Free Business Blogging Teleclass
April 4, 2005
You’ve heard all of the buzz, but is a adding a weblog to your small business web site really the hot ticket for bringing in additional traffic and revenue that it’s made out to be?
Will it make your life easier, or will it add complexity and scare off potential customers?
Trust No.1
April 2, 2005
Seth Godin has up a great post on the elaborate April Fool’s gag he prepared (a whole bit about Homeland Security registering and taxing bloggers, and how he’d come out in support of it), and why he ultimately decided not to post the thing after all.
“But I’m not going to post it. In fact, this is my last post until Saturday. Why? Because everything is being taken so seriously, especially when individuals feel deceived, mistreated or foolish.”
That’s the sad truth. I thought about doing an April Fool gag myself here, and then decided not to bother; I didn’t pull one prank or even dumb joke the whole day.
It seems like most everybody suspects (or is even reasonably sure) that they’re being lied to and manipulated by the people they’re supposed to be trusting these days. You don’t need April Fools gags when we feel like we’re living in the endless April 1st…
Find the supermodel of your dreams…
April 1, 2005
It may just be your lucky day, at Supermodel Personals.
“You’ve got the H2, got the nice house- the fireplace, the piano, the tasteful objets d’ art and framed pictures of your kids’ birthday parties- and, most importantly, you’ve got the divorce. Now all you need is a hot 19-year old little bitch to stroke your… ego, and stroll around the house in lingerie, looking sexy and pissed off.”
Or maybe not so lucky…
Anyway, a lot of fun…
(caution: link not overly safe for work, depending where you work, I suppose)
Freeware author makes bad decision, gets flayed in absentia
March 31, 2005
I’m sorry, I’ve tried real hard not to comment on this, but it just isn’t working out.
Apparently Matt Mullenweg, the principle author of WordPress, has gotten “caught” taking advantage of wordpress.org’s impressive googlejuice (a pagerank of 
by placing 120,000 articles or so under the site targetting high value phrases and running contextual advertising.
How the other half brews…
March 22, 2005
If your taste in coffee runs more to the barista artiste than the ultimate cup of home brew, you may want to check out the photos and coverage of the US Barista Championship over on God Shot.
Irish Coffee — The Backstory…
March 19, 2005
I know I should have posted this in time for St. Pattys, but hey — coffee, irish whiskey and whipped cream are a good topic for any day…
In any event, Coffee and Tea did their homework, and researched the history of Irish Coffee, and provide it (along with a couple of recipes) here.
In honor of the day, or should I say honour, I’ll not only be wearin’ the green, but drinkin’ the Irish as well. Mug in hand, I went in search of the origins of the stuff.
More Free Cover MP3s
March 16, 2005
If you haven’t had enough odd or excellent covers to last you for one day, you might want to give Copy, Right? a try.
(via The Nomad’s Tent)
ODB Sussudio Stylee
March 16, 2005
Okay, the Bright Eyes Appliance thing is a tough post to follow, but we can do it.
How about this excellent find from cheesedip.com—a cover of Phil Collins’ “Sussudio” by Ol’ Dirty Bastard?
Is the ‘net on a roll today, or is it just me?
(via Mathowie)
You’re a bad man, Stagolee…
March 15, 2005
“Honey, Where You Been So Long?”, the pre-war blues blog, is doing a week-long feature of many of the various renditions of the Stagolee story down through the years.
“Stagolee is one of the most famous blues ballads, one that represent both the blues and history of violence and masculinity in American society. The purpose of this week is not to discuss the murder of Billy Lyons, the mythology of Lee Shelton or the lasting impact of the song really. I see this week as a way for the blues public to share their favorite version of the song and doing so tell a little bit about themselves and their own history with the song and the blues.”
They already have a number of great tracks up for your listening pleasure. Go check it out.
The more things change…
March 5, 2005
Steve Gilmor’s just managed to sum up pretty much the same thing I’ve been thinking about Google’s new Autolink hijack product, in “Deaf dumb and blind boys”. Once more into the breech, friends…
“So just when everybody thinks there is no new Borg, along comes Larry, Moe, and Sergey to take over the show. The thing that’s making me angry is not that history is repeating itself, but that stupidity is repeating itself. How hard is it to realize that delivering a service that makes users feel powerless is not a good thing. Particularly users with loaded weapons called blogs and ‘casts. Who cares if you can do it because. Forget the stuff about do no evil. Do no stupid.”
We didn’t put up with this when Microsoft wanted to do it, we aren’t going to put up with it now, and we won’t put up with it when the next great hope decides to resurrect the idea yet again.
Why is it that no matter how user oriented a company is, sooner or later they turn the corner and decide that they suddenly have a mandate to ram crap down people’s throats?
We ain’t gonna take it. Yet again.
you had my hope up 
