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by ironkeith 17y ago
Sounds like a great opportunity for someone to SEO optimize a site, paraphrase WSJ articles, put some ads in and let Google index them (like already happens to dozens of blogs). Then instead of blaming Google for stealing their money, News
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by ironkeith 17y ago
My guess would be a CPM somewhere around $0.15. It would appear that he was correct regarding traffic though: http://siteanalytics.compete.com/wsj.com/
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by ironkeith 17y ago
I'm curious as to how they picked the list of cities. By population?
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by ironkeith 17y ago
"The dot coms I have known were all doomed. Almost all of them were the classic two-founder startups going after a niche in the market. All of them needed outside money to achieve their goals, and in every case the outside money wrecked the
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by ironkeith 17y ago
All you need to do is wait a little while for ICANN to support custom TLDs then convince PG to spend a hundred grand and all your dreams could come true (or at least the one).
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by ironkeith 17y ago
There's a book called "The Bomb in My Garden", about the man responsible for Iraq's nuclear weapons program in the 90's, which get pretty in depth to the length he had to go to in order to get "not very close". It gets into a lot more detai
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by ironkeith 17y ago
That's odd - I'm fairly certain I've seen a number of 37signals articles where they post pics from Photoshop while they're designing interfaces...
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by ironkeith 17y ago
I never implied it was. Only that it could have been. Wasting time is a pet peeve of mine.
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by ironkeith 17y ago
"More than 6 billion minutes are spent on Facebook each day" Jeez, think of all of the valuable things that time could be used for instead of "looking at picture of people I don't know, but did go to high school with". sigh
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by ironkeith 17y ago
I have a Kindle and one of my favourite things is that people can't see what I'm reading. I can sit in an airport lobby and read programming books, sci-fi, Harry Potter, or Michael Ondaatje and no one can tell. Feels good man.
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by ironkeith 17y ago
Some people prefer it because it doesn't overlap your descenders, but it bothers me too.
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by ironkeith 17y ago
It honestly took me 10 minutes to figure out how to create a "Genius Mix" yesterday. Somehow I don't feel that going "Store > Update Genius" is the most usable way to activate a new feature... I really doubt my Mom would have ever fig
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by ironkeith 17y ago
Oh, that's great news. I must have misread the announcement page. Thanks for clarifying.
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by ironkeith 17y ago
It's not quite 50%, males are born slightly more often than females. Something like for every 105 boys born there are 100 girls. You can stack the odds a little more in your favour by always guessing "boy".
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by ironkeith 17y ago
... it's not really an SEO blog. He's was an affiliate marketer who made a lot of money and is now trying to make more by pimping his own brand. He's actually quite controversial in the SEO/SEM/SEWhatever community because of stuff like thi
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by ironkeith 17y ago
Kind of sucks that they're putting their "Deep Technical Reviews" behind a pay wall... I've really enjoyed a few of those in the past, but probably not $50 worth. Could be an opportunity for micro-payments I suppose.
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When Is A Good Business Model A Scam?(shoemoney.com)
23 points by ironkeith 17y ago|32 comments
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by ironkeith 17y ago
The entirety of all air travel combined amounts to approximately 3% of the World's total CO2 emissions. I doubt he's making much a dent. It's not like they'd be cancelling the flights if he weren't on them.
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by ironkeith 17y ago
While I can understand your values (and agree with them) your definition would make YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and dozens more "not start-ups". Or businesses.
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Programming means that sometimes you have to snap two blocks together(blogs.msdn.com)
1 points by ironkeith 17y ago|0 comments
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by ironkeith 17y ago
Can you explain the difference? Because I'm not seeing it.
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by ironkeith 17y ago
I know from extremely unpleasant experience that many large Canadian government organizations are still using IE6+XP. Further, I know of at least one large health region still on IE6+XP. Change takes a while in these monolithic bureaucracie
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by ironkeith 17y ago
My reaction to redirect pages is always the same: "What? Oh." finds and clicks the skip ad button . So I don't really understand why sites bother with them. Does anyone know of any metrics as to what percentage of the time that "skip" link
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by ironkeith 17y ago
Oh lame, I've been duped! I hadn't noticed it on HN prior.
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by ironkeith 17y ago
It is completely identical. Should it not be? I mean... that's the URL I submitted...
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Getting Comfortable With People Who Make You Uncomfortable(laserlike.com)
3 points by ironkeith 17y ago|4 comments
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Ira Glass on Good Taste [video](youtube.com)
5 points by ironkeith 17y ago|1 comments
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by ironkeith 17y ago
It was an article referencing research by this guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Cialdini
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by ironkeith 17y ago
I've read in the past that telling people to do something isn't as effective as telling them that everyone else is doing it. I wonder how a phrase like "most people who like my blog follow me on twitter" would fare?
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by ironkeith 17y ago
As soon as I see eye filth like that I go right to my readability bookmarklet: http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/ 80% of the time, it works every time.

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