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Re: Thinking Green

Joe — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:35:43 -0000

While I'm glad the electric car is making a come back (especially with regular at over $3.50 a gallon), at a reasonable price, the lack of an infrastructure as you stated, and the 65 mph max speed are a bit of a put off.

Hopefully this will cause a resurgence in the market for these vehicles, and we'll see some competition with a better top speed show up.

Re: Blogging Insurance & Quoting the Associated Press

Joe — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:12:04 -0000

This creates an interesting debate on the content of news itself. While you can technically be charged for copyright infringement if you copy directly what someone writes, but if you offer a recap along the lines of slashdot.org, it is personalized content, just rephrased and linking to the original.

Ultimately you shouldn't be hindered for citing someone else's news seeing as how news shouldn't be controlled, as well as if you properly cite them.

Re: Blogging Insurance & Quoting the Associated Press

Joe — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:12:04 -0000

Re: When Will It Hit Us?

Joe — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:18:33 -0000

I don't think America will come up with a plan at this point in time. We have far more "important" things to be concerned with, like fighting 2 wars, an election, raising gas prices, and the decrease in the value of the American dollar. Also, we need a new euphemism for the issue of obesity, something that detracts from the issue at hand.

Ultimately, the decision to do something will be on the individual. I've noticed that I've been gaining some weight. The fact that I am in front of a computer for 12 hours a day is probably the cause. My goal, now that its summer, is to start hitting the pool at first on the weekends, and then on any day when I get off work early enough.

Re: Five Bloggers Who Actually Help You Make Money Online: Introduction

Joe — Mon, 05 May 2008 15:29:48 -0000

This is one of the most honest post I've read about blogging and trying to make money by blogs. You are right their are so many people out there trying to take advantage of this growing trend. People can be fooled easy about all sorts of get rich quick schemes. You've given some great advice and resources . Hopefully people will see that it's not so easy to run a site/blog and make money from it unless you but work into it. Thanks for the great content provided at the end.

Re: Why build your own computer? - Bull3t's Blog

Joe — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:57:42 -0000

My only issue right now with building a computer is the whole Vista fiasco. Microsoft is trying to push testing on Windows 7 as soon as possible, and this makes me very weary of Vista. Why pay for a $300 system when in a year, they may have a new, better version out. Granted the same can be said of computers in general, but an OS is an important consideration.

Re: Bloggers: Sell Advertising Direct With OIOpublisher

Joe — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:14:28 -0000

My issue lies in the fact that Google repeatedly has said that they do not want blogs advertising links unless they have a no follow attached. Does this plugin address this issue at all?

Hi Joe! OIO publisher absolutely has features for applying the nofollow tag to links. There is even a feature where, if you choose, you can apply an added fee for advertisers to remove the nofollow tag. Thank you for your comment. ~DotSauce

Re: The Top 77 Mistakes New Bloggers Make

Joe — Mon, 05 May 2008 15:05:37 -0000

Great list put together. It's amazing how many people will start a blog for the sole purpose of putting ads and affiliate programs just to make money and forget about quality content. This is definitely some great content and extensive list of things not to do to have a successful blog.

Re: Are you locked in your room?

Joe — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 12:03:21 -0000

I'm torn to agree and disagree with this. On one side we all know to have a successful blog or website you generally need to create a niche topic. Yet at the same time create quality content which could be taken in a broad spectrum. Granted this isn't a must when creating a blog with some personal blogs being extremely popular. Now for the other side of me agrees with DoesWhat. Tons of people close themselves to what interest them most and not expand on other things. They rather only learn about one specific topic disregarding majority of other things outside. Those are the people I believe you are specifically speaking about. These are the people we wish we had the ability to open the door and expose the world to them.