For various reasons, you may consider converting your personal residence to rental property. This decision is often made as a result of hte inability to sell the property at a gain, the desire to retain the property for future personal …
Adsense: The Trailer Parks of the Web
I’ve been feeling a groundswell of animosity toward websites with Adsense. I’ve seen directories starting to make the decision to list a site or not based on how obnoxious the Adsense ads are. I’ve seen Wikipedia editors, the ones who …
Google and Text Link Advertising
This is an interesting issue, and I’m sure it’s only going to become bigger.
Google created the text link market by placing value on text links for search results.
Google competes directly with websites who sell text links with their …
Progress toward my end year goal
I haven’t had much time to post to this blog in the past couple weeks, even less than usually, as I’m working day and night to meet my year end goal. The goal is 100 presentable websites. More precisely I …
Forum Promotion with Contests, a case study
One of the most difficult jobs of webmaster is getting a community site off the ground. Among the most successful methods of promoting a new forum is by running a contest. I’ve been following a contest put on by Lee …
Register Linking New Blogs
Anyone who blogs should keep an eye on what new blogs are starting, and be generous with links. Whether you’re a well established blogger, or the newest blog on the block, link out. I believe that linking out is just …
Blogs are not a business
I wanted to follow up on my earlier point, about bloggers who are missing the point. It seems to me that the reason I’m thinking about this in such different terms is that I just don’t see blogging as a …
Give
We all get caught up in our own lives. I know I do. Too much sometimes. Focused on my own success, and how to get more. It’s important to me to remember to stop for a moment, and think of …
Pubcon Boston in the AM
Yea, perhaps I’ll drag myself into the city in time to see the 9AM keynote by Malcolm Gladwell. I’m not sure exactly what he has to add to the whole thing. I did read his book, The Tipping Point, a …
BroadVoice – Worst Voip Service
I’m always happy to give a small startup the benefit of the doubt, and give them a chance. So, I signed up with BroadVoice instead of Vonage. Mistake. I estimate about 50% of the calls we attempted through BroadVoice wouldn’t …