Written on September 22nd, surf Active Apparel website Men's Online Clothes Shopping 1 zone.at 11:09 pm by David Shawver Stanton
Group Writing Project Winners
Thanks again for everyone who participated in this week’s Group Writing Project. I’ve just taken another look at the full finished list of 343 submissions and I’m more than satisfied with the week’s project.
It has been a lot of work to run but the quality of many of the posts submitted has been very high and I personally have found some great new blogs which I’ve added to my RSS feed.
There are many worthy winners of the prizes this week but there can only be 5. I’ve just randomly selected the following five people (using an online random number generator).
- Lori from Better English wins a weeks complimentary stay at a beach front apartment in Estepona on the Costa del Sol Spain which was kindly donated by New Homes on Nubricks.com. Lori’s post was Proofread like a pro: how to catch those pesky mistakes your spell checker misses.
- Erin from Behind the Scenes wins $100 Cash (in your paypal account) OR a month long text link in the Webmaster-Talk.com forums. Erin’s post was The Solopreneur’s Guide to Delegation.
- Blaine from Run to Win wins a Personal license for ExpressionEngine including a personal license for the forums module (worth $149). This prize is sponsored by Marcus from Nanoblogs.de. Blaine’s post was One simple knot that keeps your shoes tied.
- Kent from Newsome wins a $149 yearly plan to Audible.com OR a $100 gift voucher to iTunes (your choice). This gift has been donated by Google Tutor. Kent’s post is How to Convert LPs to MP3s.
- Lucy from Free From wins a $200 gift voucher from Amazon which was donated by OwnMySeat.com. Lucy’s post was How to survive the first year of living gluten free.
Congratulations to those whose lucky numbers came up and another big thank you to our sponsors.
Written on September 22nd, surf Active Apparel website Men's Online Clothes Shopping 1 zone.at 08:09 pm by David Shawver Stanton
How To Project - Final Submissions
The ‘How To…’ Group Writing Project is now officially over.
Thanks to all who have participated - you’ve overwhelmed me with your responses (quite literally). Today was the biggest response for this project with 112 submissions bringing us to a total of 343 (the biggest one we’ve done so far).
Thanks to the sponsors of this week’s project. Without New Homes, Webmaster-Talk.com forums, Google Tutor and OwnMySeat.com we’d not have the prizes (below) which all participants are in the running for (I’ll announce the winners in a few hours).
This latest batch of submissions are once again a real reflection of the blogosphere at large. There are tips on such a variety of topics that it leaves me shaking my head at the creativity and diversity of bloggers.
I hope you enjoyed this week’s project - I certainly had fun reading many of the submissions and was really excited to see so many of the blogs participating getting linked to from other parts of the web as a result.
The challenge for us all now is to surf the list - find the posts that we enjoyed the most and start linking up to them. Surf the full list, find those that you resonate with the most and post your top 5 (or more) on your own blog. This way the project goes to the next level and through it some great new blogs will get the recognition they deserve.
