Disqus - Latest Comments for Craig Kohler

Re: How to Make the Digg Home Page

Craig Kohler — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 04:06:09 -0000

Sure it sounds like a great buzz ... until the mob hits your site all at once and takes it down, leaving nothing behind but a few weird comments and a handful of site-scraps and low-PR links ;)

Re: Wordpress SEO Masterclass For Competitive Niches

Craig Kohler — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 23:33:46 -0000

Excellent, exhaustive and helpful, but I have one question: do you think that submitting a sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools does basically the same thing as using robots.txt to tell bots not to index semi-duplicate category/tag/archive pages?

Re: Do You Stumble?

Craig Kohler — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 19:23:30 -0000

I Stumble as well - use it way more than Digg, Reddit and the others. Adding you as a Stumble-friend - feel free to add me back ;)

Re: Do You Stumble?

Craig Kohler — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 19:23:30 -0000

I Stumble as well - use it way more than Digg, Reddit and the others. Adding you as a Stumble-friend - feel free to add me back ;)

Re: MyBlogLog vs Blogcatalog – Differentiation

Craig Kohler — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 23:24:36 -0000

I have to admit that my OWN partiality, which is toward MyBlogLog, is informed (or tainted?) by my extremely positive experiences with them. Eric has both commented on my blogs and joined my blog community. Robyn has been extremely helpful as a community liason. Basically, every semi-personal interaction I have with MBL is resoundingly positive, while BlogCatalog, well, my own contact was after their site went down and their widget (while the site went down) changed shape and bled from my sidebar and into my content - ouch! I think it's important to recognize that we're all biased by something - from experience to money - but that's part of the game either way.

Re: MyBlogLog vs Blogcatalog – Differentiation

Craig Kohler — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 23:24:36 -0000

Re: Marketing Blogs Go Ballistic

Craig Kohler — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 21:59:42 -0000

I am still in the stoneage when it comes to using feeds - I use Technorati as an ersatz-reader :) As for the rating system: sure, it's subjective, but it is far better than using just one yardstick and probably a step up from the kind of cross-guestimation that most of us do!

Re: Marketing Blogs Go Ballistic

Craig Kohler — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 21:59:42 -0000

Re: A Dofollow Plugin I Liken To A Subaru

Craig Kohler — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 04:34:21 -0000

I've been thinking about going do-follow for a while, but what about backdating? I looked at the description but it wasn't clear to me whether or not old comments are retroactively made dofollow - did I miss something?

Re: A Dofollow Plugin I Liken To A Subaru

Craig Kohler — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 04:34:21 -0000

Re: Outsourcing & Plagiarism Checkers

Craig Kohler — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 21:18:33 -0000

It had never really occured to me that the person outsourcing the work would face the penalties. With that in mind (and those huge fines!) it makes NOT investing in one of these checkers seem silly :)

What seems especially promising is the synonym checker that looks for different words meaning the same thing or different word order. Usually when I 'manually' use Google to find scrapers or copyists I would, of course, miss such things.

Re: Outsourcing & Plagiarism Checkers

Craig Kohler — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 21:18:33 -0000

Re: Adage Power 150

Craig Kohler — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 16:55:17 -0000

Wow, between everyone on the list writing about the list, and those prominent feed links, this is great PR for you and everyone else :) Congrads! Is it strange that I didn't know about Seth's blog? I knew the rest in the top 5 or 10 or so.

Re: Adage Power 150

Craig Kohler — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 16:55:17 -0000

Re: 29% Of Technorati Top 100 Never On Digg Home Page

Craig Kohler — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 07:52:03 -0000

I'm still spinning from making the front page of Digg two days in a row ... but OK OK that's off topic :) As for the Technorati top 100: that would be an interesting test, now that you bring it up. I wonder if this publicity about the facts will actually challenge people to submit them to Digg? This could be a case of the statistics influencing reality in the long run ...

