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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I recently joined the Clickbooth Advertising Network. Clickbooth is an affiliate/advertising network that features some pretty big name brands with advertising programs available for publishers Now just let me start this off by saying that my initial impressions of […]

Intense Debate promises to revolutionize blog commenting, but will it live up to the promise, or will devilish details derail an otherwise fine idea?
Intense Debate is a commenting system that strives to bring a little more structure and usability to the traditional blog’s comments. Even though it is currently in beta, most of the advertised […]

The Random Forest is a personal blog that covers bits of randomness in a fashoin similar to that of our own techne-eikon. There isn’t a lot of content there yet, but what is there struck me as well written, and worth reading and/or keeping an eye on. A especially like his report on his AdWords […]

As you may be aware, Walmart sells PC’s with Linux as the operating system through their online store. The specific distro is called gOS, or Good OS. When I first heard of this, I didn’t think much of it, expecting that they would just use one of the many fine Linux distributions available. Then I […]

Social networking has really taken off in a big way, with new sites cropping up in every market and niche imaginable, and established companies incorporating Web 2.0 strategies into their existing sites. For example, suppose you wanted to search for Nantucket vacation rentals. You might choose to go to WeNeedAVacation.com to find that perfect vacation […]

The deed is done, and Wordpress is upgraded to version 2.5. All in all, it was mostly painless, though there seems to be an issue with the plugin upgrade script, as a couple of my plugins vanished after the one click plugin upgrade. Fortunately, nothing that I would call “mission critical”, so I’ll mess with […]

Continuing my search for a DIY publisher, I decided to add Lulu.com to my short list. I had previously seen Lulu, and at the time wasn’t overly impressed. Things have changed. Lulu’s self publish options have expanded beyond books, far beyond in fact. Offerings now range from books to calendars to mouse pdas for printed […]

There’s this little thing I’ve been doing on the side for a little while now: writing fiction. Mainly in the literary romance genre, but not exclusively. The vast majority of my stories are short, and written for an audience of one, namely my wife (she likes that kind of thing). Now, at her suggestion, I […]

I only just discovered Netvibes Coriander release just over a month ago, and was instantly hooked. This Friday last, I was offered an invite to Netvibes Ginger private beta, and if I was hooked before, I’m a flat out junkie now. If you don’t know what Netvibes is, let me take a moment to give […]

I finally finished the Simpleolgy Blogging Course, and overall, I have to give it a couple of thumbs up. The course is comprised of 15 short video lessons, with each lesson having a short quiz associated with it, just to check your understanding of the materials presented. Each video is 3 to 6 minutes long, […]