As you know, I occasionally write paid posts for the blog advertising service PayPerPost. I have made about $1,000 through these posts in the past six months or so. Not enough for it to be a real job, but a nice additional piece of money. With it I have bought a fancy-dancy video iPod and a plane ticket. Unfortunately, with my recently reduced PageRank that I mentioned earlier today, I haven’t been able to take many well-paying posts. None of the lesser-paying ones have been interesting - a lot of financial stuff - so I haven’t really been doing many of them either.

But PPP is offering a new feature that will undoubtedly bring their servers to a screeching halt once a week. They’ve announced $1K Tuesdays, where once a week between 12am and 12pm they are going to offer one opportunity worth $1000 that won’t be restricted by website rank, or to any specific topical blog, or any other way. (Those restrictions are known as segmentation in PPP-speak.) I’m not sure that I will ever be around to catch one of these $1000 posts, and they don’t say what they’re going to be about or what they’ll require bloggers to include in their post. Personally, I think they should restrict bloggers to only catching this opportunity once - that way everyone would have a turn.

But anyway, their servers will undoubtedly be straining a few hours from now. (I just realized - is that eastern time, pacific, UTC, or what?) They were smart to announce this on a Monday night because now every PPP blogger will be looking for this tomorrow!