Thanks again for participating. Here’s the final round of submissions:
- The idiot’s guide to racial insensitivity by Rob
- How to Get Your Day Off to a Bad Start by Billy
- How to explain RSS the Oprah Way by Stephanie
- How to start a new life in Spain before it’s too late by Ben
- Bookkeeping for Bloggers by GetSheila
- How to Be a Great Public Speaker, by a Former Nervous Wreck by Charlie
- How to Pack for a Skiing Holiday by Andy
- How to Fine and Change Windows Product Key and Registration Information by Shivaranjan
- How to handle morning workouts - rowers and others by Alan
- 7 Ways to Unlock Innovation by Daniel
- How to Get your Tubes Tied, even if you’re only 21 by Misa
- 10,000 in your list in 30 days? Andrew Wee goes guerilla by Andrew
- How to Become a Maven (Mr. Know Everything) by Donald
- How to Whip up a Last-Minute Romantic Dinner, with Little More than Mold in your Fridge by Ricky
- How to achieve better results with spinning by Jesper
- How to Buy Wines Whose Labels Confuse You! by Ryan
- How to Watch TV for Free by Eugen
- The Language of Differentiation by Kevin
- How to Make Your Own Video Light by Laura
- How to Make Exercise A Permanent Habit in Your Life by Ririran
- How do I pick my New Owners by Ruth
- How to be an Environmentally Friendly Photographer by Darren
- How to Feel at HOME in a Foreign Country by SkiJumper
- How to Run a Mobile Home Office for Under $1500 by Urban Mike
- How to Make a Good Decision by Patrick
- How to Grow Business Revenue Every Year by Andrew
- How to dramatically increase Windows XP SP2 security in 10 clicks by Adrian
- How to Define Success by Paul
- How to Battle Color Blindness by Daniel
- How to navigate a farmers market by maki
- How to Make Money Blogging by Tom
- How to Read Nirvana without Meditation by Simonne
- Halloween Decorating Ideas - How to Add a Spooky Touch to Your Home by Katelyn
- The Definitive Guide to choose a Niche Topic for Your Site by Ashwin
- How to keep making money off of your imaginary friend by Justin
- How to talk to Bill Collectors by Phoenix Blossom-Lipschetz
- How to Follow Australian Spam Email Laws by Ross
- How to Make Your Website More Successful: The Web Success Formula by David
- Speed Up Your PC By Deleting Startup Programs by Ryan
- Ten Ways to Banish Mediocrity by Anna
- How To: Multi-Partition a Mac Boot Camp Installation by Chris
- How to become a ‘Glory Hunter’ (True Football Fans Malaysia-Style) by Ameyr
- You Know You are In LOVE When You Do These by Kloudila
- Photographing Silhouettes by Daniel
- 5 Ways to Piss off an Entrepreneur by Adnan
- How to Order Original Limu by Original Limu
- How to Waste Your Money on Ebay (In 10 Easy Steps) by Erin
- I Make Some Coffee, I Eat Some Rice Chex, and Then I Sit Down to Check My Inbox by Girl Friday
- How to Always be late for Everything by James
- How to Lose Your Shirt Online by Sean
- How to calculate your return on investment by George
- How to Organize a Girls Getaway by Rhonda
- How to Save Your Money by Bee
- How to choose New York Law and New York Courts in your Business Contracts when you have no connection to New York by Imke
- How Not to Invest Your Money by Kim
- Howto: Several ways to run Windows applications on a Linux computer by Jaganath
- Win Customers with the Power of Convenience by Joe
- 7 Comments on Kayak Photography: How Did You Shoot It? by Marek
- How to make a healthy and filling sandwich by Tanya
- Learn from enternetusers’s Group Writing Project by Somu
- How to Reduce Ad Blindness by JohnTP
- How not to launch a marketing campaign by aung
- How to Eliminate Debt without a Budget by Anthony
- My Quick Tips on How to Lose Weight Successfully by Lina
- 7 Steps to a Good Sermon or How to Create and Preach a Sermon by Sherman
- worship leading essentials #4 - putting together a song list by Scot
- 5 Tips on How to Give Your Blog Posts a Magic Middle by Easton
- How to Survive the Marine Corps When You are a Wimp by Baggage
- Comment créer un blog avec Joomla! by Thierry
- How to Start Sewing by J & O Fabrics
- How to choose a multi tool for your girlfriend by Multi Tool Guide
- How to Make a Fatty by Adam
- How to Improve Your Blog Usability and Why You Want to Do it by Gleb
- How I Solved All My Problems By Watching A TV Soap Opera by Pat
- How to shrink your church in 30 days or less! by Jeff
- How to be more Intuitive by Edward
- I Have No Toilet Paper Today by Carolyn
- Blogging E-Metrics by Doug
- How to Take Great Photos of Children by Darren
