Coretta Scott King, wife of Martin Luther King, Jr. has died at age 78, on Monday.
God grant you rest, Coretta Scott King. Your will, zeal, and fire will be missed. Tell your husband, when you see him, that millions upon millions say “thank you.”
Is seems Elliott Back can’t make up his mind on which ad network he really supports. A visit to his website, this morning, shows a very prominent “This site recommends Google AdSense for targeted ads” banner at the top of the page, as shown in the below image:
A Jack of All Blogs » Blog Archive » Avoiding Web 6.0 failures..
Cowboy, over at Jack of All Blogs, has re-defined Web 2.0. Web 6.0 certainly seems a more viable term.
I’ve implemented several practices to keep my comment spam down, and I’m about to implement SpamKarma, as well. Thus far, I’ve had very few spams slip through (perhaps one out of every thirty) the moderation cracks. The moderated ones are two clicks away from deletion at all times, so it’s been fairly easy to keep the spam down on this blog.
Today, however, I was thoroughly amused. Some automated spam system got stuck on one of my entries and generated 201 moderated spam comments on a single entry. What made me splort diet coke out of my nose was the fact that it was the Entry about the Lesbian Cheerleaders, which is - by far - my single most successful entry, short of the Christmas deals one (that everyone looking for an LCD TV by RLisense tends to check out). For you bloggers who are interested in monetization, that second link (the Christmas deals) is a good one to check out. About a month after I wrote the entry, I noticed it was doing staggeringly well at bringing in traffic. Previously there were no advertisements on it, so I went back and added two through Adgenta, and I’m considering adding one through Chitika (after removing an Adgenta ad). It’s called making the most of your archives, folks.
I promised three great If You Could posts to start out the series, so here’s number two. If you could be president for a day, what would you do?
Here are the rules:
1) Any executive order you enact will not be overturned during the current administration. (In other words, if you say do it, it is done, and is not reversed later on.)
Steve Pavlina (the “Wake up and polyphasic sleep” king) has written an excellent post on building a high-traffic web site/blog. As I am getting tired of reblogging, I’m going to take this opportunity to write a like-minded post, directed at the bottom third of the blogosphere.
So, here’s what you need to do to pull in as little traffic as possible to your blog.
1. Create typical, disposable content.
Spend your time each day writing about the most trivial things you can think of. If you see a news story worthy of being blogged, take the time to pull out the little nit-picky things, and write about them. After all, someone has to pick apart the news, right?
Beyond that, make certain you only write topics of interest to a small segment of the population. Forget writing for mid-twenties technogeeks. Forget writing for baby boomers looking to feel secure as they edge toward retirement. Write for the elderly, former nazi supporters. Write for the Young African American Greater United States Chess Foundation*. Oh, and before I forget, make certain your posts offend as many people as humanly possible. (*organization does not actually exist.)
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There are two new amateur blogging blogs on the scene, in the past month. First, we start with Amblogger. Amblogger is the brainchild of Vince Chan (of VinceChan.net and Investorial.com fame). Amblogger is described (on its about page) as being, “the Blog that is proud to be amateur and to help amateur bloggers squeeze every ounce of fun from blogging about their passion!”
Amblogger appears to be concentrating more on blogging than on monetization of amateur blogs. Vince looks like he’s pretty spot-on with what the amateur blogging market needs, right now. A website dedicated to the passion of blogging.
Guidelines for Teen Pro Bloggers: Blog Tips at ProBlogger
— Darren Rowse writes an excellent article on tips for teen bloggers. While it is geared towards “pro” bloggers, Darren approaches that term differently than I. In short, anyone under the age of eighteen who is thinking seriously about blogging, or who is already seriously blogging, needs to read this post.
A few of you have asked me just what other blogs and websites are my inspiration for a good portion of articles, here. Well, I thought I’d show you what my firefox tab bar looks like on any given day. Keep in mind that the following image has been compressed for size:
