Break the Blog Mold
Have you ever noticed that a lot of bloggers seem to be doing a lot of brainless things on their website? I mean, I’ve surfed a lot and seen many different sites, but only a few of them stand out and hit me as blogs that try to do something different. I’d [...]
Privacy? What Privacy?
Yesterday, an AP story started out like this:
“WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI acknowledged it improperly accessed Americans’ telephone records, credit reports and Internet traffic in 2006, the fourth straight year of privacy abuses resulting from investigations aimed at tracking terrorists and spies.”
I don’t know about you, but I like my privacy…or at least the perception [...]
The Right Way to eBay
February 27, 2008 by Nick
Filed under Opinions, Save Money, eBay
It still amazes me how few people actually understand the principle of eBay. You’d think that by now everyone would know how to use eBay properly, wouldn’t you? If that’s the case, how come auctions get botched up and prices get driven through the roof due to bad eBayers?
Especially when talking about technology, [...]
Face It: You Can’t Blog.
February 21, 2008 by Nick
Filed under Making Money, Motivation, Opinions
Like any business, the chances that you will succeed at getting paid to blog is very small if you don’t know what you’re doing. And chances are, you don’t know what you’re doing. Even though blogging is easy enough for anyone to do, it’s not easy to do it right and even more [...]
Google’s SERP Criteria
I’m a big fan of Matt Cutts, Google’s anti-SPAM czar. Matt is the man in charge of Google’s Webspam team and he often expresses his opinions along with helpful hints and tips on his blog. In addition to being a friendly blogger and conference speaker, Matt often posts nuggets that help us “ordinary” [...]