- How to get a job as a NASA flight controller by Bob
- Hosting with Yahoo!? How to use Joomla!’s PHPmailer by Brandon
- Free Yourself from Chronic Pain by Cindy
- How to write a Search Engine by Sammy
- How to make a few hundred extra dollars this semester by Jim
- How to Lick… by Ah Pek
- Como Usar a Criatividade para Renovar seu Blog by Nospheratt
- How to Get Your Site on the Front Page of Digg by Michael
- 10 Things I Hate about Your Profile by Kathy
- How to Make Bottle Cap Jewelry with Liquid Clay by Angela
- How to start a Blog based on a contest by Sarah
- How to Survive Depression by Christine
- How to be an Anime Hero by Pat
- How to Take Advantage of Your Flex Spending Plan by Donna
- Exploring Long Island Wine Country by Bill
- How to Backup a DVD by Jeff
- Choosing a Digital Fingerprint that’s Right for Me by maxpower
- Control Multiple Terminals Simultaneously by Nick
- How to Buy Produce at the Famer’s Market by Jason
- How to Get Your Child to Pre-School on Time… by D.T. Kelly
- How to Survive an Iowa Winter by Genie
- How to Increase your kids IQ by R.L. Kaplan
- I’m through with Google! Let Affiliate Bring Value to Your Blog via Jim
- How to be prepared for getting fired by Thejesh GN
- How to Live Forever by Bald Man
- How to Prepare for Law School Exams by Top Law Student
- How to use High-Intensity Interval Training by Sarah
- Guerrilla Gardening - 12 Steps to Addiction by Whimspiration
Prizes
At the end of the week once all submissions are in I’ll randomly select five submissions who will each receive one of the following five prizes:
- One week complimentary stay (for up to 4 people) at a beach front apartment in Estepona on the Costa del Sol Spain (pictured above). This prize must be taken in the next 12 months and the winner must cover all their own costs in getting to Spain (ie this is for the cost of the accommodation only). If the prize cannot be taken by the winner they can also take an iPod (video) instead (by negotiation with the sponsor). This prize (valued at 1000 euros if taken in the peak season) has been kindly donated by New Homes on Nubricks.com. Thanks to Adam and Chintan.
- $100 Cash (in your paypal account) OR a month long text link in the Webmaster-Talk.com forums. This prize sponsored by Webmaster-Talk.com forums - thanks to Tim and his team.
- A Personal license for ExpressionEngine including a personal license for the forums module (worth $149). This prize is sponsored by Marcus from Nanoblogs.de
- A $149 yearly plan to Audible.com OR a $100 gift voucher to iTunes (your choice). This gift has been donated by Google Tutor. Thanks to Craig for this gift.
- $200 gift voucher from Amazon to spend on anything you like. Its been kindly donated by OwnMySeat.com. Thanks to Jason for his kind donation.
Written on September 22nd, surf Active Apparel website Men's Online Clothes Shopping 1 zone.at 01:09 pm by David Shawver Stanton
AdSense Revamp Channels Setup Page
AdSense have also announced a revamp to their channels set up page:
‘Besides cleaning up the design by housing each product on its own sub-tab, we’ve also made it easier for you to take action on your channels. Just select the checkbox next to a channel and then choose to activate, deactivate, remove, or rename the channel you’ve selected. ‘
Written on September 22nd, surf Active Apparel website Men's Online Clothes Shopping 1 zone.at 01:09 pm by David Shawver Stanton
AdSense adds 200×200 Ad Unit
Jen points out that AdSense have added a new 200×200 ad unit size for publishers.
I always love it when they add a new ad size as it presents new possibilities.
The 200×200 ad unit is called ‘Small Square’ and is available in both text and image ads. Here’s examples of how they look in terms of size.
They look like being a handy size actually - probably will sit well in a lot of sidebars.
Written on September 22nd, surf Active Apparel website Men's Online Clothes Shopping 1 zone.at 11:09 am by David Shawver Stanton
How Much is a Blog Post Worth? - Paying Bloggers
How much would you write a blog post for?
I’ve had two emails today from bloggers asking how much they should charge per post for their blogging services and one email from a blog network asking how much I think is fair to pay bloggers per post.
note - all are asking about ‘per post’ payments and not revenue share which is another model of paying bloggers which I won’t cover in this post in much depth. I’ll keep this to the question being asked about ‘per post’ values.
I thought I’d open it up for discussion. What do you think?
