When your blog database gets to be around the 20 MB size - let me tell you what a trip to backup.
Start the backup process, go for a coffee (across town), stop at the gas station on the way home and fill up your tank, come home, do a load of laundry and then [...]

I think ‘libel’ and ’slander’ are the most used online words other than the standard: I, and, but, well, you know and lmao.
As a website owner, what do you watch for when you get popped your first ‘legal beagle’ email? And how can you know if it’s legit or not? Let’s take a peek at [...]

I love toolbar updates :). Nothing really happening on my end, but several people are reporting nice jumps in pagerank.
Digital Point - PR Update has begun (2/18/2006)
I’ve uninstalled and wiped my computer clean of Google’s toolbar months ago, so here’s where I check for any action:
Page Rank Tool
Future Page Rank
Hopefully I gain a bit this [...]

If anyone of us wanted to, we could be online media moguls that make our fortunes off popped porn, parasitic downloads, ripping scripts that hijack affiliate links, click fraud - yada yada.
I mean there are A LOT of lines one could cross if fast cash was all you wanted.
But there are a lot of [...]

Here’s an interesting new blog service in the works that will help you track blog conversations that you’re participating in or want to watch:
coComment
Our primary goal is to provide a great service to internet users, which helps them make life a little simpler and more enjoyable. More specifically, we want to help bloggers, blog commenters, [...]

Anyone else a big fan of Seth Godin? I’ve put together a list of his free ebooks, uploaded & organized them here for you to enjoy. Never know - you may have missed one or two ;).
Unleashing The Idea Virus
2000
The #1 question people ask me after reading Permission Marketing:
“So, how do we get attention to [...]

Every year my husband comes home with my favorite Valentine’s Day present: a gift of Bernard Callebaut chocolates. It’s a tradition.
Now diamonds can be a girl’s best friend, but I’m the kinda girl that loves her exquisite chocolate. My husband appreciates that about me :lol:. And he gives a high five to Monsieur Callebaut [...]

I think this blog is possessed.
Lots of issues popping up and I’ve been working on a test blog to get things fixed. For reasons unknown - what works on the test blog doesn’t work here :lol:.
Hopefully it will be cleaned up by the end of today.

This is interesting. There’s a new classified ad service about to launch that you can participate in through your blog.
Read more about it here:
Edgeio - The Beginning
We will find edge published listings if they include the category or tag “listing” within the post or content. The listings will be indexed through the blog’s RSS feed [...]

Here’s an ebook I stumbled across while doing some searching for another project:
The New Rules Of PR
How to create a press release strategy for reaching buyers directly
David Meerman Scott
The ebook has some good information about press release marketing in today’s internet (the Web 2.0 World).
The Web has changed the rules for press releases. The thing [...]

I was reading an article from Colin McDougall at Revenews:
Takeaways from Discussion with Matt Cutts - The Google Update is Coming
The Stanford report introduces a measure of link manipulation called Spam Mass (how much PageRank has accumulated from spam pages). When duplicate content filters are combined with spam mass level, article spam effectiveness will be [...]

For the past two months or so I’ve noticed a big jump in the amount of link love the ‘unofficial’ networked blogs have been giving each other. There’s a flury of activity - this incestuous cross linking is on warp speed. Are the links becoming exclusive though?
One of the most frequent statements you’ll come across [...]

Yes it’s creeping me out that not only will Google have dibs on search profiles and surfing habits (toolbar), website data (for those websites using analytics and/or adsense), email contents (gmail), but also spending habits and revenue/sales (GBuy).
Things going for PayPal:

Established as an online payment processor for several years (1998) - userbase in the millions

Very [...]

Looks like there’ll be an article about the Triple Jangro scandal in the next two editions of Revenue Magazine:
The Conflict Saga Continues
I happen to have a free subscription (I hope it lasts til the Spring edition :lol:), so I’ll be watching for it - and post a summary.

Oh the scandal! Are network employees and affiliate managers stealing super affiliate secrets? Color me outta the loop, seems I’ve been behind on all the chatter regarding big Commission Junction news going on right now.
Articles to read:
Triple Jangro
The Rumour Mill has it that three top account managers left CJ this week to avoid enforcement of [...]

I was reading a post over at Empress’s Blog talking about her first Google payment. What do you do with the money that rolls in from your online adventures?
I have a U.S. dollar savings account (I live in Canada) that I dump all my cheques in. Whether the amounts are big or small, that money [...]

Still knocking around polishing things up with the new blog theme. I changed the old bookmark pages that were on static html pages to blog pages.
This means a couple things:

If you’ve bookmarked the old pages - you’ll want to update your bookmarks

The pages themselves will now be available through rss

For a trial run, I’m going [...]

As you can see I have a new wp theme installed (WooHoo!). Plus I upgraded to the latest WordPress version (just released hours ago). 
The design still needs a few tweaks, a bit of validating (ie. hair pulling) and all that jazz. Ummm, I think everyone here knows exactly how that goes ;).
I hope things don’t [...]

Reviewing some January numbers with a merchant today.
Sales: $1,560
Total Amount Sales: 15
Clicks: 1,397
My Earnings/Commission: $80 and change
Funny story: I received a note from the affiliate manager asking if I tried ppc to get more sales.
Well. Tell me. Where’s the incentive? Because I don’t see it.
PPC Scenario: I pay for ppc. Google makes money, the merchant [...]

At this point the comment spam is beyond crazy.
SuperAff has been hammered for the past 48 hrs - more so than usual - plus all that wonderful referrer spam as the cherry on top.
Everything from ‘weather’ to ‘Phentermine’ to ‘make a million dollars’ to ’seo’ and ‘articles’ and ‘ebooks’ and ‘porn’ … and on [...]

Thinking of writing an ebook? Or creating a commercial script or software program?
Time to get down and dirty with copyrights.
I was surprised at how simple the process is to register and secure your copyright. Even from Canada, I can choose to protect my work with a copyright registered in the U.S. by downloading & submitting [...]

Trying to clear the decks - here are a few bookmarks you may be interested in:
The Best Web 2.0 Software of 2005
The Ultimate Guide to Google Services
50 Best Firefox Extensions for Power Surfing
Review on The Best Life Hacks of 2005
Creating a Star Rater using CSS
Nifty Corners: rounded corners without images
My Top 12 CSS Articles/Tricks of [...]

Stepforth has posted an easy method of discovering what’s sitting on a server that I wasn’t aware of by simply using MSN search:
SEO Tip :: MSN Search by IP Number
Have you ever wanted to know what other sites share an IP number with your client? A search conducted using this format at MSN: ip: ###.###.###.###, [...]

I can’t stop laffin.
I was reading Spammers Google’s Defensive Line and noticed the words ‘webmaster welfare’ struck out and replaced with Adsense.
Cracked me up!
Wanting to know if this was a commonly used term that I was just outta the loop about, I did a search on google for ‘webmaster welfare’ and found two posts by [...]

I purchased this automatic link checker script a couple months ago and I have to tell ya - it’s slick and easy!
Softbiz Automatic Link Checker Script
(not an aff link)
Here’s the scoop:
Cost: $10
Script: PHP
License: One domain
You can only install the script on one domain - not all your domains. But don’t let that turn you off. [...]