I just installed the new beta version of wordpress here at Jeoberpta.com. I have only had a little play so far, but here’s what I think — I love that it is so simple to add new plugins now, I don’t even have to download them manually and upload them any more, but other than that I don’t see anything special, a new design that’ll take some getting used to…that’s about it.

I have been thinking about this blog over the last few days and realised that I don’t love it, why? Well I already have not one, but two personal blogs, I don’t need a third — when I created the site the idea was to make it more niche, but the niche was going to just come to me in a flash and it never did.

Until today. The new month must have inspired me.

So, Jeoberpta.com is now to become….drum roll please….my TV related blog! I am going to talk about what I watch on TV each day. Now, I am not promising in depth, thought provoking reviews — though they may indeed happen some times, it’ll most likely mainly me having a rant about how stupid todays Neighbours was (and fyi, it was!) and moaning that certain hotties I happen to have a crush on cannot be mine.

But it’ll be interesting. I watch TV from around the world…mainly home grown UK stuff, but also lots of American and Australian shows among others. My main genres are reality, soaps, comedies and documentaries, but I like a bit of everything.

So come along for the ride

I am considering adding some sort of adverts here on Jeoberpta, it’d be nice to find a way to make a few extra pennies for just rambling away like I do, because my fiance is sick of listening to me - and it does seem like everyone does it these day, doesn’t it? It’s one thing I have noticed while dropping entrecards the last few days, every blog seems to be monetized in one way or another, does no one just blog for fun any more?

I remember when I started blogging back in the late 1990s (God, how old does that make me sound?), you’d about fall off your seat if you saw any form of adverts on a ‘personal’ site, they were for commercial sites only.

Times change though, and I am more than willing to change with them. I have had success on some of my other sites with running google adsense adverts, so I might give that a go here - though those sites get traffic, I am not sure it’ll be worth it on a site that gets very little. Time will tell.

I have been running Jeoberpta for a while now, and it’s looking pretty darn pretty I think, so I think it’s time to get some traffic heading this way.

I have enough experience with running sites in the past to have some idea on how to do that - joining blog networking sites such as MyBlogLog and BlogCatalog is a great place to start and I have had great success with new kids on the block EntreCard recently. So that is my plan for the coming days

Oh no, I only went and got another domain…another one, I just can’t stop, I have the domain bug!

I remember when I used to run two sites and people would say they had several and I’d wonder how on earth they would want to, or even could run so many. Crazy people. Now I am one of the crazy people.

Why Jeoberpta? I just love how it sounds…I love inventing words that aren’t actually words, but just sound nice. I think I scored a 9.5/10 for this one.

I plan on this being a personal blog to start off with by to eventually head into a niche — I am just yet to decide what that niche will be, I am hoping it will come to me eventually

Enjoy!