Romerican, this word I would say is piece together with Rome and American, right? That’s originality for you my friend. Taking two words, mash them in a salad bowl, voila! You get something new. This is not intended as a personal attack, just an example. Same thing for hollywood, fashion, etc. They are drawing inspirations from Bollywood(Asia)

Maybe you came here expecting to find a rocket scientist with a sense of humor whose blog is peppered with witty comments about how he works for NASA and recently put a dildo in Apollo 54’s engine room causing it to explode mid-launch as an april fool’s joke. Yet, not all of us wants to read about personal love and hate blogs, techno blog, Jerry Seinfeld funny blog or suicidal goth girl prose every single day, the blog community is full of diversified people with different levels of experience in different areas of expertise, live with it, not everyone is gonna blog funny. Alvin prefers a factual delivery of content backed with trial by error instances of people who has failed and succeeded in life through NLP(flirtation methods, problem handling, stress management or whatever) To put in a blunt way, he’s filtering for us using his experiences and know hows, at the same time sharing his personal NLP knowledge. Now, I agree that this site definitely has room for improvement, just give it some time. At the same time, with a name like Romerican commenting that this site is unoriginal without leaving any suggestions for improvement is somehow I find… Pretentious.

P.S. You write funny.

http://9rules.com/whitespace/learning_design_emulate_or_challenge.php

‘Standing on the shoulders of giants’…I like that. Is innovation and expansion on stuff that’s already been there unoriginal?

To be honest, the more I read the personal productivity material out there, the more I coach, the more it seems that leading the good life boils down back to the same basic things that people have been preaching for centuries: be nice to people, work hard, have a positive attitude.

That’s probably it, everything else is there to help make it easier, adapting for specific age and place.

So! I don’t exactly know what you mean by unoriginal, as in you’ve heard this stuff before, it’s nothing new, or worse, ripping off other people’s content, but to me, the form and expression of timeless content can be original in itself, after all, no-one’s going to say what I say in the exact voice I say it.

I’m glad you came back, and it wasn’t just a hit and run

In that spirit, I do appreciate your opinion. You’re completely right, it is about the money. The hosting for the site costs money, and I think there’s nothing wrong with wanting to make a little more on the side for myself (although now it only pays for a cup of coffee or so a day).

I’m surprised you feel that there isn’t much original content here for you though, as I feel otherwise, and we’ve been working hard to make that so. Maybe it’s because there’s no easy way to gain access to the best of our stuff? Or…hmm…

Your feedback is noted

Alvin, money. =]

Pete, good point but not my intention. I can see (now) the category being appropriate for this post, then. And they try to tell me that milk does a body good. Heh.

Han, I’m not anti-ads, per se… but a better content ratio is what I was expecting to find.

Alvin (again), feedback of all kinds can be a good thing (provided it’s not spam, of course). I trust you’ll take my comment for what it is: a drive-by opinion.

Stuart, put the meds down!

Romerican, I’m not so sure why you would come to someone’s blog and criticise their work as 100% unoriginal.

But if you really need to know why there are so many ads around, like Hanthon mentioned, they help me to pay for the hosting fees, which are all coming out of my own pocket.

And like Pete said, ‘good stuff to share’ isn’t stuff from me If you’d like you can continue to surf around our site and see if there’s anything useful lying around for you, and see how much of it is original.