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As we move out of the Summer, the number of opportunities available on the pay per post sites is increasing quite rapidly as indeed is the range to choose from.

Surprisingly, included among this increased number is a large number of tourist/travel related ones which is perfect for me as they’re by far the easiest ones to write and they fit well into the overall theme of this blog too. However, it gets better because a number of them are in areas which I’m developing for our Whole Earth Guide ie people are paying me to write stuff that I’d be writing anyway!

What would be really nice is if I could get some of these folk paying for individual posts to sponsor the guide but perhaps that’ll come in due course. After all, I’ve only just started the first phase of promotion for the guide.

It’s easy to get very blasé about the science and technology that we use every day simply because it’s so familiar to us.

Just about everyone has been on a plane yet only 100 years ago to have been able to fly would have been a truly wonderous thing. About 50 years ago the head of IBM predicted that there would be a need for at most FIVE computers in the world yet many people would have around that number of computers or computer type devices all by themselves, each one of which is much more powerful than the five that IBM had predicted – even the humblest pocket calculator is more powerful than the computers used to land the Apollo spacecraft.

Anyway, to highlight some of these wonders we’ve kicked off a blog which’ll pick out some of these wonders that you probably hardly give a second thought too…. it’s living at An Age of Magic.

Just saw yesterday that the domain OnAPostcard.com was available and it seemed too good to just leave it sitting there.

Anyway, it’s now home to our latest blog.

We’re planning it to be a group blog, initially with myself and Wendy but open to others on request.

As ‘yall know, Wendy and me have been plugging away with paid posts over the last month or so.

One thing that we hadn’t expected was that by taking it a little bit more seriously, we’d be rapidly closing on the top 10 earners on PPP quite so quickly. Due to the delay in payment (you’re paid 30 days after your post is approved), it’ll actually be another month or so before get into that list but ’tis encouraging that we can get there so quickly.

Actually, all being well, we’ll not only be in that list but moving up it next month as we should be bringing online another blog by then.

As you know, I’m in the process of building up a sort-of technology blog over at An Age of Magic. It takes about three months before you can make money on these things so it’ll be a month or so before I’m ready to start raking in the cash from it and retire on the proceeds. Well, maybe a “bit” more than a month before I can retire on it 🙂

Anyway, I’ve been putting on vaguely techie type postings as you can see. Techie with a slightly different slant on the technology.

What’s really interesting is the kind of searches people have been using to arrive on the site…. “walk on water with magic”… “travel in time”… “move things with magic”. Also interesting are the results that I get when I use Digg and similar social bookmarking sites on individual posts: some of them do incredibly well considering the content that’s on the site.

Now, the bigger question is whether I’ll be able to make money it….