Archive for January, 2007

We take basic morality and tolerance for granted in the United States.
That’s why we take down a dicrator in Iraq and assume the people can immediately transition into a free and prosperous nation. When things go as they’ve gone we’re amazed.
Here’s another example – you go into Wal Mart to buy a vitamin or [...]

Soon after ebooks came out last year on “Blogging to the Bank” etc. blogger began instituting changes. I like the new blogger tied to a google account. The old blogger blogs were – at first – very easy to spam with.
BTTB tried to creat blogs with legitimate content but to create them with maximum search [...]

Consumer Reports Best Buy Drug site is online to help consumers just in time for President Bush’s State of the Union message where he’s trying to spur market reform to help halt skyrocketing health care prices. Small business, home business, and other folks grappling with these costs should welcome this information.
On the site, consumers get [...]

Becky McRay tells how and why you can position yourself as an expert through blogging.
Here are the key elements you must recognize in your blogging quest…
*You need no one’s permission to start.
*You can choose any topic you are passionate about.
*State your purpose/niche/approach early on.
*Link to authorities and add your thoughts. Trackback.
*Write original stuff too. *Tell [...]

I am setting up a domain from scratch for a local educational outfit. Because of the budget – zero – I decided to use Google’s applications for domains. I didn’t use their registration service because if I was going to mess with it for free, I wanted to use a domain service I was already [...]

For the record there are legitimate MySpace marketing tools like The Myspace Bank and Badder Adder but some just can’t be limited by ethics of any sort so MySpace is suing one for unspecified damages over millions of SPAM messages sent to MySpace Users.
Reuters reports that Media Breakaway exec Scott Richter is being sued for [...]

For the last week or so I’ve been seeing a survey picked up by one media service after another. Basically they were all saying “People who telecommute are out of sight, out of mind, won’t advance in their careers, etc.”
The message has been “telecommuters are shooting themselves in the foot” because they’re not in the [...]

Steven Weber has a good review of what he considers to be wasteful advertising dollars: a service offering paid reviews through Amazon.com’s “Book Surge” publishing service.
For $399 you can get a supposedly “big name” author to write a paid, gushing review that’s supposed to make you rich on the royalties. I wonder if you’d be [...]

The health insurance-government complex may not be able to keep costs low, but in the time worn model of business “if you can’t beat them, sue them” they tried to get the government to clamp down on a private association of individuals who voluntarily helped each other with their health insurance expenses. The monthly cost [...]

I was reading this article on how little known programs allow homeowners to sell power back to the power company or at least get subsidies to produce their own power and I have to admit, this is a “dream” I have…
1. No consumer debt
2. Paid off mortgage
3. And the power company paying me instead of [...]