All my answers to the emails were fairly vague because in my experience the value of a blog post varies depending upon a variety of factors:
- Post Length - not all posts are equal and one differentiating factor is post length. While sometimes shorter posts can actually take longer to write than longer ones a general principle that most blog employers and employees factor into their agreements in terms of payment is post length.
- Type of Post - another obvious different between posts is the type of post that is being written. There’s a big difference in the amount of work that goes into a newsy/link post and a longer opinion piece of tutorial. As a result I’d expect the value associated with the post would be different.
- Topic - some topics are more commercially viable than others and I would expect that this would factor into many blog payment negotiations. This relates both to the type and value of advertising and affiliate programs available on a topic but also the responsiveness of the audience to these commercial aspects of the blog.
- Post Frequency - how often the blogger is expected to post will no doubt factor into negotiations on the price of a post. If there’s an expectation of multiple posts per day I’d expect that the payment would be different to the cost of paying someone to post once per week.
- Expertise of Blogger - some bloggers bring specialized expertise on a topic and would be able to negotiate a higher fee per post than other bloggers with less expertise or expertise on a less specialized topic.
- Profile of Blogger - some bloggers have an established profile either within or outside of blogging circles. This means that they’re more likely to kick start a blog with traffic from their established fan base/readership and should mean that they can expect a higher per post fee.
- Ownership - some blog networks or owners allow the blogger to keep full or partial ownership of the content that they write - others take full ownership of the content. I would expect that this should come into play when negotiating a fee. If the blogger can use the content later or in other mediums this might mean a lower fee but if they give up complete rights to the content I’d expect the blog owner should pay a premium (to some extent) for this.
- Incentives - Some blog networks build incentives into their payment systems (some operate on a completely incentive based system where there is no ‘per post’ payment - but that’s another topic). These incentives may be based upon traffic, revenue, incoming links or some combination of these (and other) factors. The incentives offered (and the chance of them coming into play) will obviously impact the ‘per post’ payment that bloggers receive.
Ok - so how much is a blog post worth?
Obviously there’s going to be quite a large variation in terms of dollar values paid for a blog post but from chatting with many bloggers from many networks and business blogs I’m hearing that the going rate on a ‘per post’ basis seems to be ranging from as low as $2 per post up to $20 per post (and on occasion I’ve heard of payments as high as $100 for one off or less frequent columns).
Of course ultimately the value of a post will be determined by the market (ie demand and supply and the budget of the blog owner and where it intersects with the situation and willingness of the blogger).
It’s a difficult question but I’d love to hear your thoughts on how much you think a blog post is worth. How much would you (do you) blog for? Feel free to share your experiences anonymously if you’d like.
Written on September 22nd, surf Active Apparel website Men's Online Clothes Shopping 1 zone.at 08:09 am by David Shawver Stanton
Speedlinking 22 September 2006
- Nik reveals that he knows who the blogger behind Dead 2.0 (an anonymous blog) is. More importantly he goes on to share some good information for ‘anonymous’ to read about the vulnerabilities around their identity.
- Zookoda (the newsletter service for bloggers) is up for sale. They feel they’ve taken it as far as they can (as a two person company) and after signing up 5200 bloggers feel it’s time for someone else to take it to the next level).
- eMoms has done a nice comparative chart of 7 blogging platforms
- Scott Baradell provides 101 ways to Brew Up a Great Idea (might be useful for bloggers feeling the pinch of bloggers block) - via Business Opportunities
- Michael has been writing on the topic of Setting Up a Video Blog.
Written on September 22nd, surf Active Apparel website Men's Online Clothes Shopping 1 zone.at 12:09 am by David Shawver Stanton
Factors for Successful Linkbaiting
So far in this series on link bait we’ve attempted to define linkbaiting, we’ve looked at the benefits of doing it and yesterday I described a variety of Linkbaiting Techniques.
The techniques I looked at yesterday are good starting points engaging in them doesn’t guarantee that they’ll succeed.
Everyday many bloggers write lists, run contests, develop quizzes, break news (etc) and yet their posts get no links (I’m sure we all know the feeling of a post that we have a lot of hopes for going unnoticed).
