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Monday, November 04, 2002

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Blogging for Dollars

Blogging for Dollars

My neighbor Bill Quick is experimenting with a blog-for-pay model as part of the newly launched Blogging Network. Some people like the idea, others seem affronted by it. I think it's great that Bill and others are going out on a limb to try a new method for monetizing their talents, but I'm skeptical that this particular approach is the optimal way for a blogger to make money.

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Blogdex in action.
For those interested parties, you can watch Blogdex do it's work through the agent logs. I use these to keep track of progress and errors, but there's no reason it shouldn't be public. In the future I'll be trying to expose as much of the internal operation of Blogdex as... [Blogdex News]

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Shoppers Gearing Up for Season.
Online shoppers are beginning to flex their e-commerce muscles in anticipation of the upcoming holidays. [CyberAtlas]

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Search added.
Search functionality is now available. I'm using MySql's full-text search methods which are quick but offer very little in the way of performance tuning. Results for multiple word queries are forced to be boolean OR across whatever dataset is being searched. The search page can be found here: Blogdex Search... [Blogdex News]

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The Fishbowl: HTTP Conditional Get.
The Fishbowl: HTTP Conditional Get for RSS Hackers "Given the massive confusion exhibited here, I've written a nice, simple guide... [Too Much News]

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All About Title Tags [High Rankings]

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No Quick Fix for High Search Engine Rankings [High Rankings]

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How to Submit Your Site to Directories such as Yahoo!, DMOZ and Zeal [High Rankings]

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What it Means To Be a Search Engine Marketing Professional [High Rankings]

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Is The New Outlook a Threat to E-Mail Marketers?
Is The New Outlook a Threat to E-Mail Marketers?. The upcoming version of Microsoft's popular e-mail program boasts anti-spam features that could give legitimate e-mail marketers headaches. [internetnews.com]

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Jon Udell explains that early next year Groove will add a SOAP-over-HTTP interface.
This is good. It means that then, an enterprising developer should be able to integrate Groove capabilities with website authoring for Radio and/or Manila. [Scripting News]

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Implementing web services.
Some useful advice from McKinsey and from ZapThink on best practices for implementing web services (thanks to Doug Kaye ... [Loosely Coupled weblog]

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Swallowing your own web services medicine.
Dozens of startups are vying for leadership in web services management, but the frontrunners all seem to have ... [Loosely Coupled weblog]

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