Anousheh Ansari, the first female space tourist who paid a hefty $20million USD to become a space tourist keeps connected to earth via her blog at http://anoushehansari.com/. I was trying to check her blog but it’s always busy. It seems like she’s getting thousands of visits these past few days.

I wonder if she’s monetizing all those traffic. Probably not. If somebody has $20million to spare for a once-in-a-lifetime space vacation, I don’t think she needs any blog monetization.

So, it’s not that impossible after all. One can go to space even if you’re not a pilot, scientist, or a NASA employee. One of my childhood dreams was to become an Astronaut. Unfortunately, there is no course in becoming an astronaut here in the Philippines. What about you? Did you ever dreamt of going into space?

What a way to start my personal blog. I’ve been using blogs before for SEO purposes and other monetization. Early this year, I started pro-blogging on a couple of blogs but I still haven’t started my very own.

So here it is! My first post at noelbautista.com and its about the First Philippine Blogcon. Few of the familiar faces I recognized was yuga, marc, gail, angelo, jayvee, gloria gamat, all the way from bicol, rico , chris with his awesome camera (i want one of those), markku, sasha.

I finally saw the famous man behind retswerx, noemi, mike abundo, ka edong. I wasn’t able to meed the others. Daming tao!

Thanks to Innove for that wonderful dinner.

Noemi did a talk about blogging with some very interesting statistics, Jayvee with some live podcasting there, Yuga about Philippine blogging history and problogging, and Marc on SEO.

Can’t wait for the next round of BlogCon on any blog meetups.