So what other factors come into play with linkbaiting? Here’s a six that come to mind:
1. Be Lucky - as I think back over the posts that I’ve written that have had the most success in terms of incoming links I have to admit that despite my best intentions and efforts that luck usually plays some role. On many occasions it all comes down to the right person linking to you at the right time which triggers others to link which triggers someone to digg you, which in turn triggers other links…. (you get the picture). Of course luckiness isn’t something we have much control over (although I think there are some things you can do to be luckier).
2. Make People Talk - think about the linkups you do on your own blog. Why do you link up? I guess I equate the link up to being something like the conversation starters that happen at our place each Sunday morning when V and I sit in bed reading the newspapers that we get delivered on the weekend. As we read we point out to each other the things that interest us, that are relevant to our lives, that we agree or disagree with - the things that make us want to tell someone about what we’re reading. Write in a way that makes people want to tell someone and if that person has a blog or website they probably will.
3. Choose Smart Topics - picking the right topic is key with linkbaiting. I could write a great list on the art of choosing deodorant but it wouldn’t be successful simply because it’s on a topic that very few people would be interested in (unless there’s some closet deo-blogosphere out there that I don’t know about). However if you pick a topic that scratches the spot where lots of people are itching and you’re another step along the way to the links coming in.
4. Present Your Posts Well - once you’ve got the right topic you then need to think about how to present it. Much could be written about this ranging from choosing a good title (especially important) to copy writing skills to setting your post out in an accessible fashion (basically head over to copyblogger and read Brian’s archives).
5. Target Key Links - sometimes it takes a little push to get the ball rolling and at times you should consider doing some self promotion if you want to get your posts noticed. I don’t do this on every post (in fact I probably only do it on 1 in 30 or more) but from time to time if I’ve written a post that I know is highly relevant for the audience of another blog I’ll send them a short email letting them know about it (I’ve written some tips on how I do it here). Selecting which blogs to send such emails to is especially important - for me it is partly about the popularity of that blog but even more important to me is relevance to the post I’ve written. Also consider not only the raw numbers of the other blog but the influence that it has with other bloggers (ie there are some blogs out there that get quoted a lot by other bloggers - if you’re after the linking to become viral these can be good to target).
6. Make it Easy to Pass on - the easier you make it for readers to pass on a link to your post or to spread the news about it the more likely they are to actually do it. Check out some of the plugins out there that enable readers to bookmark your post on social bookmarking sites like digg, reddit and delicious. While these don’t directly bring in links the do get you post some extra attention and if they make it big the links will definitely follow. Another good way to get other sites to pass on your link is to give them something to do it with. Cartoon bloggers offer code for people to post their work for free (with an embedded code), quizzes offer bloggers a button to post telling others the results (with an embedded link) etc. This isn’t possible for all types of linkbait but if you put your mind to it you might come up with a way.
Written on September 21st, surf Active Apparel website Men's Online Clothes Shopping 1 zone.at 03:09 pm by David Shawver Stanton
How to Assemble the Biggest List of ‘How To’ Blog Posts Ever - Reader Submissions Part III
I’m getting lots of great feedback today (as well as 80 more entries) in the How to… group writing project. Check out this comment from one participant who got 60,000 visitors to his post as a result of the project (which started a Diggalanche)!
The reason I started these projects was because there’s a lot of blogs out there producing excellent content that don’t get the recognition they deserve. Hopefully you’ve found some of them in our previous days submissions and will find some more here. When you do - spread the word about the blogs that you discover (link to them, bookmark them, tell your mum… you get the picture).
A quick thank you again to the sponsors of this week’s project who have donated $1800 in gifts for 5 lucky participants. The sponsors are New Homes, Webmaster-Talk.com forums, Google Tutor and OwnMySeat.com. Full details of prizes are at the end of this post.
See the full list of participants so far (231 of them) here and don’t forget that you can still enter up until the end of Thursday (wherever you are) by following the instructions in our introductory post.
