Have We Seen The End of Readbud?

The Readbud website was down all day yesterday. My browser just couldn’t find it at all. Has Readbud shutdown? I don’t know, but it makes me wonder. With so many users complaining that they haven’t got paid, it seems unlikely that the site could continue to go on indefinitely.

This is not the first time the site has been down though. I did some checking and discovered that it used to go down a lot: What is Wrong With Readbud?     Readbud Down?

Real Life Screaming Skulls

Screaming skulls are not just the invention of fiction authors and film producers. In England stories of screaming skulls are legendary. More often than not the origins of the skull are a little hazy, and have often been proven to be untrue, but all of these stories share one thing in common: whenever the skull is removed from its home it screams. Poltergeist activity may also occur in the home, along with other symptoms of a haunting, and this goes on until the skull is returned to its preferred resting place: Screaming Skulls: An English Tradition

Is ReadBud a Scam? Latest Update

About five weeks ago I began my investigation of the supposedly paid to read site ReadBud.com. After I had read several articles like this one I began to believe that ReadBud was just yet another of the many internet scam sites that promises to payout, but never do so.

A lot of people report that the site initially provided them with enough articles to accrue a little over $1 a day in their ReadBud account. Then when they reached a balance of $30 they were given less articles, in many cases, were only accruing 20 cents a day. The ReadBud users then persevered with the site until they reached the $50 payout threshold. Sadly ReadBud never paid out.

So far my experiences with ReadBud are exactly the same as those I have read about. In the beginning I was getting an average of 15 to 20 articles a day and accruing $1.00 to $1.30. Then when the balance of my ReadBud account reached the magic £30.00 mark it was as if a switch had been thrown, the results were instant, and I now receive an average of only 6 articles a day, which only allows me to accrue about 30 cents a day. Of course this means nothing anyway because I am absolutely convinced that ReadBud is a scam and that they do not have any intention of paying their users anyway.

I shall continue to read and rate articles at ReadBud until I reach their payout threshold of $50. At this rate it will take a very long time, but at least I will not be wasting too much of my time rating their articles. I will write an update when I reach $50 and if and when they do not pay me I will also, very gladly, post another update. If you are reading this article because you are considering joining ReadBud in order to make a little extra money I would advise against it. Time is money, so why waste the one when it is unlikely that you will ever get the other? I can, however, vouch for the integrity of the Triond writing site. Triond has a payment threshold of just 50 cents, they pay me every month and the articles that I have written for them should continue to generate revenue for the rest of my life. HubPages is also a genuine site, but it can take a lot longer to receive any payment from them because the revenue is generated through Adsense and Google Adsense has a minimum payment threshold of $100.

The Real Positronic Brain is On its Way

Over seventy years ago Isaac Asimov began writing his first robot stories he gave them positronic brains that enabled them to not only think for themselves, but to also learn from their mistakes. Robots that could think! It was a fantastic idea and it was not long before the term ‘postitronic brain’ began being used by other science fiction writers. Positronic brains were mentioned in more than one episode of Doctor Who, they also turned up in the movie i Robot, and Star Trek the Next Generation’s Mr Data also boasts a positronic brain. What began as science fiction, however, may soon become science fact because recent breakthroughs in technology may enable computers to function in a similar manner to the human brain: The Positronic Brain: Science Fiction May Become Science Fact.

A Twenty Percent Bonus is Better Than No Bonus

When I heard about Triond’s February bonuses I had every intention of writing 20 or more articles so that I would qualify for a 30% bonus payment. My output fell short, however, and I only wrote a total of 15 articles in February. That is okay though, because I will still receive a bonus of 20% and I even without the bonus my earning for the month are considerable higher than last month.