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The Ultimate Blog Post

Creating your own blog is about as easy as creating your own urine, and you're about as likely to find someone else interested in it. One popular technique for building readership is to send e-mail to more well-trafficked blogs offering to exchange links with them. One popular response from those blogs is to laugh derisively and hit the Delete button.

Another approach for advertising your blog is to mention it as much as possible in conversation; you'd be surprised how many people are fascinated to hear you have a blog and want to know more, especially if you were expecting the number to be greater than zero.

Heh... Wired article for blogging newbies and people who want to be internet celebs for 15 minutes.

Whole article.

blog spam tool discovered?

How You Can Quickly And Easily Drive *Tons* Of Ultra-Responsive Targeted Traffic To Your WebSite - Even If You Are An Online Marketing Newbie!

It must be something like this what these marketing idiots are using spamming their shit to blogs, guestbooks etc. etc.

www.articlepostrobot.com/


Of course this is legal? :(

If you don't understand what I'm talking about, read this.

The top five mistakes entrepreneurs make when they market

by Seth Godin

1. Expecting gratitude in exchange for having done something that was hard. Yes, you built a company, you might even have bootstrapped it. Yes, you've got the machinery and the packaging and the retail space. Yes, you've navigated hiring people and yes, you finally shipped. I couldn't care less. I'm not going to buy your brownie/consulting/services just because you worked hard on it.

2. Spending money as a substitute for doing something great. Spending on marketing an average product isn't working anymore. You're far better off spending money on making your product better. A lot better.

3. Not realizing that it's your company, and your marketing better be as good as everything else. It doesn't matter if you don't like marketing or don't think you're good at it. Figure it out or go home. Sooner or later, you succeed because you were able to spread your ideas. So go to school and figure out how it works.

4. Listening to other people. If they're so smart, why aren't they running your company? Don't take a poll. Don't ask your mother-in-law, that's for sure. Cover your downsides, double your desire to take a risk and then just do it.

5. Failure to measure. All this is worthless if you don't test and measure relentlessly. Do what works. Kill what doesn't. Repeat.

1. True. Same goes with other 'business' too. For example, if you arrange concert, festival, don't except people to show up there because you did lot of hard work for arranging your event. They couldn't care less, only thing they care is the end result.

2. Google. Have you seen googles ads somewhere?

3. I have seen interesting ideas, products to start collecting dust, only because people don't know anything about how to market their excellent ideas and products for the people. So yes, marketing is the key thing in business.

4. This is what I usually do. I listen too much what other people think about my ideas or strategies. Lesson learned.

5. YEP. Stats. There are still many webmasters who don't know what's URL referrer. ;)

more:

http://www.workhappy.net/2006/08/the_top_five_mi.html

Windows Live?

http://www.live.com

Microsoft... welcome to the year 2006.

Question... is Jakob Nielsen ringing any bell?

Secrets of the Pirate Bay

Heja Sverige! :D

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,71543-0.html?tw=rss.index

Spam bots spamming for who?

This is my own forgotten guestbook. Full of spam.

Funny thing is... it's not linked from my website, so it's basically impossible to find this page/guestbook. Who is reading the spam? Other bots? :)

Spamming to guestbooks really doesn't make any sense.

50 Coolest Websites - Time magazine 2006

How do we select our finalists? We evaluate hundreds of candidates—some suggested by readers, colleagues and friends, others discovered during countless hours of surfing. Many of this year's choices are shining examples of Web 2.0: next-generation sites offering dynamic new ways to inform and entertain, sites with cutting-edge tools to create, consume, share or discuss all manners of media, from blog posts to video clips. Think we missed one? Send us your thoughts and we'll post a selection of your comments online. There's always next year.

Candidates here.


Quite a lot new sites for me. Either I'm totally out what's happening right now or it's because this is focusing quite a lot to sites popular in United States.

Why Snap is on the list? It sucks. Popurls.com should have been nominated.

How to Make a Successful Viral Video

Interesting article, markli.org/2006/08/10/how-to-make-a-successful-viral-video/.

Stupid Netscape.com

:D

I tried to register there, but I can't do it because I'm not AOL etc. client.

What is this? :D :D

STUPID.

Netscape.com declares war on digg.com?

Recently Netscape announced about offering 1000$ for people to provide content for their news-services.

Nearly same time there was article about digg.com cliques and how just 20 people control whole thing. First story is already creating cracks (or making it stronger) to digg.com community, maybe it was intentional purpose?

Is there war going on between netscape.com vs digg.com or is this war between coalition of independent (and commercial) news-services "less popular than digg.com" vs digg.com? :D

Digg.com is on Alexa.com top100, which is good achievement for fairly new web-service. Other similar services aren't so popular and this way they are not so "important". Netscape.com is trying to jump to the band-wagon, but their $$$ tactique has already caused negative impressions on blogosphere. Netscape.com seems to have problems getting people to "digg" their stories and submitting new ones.

Maybe this whole thing is just incident, there isn't any "war" going on, just small battle of nerds (sorry :) ) souls, who voluntarily bring "free" content for community driven news-services. While explaining their $$$ idea, Netscape recruit Jason Calacanis says that crowdsourcing is outmoded idea.

Netscape is trying to bridge the gap between journalism and blogging by paying a small amount for incoming content and using "Netscape Anchors" to moderate the submissions.

