DISQUS

I feel your pain. We gave up our seats a couple of years ago. We started in 111 and then ended up at 121. The fun thing is that now you can get lots of discounts and get begging calls from your ticket rep.

I have been doing the same for a year now, it is a nice combination and works well. Congrats on taking the leap. It will really let you open up on Facebook and enjoy the experience more.

Since this happened to me with one of my computers, I can probably explain what happened. The guy who saw this ad has a virus on his computer. The virus replaces the ad blocks with their own ads, in this case the penis ad.

Trulia is not serving the ad, it is being served by a third party who has hijacked the computer of the reader.

Paul and Ciba

This is a great dialouge on how to work through issues borrowers face. In these times of tight credit trying to get buyers through the credit approval process will take a strong team of financial and mortgage types.

Excellent example of an out of the ordinary case that might look more ordinary as time goes along.

This book looks like just what I am looking for as I try to generate more income out of my sites. I would love a copy.

Tom's last blog post..Case Shiller June, 2008 Numbers

Doug

Your idea of the agency feature for domain registration is brilliant. That is exactly what I need for one of my projects.

Brad,

I think you are right that staying small in this market gives you a competitive advantage. Very Seth Godin'ish.

It is pretty simple.

Newspapers think in terms of geography. Back in the day, if you lived in Buffalo you got your news from the Buffalo News. You did not drive to Cleveland to get the Plains Dealer.

So they had the vehicle to sell specific ads of local businesses to local people. And if you were a national business, the local paper was still the best vehicle to get to those people.

Now there is Google News which messes up the papers conventional thinking two ways. First, their local people can read the stories in other papers. That is stealing.

Second, and more importantly, the local advertisers do not want to pay for a non local person to see their advertising. If I am in Atlanta and read the Buffalo News, I will not be buying a car from the Buffalo Ford Dealer.

So the newspapers, whose job is to sell advertising, is losing readers online in one direction, and gaining readers from outside their target market that ruins the ROI for the local advertisers and creates a harder sell for them.

Essentially their marketing methodology is getting creamed in both directions. That is why they hate Google News.

What interests me is the fragility of the press. They tend to be cut throat with other public figures, cutting very little slack on those they cover.

But because they follow the unwritten rule of not covering each other, they are amazed when those of us on the outside look in and cover them with the same jaundiced eye.

I would give the man on the street much more lattitude with my "blogging" than a reporter. Expressly because the reporter has put themselves into the mix.

This is why I use the program Blogjet. I lost to many posts due to "hiccups" in the browser.

An added benefit to using blogjet is that you can save draft posts locally to your hard drive. Adding images is also a breeze.

There are other types of posting software, ecto comes to mind, but look into it. Saving one epic post is worth the price of admission.

It looks like the evils of DNS made the difference.