- How to Tease a German by Stefan
- Proofread like a pro: how to catch those pesky mistakes your spell checker misses by Lori
- How to Quit Smoking: A Helpful Guide to Kicking the Habit by The Scott English Show
- How to do “How-to” Lists by Tony
- How to Kick-Start Your Sex Drive with Libido Boosting Foods! by Ross
- How to Make the Most of Your Time Online by Liam
- How to Teach Anyone RSS by Kelsey
- How to Revitalise Your Dreams by Anna
- How to Write Magnetic Blog Title by Hendry
- Prioritization and Procrastination by Conn
- How to Cite Materials from Online Resources (internet) by Angel
- Save Tax Dollars by Having Multiple Entities by Gina
- How to… Have the Worst Day Ever! by Erica
- You too can be an efficient blog stalker by Mooiness
- How to Start Developing Info Products for Massive Profits by Ted
- How to set up a del.icio.us tag cloud in your WordPress Blog by Sante
- 5 Overused Social Networking Marketing Techniques by Robyn
- How To Sabatage a Social Networking Site by Erin
- Please, Please, Please Don’t Read this Post by George
- How to Attract Links and Increase Web Traffic - The Ultimate Guide by Brian
- How to Survive a Pay Cut by Bill
- How to retire young and wealthy by Mike
- How to Brew Your Own Beer by Justin
- How to Speed up Winamp 5 and Adobe Reader by Techacker
- Beyonce Wears a Spandx Girdle by Isadora
- Stop losing money in your house refinancing by Harrison
- Get Motivated… Demonstrated! by Ellesse
- Why Take a Golf Holiday in Scotland by Adam
- How to Begin Selling on eBay by Thatedeguy
- Your Brain: A guide to Fine-Tuned Performance by Alvin
- Write a Book? Assemble the One in Your Archives! by Liz
- Lessons Learned From Gordon Freeman by Michael
- How to Make FireFox even better than it is by Mike
- 2 Easy Steps to Get 2 Links From enternetusers.net by kid disco
- Useful Windows XP Hacks (Part 1) by The Foo
- English Punctuation: Commas, Semicolons, and Colons by LearningNerd
- How to Build a Better Political Campaign Website by Todd
- How to Roll Tack a Laser by Tillerman
- How NOT to Cook Tortilla de Patata, or How TO Make Fabulous Scrambled Eggs by Sarah
- The Myth of the Sleeping Baby and Other Fallacies for the Work at Home Parent by Tony
- Lose a Guy in 10 Minutes by sarakastic
- How to create a unique blog for free on your Mac by Mark
- How to Make Her Melt with Your Kiss by Kelly
- The Ultimate Blog Promotion by Valedon
- How to Choose Dividend Growth Stocks by Skinny Investor
- Goal Crisis: How to Feel Good in a Bad Situation by Jeff
- How to Build a Trusting Relationship by Kate
- 10 Tips to create a great Post by Leon
- Jul’s guide to successful living abroad by Jul
- How to Snag an Awesomely Bad Domain Name by The Domain Muse
- Get the most from your trade show booth - 4 Crucial Steps by Jill
- How to Upsell your Customers and Clients by Mindful Entrepreneur
- How to Create a Successful Website by Dominic
- Attempting to “how too” - now with more pie! by Busy Mom
- How to make your sub-conscious work for you part 2 by Lyndon
- How to Have a Better Garden Than the Neighbors by Doug
- How to make it impossible to succeed with your blog by Trisha
- How to Dispense with Spare Time by Geoff
- How to present your model in the best way possible for feedback by Rick
- A Recipe for Presentation Disaster by Pawel
- taking pictures of (semi)-random peers by Joy
- How to Save Money on a Funeral by Jay
- How to Remove a Small Green Truck from Under Your TV Cabinet by Kerri
- How to Plant Fall Garlic by Kenny
- How to Keep your mug off the 6 o’clock news if you’re a teacher (in 16 easy steps) by Matt
- How to be an Unbearable Co-Worker by Marwan
- How to Save For College by Lisa
- How to Shop for Groceries in Less Time by Maricar
- Help! I want to know more about building Robots by William
- How to enjoy baseball games cheaply by Penny
- Teach a person good headers, and style cred is theirs for life by Yvonne
- How to Make a Movie that Doesn’t Suck by Chuck
- How to use cPanel to backup your website by Paul
- Save 50% on Groceries by Tim
- PFCollege: How to Make Saving a Habit by Jim
- How to Respond to a Teenage Angst and Live to Smile About It by Christina