Re: 29% Of Technorati Top 100 Never On Digg Home Page

Craig Kohler — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 07:52:03 -0000

Re: How To Find The Hottest Breaking Stories On Sphinn

Craig Kohler — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 18:39:08 -0000

I like Sphinn and ShoutWire right now because they're so new it isn't as overwhelming and hard to get noticed on as Digg, for example. It also has a fresh variety of content, as you pointed out with what you found when browsing.

Re: How To Find The Hottest Breaking Stories On Sphinn

Craig Kohler — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 18:39:08 -0000

Re: Keyword & Link Tools (& How To Confuse The Google Bot)

Craig Kohler — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 23:49:38 -0000

OK, I have two lines of thought on this. (1) Google doesn't seem to penalize for the stuff it (or Cutts) claims it does - evidence: sites I know that do paid reviews and paid links and continue to get more and more search traffic anyway. (2) A lot of people have been speculating that the PageRank toolbar update delay may be related to a crackdown on paid links - is there any chance the penalties just haven't kicked in yet?

Re: Keyword & Link Tools (& How To Confuse The Google Bot)

Craig Kohler — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 23:49:38 -0000

Re: Sharing Traffic For Free Traffic

Craig Kohler — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 07:30:42 -0000

It's so strange ... this month Web Urbanist has sent 13 sites over 5,000 hits each, another 20 or so over 2,000 hits and a good 50 have gotten over 1,000, but the site has only gotten two linkbacks sending over 500 hits that weren't from social media sites. I guess it's partly that a lot of sites can't send that kind of traffic? It is sad, though, because people spam the comments with their links all the time and get extra traffic that way yet the people who we send traffic to willingly usually don't even acknowledge it. OK, I'm getting jaded :)

Re: Sharing Traffic For Free Traffic

Craig Kohler — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 07:30:42 -0000

Re: Stumbleupon Algorithm Unearthed?

Craig Kohler — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 22:06:50 -0000

Definitely a key factor is also category/tags when it comes to how Stumble-power translating into real hits on a page. However, that wasn't within the scope of the AMAZING analysis to which you linked - probably the best attempt I've seen to rigorously analyze StumbleUpon. Three thumbs up!

Re: Stumbleupon Algorithm Unearthed?

Craig Kohler — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 22:06:50 -0000

Re: How Would You Improve Your Blog Or Blogging?

Craig Kohler — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 04:05:39 -0000

My goals:

1) Add more in-between short posts - right now there are too many heavy-duty long posts that take time to research, write and edit.

2) Move to two right sidebars that are both geared toward typical ad sizes, instead of one right and one left that are both unusually sized.

These are as much to-do goals for myself as things I'd suggest to newere bloggers ... think ahead of time about what kind of ads you'd add and where, and how you'll maintain a healthy post frequency :)

Re: How Would You Improve Your Blog Or Blogging?

Craig Kohler — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 04:05:39 -0000

Re: Don’t Bet Against The iPhone: It Will Be A Huge Success

Craig Kohler — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 23:38:08 -0000

I'm not sure I agree about them always producing quality products, but I do think the iPhone can ride on the coat-tails of iTunes and therefore agree, overall, that (between that and the snazzy design potentials) the product is likely to be a huge success.

Re: Writing For The Blog Herald

Craig Kohler — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 06:51:25 -0000

Awesome opportunity! I've done some writing for Blogcritics and I have to say it is nice to put content on another site once in a while - makes you think more about what you write about

Re: New iMacs, The Cellphoneless iPhone

Craig Kohler — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 00:49:52 -0000

Probably the more they canabalize their own stuff the more they will ultimately earn, right? You're spot on: they get the money either way, but this way they appeal to more people who might not have bought the first item!

