Archive for January, 2011

Making money with twitter

I’m not going to tell you that you can make big bucks on advertising through twitter but you can make a little extra pocket money. I haven’t even been using the Sponsored Tweets site that regularly but I have made $20 so far just by doing it randomly when I remembered to. I think that I might have made a little more if I had done it a little more regimented.

The only downside to twitter advertisments is you may loose followers because it does spam out a little at times. But from my point of view if people can’t deal with you trying to make a little bit of pocket money from something that is usually full of when you went to the toilet and what you had for breakfast then you didn’t really want them as followers in the first place.

Some of the ads won’t be to the liking of your followers but I am sure there will be a few that are, and this is PAY PER CLICK advertising so even if it isn’t, if you get your friends to click the links for you then you will get a little bit each time.

The scheme is paid for by the companies wanting to be advertised, you get a cut of the payment they have given Sponsored Tweets for bringing this opportunity to you. It’s not a scam that I can work out yet and works well. What is to loose by giving it a go?

Born of Hope

Set before the Lord of the Rings films, this film takes you on the journey of the birth of Aragorn. I cried.

Born of Hope is an independent feature film inspired by the Lord of the Rings and produced by Actors at Work Productions in the UK.
http://www.bornofhope.com

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Check them out for more videos regarding the film including the audio commentary.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elt_l8…

A scattered people, the descendants of storied sea kings of the ancient West, struggle to survive in a lonely wilderness as a dark force relentlessly bends its will toward their destruction. Yet amidst these valiant, desperate people, hope remains. A royal house endures unbroken from father to son.

This 70 minute original drama is set in the time before the War of the Ring and tells the story of the Dúnedain, the Rangers of the North, before the return of the King. Inspired by only a couple of paragraphs written by Tolkien in the appendices of the Lord of the Rings we follow Arathorn and Gilraen, the parents of Aragorn, from their first meeting through a turbulent time in their people’s history.

The Coffee that helps you loose weight

Wouldn’t it be awesome if something you drank every day helped you loose weight. The makers of a new green coffee that contains unroasted beans are claiming it could help lose 4.45lb in a month without any other dietary changes.

The drink contians up to 10% of  chlorogenic acid, a natural plant compound  that reduces sugar absorption from the gut and speeds up the rate at which fat is burned in the body.

In a study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, researchers found that chlorogenic acid from green coffee causes significant levels of weight loss.

Green coffee is very similar to green tea. Nescafe have been telling us of the health benifits of coffee on their website for ages and have also brought out a blend of green and roasted instant coffee  that it says is naturally rich in ‘health-supporting antioxidants’.

Don’t forget though that if you want to stay trim, the best way is through exercise, looking after yourself and eating right. A diet of coffee is probably not the best thing to get a good nights rest with.