ADEREMI'S NOTEBOOK

— This is Nollywood is a documentary on “Bond Emeruwa’s quest to make a feature-length action film in just 9 days”. (2)

— A beautiful review of the “King of Scotland” by Teju Cole. As always, well written. #

— Google now officially searches the Nigerian webspace (Temi) (2)

— Dare Obasanjo who works at Microsoft met Bill Gates last week. Bill wanted to have a chat about Nigeria. (4)

— Bella Naija has some photos of Jay-Z in Kwara state during his tour to Nigeria. They even named a street after him. Na wa o! (3)

— RIBS has a nice collection of “Rain” songs featuring oldies like Tempatations to comtemporaries like Jamie Foxx. There is a review of the collection here. “Can You Stand The Rain” by New Edition and recently by Boyz II men, was a favourite of mine for sometime. (Listen now) (1)

— Jag shares five things to do in NW9 and London town. “You can experience the best view in the whole of London from the very front of the top deck of the Route 79 bus.” (2)

How to setup a blog and be popular (7)

I got an email today, it read “I love this blog thing, pls how can I have something like this? How will i be able to attract people to my blog?” My reply has turned into this post. Please join the conversation if you have more tips.

1. Start simple. Register with one of the free blog providers like blogger or worpress. This means you don’t have to worry any of the technical wits of setting up the blog.
2. Focus on a few topics. No point repeating BBC news every time. Try to put an angle on the news. Your audience will be interested in what you think. Take Bella Naija for example, she focuses on African fashion, Naija music and celebrities.
3. Do your research. This is important. Don’t write stuff you can’t back up. You’ll quickly lose credibility. Chippla does his research and it reflects when he writes.
4. Read other blogs and be inspired. Contribute comments to posts on those blogs.
5. Join webrings or groups of common interest. e.g Nigerian Bloggers and 9rules
6. If you think others will find your post useful, post it on Digg or Muti.

Keeping writing, someday someone will realise how amazing your blog is and you will be popular.

My Cubicle (4)

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I had a smile all day.

— Chippla has produced a 20 minute animated documentary on the candidates constesting the 2007 Nigerian Presidential election. (2)