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First of all I would like to point out that I’m still behind the idea of Entrecard and I don’t want to upset people by the title of this post.

When you’re a starter blog, you can really get your name out in the community with the simple use of the Entrecard widget.

For those who still don’t know how it works, you place the widget on your site and some other blog owner buy’s the ad space for 1 day if you’ll approve it. Also you can earn Entrecard Credits by simply drop your card on other widgets.
At first it can be very addictive, and then you’ll work out a system to drop the cards as fast as you can, …

That’s basically it.

But a month or 2 back they dramatically changed the pricing system and in my opinion they made a mistake by doing this.
I understand why they did this, but this change is actually most appealing to the established big blogs and a few others.

Before almost anyone could get their ad listed on a big blog if they saved their credits for it. (I feel this is a pretty fair deal)
After the change, you still can do this, but it’s going to cost you a lot of credits, and the question then is, is it still worth it?

For example, before you had to pay 700EC at most to get your ad listed somewhere.
Hell,  I got my ad on JohnChow.com for just 248EC (Entrecard credits) and receive 44 drops.
Now it costs 4096EC due to the new price system. Even if you get 144 drops then, is it still worth it to pay this amount, just to get your ad displayed on a big site?

Also if you look at the activity on the Entrecard forum, I feel it’s dramatically changed from very very active to just active.

I noticed a change in my Entrecard activity itself, from being an active dropper to an occasional dropper if I have some time to spare.  I even thought about removing the widget and stopping with Entrecard completely. But the idea behind the whole Entrecard thing and the community at Entrecard is convincing me to give it a few more months.

And all of this, I think is because of the change in the price system which is really sad, because it’s really a nice system that can help the smaller and the big blogs.
What about you, do you feel the same as me or am I the only one who has this opinion? I’d love to hear it.

A few minutes back I saw the local news here. As most of you now I’m living in the nicest part of Belgium, Limburg. And the race circuit of Zolder is almost in my backyard. Now it happens to be that the people of Top Gear rented this particular race track for a couple of days to make some shoots.

One of the things they did was drive around the track, or part of the track with some customized cars. They made a double-decker car to race in. The one that sits below controls the speed and brakes and the one on top steers. From the few things I’ve seen on the news it must be lots of fun to drive this way.

But at the end of the short video, they showed the Stig without a helmet!

Here’s the link to the video I’m talking about, thx to www.TVL.be

Now the only thing we have to work out is it really the Stig or are they just messing with us.
I did a little research and compared a few pictures of known race drivers, but till now I can’t seem to recognize him.

Anyone of you recognizes him? Shout your names here, and we’ll investigate it further.

Update!!!!

Thx to some friends of me, we think we found out who this bloke is. It’s German’s, yes that’s right a German driver, Tim Schrick. The resemblance is hard to miss.

Stig without a helmet on the original footage from TVL.be and Tim Schrick next to it.

If you got the skills and a nose for fresh news, maybe you can be the new ProBlogger?
Yup that’s right, you’ll get paid for blogging, who doesn’t want that?

How?
Well, take a look at Beck’s beer site, they’re in search for a new talented writer who’s willing to get paid for blogging.

All you’ll have to do is apply on their site, file in a few questions, make a little post about why they should pick you out of all the rest.
And finally you’ll have to create a little post for them so they can compare your writing style with others. The post has to be about ‘someone who can’t say no’.

So you got the skills to become the new problogger on the block? Then fill in their application form now!

This video from yesterday’s match between Club Brugge and Westerlo says enough about the loss of Club Brugge’s 26 year old striker Francois Sterchele.
A fitting tribute to a player that always smiled.

It gives me the shivers every time I look at it, this is soccer also.

Last night on his way home, Francois Sterchele (26 years old) died due to a traffic accident. For an unknown reason he lost control of his Porsche Cayman S and crashed into a tree.
In his first year at Club Brugge, he scored 11 goals, not as much as last year when he ended up at the top spot with 21 goals for Germinal Beerschot, but he managed to get is top transfer to one of the bigger teams in Belgium when he signed a five year contract at Club Brugge.

Although I’m a fan of another team, it was always a joy watching him play. You could see he still had lots of fun when playing soccer, that’s what made him as good as he was I think. He stayed normal like every other guy.

Club Brugge and his family and friend have lost a great friend, a marvelous player and an excellent teammate today.

This weekend the last soccer matches of the season in the Belgian competition will be played, but I’m convinced that every team will take some time just before kickoff to honor Francois Sterchele and his family and friends.