Lewis Chew, the youngest blogger in the world

Hi Lewis. Congratulations. You have just confirmed you are the youngest blogger in the world. Honest. Cross my heart and promise to..... See Lewis Chew confirmed he is the youngest blogger in the world. I am wondering if I should try to get you into the Guinness Book of World Records. Ask your mom, dad, granddad and grandma (paternal side), uncles and aunties if I should try.

By the way, I added advertisements in Lewis Chew's blog. Hoping that may help finance your education. And don't forget to tell your uncles, aunties, whoever, not to click on the ads unless they are genuinely interested in what the ad have to offer. This in not impossible as Google has came up with a very clever system of spidering the content of a web page and serving ads that are relevant to the content of that page. In fact, I have to remember not to click on the ads in my own blog even when I see something that interest me as that may land me in trouble with Google AdSense. And once they suspend an account, it is very hard to get reinstated. And since the subject matter I blog about is what I am interested in, it is not surprising that ads in my blogs would be ads I would be interested in.

I also am going to add a URL channel to track if your blog is generating any income. I may have to keep a daily record record which is going to be a lot of work. I got to check if I can get the record on a monthly basis.

Another thing, Lewis. If any of your uncles, aunties, etc., like to join you in trying go generate some income to help with whatever, ask them to get a website and when they have some reasonable content in their website (one got approved with just one post in a blog, but having more I think will be wiser), ask them to apply for an AdSense account via the "Generate revenue from your website. Google AdSense" at the top of the right sidebar. Note that I didn't say "click", but "via" because if I ask them to click, I may also get into problem. But I have checked with AdSense Support and they say it is OK to draw attention to the referral links as long as you do not ask people to click on it. You see, I didn't. I said "via", not "click", so I am OK. Previously AdSense used to be very strict and you cannot draw attention to the referral links. After much persuasion by us content publishers, they have relaxed that. Referral links are different from ads, and no one lose or benefit just by clicking on them. They have to act after clicking on them for anything to happen.

Tell them that Google AdSense plus blogging helped your grandpa finance your two uncles (your pa and ma also helped too) and then maybe their interest will pick up.

And if your uncles, aunties, cousins if you have any, etc, wants to set up a website, the easiest way is to set up a blog. They don't even need to know boring stuff (but highly interesting to me) like HTML, FTP (File Transfer Protocol, etc. If they know how to do email, they should know how to start a blog. Nathaniel Tan, a blogger who got detained under the draconian ISA (Internal Security Act) for a few days said you can set up a blog in 10 minutes. I responded that you actually can do that in less, and it is true. I am not bluffing. If they have any problem, this blog Dummies Guide to Google Blogger which is supposed to be an "online book" (in progress) should help them get started pretty quickly. Ask them to use the CONTENT at the top of the main column. It is not finished though, as your grandpa just have too many things to do to concentrate on that so-called "online book". Maybe you can help me finish it when you grow up.

And if they start getting a bit more ambitious, refer them to Blogger Tips and Tricks or href="http://bloggerfordummies.blogspot.com" target="_blank">Blogger for Dummies. Lots of bloggers got help from me, and in fact, your grandpa got honored as a Blog*Star by Google Blogger.

Blowing my trumpet a bit here, but perhaps your grandpa does deserve the honor. Just look at the comments left by grateful bloggers. Maybe when you grow up, you too will become a href="http://buzz.blogger.com/2006/11/blogstars.html" target="_blank">Blog*Star yourself.

And hopefully when you are old enough, you can apply for your own AdSense account via that referral link, and if your grandpa is still around, he will try his best to help you generate some revenue, for he has a vested interest. Currently, if you do that, and you managed to earn USD 5 within 180 days, I too will get USD 5. And if you succeed in getting USD 100, I will get USD 250!!!! So you see, if you do that, I am going to work very hard to help you earn that USD 100 within 180 days. Also, I can click on the ads that are genuinely of interest to me (I got to make sure I am not trying to cheat the system though, as I don't want to get your account suspended). I can do that as those will not be my ads then. Of course I have to be careful that I am sincerely interested in the ads before I click on them as I would not want you to get into trouble with Google AdSense.

We Malaysian Chinese are less fortunate than the bumiputras who have better chances of getting scholarship to further their studies. Your parent probably have to start planning how to finance your education from the time of your conception. Education is expensive, and by the time you are ready for tertiary education, I don't know how expensive it is going to be, especially if you have to go to other countries to get quality tertiary education. Maybe you can help them by getting Google to help you.

Wondering if I should put advertisement in this blog. Will ask your Pa and Ma for permission before I do that.