DISQUS

Funny? This is hilarious!

Love what you said about letting the business model emerge. I'm just realizing that truth myself.

Video = good
Guiness for breakfast = smart

O'Byrne's the world 'round are proud of you, lad!

Drop it!

I bypassed the problem by subscribing directly to your feed from within iTunes.

Why is your iTunes feed empty?

But WHICH user? So we think of all the users that might have an interest in our topic or focus and then which of those users are we most concerned with? Are we actually more concerned with only 10% of those users because they fall within a subcategory we feel more interested in? Are those the users we REALLY want to optimize our site for? We can narrow our focus to the "user", but that still leaves a lot of unanswered questions.

I agree, damn creative. I saw it too and on one level was impressed. But dammit, that's the kind of thing that makes the JCs of the world stand up and lambaste us.

And I still run into people that have that spyware download show up on their machines. One woman was still running Win98!

I've gone the all Gmail route, also. It's wonderful! With IMAP, I can read and answer email when I'm away from an internet connection (provided I sync first). And I did the extra work to be able to send emails using any "from" address I want.

A word of caution... there have been several reports of people that lost their ability to login to their accounts or just plain lost their whole account.... 1000s of emails and all. As a precaution, I created a second gmail account as a backup and I automatically send a copy of every email received to that backup account. I also use that same backup account for my Google Docs. I simply enable sharing on each document by sending an invite to my backup account.

I agree, this has really gotten out of control. It's not like we aren't aware of the black hat vs white hat situation. We all have made our stands and do what we feel comfortable with, no ranting is going to change that. The idea of labeling every affiliate link is ridiculous. Most people don't care one way or the other.

I, for one, will keep on producing the best content that I can and that is the model I am most comfortable with and proud of.

Amen to your perspective, Scott. Whether or not Mahalo is this or that or Jason is a this or that... the message is what is important. There IS a LOT of crap out there, not doubt about it. When I started getting into this whole arena, I wanted to get things moving quickly and get as much stuff out there as possible. It didn't work and I felt uneasy and embarrassed about my efforts. I decided to build a community around a website with great content and now I not only feel proud, it's slowly starting to pay off. I think the premise is correct. Build great stuff and build a better site than everyone else and it WILL pay off.