Archive for September, 2007

How to keep losers off your BlogRush widget

Thursday, September 27th, 2007

If you’re a low-traffic site in the online marketing niche, you’ll likely find your BlogRush widget cluttered with crap headlines from some really bad low-traffic blogs - everything from people pushing AGLOCO and e-books to get-rich-quick MLM hacks trying to get you to try their “business opportunity.”
But rejoice! You too can keep the late-night-TV junk […]

It’s that time again…

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

Time to upgrade your WordPress. The new 2.3 version has a bunch of bitchin’ stuff that you’ll want to take advantage of, including a much nicer editor and a plugin tracker that lets you know when new versions of your plugins are available. It even has native support for tagging your posts so you can […]

A good reason to be a journalist…

Thursday, September 20th, 2007

…is getting to report on this kind of hilarity. Screw gentrification, TIF districts and wars, this guy obviously did it for the lulz.

The fact that this is the station’s TOP STORY proves once again that there’s not more than corn in Indiana. Take it from me; I’ve lived there.
Seriously, there isn’t.
“Did you bring any […]

New York Times admits defeat, ends TimesSelect

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007

Dear TimesSelect Subscriber (who only subscribed because it was free with his .edu address),
We are ending TimesSelect, effective today. (Another failure from old media)

The Times’s Op-Ed and news columns are now available to everyone free of charge, along with Times File and News Tracker. In addition, The New York Times online Archive is now free […]

Some unfortunate Digg ad placements

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007

I guess this is what happens when you outsource your ad targeting and serving to Microsoft…

Pretty self-explanatory.

As long as you’re being forced to switch to Windows, you might as well switch to Google Apps too, because Office 2007 is just that damn awful.
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