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You can't compare eBay auctions to iTunes music downloads. Apple controls the entire iTunes system while eBay is just a facilitator.

There is no cost effective method for eBay to insure that what someone lists for sale is the same as the item they are selling. there is a certain level of trust involved. If a buyer does not trust a seller they are free to use an escrow service.

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Not only do positive reviews make people suspect the product being reviewed by they also throw the reviewer into a negative light. If they only ever say positive things they come off as a shill.

You don't want a review to tear you a new one but you do need honesty. If some part of a product is bad you need to know!

Amazon has already said they pick up the EVDO tab on purchases.

I just wrote a short article about this myself and included an image of one of my writer's costumes from last year.

Word - I hope you are not referring to me!

I have sent them an email. If you google my handle you will get 40K results. I wonder if that is enough for them?

OK, and what benefit do I get for joining the site and answering questions? Are they offering some sort of revenue share?

I just do not see why an "expert" would want to hang out on one of these sites without gaininig something in return.

So I have until mid-November to do this? Hmm...

Why not just use http://www.adgridwork.com and avoid all the pyramid scheme business?

I would chalk this up as a scam. when you add in the multi-tier earnings bit it becomes a case of the early adopters (with a downline) earning massive amounts of credits. End result is that those who have the traffic will have their links shown all the time while the small guy who needs the traffic will almost never see his links show up.

What about AP who has been known to scrape content from news sites iteself?

Mark,

Adblocking does help the advertiser in a CPM situation, why pay for an impression if the reader will never even look at your ad? As for CPC, are you looking at CPC as a CPM campaign that costs less because you get "free" impressions of your ad?

Either way it is not the advertisers who are crying about adblocking it is the websites that generate income from readers having ads served to them that are doing the crying.

The hardest form of advertising to block is also the best; direct ad sales between the web site and the advertiser.

I just started selling 125x125 button ads on my site. Because these images are served from the same server as my content and content images blocking them will also result in blocking my content. I would like to think my visitors come to my site for my content so I do not think they will block my image directory just to avoid a few small button ads.

Because I sell these via direct sales I do not have to worry about some third party putting an annoying flash ad into my banner roation or on my site at all. Due to recent things Google has been doing I am finding them to be a very unreliable service in regards to AdSense.

I also use Pay-Per-Post but most of the offers listed on the site are either outside of the area of my readers interest or do not pay enough.

My only big complaint about the Netscape digg-clone is the amount of spam that ends up on the front page. From what some of the navigators and scouts have told me their hands were tied in regards to removing some of that content.

They better remove that restriction and allow the site editors to remove garbage from the front page!

Perhaps it is time for a journalistic code of conduct in regards to sourcing for online content?

Google should also put something in place on Google News so that the original source of a news story gets top billing rather than the most popular source.

In this particular case, was the story written by a local staff writer and then the AP "picked up" the original staff writer's story or did they write their AP version based on new research and all? If the AP just scraped the story from the news papper than I feel it is up to AP to properly credit the story and provide a link to the originating story. Of course I have no idea what the contracts say in regards to AP grabbing your content...

I found a copy of this over at another blog: http://www.workconnexions.com/news/2007/08/15/1...

I do not know what sort of license you publish under so I thought it best to inform you.

The real sad thing going on here is that the navigators were supposed to be editors whose job it is to keep the front page looking good and remove the spam that makes its way there. I read the news as saying that Netscape thinks the navigators did a terrible job of editing the content.

Have you seen what Netscape is moving to in regards to site design for the new Netscape Portal? It looks like a Yahoo clone!

I have to agree with TextAdSearch above. I run tracking software that tracks all outgoing clicks on my sites and I always see a variance of more than 10% on my AdSense info page in regards to AdSense clicks.

I have had days where Google discounts 50% of my AdSense clicks and they never tell me why.

There is simply too much secrecy in the Google AdWords/AdSense program. Google needs to understand that they need both sides of the program to be happy in order for it to work. If the keep pissing of publishers how will they be able to move their adwords inventory?

Can I push my current contest here?

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I have had a few things go viral on some of my sites but there is also a dark side to it. It's one thing when everyone links to you but it is something else when some folks just steal your content and try to make it go viral for them.

There is no money to made from Digg if you are using a CPC model on your site. You can make money off of an affilliate offer by getting on digg but that is about it. Even CPM ads don't work so well off of digg due to the high number of adblockers.

You can make a living writing "for" digg but it is a very shaky living. Just as you don't want to live on Google traffic alone you also do not want to live only on digg traffic.

If you write good quality content and fill a niche you will get readers. Some of those readers will click but most will not.

So, is Miltank your favorite Pokemon?

You should have photoshopped hooves on his hands!

I get over 1,000 spam comments every day. I used to be able to wade through them to find any false positives but now, I don't have the time to sift through 50 pages of possible spam comments!

I trust Akismet to weed out the bad stuff.

I tried the Alexa redirect thing for a month and it does not work. I even did the "bad" thing of making an invisible iframe on my website that loaded a page via an Alexa redirect. No change.

Using the redirect only lowers the amount of link juice you can get. It also makes you look low rent.

There is no limitation on upload speeds.

If you are willing to pay for a higher tiered service you will get it! The only limitation is that you are looking at a consumer-level product (DSL) and expecting it to work as a business-level product (T1).

You get what you pay for. I choose to pay for DSL (not a T1) because DSL is "good enough" for me and my needs. If DSL is not "good-enough" for your needs than you need to spend the money for something better suited to your needs.

It's not as if the Telcos are not willing to sell you a better data product.