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What Are You Doing for Blog Action Day?Oct 10, 2008 What can 8,952,087 combined readers do for the world? That is what Blog Action Day is asking, and I am sure you will be hearing much more about it from here and other popular blogs. I am just putting together my post … Tagged: charity, features, poverty, bloggers, blog action day |
Oct 7, 2008
I believe that a blogger who is on top of their game is just as valuable as a staff writer. Yet, you will often find that the compensation doesn’t match. This is the very issue I wrestled with when considering an …
Tagged: blogging, free, cnbc, guides, guest, mainstream media, unpaid
Oct 7, 2008
Three-quarters of British teachers believe that blogging and social networking can help their pupils learn about the environment and greener living, according to a recent survey by EDF Energy. Marking the start of an …
Oct 7, 2008
Uber was due to shut down on September 29, 2008, but is still up, and the shutdown notice is nowhere to be found, nor is an explanation. The Blog Herald reader Jean Tarbox has heard that ShareNow is saving Uber this …
Tagged: news, uber, sharenow, jean tarbox
Oct 7, 2008
In Flipping Blog Scams MMO Niche is Full of Jerks, Garry Conn takes on the scams associated with Make Money Online Niches (MMON) and reselling domain names and sites: It takes a lot to get me upset; however, when I …
Tagged: features, scams, economy, work from home, work at home, scammers, get rich quick, blog scams, bad blogs, internet job, blog from home
Oct 7, 2008
Gawker Media trims several jobs. Ebay lowers the guillotine. And Yahoo might be on the brink. Short of ending the war in Iraq next week (not going to happen), we are probably looking at lousy financial times in the …
Oct 6, 2008
As part of my research into blog scams, I ran across a new video by Consumer Reports WebWatch called “Look Before You Click”. Consumer Reports WebWatch - Look Before You Click The WebWatch’s ‘Look Before You Click’ …
Tagged: features, privacy, scams, phishing, identity theft, fraud, consumer reports, consumerreports, internet security, internet fraud, webwatch, blog scams, internet theft, look before you click
Oct 6, 2008
While I can excuse those who overhype their Plugins, Themes, and contests on their blog, I have a hard time forgiving those who use their blogs as scams. As the blog platform becomes more ubiquitous and easier to use …
Tagged: features, phish, scams, autoblog, phishing, scammers, spam blogs, splog, splogs, fake blogs, sploggers, blog scams, bad blogs, abusive blogs, blog industry
Oct 6, 2008
I hate hyperbole, and what really infuriates me are claims that “there is nothing like this anywhere!” Oh, really. With the modern treasure trove called search engines, there is little left in the world that can’t be …
Tagged: scams, guides, evil, scammers, splogs, exaggeration, blog scams
Oct 6, 2008
Everyone knows that almost any blog post is better with images. However, getting them can be a difficult matter. With a maze of licensing and fair use issues making it hard to decide what is and is not legal to use …