Review: Need a Web Host?

Check it out, folks… WebHostingChoice.com is in the hizzy. (Yes, I know I should stay away from the slanguage.)

I’ve been asked to review this site, so here we go…

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Demonoid.com Shut Down - again - by CRIA

As of 06:00am EST, the website at demonoid.com and demonoid.cc are showing the following message:

The CRIA threatened the company renting the servers to us, and because of this it is not possible to keep the site online. Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for your understanding.

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Ecotourism in Maui?

One of my goals when initially monetizing my blog was to use the revenue to pay for a Hawaiian vacation.  Yeah, I know… everyone hopes their blog will make enough to do just that.  Well, I still haven’t made enough for a Hawaiian vacation, but I’ve been looking into it, and saving a bit here and there.

Turns out there’s an interesting idea out there.  Ecotourism.  Basically, ecotourism is ecologically sustainable nature/culture based tourism that supports local communities. I did some looking around at a Hawaiian Beach Rentals website, recently, and apparently this ecotourism thing is the new “in” way to vacation.

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Google Crashes a Party, AdSense Takes a Nosedive

eBay, in a startling, unforeseen move, pulled their entire advertising budget from Google’s U.S. network.  eBay ads will no longer be shown in Google’s AdSense program.  It us unknown how this will effect AdSense publisher earnings.

The removal of all eBay advertising from Google began when Google attempted to crash eBay’s user conference, in Boston, this week.  eBay is holding their annual user conference, this week, in Boston.  Google, in an effort to promote their Google Checkout program, unveiled plans for the Google Checkout Freedom Party.  The event was intended to try to convince eBay - via lobby from eBay users - to start accepting Google’s Checkout, a direct rival of eBay-owned PayPal (eBay has banned Google Checkout from their system, stating that it has yet to prove itself in fraud protection).  All attendees of eBay’s user conference were given special invitations to attend Google’s Checkout Freedom Party, for free food, free drinks, and free massages.

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Review: Linkworth.com

LinkWorth, a text link advertising company, is a competitor of TextLinkAds.  They are also a company I use on this very website (as well as others I maintain) LinkWorth bills themselves as a Search Engine Marketing company.  Their primary business is selling links on partner/publisher websites.

LinkWorth offers many products in their repertoire:

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Review: Data Deposit Box

Heard about Data Deposit Box, yet?  The buzz around here is that they’re going to tbe the Next Big Thing for online data backup and storage. (”Around here” would be my day job.)

Although I am being compensated for this review (loudlaunch.com), I honestly think Data Deposit Box has something.  They’ve only just launched - their press release is dated February 13th, 2007.  They cite the growing list of data loss reports, and specifically mention Johns Hopkins University and Hospital’s issue of losing backup tapes containing payroll data on over 50,000 workers, and medical information on some 83,000 patients.  I have to admit, I, myself, watch the news to see what boneheaded company is going to lose their data, next.  I have a low margin of worry that - eventually - someone will lose my data.

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Site Restart

Hello, folks.  It’s been a while since MindBlog has been active (the blog part, not the mind).  There are several reasons for this, not the least of which is my marriage (and my husbandly duties).  That’s right, I got married on December 23rd, 2006 (Christmas was overbooked, what with some dude having a huge birthday bash).

I know it’s been a while since I’ve actively updated MindBlog, and I sincerely apologize for that (or, at least, I’m attempting to seem sincere).  I honestly just lost the drive to blog (transmission went out).  In a way, I was adrift in the sea of the Internet (flare gun got wet).  This, however, turned out to be a good thing.

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Site: Time to Move House…

I’ve been getting more and more disappointed with my current web host’s server.  I’m hosted for free on a server sponsored by EV1 Servers.  The company (EV1) decided to sponsor this server, and its hostees, after the original owner of the server died in November of 2005.  The server owner was not only a personal friend, but was friends with around 98% of the EV1 staff.  I tipped my hat, and still do, to Robert Marsh (CEO of EV1) and company.  Unfortunately, however, the people
in charge of ensuring the server runs adequately have not been doing their job.

For instance:  When I attempt to navigate through my WP Admin interface, the system takes forever to load each page.  Whenever I attempt to edit a post or page via the wp-admin interface, I often must refresh the page three and four times before it loads correctly.

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One Giant Blog Trick That Will Increase Your Readers Ten-Fold.

It’s not always as simple as it sounds.  Writing for a blog, I mean.  You come up with a great idea, you write the heck out of it in a blog post featuring all of the latest attention-getting tricks…  Bold headers, font sizing, lists, images, etc…  You spend a solid two hours writing the best post you’ve ever conceived.  You come up with what you think is a great headline… “Bringing in More Adsense Profits”.  You hit publish, and anxiously wait to see the masses click to your blog.

Three days later, your two-hour article has received exactly fifty hits.

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Siezing the Moment

Pearsonified has an interesting article about siezing the blog moment.  Yes, I know it’s from back in last December, but forgive me, I’ve only just found that blog. heh.  In the article, Chris discusses ways to sieze the blog moment - in other words, ways to increase the chances of your grabbing a bloggable moment (whether to blog about it, immediately, or late).

A lot of times, we go through our days experiencing thing after thing that we could blog about.  Unfortunately, we’re never in front of our computer when that happens.  So…  What can we do to increase the chances that we’ll still have that bloggable moment with us when we sit down and put fingers to keyboard?  Chris has a four item list, and I’m adding a couple more items.  Here we go:
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