Re: Best Ad For The iPhone Ever

Craig Kohler — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 03:39:28 -0000

You know, I think there's a third element too - we (I know at least I) didn't grow up with anything like this. I'm continuously boggled by the aptitude of kids who have spent a fraction of the time I have using computers and technology, but who learned it younger :)

Re: In-N-Out Burger

Craig Kohler — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 00:38:22 -0000

Our local (Seattle) equivalent is Dick's ... there's this weird cloud of crazy people, rappers, street artists and dirty hippies that floats around each Dick's store in town like the dirty cloud around PigPen. They, too, have the simple menu: fries, shakes, 'Dick's Supreme' and regular burgers. A must-eat when you come up the coast ;)

Re: The Best Of Times, The Worst Of Times

Craig Kohler — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 03:11:48 -0000

I think the big will keep getting bigger - there are far too many startups out there, and when doom hits I think those that are at the head of the pack (and keep adapting) will survive.

Re: Link Sharing: 7/21/07

Craig Kohler — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 19:49:51 -0000

I think I'm slowly giving up on using Technorati rank as a real indicator of anything - there are so many 'mutual favathons' that the rank, in many cases, seems extremely artificially inflated. Maybe I'm just bitter because it lists me as a 'C-lister' even though I've had over 30,000 visitors in the last 5 days lol :)

Re: Notebook Or Desktop Computer?

Craig Kohler — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 17:34:50 -0000

I personally like the two-computer option. I bought a docking station for my laptop a while back and barely ever use it, but I still use my old desktop for a lot of things.

Re: The Google Backlash Begins

Craig Kohler — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 20:25:06 -0000

Google FTW! Yes, as much as I and everyone else bash(es) Google - we still all use it, and it's better than a lot of the alternatives. I agree that many of Google's ventures have yet to truly take off in the way that search and AdSense have, but the same could be said for offshoots of Yahoo! and others too. We'll see.

Re: General Update: Blog Herald, Out Of Town

Craig Kohler — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 18:34:14 -0000

Have a great time - will check out and Stumble your article!

Re: Spock Is A Vegetarian

Craig Kohler — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 06:01:25 -0000

Very odd - I wonder if they carried that consistently through and applied it to all vulcans on the other shows? Unfortunately, geeky though I am, I'm not going to research it :)

Re: Grumpy Old People Want To Shut Down The Net

Craig Kohler — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 20:08:51 -0000

I have to admit I see Elton's point in an abstract way ... kind of like a recent city council woman (in Seattle) who decided to live on food stamps for a week. Certainly it would be an interesting experiment, but it seems about as likely as everyone living on food stamps for five years :)

Re: Movie Notes: Ghost Rider

Craig Kohler — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 19:23:50 -0000

Nice review - I liked the play-by-play moments, but I have to say I found the movie itself so bad I got distracted and used StumbleUpon through half of it :)

Re: My 1,000th Post

Craig Kohler — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 22:57:15 -0000

Awesome ... I just hopped on as a reader recently but the fluidity of your writing and other factors made me think this site was much older :) Congrads!

Re: Link Sharing 8/31/07, August Top Commentators

Craig Kohler — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 14:48:01 -0000

I've been too busy to comment much recently, so I appreciate the link to one of the articles on my (really: our, as it's a collective blog) site :) We just got bumped up to B-list too, yay!

Re: Why A Blogger’s Union Won’t Fly

Craig Kohler — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 15:30:08 -0000

I'm with you all the way ... there are so many new blogs everyday, the system would never run out of blogging 'scabs' if there were 'unions' in the first place. And wages, oh my yes, I get so sad when I see new bloggers who think there is huge money in posting whatever they want to (do they want to be the next Perez Hilton?).

