Archive for July 28th, 2008

Somehow I ended up on multiple social networks. It’s all a bit insane and can get easily out of hand… One thing about Web 2.0 though is that most of the networks where you have friends  like Facebook and Plaxo, etc all use Twitter as a potential feed. So if you are on multiple networks [...]

I found out about this yesterday. What’s diesel cost per gallon in your town? Here today it’s in the $4.50+ range. If you could sell people diesel fuel for $3.50, do you think they’d line up all day to buy from you and save $1.00 per gallon? Gas was $3.74 when I filled up tonight. [...]

Of course you have some of these “gurus” saying you’re going to get rich from Squidoo. I WISH it were that easy! If it were, of course, they’d be playing you in play money. Here’s an interesting lens. I am posting some images from them about this woman’s earnings. Here’s the lens Here are the [...]

Make Money Teaching Online:If you’re one of my readers who loved the book Make Money Teaching Online: How to Land Your First Academic Job, Build Credibility, and Earn a Six-Figure Salary, you’ll love this listing of telecommuting Adjunct professors. It’s a current listing of telecommuting adjunct instructors for Kaplan University. Degrees required… plus online teaching [...]

Cold Stone Creamery bills itself as the Ultimate Ice Cream Experience. Here’s one customer whose excitement for the franchise has melted: Cold Stone Dead Creamery She thinks the franchise is facing some tough times and mentions some statistics to prove it. It’s a snide piece to be sure but asks an important point for business [...]

When the going get’s tough, it turns out people are turning to the Lottery to try to escape their financial woes. Rattled Americans Try Their Lottery Luck In Hard Times One guy interviewed plays his state lottery $20 per week. He’s a restaurant chef. I guess he thinks investing over $1000 per year in the [...]

Saturday, the Senate approved a bail out for stockholders who got rich from the subprime mortgage industry. Nobody is bailing out the tax payers who have to pay for this silk stocking welfare. It remains to be seen if any actual homeowners will be helped, but we know every taxpayer is getting hosed to bail [...]

I love WordPress and use it pretty much for all my websites. The one I sold for a nice chunk of change was a niche WordPress site. It tells you how to thwart plagiarists who scrape your RSS feed, how to use WordPress as a membership directory, etc. It’s an awesome collection! 63 Essential WordPress [...]