Opinion

What Are Your Biggest Challenges To Making Money Online?

As this post goes live to my blog, I am currently on a cruise ship. My wife and I are somewhere in the Caribbean and my blog is on automatic (gotta love the future posting ability of WordPress). So, instead of me talking too much today, I have a question for you…

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I’m One Slot Away From Dot-Com Mogul Status

Tonight, I found a pretty funny post over at the blog of Jamie Harrop. He uses John Chow’s own criteria for being a dot-com mogul against him and points out why Chow is a fake. Of course, it is all tounge-in-cheek, but it was pretty funny. The criteria are: Your income is made from the [...]

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Which Is More Secure – The 9-5 Job Or Self-Employment?

In my wife’s interview of me, and in her blog post about what it’s like it being an entrepreneur’s wife, she asked me about how I plan for my “golden years”. In other words, am I planning for my retirement? Do I worry about not having a pension plan or a 401(k)? Do I worry [...]

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Screw You, Domain Renewal Group

Anybody who is in this business owns one or more domain names. In many cases our WHOIS records for our domains contain our contact info, including address. This allows companies like the Domain Renewal Group to fetch my information (or your’s) and send you a “renewal notice” for your domain. The above is a scanned [...]

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Are Adsense Publishers Scared About the Economy?

I got an email from the Director of Adsense and it starts out as follows: We understand that the recent economic turmoil has created a lot of uncertainty in the lives of AdSense publishers. During these difficult times, we’re continuing to invest in innovations that improve publisher monetization and advertiser value in the content network. [...]

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Gawker Should See Consequences For The Palin Email Post

Just a short opinion on the Sarah Palin email leak. The people who hacked into her email account broke the law. Period. Gawker is knowingly publishing images from this hack job – images which they know full well were illegally obtained. In my opinion, it should not go without consequence. They said on their post: [...]

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Political Correctness Goes Overboard on FriendFeed

Part of me says to let this issue drop because, yes, it started out with me making a stupid ass of myself. But, the other side of me is a blogger and you don’t become a blogger by being a chicken when you make an ass of yourself. It all started with a tweet I [...]

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10 Tips For Attending Tech Conferences

There are a LOT of tech conferences out there, some of which I attend. Here are some tips for you if you’re attending any: DO IT. Seriously, if you can afford the money and time to travel to attend a tech conference I recommend you do so. Of course, this is assuming you’re in a [...]

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So I Tried An Experiment…

At Gnomedex, there is a lot of value in monitoring the back channel in Twitter while the people are on stage. I know Pirillo almost wishes it weren’t there (he said as much on Twitter), but it is valuable. And one of the nuggets I saw over Twitter was this: The most inspiring speakers at [...]

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Storm Tracking Is Like Tech Blogging, Only Worse

I am closely monitoring Tropical Storm Fay down here in Florida, mainly because I am scheduled to fly out of Tampa on Wednesday to go to Seattle. I am hoping it doesn’t mess with me, but I am expecting it will – somehow. But, in tracking the storm, there is some serious echo chamber. My [...]

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