Re: Steve Jobs Makes Nice With Mad iPhone Early Adotpers

Craig Kohler — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 01:59:10 -0000

I personally think they shouldn't have to justify anything. People who could afford the iPhone at the original price bought it. Tough luck if Apple drops the price later. Though this is easy to say as someone who even now can't afford one :)

Re: Blog Growth Stalling: Some Reasons Why I Nearly Quit Blogging

Craig Kohler — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 14:24:44 -0000

Holy [insert explative] ... I've been reading Webomatica for a while but had never come across this post until I just now noticed it in the 'most commented posts section.' Almost problem-for-problem this is exactly what my experience has been and reflects common pitfalls I've seen other bloggers stumble on. People think they'll add some content, slap on some AdSense and be the next John Chow. Digg seems great, until you realize you get only 50 subscribers (maybe) out of 50,000 visitors :) I'll be referring anyone who asks me about blogging here in the future lol

Re: Book Notes: Big Secrets

Craig Kohler — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 18:24:12 -0000

I am, I admit, sad to learn that Walt isn't frozen ... I would have liked to see what he had to say about contemporary animation techniques ;)

Re: Third Webomatica Contest: Bad Video Game Ideas

Craig Kohler — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 19:11:26 -0000

So ... I'm tainted by too much time on Digg, but how about: pin the iPhone on RonPaul using FireFox? :)

Re: Third Webomatica Contest: Bad Video Game Ideas

Craig Kohler — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 00:50:26 -0000

I prefer to think of it as 'Diggbait: The Game!' but either title would work equally fine :D

Re: Links To Troublesome Economic Signs

Craig Kohler — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:35:21 -0000

Heh, what we may be seeing is (finally) the burst of that second big web bubble ... just be sure to be above the surface when it pops ;) I think the big guns reporting issues will, as you suggest, end up being the biggest sign of the times.

Re: WordPress 2.3 Has Tags

Craig Kohler — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 04:09:44 -0000

Tags and categories ... the endless pain to be sure. I haven't switched up to the new version yet but am looking forward to it. My advice to any newer bloggers who may read this comment: figure out categories and tags you might want to use early on to avoid crazy clutter!

Re: Link Sharing 10/4/07, September Summary

Craig Kohler — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 01:23:33 -0000

Hey thanks for the shout out! Actually, I've been having the REVERSE problem recently: too much non-spam getting clogged in Akismet. I think this is due to the fact that I often ask for people to put in relevant links related to post content, which, of course, can flag a comment for Akismet.

The other problem I've been having is spam trackbacks getting through ... I saw that 115 people had clicked a trackback yesterday and went to take a closer look: sure enough, the trackback's text content was 'Click here to see the original blog source.' I looked the site and it's basically an auto-scraper, only site readers on Web Urbanist thought they were the original source! So clever, and such a pain.

Re: The Movie Industry In 2050

Craig Kohler — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 16:12:59 -0000

"Virtual Tom Hanks as a dying man struggling with the decision to clone himself." And by that time his movies will be SO bad the whole thing will probably be sponsored by some company that clones humans :)

Re: Music Notes: Suzanne Vega, Nine Objects Of Desire

Craig Kohler — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 05:36:17 -0000

I watched both the videos and I have to say I enjoyed the music more when I closed my eyes. The vids didn't fit the tone of the songs to me, particularly the latter more staccato tune ... the setting seemed kind of generic for the song. Anywho, not quite as edgy bit a tad in the vein of Ani ... also reminded me of Tori ... am I betraying the age of my musical tastes here?

Re: Music Notes: Suzanne Vega, Nine Objects Of Desire

Craig Kohler — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 02:27:31 -0000

I just have to ask: when you say you have her first two albums, you don't mean this one I take it: http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Alley/4370...

I got a hold of that years ago and it's simply hilarious - predates anything most people have ever heard by her - extremely on the mainstream side of things and utterly bizarre to say the least :)

I have to admit I haven't gotten anything of hers recently either ... I've been pretty lazy about getting new music, which is why I perk up when I see other people recommending stuff, since I don't feel like I have the time/energy to go out and search for things, particularly written by artists I don't already know!

