23 JUNE IMPORTANT - WE ARE PUTTING A TEMPORARY HOLD ON PAID BLOGGER ACCOUNTS SO WE CAN EFFICIENTLY DEAL WITH THOSE THAT HAVE SIGNED UP. MORE POSITIONS WILL BECOME AVAILABLE SO IF YOU REMAIN INTERESTED SIGN UP AT THE SITE AND WE WILL KEEP YOU POSTED.
Seeking bloggers to write anecdotal and entertaining travel related posts about the world’s cities.
In 2008/9 The Bloggers Guide will be publishing a series of guide books on the world’s cities. The content of the books will be based on the best blog posts submitted to thebloggersguide.com. Anyone can create an account and submit content but whilst we are in beta testing we are seeking to recruit some paid bloggers, who ultimately we hope will become the editors of the guidebooks.
As we say in our description “Our bloggers give you the inside track - they don't do pages and pages of listings; rather, they make a few recommendations of what's hot and what's not. They would rather give give you a "feel" for the city, with some nuggets of inside information and pointers to start you on your way.”
Submissions:
The style of entry should be lighthearted and informative. We want to get away from the headline attractions and seek out the niche. For instance everyone knows that Big Ben is a tourist attraction in London but Thomas Carlyle’s perfectly preserved house is less well known about.
The most important section is the “Daily Life” – this section is about the day to day culture and character of a city. For the ideal post see “Swimming in Iceland” - http://www.thebloggersguide.com/reykavik/swimming-iceland - this works well because it shows the fabric of society in a lighthearted way.
More examples to get you thinking:
Gone With the Wind -- Frankly, Scarlett would give a damn about Jonesboro, GA, the historic setting of the epic movie. Find out how to capture the essence of Rhett and Scarlett with a trip
to the Margaret Mitchell House and Museum
- Atlanta
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Car boot sales in London. Truly a British experience.
- London
Southbank Used Book Fair -- Every day in front of the National Film Theatre, stalls of books, maps and other literary goodies are on sale super cheap. Great fun to browse through, as the books range from first edition Penguins to newly-published paperbacks.
- London
Playing Boules. When in Paris, do as the Parisians do. We have been playing Boules in our local park with friends, but there is also a fantastic spot at Quai de la Loire, where you can buy a beer and borrow a set of boules.
- Paris
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The best cafes and bars with free wireless hotspots
- All cities
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How and where to meet 10 friends in 10 days
- All cities
Welcome To The Cheap Seats - How to get inexpensive and free entertainment.
- All cities
These are broad guidelines as we hope to let the entries develop organically – if you want further submission guidelines please email editor@thebloggersguide.com
Payment:
Each blogger accumulates kudos points based on their submissions and activity. Payment is calculated by your kudos points and paid every 4 weeks.
How it works:
1 Kudos point = 0.10 cents
Writing a blog post – 100 Kudos ($10)
Posts must be at least 100 words. Posts must be approved.
Posts are monitored for duplicate content – do not cut and paste content from elsewhere on the web. It will not be approved! If you see a good post elsewhere use the post to promote feature.
Submitting a post to promote - 10 Kudos ($1)
Eg http://www.thebloggersguide.com/madrid/mad-about-madrid-my-madrid
Descriptions must be at least 25 words. Descriptions must be unique content – do not just paste the first paragraph of the original post. Tell us why its good! Posts must be approved.
Link back – 10 Kudos ($1)
If you have your own blog elsewhere and link to the bloggers guide you earn 10 points. Please email editor@thebloggersguide.com when you have posted the link.
Referral – 1 kudos per click ($0.10)
Each user has their own referral link – if you put this on your blog or elsewhere you get 1 kudos per unique visitor.
Posting a comment – 1 kudos ($0.10)
To avoid 1000’s a people registering, earning $10 and making no more contributions kudos balances must reach 2500 ($250) before you are paid. After you have reached the threshold payment is made every 4 weeks. Additionally you lose 10 kudos if you are not active on the site for 7 days.
Long term we will be appointing 1 paid editor for each city and we will set new a higher rate of regular payment for them. The kudos system is designed to find the best editors in the short term.
The entries and editing work for the published books will attract further payment in royalties.
To qualify as a paid blogger you must email editor@thebloggersguide.com with the subject Paid Account Created.
How it works:
Just create an account on thebloggersguide.com and start posting. Your submissions will not appear straight away as to monitor quality and spam each post is approved by an editor. After your first payment your post will be published immediately without moderation.
The site is still in beta so any feedback on bugs you encounter is much appreciated. In Internet Explorer there are some design issues – please use Firefox or IE7 if you encounter this.
any questions at all please email editor@thebloggersguide.com
Happy blogging!
Imperial Herbal Restaurant/Singapore
EDIBLE COMPLEX
When was the last time you ate at a restaurant where you could be examined by a Chinese herbal doctor who checked your vital signs and prescribed appropriate menu choices to balance your yin and yang?
The Imperial's in-house herbalist, a mellow fellow by the name of Dr. Li Lian Xing, conducts the exam in an apothecary located in the corner of the restaurant. Feeling listless? According to Dr. Li this is due to a diet with to many yin(cool) foods, so there is a need for more yang(hot) foods such as beef, lamb, onions and ginger. One the other hand, high-strung and overweight people eat too much yang and are in need of more yin foods including mussels, cucumbers, tofu and bean sprouts.
Each of more than 100 menu items is for a specific therapeutic purpose and represents a collaboration between the herbalist and the Imperial's master chefs. The menu provides the contents of each dish and its medical benefits. For example, after a long day of sightseeing in sweltering 90+ degree heat, you can get some cooling relief by ordering "Gou Ci Cai", an appetizer consisting of an assortment of vegetables and wolfberries aid to improve vision and act as a tonic on the liver and kidneys.
Link back – 10 Kudos ($1)
blogger_x
Link back – 10 Kudos ($1)
If you have your own blog elsewhere and link to the bloggers guide you earn 10 points. Please email editor@thebloggersguide.com when you have posted the link.
if i post this link http://www.thebloggersguide.com/ on other blog sites i will get 10 KUDOS for each link?
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Hi Blogger_x
Yes you will get 10 Kudos for each if they are all independent blogs but not if you just post them in forums etc.
If you want to post a link for kudos points in forums use your unique referral link:
Referral – 1 kudos per click ($0.10)
Each user has their own referral link – if you put this on your blog or elsewhere you get 1 kudos per unique visitor
Please note These guys rip
Please note
These guys rip you off by removing all any kudos points that are more than 4 weeks old. This means that to hit payout you have to churn out sufficient content at a significant pace. I have monitored the site and have not seen even one blogger succeed in hitting payout (2500 kudos - the highest anyone got was 1600 kudos then his score dropped) by the end of 4 weeks. I guess that they are very picky about what articles they accept and this may simply be a scam to get us bloggers to produce free content - would be bloggers beware!
a bug and apologies
The guys in charge claim that this was a bug and has been corrected so that they maybe OK
I will tell you when (if) I get paid...
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