Unsolicited Testimonials This week I figured I’d try something a little bit different. I’m not usually one for product reviews, except for talking about different websites from time to...
Ten Thousand Fingers: Little Things Count When we were unpacking the delightful Nintendo Wii a few weeks ago, I was marvelling at how well-thought-out the process was. Beautiful, pleasant, and of cou...
Spare Some Change for the Times? So, the New York Times announced that they’re moving some content behind a paywall , and of course the chorus of “oh noes!” overshadowed any other messages th...
Make Money Fast I guess ad space on blogs is worth something. Remember back when Google wouldn’t let bloggers run AdSense on their sites? Now they’re spamming people to convi...
Nigritude Ultramarine Update: The contest is over, and this entry did pretty well but didn’t win the initial prize. So the best purpose this page can serve is to direct you to Th...
Content Targetting for Personal Ads Sure, personal ads are one of the biggest money-makers on the web, with everyone from InterActiveCorp to Friendster being involved in the space, and of course...
oprah opportunities Given that Oprah is reviving her book club and featuring a host of classics that are mostly, one presumes, in the public domain, it seems like a tremendous o...
payment LINK tags There are already a lot of defined (if not quite standardized) possible values for the LINK element in XHTML. We’re using them for RSS Auto-Discovery and...
Daily Links are fixed I redid the way my Daily Links work, so I’ll be able to do a lot more with them. For the 99% of you who don’t know what those are, the sidebar here is what’s...
return of the crazy person Someone’s been spamming comment forms on weblogs with an Amazon affiliate link to Meg, Matt and Paul’s book, " We Blog ". You can see examples here...
another bad movie idea I am going to make a bad action movie about the Internet and it’s going to be called "Inbox: Klezstorm!"....
Affiliate fees pay more than royalties for many authors Thanks to Amazon.com�s Associate program, if you use this page to buy my book from Amazon they pay me a commission that�s more than I earn on the royalty fro...
Quick take on Action Engine, Quick take on Action Engine , whose product got blurbed on the news wires today: They make software to translate web-based interaction, especially transacti...
Seems I was right below, Seems I was right below, as blog*spot is registered to Pyra . And (GASP!) it has banner ads !...
Odd... MSN's eshop agreed to Odd… MSN’s eshop agreed to include epinions reviews on their site, but apparently they’ve only managed to sign up 9 members under their affiliate program ....
I've been saying of all I’ve been saying of all the recent too-good-to-be-true offers of services and products on the web, "Get ’em while they last!" and now someone has act...
bad dad goes to the market Went to the grocery store the other day. (Did I mention I love grocery stores ?) The fellow in front of me in the express aisle had three items: A 6-pack of...