Re: Music Notes: Suzanne Vega, Nine Objects Of Desire

Craig Kohler — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 02:40:20 -0000

Yeah, it was like poppy 80s stuff ... truly terrible and mainstream. I think I got a bootlegged copy off a friend a while back. If I dig it up sometime I'll be sure to post it somewhere it can be downloaded and let you know. Very very very odd :)

Re: Google PageRank Gripes

Craig Kohler — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 01:21:05 -0000

What I can't believe is that OneMansBlog just dropped to PR5 from PR8. Not only does John (the blog's author) know Matt Cutts personally but he even (at Matt's personal request) removed the paid links he used to have on the site. I could understand drops of one point as a warning, but so many sites seem to have lost two or (in John's case) even three. That seems extreme, especially in cases where people have fixed the linking problems. :(

Re: Google PageRank Gripes

Craig Kohler — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 19:47:49 -0000

Techipedia is down to 4 ... why? I don't think Tamar is selling links lol. And Neatorama? Are you kidding me? That site has tons of backlinks and a huge audience, a PR4 is just misleading, and all because they sold a few links. The punishment doesn't seem to fit the 'crime' in a lot of these cases ... a few small sold links and a site gets demoted to the level of a n00b blog. Bleh.

Re: Link Sharing: 10/31/07

Craig Kohler — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:49:59 -0000

OK my nickname does start to feel generic when there's "Mysterious Slammerworm, James Bond fan" on the list :)

And yes, that was a very, very strange link ... I'll thank you for sharing it once my brain comprehends what I just read!

Re: Apologies For Recent Blog Slackitude

Craig Kohler — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 03:14:34 -0000

I'm a big fan of the emerging theory that frequency doesn't matter ... I for one don't stop reading a blog that posts less frequently, and WebUrbanist only has a few posts a week but quite a following despite that. I used to stress out about it until I read this gem of an article arguing against the need to post at a fixed rate of at least one a day: http://www.mpdailyfix.com/2006/06/w_why_blog_po...

Anyway, it helped me relax :)

Re: Think Digg Has Jumped The Shark? Try Mixx

Craig Kohler — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 19:43:54 -0000

I'm amazed at how many folks are using Mixx already ... I have to say I enjoy it somewhat for its 'smallness' but on the other hand a lot of the features don't seem to innovate over what other social networks offer. Time will tell, and it certainly is getting popular, I'm just not sure about it yet :)

Re: Matchbox Labels From the 1950’s and 1960’s | Laughing Squid

Craig Kohler — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 05:30:19 -0000

OK, mutant dogcatTVs I can understand ... a dog in the snow, perhaps there is symbolism there? But an orange alien spacecraft landing in front of Russian Brutalist buildings ... what on Earth is that supposed to mean?!

Re: Man (Re)Builds Mexican Island Paradise on 250,000 Recycled Floating Bottles

Craig Kohler — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 03:54:52 -0000

He turned rubbish into usable land - seems like a fairly environmentally sound solution.

Re: 5 Strange Stop-Gap “Solutions” to Climate Problems

Craig Kohler — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 06:23:45 -0000

The atmospheric content of carbon dioxide has increased by 35% since the onset of the industrial revolution. You don't suppose there is any chance that radical of a shift in our air could possibly be altering the environment, do you?

Re: Instigate And Incubate Your Company Culture Early

Craig Kohler — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 03:59:51 -0000

It's funny but ... I'm in architecture and I have the exact same sentiments about design: if you try to dictate too much from the top-down and don't let communities have a say you're destined for disaster.

Re: The Blogging A-List Is Far From Dead

Craig Kohler — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 03:54:10 -0000

I agree with the value of the A-list and am looking forward to your follow-up: how to approach people on the A-list! Thanks :)

Re: 2007/06/04/socialposter/

Craig Kohler — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 01:26:31 -0000

There's another great time-saving bookmark tool designed to help boast and boost site popluarity. They're still accepting beta users at http://romlet.com - it's basically a combination bookmarking tool, brag badge and stats counter, designed to be on-site and dynamic!