Calacanis has said that the eight anchors, or "metajournalists" as he terms them, have backgrounds as bloggers and as traditional journalists. The anchors are responsible for highlighting the more interesting reader-submitted stories and providing richer, more in-depth analysis.

This I found quite interesting idea. It would make netscape.com like crossover between community driven news-service and traditional news agency. Future shows how well this idea works in practice.



Related articles:

digg.com - Wikipedia
Crowdsourcing - Wired Magazine

Why you shouldn't email Microsoft Word documents

Here we go again... doc-pdf-rtf-odt-txt or some other format for your documents?

lifehacker.com - article.

There's some interesting comments and useful links on the story.

MySpace Kills Internet Tube Song

Rupert has been a bad boy? :(

After hearing Sen. Ted Stevens' now infamous description of the internet as a "series of tubes," Andrew Raff sang the senator's words over a folksy ditty and anonymously posted it to MySpace.com, where about 2,500 people listened to the tune, thanks to a link from one of the net's top blogs.

On Tuesday, MySpace canceled the TedStevensFanClub account, telling Raff that the social-networking site, now owned by media mogul Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., had received a "credible complaint of your violation of the MySpace Terms of Services."

(Editor's note: MySpace reinstated Raff's account Thursday afternoon following publication of this story. The company says Raff's account was deleted in error.)

The cancellation e-mail referenced a number of prohibited activities, including trademark and copyright violations. MySpace also reserves the right to remove any profile for any reason.

But Raff, a recent graduate from law school, didn't violate any copyright laws in using the Alaskan senator's words, since government works cannot be protected by copyright. And Raff composed the music himself.

Read whole story.

I'm not judging anyone, I'm just sharing this story for teh people. The truth is out there? * whistling X-files tune *

The Popularity of Blogs - according to Comscore

Interesting stats about blogs popularity! Must reading for all commment spammers! ;>)

Myspace blogs seems to quite popular, even thought myspace design layout is horrible, specially with blogs, unless you mod them yourself. I might comment this thing more later, now it's too hot for doing it!

I want to be Ruperts friend.

Does anyone know what's Rupert Murdochs myspace profile?

I wan't to be his friend.

I heard a rumour that he is buying teh internet.

Why comment spam is dumb - attention quick cash webmasters!

I am starting to believe that Google does more than simply not follow “nofollow” links. I think that they may look at the percentage of nofollow links a site recieves and if it is greater than X %, the site is considered spammy.

If that is the case, one has to wonder if a “nofollow” link actually works as a vote against a site. After all, if you are saying with the nofollow tag “I don’t trust this link”, the search engines may decide they don’t want to trust that site, either.

seoblackhat.com article about comment spam.

So... with comment spam you're actually indexing your site out of the game, if I've understood article correctly.

Nice work, maybe it would be time for webmasters to find REAL marketing tactiques for promoting their click-thru shit, instead of "quick cash" bots, which are only ruining internet and causing loads of "ghost" traffic.

EH? :(

The Cheater’s Guide to Writing Great Headlines

Imagine the life of the copywriter . . . a solitary figure staring intently at a computer screen (or out the window), flexing those mental muscles to create a killer headline out of thin air that will result in millions of dollars in sales.

Well, maybe not.

A more likely scenario has the copywriter looking for inspiration in her collection of winning space ads, sales letters and even the latest issue of Cosmo. She’ll also consult books that consist of nothing more than collections of headlines proven to work.

Hmm... interesting theory, because I just read story about how to write succesfull "digg" stories. Not gaming with digg.com, but writing stories which gets loads of diggs. I guess it's all question about writing catchy headlines, I'm not really good with it, so... hell YEAH! Soon this weblog will be buzzing of new visitors, aliens reading about youtube and fashinating stories about guerilla marketing. People will go bezerk and I simply say... "pwned".

Read whole article here.

Why comment spam is dumb - attention quick cash webmasters!

I am starting to believe that Google does more than simply not follow “nofollow” links. I think that they may look at the percentage of nofollow links a site recieves and if it is greater than X %, the site is considered spammy.

If that is the case, one has to wonder if a “nofollow” link actually works as a vote against a site. After all, if you are saying with the nofollow tag “I don’t trust this link”, the search engines may decide they don’t want to trust that site, either.

seoblackhat.com article about comment spam.

So... with comment spam you're actually indexing your site out of the game, if I've understood article correctly.

Nice work, maybe it would be time for webmasters to find REAL marketing tactiques for promoting their click-thru shit, instead of "quick cash" bots, which are only ruining internet and causing loads of "ghost" traffic.

EH? :(

The Cheater’s Guide to Writing Great Headlines

Imagine the life of the copywriter . . . a solitary figure staring intently at a computer screen (or out the window), flexing those mental muscles to create a killer headline out of thin air that will result in millions of dollars in sales.

Well, maybe not.

A more likely scenario has the copywriter looking for inspiration in her collection of winning space ads, sales letters and even the latest issue of Cosmo. She’ll also consult books that consist of nothing more than collections of headlines proven to work.

Hmm... interesting theory, because I just read story about how to write succesfull "digg" stories. Not gaming with digg.com, but writing stories which gets loads of diggs. I guess it's all question about writing catchy headlines, I'm not really good with it, so... hell YEAH! Soon this weblog will be buzzing of new visitors, aliens reading about youtube and fashinating stories about guerilla marketing. People will go bezerk and I simply say... "pwned".

Read whole article here.

Is this thing on?

HALOO?

I guess this blog is now part of blogsphere and teh internet right now, click.