When most people think of music licensing they think of the RIAA, lawsuits and poor little old ladies being sued for all they own because someone downloaded a terrible song. What if there was an alternative? What if artists did not have to go the way of the RIAA to get their music out there?…
Month: August 2007
How To: Correctly game a social news site
So, you think you found a way to game a social news site such as Digg or Netscape? You think you are so smart because you are emailing links to your friends and asking them to digg your story? Guess again chump! You are about to run into the cold hard door of failure. The…
Google Assumes 10% click fraud rate
I was just reading an interesting article over on Marketing Pilgrim about Google and click fraud. The essence of the article is that Google automatically discounts about 10% of all AdSense clicks as fraudulent. These “false positive” clicks are just thrown out and the advertiser is not charged and the publisher is not paid. Google…
My favorite web comic
As a programmer I find some things funny that others do not. A prime example is the web comic xkcd. Look below to see a prime example of the humor that is xkcd. If you hold your mouse over the image you will see the rest of the joke. My wife finds no humor in…
Wii Review: Boogie
Are you ready to Boogie? Electronic Arts just released its new Wii game Boogie this August. It came out at just about the same time as Mario Strykers Charged so no one gave it a lot of attention, except for me! I went to the game store to pick up a new Wii game that…
Trip Rule Number One: Charge it!
I’m not talking about using credit cards, I’m talking about prepping all of your electronic devices prior to leaving. The weekend before we left for Ocean City we got the car ready by taking it to our mechanic to have the oil changed and the tires rotated. Someone in my family was supposed to get…
The PokeFarm is growing!
As you all know I moved nearly all of my Pokemon content to a new site called PokeFarm on Aug 3, 2007. Some of you may have also noticed the drop in traffic HMTK.com sustained because of the content move. I have no doubt that the traffic levels here will rise again just as they…
Blogging Friend: Grimjesta
One of my blogging friends is a guy who goes by the name of Grimjesta. I’ve known him for several years now and he recently moved his blogging efforts from MySpace to his own domain over at Grimjesta.com. Grim is a punk, mohawk and all. He’s also a gamer. He recently acquired a Nintendo Wii…
Google AdSense: Be sure to block your own ads!
If you do not know what Google AdSense is than you must be living under a rock reading this off of a piece of papyrus someone printed it out on! For those who know of it but not exactly what it is let me tell you now that AdSense is a program in which a…
Nintendo Wii News: Metroid Prime 3 trailers on the Wii!
Imagine my surprise this morning when I found the front of my Wii glowing blue. That is the signal that you have mail waiting. So, what did this mail tell me? It told me that there was something new in the Wii shop for me to download for free, something to do with Metroid Prime…