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Questions I Can’t Answer

January 13th, 2009 | 4 Comments

Why do documentaries about terrorists always show them playing on monkey bars? Is this supposed to scare us? Why is it an old man will pick his nose sitting five feet away from you in his car at a stop light, but wouldn’t do it five feet away from you while standing on the sidewalk? Why is it that when you, eh hem… go #2 (drop a deuce, lay some cable, etc) that you certainly recognize the stink as bad but you can handle it… but if you walked into the bathroom after someone else went, you find yourself practically gagging? Why is it OK to cut someone off while driving because somehow they deserve it (going too slow maybe?), but when someone cuts YOU off, they’re driving like a maniac? Isn’t it odd … Read entire article »

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Adding In Your Head the Easy Way

January 13th, 2009 | Comments Off

We were taught in school to add from right to left, but adding left to right is much easier! Take the following math problem. 186 +297 +394 Look at this problem this way… 100 +200 +300 We can all add that up easily, which is 600. Now we’re going to move our attention to the middle column and just keep adding to our total… 600+80 = 680… 680+90=770… 770+90=860… Now we add the right-hand column to that… 860+6 = 866… 866+7=873…873+4=877. With just a little practice, you’ll be adding numbers in your head about as quickly as you can add them on paper, and you’re never really “carrying” numbers the old-fashioned way, it’s more of a running total to which you keep adding numbers. Give it a try. … Read entire article »

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Guerilla Myspace Tracking

January 12th, 2009 | 2 Comments

There are no Myspace trackers that are very good. Most of them work as follows: You insert a code into your page title. This code actually displays a hidden image hosted on the tracker’s machine. The tracker grabs the IP address and tells you that someone visited your page at a certain time. It is up to the users to figure out which IP address is which Myspace user. If the person visiting your page didn’t email or leave a comment, there’s really no way of knowing who the visitor was. (Ideally, if they send an email at 3:21pm for example, and your tracker shows a hit at 3:21pm, you can then matchup that IP address to that visitor.) … Read entire article »

Filed under: Social Media

10 Simple Link Building Strategies

January 12th, 2009 | Comments Off

Link building is still the lifeblood of a website’s success. Here are a few ideas to kick around that might help you get started in your link building efforts. 1. Build a “Top 10″ or “101″ list related to your site and submit it to Digg 2. Create an article debunking myths on your site’s topic 3. Send out a press release to PRWeb.com and PRLeap.com 4. Post an occasional Craigslist ad for your site’s service or product 5. Set up a Squidoo page 6. Link to other sites or blogs on your blogroll or links page 7. Leave comments on other blogs/sites 8. Hold a contest. It doesn’t have to be elaborate. 9. Create a different site with more “linkable” content 10. Create a humorous email which also happens to link to your site, and pass it around … Read entire article »

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Dream Prophecy, part 1

January 12th, 2009 | Comments Off

I still remember the date. It was the summer morning of August 15, 1987. I awoke from the most epic, vivid, and startling dream I ever had. I sat up in a daze, thinking of the images that had just marched past me. I knew this wasn’t an ordinary dream of random images. I knew that it actually meant something. And I didn’t have to sort through bizarre symbols to decode it. Everything I saw was literal and very real to me. … Read entire article »

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The Most Successful Blogs?

January 11th, 2009 | 1 Comment

Aside from blogs by experts or celebrities, have you noticed that the most successful blogs are the ones focusing on how to create successful blogs? And so many of them all say the same things, too. It seems there is a huge network of blogs that are popular because they tell people how to be popular. But those blogs themselves didn’t get popular with “normal” content. Kind of like how the only people making money from “business opportunities” are the ones selling them, not the ones buying them. The most successful bloggers are the ones telling others how to be successful blogging. And most of the time, their readers don’t reap the same rewards. … Read entire article »

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Scam Alert Website Lists

January 10th, 2009 | 130 Comments

I thought it might be a good idea to keep a simple updated list of the sites I believe are scams or misleading in some way, most of which I have either seen advertising on sites such as Facebook or Myspace.com, or are sites that I have found related to or linked to from these sites. Most are promising earnings of $5000 a month or more on Google working part time at home, or government grants. You really need to be skeptical of such promises. If you were making $5000 a month, would you really want to peddle your “secret” to everyone, thus ruining your good thing? The only money being made in all of this is the selling of this phony “secret” to unsuspecting consumers. The $5000 a month ads … Read entire article »

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Scam Alert #2

January 9th, 2009 | 2 Comments

After my first posting about a phony ad I saw on Myspace yesterday, I thought I would be done with it. But then today I noticed a very similar ad, with similar promises. When I went to the site, it was all similar. Too similar. Not only that, but it boasted the SAME check that “Kevin” had in the site I blasted yesterday, but this time with the name blacked out. … Read entire article »

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Spotting Scam Websites

January 8th, 2009 | Comments Off

A Cyberworld Full of Fakes I am almost ashamed to admit that at 40 years old I still maintain a Myspace page. Almost. But anyway, today I noticed a huge ad with a picture of a 20-something cheesy guy claiming to have made over $5000 a month posting links on Google. It reminded me of those Don Lapre ads on TV back in the day… “I made a fortune placing tiny classified ads..” Of course the people bought that up hook, line, and sinker.. and never researched the scam artist that he was. But that was before the Internet was so prevalent. Nowadays you can find out if someone is the real deal almost instantly. Yet people still fall for the same things over and over. … Read entire article »

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