Category: General

Baba Wawa is featuring the MySpace founders on her most fascinating people. How folksy, they created a MySpace page for Barbara. Amazingly enough they don’t show her waiting three days for the goddamn page to load.

Even if you’re not a webmaster, you can benefit from reviewing some of the cool online sites outlined by Vladimir Prelovac at Vladimir Prelovac Online! From analyzing for broken links, to listing outgoing links, from accessibility to readability, Vladimir provides 10 top webmaster resources that you can use to improve performance. The test over at […]

Attention Freelancers: This is a must-read. Samuel over at Wake Up Later blogged about the “10 Absolute “Nos!” for Freelancers”. My favorite is #6 — “I have a great idea. Do you want to…?” I bet you wish you had a dollar for every prospect who approached you with that line. There are a lot […]

Click on over to Smashing Magazine to get a first-hand glimpse of 30 interesting blog designs. Some were very interesting. I liked Elitist Snob. It’s a clean, cute design that reminds me of Freelance Switch — a blog I enjoy reviewing on a regular basis. With only a month until the end of 2007, maybe […]

Liz Gaines over at NewTeeVee, following up on an earlier article on how to master viral video advertising, penned an interesting post about how a Stanford graduate student achieved over 20 million views on YouTube – but not necessarily in the most admirable way. Who you are, how you show up, what you do every […]

Newsweek reporter and author of Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster on the history of fashion, branding and luxury:

Dougal Campbell at Geek Ramblings shares some interesting thoughts in a white paper entitled How to Create a Secure WordPress Install which he ran across at BlogSecurity.net In this 10-page document, written by Philipp Heinze and David Kierznoski, you can learn what you need to know to make your WordPress install more secure. This whitepaper […]

Are you trying to navigate your way through the confusing world of SEO when it comes to optimizing your blog? Patrick Altoft, from the UK, is the author of Blogstorm, an internet marketing blog. In a recent article on SEOmoz.com, he shares some tips on how to reveal and/or cloak your incoming links depending on […]

Deb Ng, a freelance writer, wrote a post at Performancing about how she makes money with her blog. Posting about a prior story by Amy Derby who makes $1,000 per month on her blog, Deb shares with us what she’s doing in terms of monetization. From Adsense to Amazon, combined with a bit of Kontera […]

I know a lot of people that absolutely bust a nut over The World is Flat but I am not adept at separating his ideas (along with his horrendously awful execution of metaphor) from his cheerleading for imperialist racist foreign and economy policy. Glen Greenwald hits all the nails on the head: Almost five years […]