Review Me Update February 12, 2007
Posted by The Probabilist in : [News], Productivity, Blogging , add a comment
I recently joined Review Me and was informed today that they are cutting down the payment of getting reviewed by 50 % for the end of this month. Normally, given the stats this blog has reached according to Review Me, the fee to get reviewed is $60, but thanks to this promotion you can get it for $30.
For those still new to this concept, Review Me provides a service where bloggers write a post on their blog describing another site or blog about what it’s about and provides a link to get readers to go visit it. Review Me defines how much people should pay to get reviewed based on the Alexa ranking, Technorati rank and RSS feed subscription. I’ve been a bit suspicious about the rates to advertise your blog, but it seems to be working well. If there weren’t a market for this, or the rates were off, it would fail on its own.
To get an idea of what kind of a review to expect, check out these entries that I’ve written previously.
The added bonus for getting reviewed is also that your site/blog will get added to the Recommended Resources section in the sidebar for at least three months from the date of the review. My blog’s description and stats can be found here. To get the 50 % off you simply have to enter: trial into the coupon code at checkout.
If you’re a blogger just starting out and want to drive more traffic, consider this option. I’ll do my best in giving an accurate (not too harsh 
) description of your website. Go to the Review Me website, sign up and take advantage of this promotion before it ends. You may also contact me in advance about what you want me to write about and if you’ve got additional ideas of how to get your money’s worth from this.
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Polyphasic Sleep, Day 38 February 7, 2007
Posted by The Probabilist in : [News], Sleep, Blogging , 3 comments
Lately, I’ve been more of a biphasic sleeper. I tend to get 2-4 hours of sleep when I go to my 8 a.m. nap and at 8 p.m. I either get my intended 30 minutes of sleep or I oversleep a couple of hours. I’m averaging 4 hours of sleep per day.
Because of this strange diversity, I only attempt to take a nap 4 or 5 times per day and I pretty much know when I’m going to fall asleep and when I’m just lying there with my eyelids slightly twitching. I can’t really tell if these naps without sleep have a restorative effect, but it’s a possibility.
Mostly, my polyphasic schedule suffers from the freezing temperatures (-25 degrees yesterday) because it’s the only thing about weather that I just can’t stand being exposed of. Rain, snow and wind is fine, but I’m the the type that doesn’t suffer from hot temperatures, but really avoid being cold. So basically, instead of enjoying some good exercises after every nap, which I enjoyed, I’m feeling a bit passive both physically and mentaly. And this means that my sleep pattern isn’t working the way it’s supposed to.
I’m still going to continue as I have done previously, and focus more attention on the polyphasic system during March. My main focus for February is to write plenty of posts about blogging and also to increase my exposure. Four hours of sleep per day will have to do for now because I’m so occupied with minding other businesses. And as I said earlier, if I want to reach maximum productivity over a work task or issue, it needs the majority of my mind’s attention both in effect and time. Eight hours of monophasic sleep is nevertheless, out of the question.
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