Re: 2007/07/17/social-network-aggregators/

Craig Kohler — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 21:51:52 -0000

Romlet is a simple way to aggregate social network information right on your blog or website. It shows real-time stats and links to sites of origin with a favicon that shows you and visitors where people are coming from - kind of like a MyBlogLog Recent Visitors widget, but for whatever social sites you use.

Re: 2007/07/17/comscore-video-metrix-may/

Craig Kohler — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 21:58:17 -0000

I think that what is maybe most shocking about this is how not shocking it is to me (and likely many others). YouTube really is the household name in online videos.

Re: Top 15 Google Street View Sightings

Craig Kohler — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 06:16:42 -0000

/me searches for the comments amidst the hailstorm of trackbacks

Re: Plugins Gone Wild!

Craig Kohler — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 01:18:38 -0000

Be sure to add Romlet to this list (Romlet.com) - you can see two examples on my site: http://weburbanist.com ... AddThis is nice, but I find way more people click Romlet, which provides up-to-date bookmarking for recent incoming sources.

Re: FreeLink Friday

Craig Kohler — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 00:32:12 -0000

Definitely a great thing going on at Romlet (via TheThinkingBlog). Awesome way to attract incoming links!

Re: Is Google Giving Away Free PR8 Links?

Craig Kohler — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 15:11:27 -0000

I don't really know where to start to answer this - which is probably why Jon Cow didn't try. First: toolbar-displayed PR is not the same as Google PR. John Cow does not have a PR value of 0. They are constantly updating PR values behind-the-scenes but haven't made them public for about six month.

Second: a Google PageRank value is still the best single method of assessing a website's age and/or authority quickly. Sure it is worth looking at Alexa, Technorati and others too, but those are far more easily gamed.

Finally: social media popularity brings in temporary traffic (over 1/2 million visitors to Web Urbanist in the last month alone) but even more valuable: backlinks which help you come up on Google searches and boost your PR and readers who stick around and make or break a site in the long run.

Re: Website Stats - ROMLet Widget is Coming!

Craig Kohler — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 04:05:54 -0000

Well you're working your way up the list - you've already beat out half of the recent referers at the bottom of the page :) We're working as fast as we can - the widget is basically ready for use (see: WebUrbanist, Disassociated and WallStreetFighter for examples!) but the beta site isn't quite done.

Re: It’s Official: Blogs Are Media

Craig Kohler — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 06:47:18 -0000

This is awesome news for political bloggers, but I will admit: it really just makes official what should have already been obvious to everyone!

Re: BlogRush Offers Free Syndicated Blog Traffic

Craig Kohler — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 01:53:16 -0000

BlogRush ... what can I say? I keep reading the hype but seeing the facts: BlogRush often displays spammy links I'd never voluntarily allow on my site in any form, and often links to pages that mysteriously don't even have a BlogRush widget on them.

Personally, I use two widgets: MyBlogLog and Romlet - these help me see who is visiting and linking in and also help me boost traffic, but they only reward - with links - actual visits or traffic referrers.

Re: Shower radio that looks like a knob

Craig Kohler — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 17:05:03 -0000

Yah, that is pretty strange and confusing. It probably 'seemed clever' to the designers who didn't really think about the confusion factor. I'd probably install it right near the other actual shower fixtures just to confuse people :)

Re: Morph images online

Craig Kohler — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 03:47:01 -0000

My goodness, that is simply freaky ... I'd try it but I'm a little scared to see the results!

