Crazy Friday, Follow Friday, Thank you Nokia

Well, yesterday was a day like every other Fridays. I left work and went to do a little grocery shopping, and then I got home. Little did I know about the surprise that was waiting at home.

First of all I quickly noticed around 30 new emails in my account, and my first thought was "well, another wave of spam mail", but then I saw all the mails were from Twitter. Imagine my surprise, when I saw I was mentioned in a tweet by @nokia itself.

I was honored, but I had no idea of what actually happened, so I went online and checked my mentions. And here is what I found:



So it was a follow Friday tweet, but it was no ordinary tweet. This was the biggest follow Friday tweet ever, written on a wall, with graffiti and everything. And it was all for me and two more guys, nkumar_ and adityasinghvi. I'm the one in yellow and green. Check it out below.



So my first reaction was to just stare at the picture and could not believe it. Second reaction was to pinch myself in order to wake up, but as you can see, it was no dream, it was real. Then I couldn't speak for a while, and when finally I put myself together again, I experienced an accomplishment feeling that I didn't experience in while. Only my son and my wife can make me feel like that.

Nokia, you made my day. I still can hardly believe this actually happened to me. Of course the image is now my twitter wallpaper, my desktop wallpaper, my phone's wallpaper and when I get to work on Monday my work computer's wallpaper.

I don't know what I did to deserve such an honor, but I greatly appreciate the effort the guys at Nokia went trough for this FF tweet, and I am deeply impressed.

Thank you Nokia!

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Crazy High eHow Earnings

Residual income from my eHow articles hit an all-time high in November 2010, with a combined total of over ,000 from my WriterGig account, Demand Studios residuals, and another very small eHow.com profile. My WriterGig profile alone brought in an eye-popping ,870.42 USD in November and is already over ,600 so far in December. These earnings come from just 390 articles, written between Oct. 2007 and April 2010.

This fairly impressive increase in revenue (some 7 months after eHow stopped allowing writers to contribute new articles) resulted, in my estimation, from a few particularly popular seasonal articles in conjunction with a back-linking campaign I started in September. [I wrote articles for Ezine Articles and several other article directory sites, and linked to particular eHow how-tos in my author bio at the end of these article submissions.]

These two high months bring my 2010 eHow earnings  to over ,000 -- not bad for what amounts to almost entirely passive income from articles that have long since paid me for my time invested. Isn't that incredible? I sincerely wish I had written hundreds more eHow articles when I still had the chance, before the Writers Compensation program was closed to new articles.

While eHow is not the opportunity for making money online that it once was, since nobody new can join and no new articles can be submitted (except through a Demand Studios account), it is still possible to increase your eHow earnings as I have done and as David Sarokin has in the past few months as well (his recent k+ eHow month inspired me to shoot for one myself).

Have you seen an increase in eHow earnings recently? Will you give backlinking a try to improve your earnings at eHow and elsewhere?