- Cheap Computer Equipment - how to buy it by Andrea
- How to Use Multiple Times Frames to Improve Your Online Stock Trading by MrMike
- The Simplest Color Scheme for your Wardrobe by Rebecca
- Firefox Quickie: Convert your Add Bar into Search Box by Thilak
Prizes
At the end of the week once all submissions are in I’ll randomly select five submissions who will each receive one of the following five prizes:
- One week complimentary stay (for up to 4 people) at a beach front apartment in Estepona on the Costa del Sol Spain (pictured above). This prize must be taken in the next 12 months and the winner must cover all their own costs in getting to Spain (ie this is for the cost of the accommodation only). If the prize cannot be taken by the winner they can also take an iPod (video) instead (by negotiation with the sponsor). This prize (valued at 1000 euros if taken in the peak season) has been kindly donated by New Homes on Nubricks.com. Thanks to Adam and Chintan.
- $100 Cash (in your paypal account) OR a month long text link in the Webmaster-Talk.com forums. This prize sponsored by Webmaster-Talk.com forums - thanks to Tim and his team.
- A Personal license for ExpressionEngine including a personal license for the forums module (worth $149). This prize is sponsored by Marcus from Nanoblogs.de
- A $149 yearly plan to Audible.com OR a $100 gift voucher to iTunes (your choice). This gift has been donated by Google Tutor. Thanks to Craig for this gift.
- $200 gift voucher from Amazon to spend on anything you like. Its been kindly donated by OwnMySeat.com. Thanks to Jason for his kind donation.
Written on September 21st, surf Active Apparel website Men's Online Clothes Shopping 1 zone.at 01:09 pm by David Shawver Stanton
AdSense Get Groovy and Thank MTV Ad Testers with Lava Lamps
Publishers participating in the AdSense MTV premium video pilot should keep an eye on their mail boxes over the next few days as they are likely to have a package arrive containing…
wait for it….
a Lava lamp.
Yep - publishers who were part of the program (like shoemoney (pictured left) and graywolf (pictured right)) are reporting their lamps have arrived (and they look happy about it).
Did anyone else get one?
Written on September 21st, surf Active Apparel website Men's Online Clothes Shopping 1 zone.at 01:09 pm by David Shawver Stanton
Bloggers in Wikipedia - I’m a Wikipedia Reject
Steve pointed yesterday to a page on Wikipedia that listed 200 American bloggers. I found it interesting that Wikipedia allowed these pages to remain up - not because they’re bad pages but because I’ve seen numerous bloggers complain about other bloggers pages being deleted.
I don’t know what the rules are for moderation on Wikipedia but I do know of at least 10 bloggers who had pages about them on Wikipedia deleted.
One of these pages was my own. 6 or so months back a reader of enternetusers put up the page from what I could tell and sent me an email to let me know - but within a week it was down again.
Of course there could be numerous reasons for this. Perhaps the content wasn’t written in the right format, perhaps it wasn’t accurate (although I was thought it all seemed pretty accurate and well written), perhaps I’m not deemed as being important enough for a wikipedia page (quite likely) or perhaps some moderator was in a bad mood when they saw my page.
Not sure what the reason is (and I’m not overly concerned that I’m a Wikipedia reject) but it’s interesting to see them allowing so many bloggers in these days.
To be honest I’m not even convinced that bloggers should be in it at all - I guess some bloggers have done things that are encyclopedia-worthy but I’m not sure about most of us.
Are you in Wikipedia? Do you think bloggers should be featured there? If so - on what criteria?
And we just found out about get paid to. When your phone rings or you receive an email or receive a text message then you get paid. Could it be that my groom’s fantasies might actually be wilder than the site of me perfectly coiffed, bustled, and veiled?
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