Cashing in or Crashing- Cashplusinvestment.com is forex trading n investment club central

November 7, 2007

We’ve been reporting on the Forex trading and investment fever in Jamaica since our site went live two months ago and to date, they remain our most read blog posts. Then we happened on a site and its publisher- cashplusinvestment.com a site that chronicles and gives indepth information on investment clubs of all kinds, updating regularly. It’s a pretty good online resource. There is where you can see who will be the winners and losers I think. A site to bookmark.

SC: What’s your mission/intention for this site?C+: I am based in Kingston actually. My mission is to inform the Jamaican people as well as the Diaspora about these investment clubs/schemes. To some it’s a good way to make money in a country starved for investment. To others it’s a system that is built on clever loopholes around the law and is bound to crash, bringing many people and their interest to their knees. To me it’s both, used wisely, people can make huge sums of money and get out if and when the collapse occurs.Previous Related StoriesForex Fever growing and growing in JamaicaJamaican onlinefx trader blogs his journey to fx riches Is the online forex trading fever the 90s day trading disaster in waiting Capitalor, Swedish forex company targets Jamaica- the CEO interview Read more

Important and Interesting Blog statistics

November 5, 2007

I kinda ran into this online while reading and had to share. Blogging is here for the long haul.

Over 12 million American adults currently maintain a blog.
More than 147 million Americans use the Internet.
Over 57 million Americns read blogs.
1.7 million American adults list making money as one of the reasons they blog.
89% of companies surveyed say they think blogs will be more important in the next five years.
9% of internet users say they have created blogs .
6% of the entire US adult population has created a blog .
Technorati is currently tracking over 70 million blogs .
over 120 thousand blogs are created every day .
There are over 1.4 million new blog posts every day .
22 of the 100 most popular websites in the world are blogs .
120,000 new blogs are created every day .
37% of blog readers began reading blogs in 2005 or 2006 .
51% of blog readers shop online .
Blog readers average 23 hours online each week .

NB: Heads up, watch for the facebook for bloggers site coming up.

Caribbean Blog Culture Rising

September 12, 2007

Kingston,Jamaica - The online phenomenon we now call blogging started in 1994 and was pretty much perceived as no more than teenaged idler rants and online diaries. Fast Forward to 2007 and the blog is now a bonafide media platform.

Now we have tech blogs, news blogs, music blogs, commentary blogs, sex blogs, political blogs, corporate blogs and media blogs. Without question the blog has changed the media landscape and easy to use Blog tools like wordpress.com, blogger.com is fueling the fire as non techies people can get their words out, build a community and these days also make money( see gizmodo.com,techcrunch.com,.

And it seems the Caribbean is reflecting this global trend.

A check online show two large resources for links to Caribbean blogs. They are KnowProse.com and Top5Jamaica.com. There is now a facebook group called Caribbean Bloggers Massive that’s growing at a merry clip. An observation on the nature of the blogs, shows a heavy leaning to the personal imbued with the personality and self interest led gleanings of the blog author. Yet there are many others who use the blog format and the blog publishing platform as a basis to launch a lowcost magazine.

But what’s influencing the blogging culture in the Caribbean? Is it the level of internet penetration or the existing culture to be social? Is it boredom with mainstream media and them not now in tuned with the varying tastes of its readers and would be readers? The blog as media is fledgling in the Caribbean. We’re excited to watch where it goes.

Resource for bloggers. Blogrush.com a blog syndication network. We’re testing this service join in.