: Unbelievable – First of all, it’s a new remix album from Mick Boogie featuring one of the GodFathers of Hip Hop aka Biggie Smalls aka Big Poppa aka Christopher Wallace. So run, don’t walk cuz you’re going to want to get your ipod ready for this. Second, it’s a free download, so if you’re not already downloading this album, I don’t know you! This was a great find by Ed Lau and to know that he has great taste in Music just bumped him up on the cool meter (i’m gonna make one, just you wait)

2) Existential Ventures – 10 Ways to Market your Website using MyBlogLog – A lot of bloggers are on MyBlogLog and it has quickly become a great place to interact with other bloggers and also find new blogs. By placing a face to the blog, MyBlogLog has given a personal touch to the jumbled text and graphics that fills blogs all over the world. Anyways, Broc at Existential Ventures as pointed out 10 ways to increase your traffic, but my disclaimer here is that some of these tips aren’t the most ethical and maybe be frowned upon by some bloggers. I leave it up to your good judgement to use the tips as you see fit.

3) Harpzon.com – Post a Comment and I’ll donate $10 for you – A lot has been debated in the last few weeks about the ethics of promoting your own site using a charity as a front. Personally, I think that as long as the charity benefits at the end of the day, it’s all good.

4) JonLee.ca aka Web Development – Printer of the Future – I found this while reading through my feeds and thought this was the greatest thing since prices lowered on LCDs! A color printer that prints as fast as Laser Printers and just as fine too. Only if they would lower the friggin prices on ink cartridges, this world would be a much colorful and creative place!

5) CareerRamlings.com – Career Fairs: What the Heck do I do? – This is another great article for the newly graduated. I remember when I was in my last year at UC Irvine (zot!zot!) and was traveling to all the other universities such as USC and UCLA to check out their career fairs. I remember being overwhelmed because I lacked the preparation to make a good impression on the recruiters at these events. I highly recommend this post for anyone getting ready for the “Real World!”

6) The Benefits offered by Google – This article just snuck into this week in blogs as my co-worker emailed it to me while I was writing this post. It talks about the new trends Google are setting outside of the computer in the world of business. One major theme – Treat your employees as well as you treat your customers! Point well taken!

and that’s This Week in Blogs (insert TWIT music here)

To give you a little background on who Tyler Cruz is, he’s a young web entrepeneur on his journey to wealth. It looks like it’s going to be a pretty fast journey as he’s making an average of $256 a day for the past 6 months on top of the $100,000 he made last year. I’m going to just guess that most of that money was made from PokerForums.org, where the average CPA earned averages around $300.

Aside from raking in the dough, Tyler also has time to write interesting pieces of information in his blog about his experiences as a young web entrepeneur. He just wrote a piece about:

• Poker Players vs. Web Publishers
• First Press Release
• What happened to Movie-Vault?

Like I said, they’re all interesting pieces that I’m sure a lot of you will be able to gain some knowledge from. If you’re looking for a blogging tips and strategy site, then this is probably not the best site to go to. As for monetizing the site, it doesn’t look like Tyler is looking to really monetize his website as there are no ads that are intergrated into the site. For someone who is getting so much traffic, I personally think he’s just throwing money away on a daily basis. He could be making at least $300 a day if he just put up an Adsense banner somewhere on the site.

As is customary on MrGaryLee.com – here are the snapshots of TylerCruz.com: