April 2007 - Posts
It looks like I have added incentive to creating a new theme for this blog. Scott Watermasysk just announced a contest, the Community Server 2007 Theming Extravaganza . Prizes include a MacBook, XBOX 360, and Amazon Gift Cards!! I think that means I'm done working for the day - time to get my Theme on! Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | kick it! | live it!
I've been a bit to busy to post and they are starting to pile up. Hopefully this is the first of many this weekend. Desserts by Dawn , the company not the web site, is coming along nicely. Dawn has a verbal agreement in place with a local company who hosts lots of kid parties that could mean she would be making anywhere from 15-30 cakes a week. They are still working on the written contract, but it looks like it will be done. She's also got her vendors lined up and a few days ago she got her Home...
I got an email from Amazon a couple of days ago. Normally I don't pay any attention to advertising emails, but since it was Amazon I thought that I would take a look. There might be a new book they recommend that wasn't on my radar screen yet. What I found was the following: The text reads: We've noticed that customers who have expressed interest in Halo 2 are also interested in Halo 2. For this reason, you might like to know that Halo 2 will be released on May 8, 2007. My first thought: "Well, Duh...
I read every word Eric Sink writes. Why wouldn't I? The guy knows software and he knows how to build a company that makes software. If I weren't already doing something that I love for a company that I love then I might have taken him up on his past offer . So back to my point: I read every word that Eric Sink writes... even if is is nothing more than an an advertisement for a one of his products thinly disguised as an announcement of a product update. Why do I care? The last line in a recent post...
It's been a few days since I made a post. Really busy around here and rather than post half a dozen little posts, I'll just group everything in one big one. C & J - Thoughts and Prayers First, and most importantly, I just found out that the wife of a dear friend was involved in a serious accident Friday night. Tonight she is still recovering in ICU. It looks like she's made it through the worst. C & J, our thoughts and prayers are with you. Please Lord, see fit to watch over this wonderful...
I like the post Seth Godin made a few days ago: Memo to the very small . I, too, believe that we are in the midst of change. Well, at least it is much easier to create an online presence today than it ever has been - especially for those that are very small. Of course there have always been inexpensive ways to create sites, but there weren't always good ways of promoting them. Don't tell me about webrings or other such nonsense. If you'd have mentioned directory listings then I would have given you...
This evening I got to be an artiste! Yes that's right - artist with a trailing e. Dawn has a craft show Saturday where she will be selling cupcakes and she needs ingredients stickers to go on the bottom of the cupcake packages and wanted a logo to go on the top of the packages. I came to her rescue, fired up the ol' image editing software and showed off my skillz. (FWIW, the drop shadow really makes it hard to read when displayed here, but it actually adds to the legibility when seen in print.) Uh...
We ad text ads to our blogs with Google Adsense; we add links to Digg, Del.icio.us, and Dot Net Kicks to our posts with FeedBurner FeedFlare; we place ads in our RSS feeds with FeedBurner, Pheedo, or AdBlendr; we do mouseover popups of links and keywords with Snap and others. Now AdBrite is giving us the ability to add flair to the images in our posts, or images anywhere for that matter, with BritePic . The BritePic site has the tagline, "Bring Life to your Images". The AdBrite site, though has the...
I mentioned before that I would be coaching my daughter's spring soccer team . I didn't really go into this spring planning on coaching, but they needed another coach and I thought I might be useful. I was a bit nervous about it though, as I've never coached soccer and I've never coached little girls. I did coach my unit's flag football team while at Ft. Lewis for two years with mixed results - the first year we were great, the second year we sucked. But twenty-something Army Infantry guys are a...
This is not another post linking to a bunch of A-list bloggers' opinions on Tim O'Reilly's suggested Blogger Code of Conduct, though Mike Arrington of TechCrunch has an opinion that I agree with for the most part. Here is my code of conduct: It's my blog, I'll write whatever I want. I will allow anonymous comments. I'm not running a community here, I'm running a blog so you can't sign up for an account. If you want to comment to one of my blog posts then by all means do so. If you want to be part...
Daniel of Daily Blog Tips posted "Online Advertising is Booming" last week and pointed to an article on Reuters titled "Ads on Web to overtake radio by 2008" . The article says that internet advertising will account for 8% of the worlds advertising spending for 2008, global advertising spending is expected to increase 5.2% this year, and ad spending on the internet is expected to grow six times faster than traditional media over the next two years. His point is that if you want to get into the online...
I spotted a nice looking template this morning in my OpenDesigns.org RSS feed that I think would make a great CS2007 blog theme. The template is called Snow Flakes and you can see a preview here . Below is a screenshot. I like the colors and the layout, but the one thing I think I would remove would actually be the snow flake artifacts, the layout's namesake. I'd like to take a shot at making a CS2007 blog template from it, but if someone beats me to it then that's all the better. :) Share this post...
Chris Pirillo put together a nice post, Ten Secrets of an Earlier Adopter Tech Entrepreneur , as a guest blogger on the Chitka blog. Chris' tip #4 is: Stay up late - you’ll get more work done after hours than you ever will during the middle of the day. I've been living this mantra for the last six months or so and it is true. I'm now getting anywhere from 2-3 hours of "extra" work done a night, depending on when the wife and kids go to bed. To do so I've only had to trim my sleep to about 5 hours...
As you can plainly see I make use of various forms of advertising on this site. In some cases I may be paid for clickthroughs or actions taken by you on those sites (sign ups, ordering products, etc.). I do not have an advertising affiliation with every product, site, or service that I write about or link to from this site. In fact, most of them I do not. I normally write about stuff that I use and recommend, whether I am affiliated with the product/service/site or not. I will not write a post for...
Over on my TheBestWebStuff blog I recently added an Advertising Disclaimer to the main navigation of the site. I felt that since I had recently added RSS ads, banner ads, text ads, and I would soon be venturing into paid reviews as part of my research into the various advertising networks and opportunities that I should make some sort of statement about the types of advertising used on the site. Additionally, services like SponsoredReviews.com require that you either have some sort of site-wide notice...
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