I like to keep a fairly professional and level head when I am discussing various issues on this blog but unfortunately I have just listened to the pre-recording that Shoemoney did with Rand Fiskin about full disclosure when blogging, and quite honestly whilst I empathise with some of the points both made, I think in many ways both are missing at least a few vital points.
Read more on Blogging Full Disclosure Debacle – Grow Some Brass Ones…
Shoemoney Media and Mediawhiz (The parent company of Text Link Ads and ReviewMe) have released an innovative new monetization model, based upon Ebay Auctions – AuctionAds.com
Mainstream media will no doubt not even think let alone write about the 2 core advantages of this system for a large segment of the affiliate marketplace.
Read more on AuctionAds Review – AuctionAds Partially Solves Two International Affiliate Problems…
This plugin retroactively places the rel=”nofollow” tag on all links to Shoemoney.com – you don’t have to modify any links manually, and it is easy to switch off should you feel in the future that the site no longer contains offensive material.
This seems to be a growing trend, and so many bloggers are falling for the linkbait, poorly researched content, and unethical marketing practices.
Reactionary development of computer products and services can prove to be a disaster both for development cycles and the feature set of a product. An extremely careful balance has to be achieved between supporting the wishes of hardcore supporters of a product, and achieving core goals and maintaining a development schedule.
Read more on Wolfpack of Lies – Hack Baiting Web 2.0 Startups For Diggs…
So Shoe got banned from MyBlogLog and now there is some kind of outcry from people wanting him reinstated. It is actually a great way to grab attention – I think every one of his “exploit” posts has gained more Diggs than the original announcement of the Yahoo MyBlogLog acquisition on the MyBlogLog blog.
During an interview with Shoemoney(listen to it here), Matt Mullenweg mentioned that Wordpress 2.1 will be released on January 22nd.
It is available as a beta version, and a believe beta2 is due any day now. Lots of people in the Wordpress development community have been running Wordpress 2.1 beta on production blogs, and a lot of the code is shared with Wordpress.com.
MyBlogLog is a service I enjoy using, and which provides me with a significant amount of quality readers.
But it is becoming devalued
Recently Andy Beal decided to issue a free Zune MP3 player to a member of his MyBlogLog community. I actually thought this was a good idea to encourage people to use the service, as Andy has a high readership. Thus I did link through to him in my post “MyBlogLog – Antisocial Behaviour?”.
BlogRoll Circle Jerk? – If You Encourage Junk Comments That Is What You Get
The quality of comments on a blog totally depend on the blog itself, the type of content you write, and the tools and method you decide to moderate content.
On Shoemoney, Pam takes a pop at the Ifollow Movement, the lists of links to dofollow blogs that traversed the Blogosphere 6 months ago. Whilst I was included on some of those lists, I didn't take an active roll, as the lists really didn't present any value to me.
I suppose Akismet is great if you don't care about the comments on your blog, or whether the good ones appear.
Comment moderation