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File: January 2007

Writing a link blog is more than just killing time. It can do wonders for keeping your blog fresh and even exchanging links. I see a lot of power bloggers out there on the net that maintain link blogs. I’m sure a lot of you have seen these blog entries that are nothing more than [...]

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How touching. Someone thinks I’m desperate to get on the front page of Digg. Today I check my WordPress admin’s comment spam box and what do you know? I get an offer too good to refuse. Maybe. At 20 cents per vote that’s like $10-$20 to get on the Digg front page. Let me think [...]

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How touching. Someone thinks I’m desperate to get on the front page of Digg. Today I check my WordPress admin’s comment spam box and what do you know? I get an offer too good to refuse. Maybe. At 20 cents per vote that’s like $10-$20 to get on the Digg front page. Let me think [...]

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2007-01-31 :: baron // links
links for 2007-02-01

How I made it to the top 100 Digg users and double Diggnation mention in 21 days. Now you can join the top 100 too! (tags: digg) Technorati WTF? Technorati is launching WTF. Not that one. It stands for Where’s The Fire. I kid you not. It’s supposed to be a Digg clone. Is April [...]

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Now that I’ve had the time to spend some time experimenting with the various social media sites, I think now is a good time to give it a rest and share some observations on what I learned. I don’t claim to be an expert on the subject and I’ve only had real success with one [...]

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Yikes! Man I was on some self-righteous Bob Woodward vibe for a minute. Anyways, the truth emerges. Sicc had already blogged about his strategies behind his rapid success: 1. Add a lot of friends. 2. Get good, unique news sources (even if you have to pay for them) 3. Digg anything and everything your friends [...]

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Yikes! Man I was on some self-righteous Bob Woodward vibe for a minute. Anyways, the truth emerges. Sicc had already blogged about his strategies behind his rapid success: 1. Add a lot of friends. 2. Get good, unique news sources (even if you have to pay for them) 3. Digg anything and everything your friends [...]

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2007-01-30 :: baron // links
links for 2007-01-31

Rel=Nofollow I never liked the “nofollow” concept. It’s a nasty hack to cover up Google’s own deficiencies. Seeing Wikipedia and others give into this temptation is distressing. It creates a one way street. Where would they be without volunteers and sources? (tags: nofollow search engine) State Name Mashups Mashups aren’t just for web startups. Welcome [...]

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I’m just going to let it rest after this because I don’t need to waste my time. The only thing I really care to know is: 1. Does the Digg team (as in company) know what’s going on? 2. Does the (real) community care? First of all, this isn’t a rant against the community or [...]

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I’m just going to let it rest after this because I don’t need to waste my time. The only thing I really care to know is: 1. Does the Digg team (as in company) know what’s going on? 2. Does the (real) community care? First of all, this isn’t a rant against the community or [...]

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