Archive for January, 2008
Friday, January 25th, 2008
Everyone and their uncle is a content producer these days. I'm doing it, you're doing it. You could say we've had an explosion in the number of content producers out there. So how can all of these people think they have a legitimate shot at being read? ...
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
I've been giving some thought to a basic struggle for any professional blogger. You have to weigh your very real needs of income with the very real needs of your visitors. If you can strike a balance, you have a blog that can earn money and keep coming ...
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
Inline Advertising works on some blogs. I've been using inline ads for at least 8 months now, and I have a few observations. The dream of inline ads is that you can continue to earn your normal Google Adsense money, and by adding the inline advertisements (Intellitext, Chitika ...
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Monday, January 21st, 2008
It's not hard to understand why people decide to "spam" the internet. They realize how tough the content creation process is, and they don't want any part of it. If you've attempted to create unique and interesting content for any period of time, you realize it takes real ...
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Thursday, January 10th, 2008
There is no doubt that widgets will be huge in 2008. What's not to like about distributed web applications, especially when they offer high levels of interoperability with the web's most popular destination sites. Just how tough is it to get a widget launched? Not very. ...
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Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
WidgetBucks was doing okay, and then a major snag in updating their stats seems to have derailed the good faith the company was starting to build with bloggers.
They have not updated their stats for 8 days now, which makes anyone look shady, and they haven't even commented in their blog ...
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
This assumes you 1) have Linux 2) Have rsync installed and 3) have shell access. If you do, the steps towards upgrading wordpress are like so.
1) Get the newest version of Wordpress from Wordpress.
2) Gzip decompress and untar the file.
3) Type the following commands at the command line (minus ...
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
I've reviewed WidgetBucks in the past in detail, so I thought I would follow up now that I've received my first payment for WidgetBucks. It came via PayPal and was for November 2007. So far my experience with the company has been a pleasant one, and I feel ...
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Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008
The totals are in for 2007 and 61,789 people clicked on ads on my blogs last year. Yep. I feel like that is a decent total for a two man company with a zero dollar marketing budget. To me this is proof positive of how powerful of ...
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