Re: The Marshmallow Launcher

Craig Kohler — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 03:52:30 -0000

Awesome! Like a spud-gun but more friendly toward the targets ;)

Re: Flower like lampshade

Craig Kohler — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 22:17:39 -0000

Actually even if it's for kids, I have to admit I kinda want one :)

Re: Fly away powered by USB

Craig Kohler — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 22:19:49 -0000

Psychologically I'd be preocuppied with the fact that it looks like it's going to fly itself off the table lol

Re: USB pet identification

Craig Kohler — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 19:17:22 -0000

I'd be all about attaching it to myself in case I got drunk and couldn't find my way home :)

Re: The touch pad pencil

Craig Kohler — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 21:05:34 -0000

Actually, hehe, I should be embarassed to admit this but: I use the little 'eraser head' sized mouse in the middle of my IBM laptop and can't use a touchpad to save my life. This would be awesome for me, since I'm much more skilled with my Graphire pad which uses a pencil than with using my finger on this stupid built-in pad!

Re: There’s only one way to fly

Craig Kohler — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:48:18 -0000

I dunno why but it sure looks like fun :D

Re: An Open Letter to Kevin Rose

Craig Kohler — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 02:06:35 -0000

I wonder if this will reach Kevin or not - there are some powerful Diggers who both voted for and commented on the post as well as on the Digg submission. How can he not notice? At the same time, this has been an issue for a long time, so maybe he just doesn't care - or we need to speak even louder ;)

Re: Why the Fuss about BlogRush?

Craig Kohler — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 23:48:41 -0000

I've clicked through all five links on some BlogRush widgets only to find that NONE of the target sites have the widget, so they are clearly scamming the system somehow. Add to that the fact that a lot of the links are semi spammy/scammy and you've got a widget likely to vanish as fast as it appeared. Get Romlet and MBL instead and be done with it, IMHO

Re: Why the New Digg Sucks

Craig Kohler — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:55:27 -0000

The new Digg will have a higher Alexa rank - great for Digg, sucky for all the users who don't want to mill about aimlessly forever trying to figure out where stories are they want to check out.

Re: http://www.techipedia.com/2007/new-digg-community-reaction/

Craig Kohler — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:32:42 -0000

They took the words out of my mouth ... all of you who commented and all those quoted in the story above ... :/

Re: Why My Adsense Earnings Are Better Than Other Blogs

Craig Kohler — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 17:26:59 -0000

Greeting- Just wanted to let you know I added you to my Geek Link Train on Allsux.com - please add me back! Thanks so much :)

Re: Deep Linking, Or Rethink Your Site Promotion Strategy

Craig Kohler — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 06:39:43 -0000

I've noticed immediate benefits from deep linking, particularly if the post that is doing the linking to other older posts hits the front page of a site like Digg, Reddit or Fark - Google seems to crawl it right away and pass on the link juice to the other page. This is a great way of building PR to older posts you think should have more juice than they do, not to mention a good way to expose readers to other good on-site content!

Re: Blogging Polling software Reviewed, Plus The One Polling Solution You Should Use

Craig Kohler — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 07:12:57 -0000

Polldaddy is alright but the format/dimensions/style are someone constricting ... I prefer things like the Romlet widget where you can configure the dimensions and look more precisely

Re: 6 Things That Work Right Now on Digg

Craig Kohler — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 19:06:21 -0000

Heh, and anything related iPhones - that should definitely be on the list too (check out my latest post on it or just look at 'Hottest in All Categories' on Digg right now)

Re: Show Your Facebook Profile to Outsiders

Craig Kohler — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 06:43:43 -0000

Saleem seems to be against going fully public, though I can't honestly say I understand the reasoning: once your info is out there, well, it's out there and that's that. Anyway, I probably will just let mine go public - anyone who wanted to find that info would be able to if they looked hard enough anyway!

Re: iPod Touch – Touchscreen, WiFi and more

Craig Kohler — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 06:41:58 -0000

Very very sexy I must say, but I heard a rumor(?) that the capabilities might wear down over time. Maybe it was just a rumor?

Re: Delicious 2 Preview looks impressive!

Craig Kohler — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 01:28:24 -0000

Definitely some much-needed updates - I've been thinking for a while that even the slow-moving Digg seems to be updating itself with new functionality faster than Delicious.