Stuff you should know, stuff I should remember.

Verna tagged me with the ‘five things people don’t know about you’ meme 2 weeks ago and I’ve been trying to dredge up things that I have never chronicled on either my business-y or personal blog. When you’ve been blogging for 6 years it is hard to come up with anything new to reveal. 1) […]

(via Steve) Blogs Gain Favor Worldwide: Among the eight countries examined in the study, Canada saw the highest penetration of visitors to blogs, with 58 percent of all internet users visiting the category in October 2006. Half (51 percent) of all internet users in Spain also visited blogs.

IF you’re coach-type, be sure to make room for Andrea’s encore of her ICF conference presentation: ‘The Coaching Electric?’ | Audio Recording

As more and more social networking and media sites launch, they’ve started paying for your attention and creativity. Mashable has the scoop: 19 Ways To Make Social Sites Pay.

Mark Evans :: Odeo: A Sign of Things to Come? Twenty months after raising $5-million of venture capital and several strategic mistakes later, Odeo’s founder has decided to buy back the company from investors, and rename itself Obvious Corp. What’s particularly interesting about Odeo’s move is whether this is just the beginning of a trend […]

The rude question you were asking yourself: User-Generated Content Sites Need Millions? The reason I’m baffled is because they now have about $20 million but I can’t see any original content on their site — all they do is aggregate everybody’s else’s content, let people leave comments and posts, and then display it. All that […]

Yahoo! Top Searches of 2006.

Exclusive: Google’s Click Fraud Rate is Less than 2% Google is already filtering more than 98% of invalid clicks, before they show-up in the AdWords console, their goal is to filter 100% and suggestions they are not doing enough are misguiding in their eyes.

(from Fred) SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES INCLUDING MYSPACE and Facebook are driving a bigger portion of traffic to retail sites than a year ago, according to new research by Hitwise. Social sites are driving more than 6% of retail traffic, up from 2.9% in 2005. MySpace alone accounted for about one-third of that traffic. The increase […]

Because only the truly worthy know the first 10 consecutive digits of e. Official Google Blog: Warning: we brake for number theory: