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After ignoring Text Link Ads for quite some time I finally decided to give them a try a few months ago. One of the reasons I hadn’t tried them before was because of the controversy about buying/selling links on websites. For example, Google doesn’t particularly like when people buy links on high PageRank webpages to [...]

Blog memes are pretty cool – I think the viral aspect of them is quite interesting. It looks like Collis over at North X East has tagged me in a meme started by The Paper Bull called “If I Could Only Read 5 blogs”.
That’s a hard one… I subscribe to a few dozen blogs and [...]

I’m very interested in viral marketing. It’s just fascinating to see what gets picked up and becomes viral and watching how it grows. You can learn a lot by watching successful viral campaigns, reverse engineering them and trying to figure out what made them viral. One viral campaign that I think went pretty well is [...]

OK, I’m not going to post about how sorry I am that I haven’t posted on this blog recently, that I’ve been so busy, the days have just flown by and… oh, wait, I just did ;) Oh, well…
I just checked my RSS stats on the FeedBurner widget and it looks like I have 50 [...]

I just added the FeedBurner widget FeedCount that shows how many people are subscribed to my RSS feed. You can see it to the right in the sidebar. I wanted to wait a little until adding this because it’s more impressive when your subscribers are at least 2 digits ;)
If you’re using WordPress you should [...]

I mentioned John Chow in an earlier post. Well, John is a real up-and-comer in the blogosphere and is on his way to become an internet celebrity ;) His blog is already in the Technorati Top 1000 and he’s set on reaching the Top 100 before the end of this year. You might say that [...]

WordPress released a new upgrade – version 2.0.7. This is an important upgrade because it fixes a PHP security problem and a FeedBurner issue that was in 2.0.6. I had noticed the FeedBurner problem – often when I checked the RSS feed for this blog (and other WordPress blogs) I often got the error message [...]

One blog that I frequently visit is JohnChow.com. Today when I was going to check his RSS feed through Live Bookmarks in Firefox I got the message “Live Bookmark feed failed to load.” So I typed johnchow.com into the location bar and then I saw this:

I filtered out the text because I don’t want to [...]