Several days ago I wrote a blog post about a new site called Million Dollar Avatar. Before writing that post I signed up for an account and added my avatar to their system.It has now been one week since they went live so I went back.After logging in I went to my ‘home’ page on…
Tag: News
A new twist on an old scam?
Anyone who has an email account has gotten at least one email from someone who is trying to get millions of dollars out of a troubled African country. Usually it is the daughter of an oil minister or a poor lawyer trying to funnel funds from a dead family.Today I got this in my email….
How To: Getting Alexa to like you
One problem many people are begining to face is that of Alexa. Alexa is not exactly the problem itself, the problem is that many advertisers will look at your Alexa rating and make a judgement based on it.The problem with Alexa is that it only tracks information gathered from people who use the Alexa toolbar…
Is the WordPress Top Commentator plugin screwing up Technorati?
For a while now I have been slowly working my way up the Technorati ladder. When I first became aware of Technorati I had a ranking in the 90K range. Last week I broke into the 50K range. This morning I checked and found myself sitting at 15,955!I’m sitting at this rank because 341 links…
My archives page is up
I’ve been scouring the Internet to find a good plugin to use for my archives page and I found one.This plugin was written by Shawn Grimes and is called the SRG Clean Archives.This plugin does require you to also run the Exec-PHP plugin by Sören Weber.Once both plugins are activated it is as easy as…
Speed linking for Feb 23, 2007
I’ve decided to add a new blog post on Fridays. I know the name “speed linking” is not exactly original but I’m not feeling very creative right now. What follows is five links that I consider to be worth sharing. They are in no special order but each will have some short commentary.1) Warning: Blogging…
Why are you here?
Now that I’ve given my blog a proper make-over I find myself asking a very important question; why are you here?I’m talking about you, the blog reader, why are you reading this blog?I can look through my server logs and see where people come from to get a general idea of what people are reading…
Million Dollar Avatar
I’m always on the lookout for new ways to advertise my blog and a new website Million Dollar Avatar my be the next big thing.Mad props to Baron for breaking this story to me on his blog Million Dollar Avatar – get hits or die tryin’.I signed up right away and it looks like this…
Military man is 19 years old
I received this as an email a few years back and this morning it showed up in my inbox. Does anyone know where this originated from?The MilitaryThe average age of the military man is 19 years. He is a short haired, tight-muscled kid who, under normal circumstances is considered by society as half man, half…
My MyBlogLog wish list
Now that I have become a member of MyBlogLog and built a small community around this blog I find myself writing a wish list. A wish list of things I want to be able to do with MyBlogLog.1) Better visitor tracking of other members – At this time MyBlogLog will show me who has recently…
MyBlogLog Hack: Make anyone your co-author
After reading a post on John Chow’s blog mybloglog open to attacks I decided to take a moment and figure this hack out. This hack allows an unknown blogger to attach their blog to the owner of a very popular community.It is very simple and points out a serious security problem with MyBlogLog’s verification system.Normally,…
Get paid for reviewing a blog post?
You heard me right. Pay-Per-Post is doing just that.As hard as it may be to believe, you can use Pay-Per-Post to not only make some money but to also increase blog traffic.The way it works is very simple. There is a small link at the bottom of each of my posts now that says, “get…