How Not To Blog ?

The problem with people receiving spam is usually that they use only 1 email address. They give everyone and everything [email protected] and then complain that they get too much junk in their inbox everyday.

Here's my solution:

1) Register a domain at an inexpensive registrar. (If you pay more than $9, you're getting ripped off.)

2) Spend $3/month for a hosting account like this one where you can get 1GB of space and a catch-all email address.

3) After you're done signing up and pointing the domain's DNS setting to your new host, set up your email client (with many modern hosts it's a one-click process from the control panel if you're too stupid or lazy to figure it out by yourself).

4) Now, here's the most important part. When you give someone an email address, make it unique. If you register at Corbis.com, for example, use [email protected] in the registration field.

5) Receive email as you normally do, in Outlook Express, Eudora, or whatever. When you see that you are receiving spam addressed to a particular email address go to your email control panel at your host (or using Outlook) and BLOCK that field. Example: if company X has sold your email address (which, inventively, you provided them with [email protected]) then you can just filter out any email coming in that has that email address int he "to" or "cc" field.

6) shut up about spam

My spam count (over 10+ domains and countless email addresses) is never more than 3 per day because of this very method that I have been using for years and years. Works like a charm.

Every blogger in blogspace knows that Adsense sucks. Not many speak up about it. Afraid of getting banned from Google?

Most likely, Google is ripping you off. They won't even tell you what percentage you're getting. That's so funny. With any other company you would simply refuse to do business with them. With Google you're just taking a beating willingly. The reason they don't tell you is because it's so fucking low, you would be pissed.

Bend over, my friend! I'm going to wow you with my colorful logo and cool algorithms before I punch you in the ass. Behold! A nifty little script to install on your Blog and provide us with half a billion in Adsense revenue to add to our ever-growing Adwords pile of cash. You keep blogging, we get rich. Isn't life grand?

Are you serious?!?! Any Adwords advertiser (the system used to display your Adsense) knows that the 'content' part of their campaigns sucks big time. An ad that gets a 5-10% click-through ratio on Google search is lucky to get .8-1% on your blog. The shit's not targeted, and not interesting. They're raking in the big bucks, anyway, so they don't really care about you. As long as you remain interested in the possibility of making $20 next month with your blog and maintain faith in the Google brand they've got you.

Really, they should call it "AdCents" and get over with it.

What Google should do is let the publishers know exactly what percentage they're getting. Then they should increase the percentage to a fair 50%. (I'm guessing it's about 5-8% now from my Computor's calculations).

I don't get what the new trend is making some category terms large than others, a la Technorati peanut butter sandwiches. I'd rather encounter an old X-10 minicam popup than to see that gruel on your website. Threadwatch tells us that Folksonomic tagging is good for search marketers, but is it good for searchers? Sure, tagging is good for searchers. But making some tags larger than others is not.

What would Amazon look like if it adopted the same system? Pretty horrible (and much more unusable), if you ask me. They'd be much better off just adopting the extensible metadata (tags) and not playing around with the font size.

Yes, some categories have more content than others (obviously).

That doesn't mean that there will be a proportional amount of persons interested in each of those categories. Meaning, most of your visitors will probably be frustrated.

When you treat each category equally you enable the user to make their own decisions about what they want to see. Some of the Technorati tags on the tags page, for example, are very difficult to see. Some of them aren't even listed (e.g., 'wikipedia'). But, nevermind, it looks cool. And it's new.

These are the same people (e.g., David Sifry of Technorati) who preach about the Long Tail of searching and the web, but don't understand the concept of niche visitors.

Forget squeezing millions from a few megahits at the top of the charts. The future of entertainment is in the millions of niche markets at the shallow end of the bitstream.

Don't be too shy to admit your stupidity.

Terry Schiavo.. who the fuck cares???

Why doesn't Trump stop over-promoting himself and admit that he's been bankrupt since I was 20 years old? Tacky bitch has no sense of style.. gold everywhere. Shit, save some money and shut the hell up. Who is he trying to impress? He actually looks better with his toupee on.

Speaking of rusty toupees.. you would think Bill Gates could afford a better toupee. It looks pretty darn good from the front. Just don't look at it from the side. That's a dead giveaway that no one ever mentions because we're all in awe of his vast fortune.

Did you ever stop to wonder if the Japanese originally came from another planet? I mean.. their bodies are shaped so much differently (look at their legs). And everyone knows that Tokyo is really a city modeled after their technologically-advanced homeworld. Or maybe it's us that are the aliens with big glands from planet Alphabet Soup 9.

Black comedians: shut the fuck up about being black. Fat comedians. Same to you. We know you're black or fat. So what? Are you that uncomfortable? Tell me something original.

I swear.. if you look into Bush's eyes you'd think you were looking at a psycho crackhead. Are his eyes crossed, or something, or is he just that high on schizo meds?

People's televisions should automatically self-destruct if left on for more than 3 hours at a time.

Forget about charity for poor children in other countries. Eat me! That's the breaks. That kind of charity just encourages poor societies as a whole to not be responsible for their offspring. If you saw the way they treated their own kids, you wouldn't give shit, either. If you can't provide for your kids, don't have them. Your roaches aren't my problem. Let's think about poor grandma and grandpa next door who we seem to have negleted in favor of those cute little dirty kids in foreign countries. Many of them live in horrible conditions and are physically abused, not to mention starving. Let's not treat them too well, though. We don't want to encourage society to put out more of them.

Ben Affleck is going to be penniless in 10 years. And I'm going to laugh my fucking head off. Bling bling!

Where's my Virgin Galactic lottery ticket? I don't mind paying $20 for a chance to win a trip to outer space. Dumb-ass entrepreneurs, always waiting for someone else to think of good ideas.

Cousin Arnold. You and your wife, Maria, have been planning your 2008 presidency ever since you two met. I admire your long-view approach. But stop using language from your fucking films. This isn't Hollywood anymore.

View blogs.. literally.

Wait for the images to load. See something interesting? Hover your mouse cursor over the image and read the original text from the blog that it came from.

This would be perfect for an Amaztype-type service. Show me the cover of the book, then give me a summary.

Are you ready? For this?

They will come in droves.

That's actually a good thing. Without AOL, we'd be accessing all 3,500 internet sites in an advertiser-free world on 56k modems.