Internet Chat
Posted by on Wednesday, June 25, 2003 in
Anybody that has every been in a chat room, used an instant messenger or even read an email has probably seen abbreviations at one time or another that look similar to lol, brb, g2g, pls, d/l • Well, apparently there is enough of them to devote an entire dictionary to.
Increasing Website Traffic
Posted by on Thursday, May 8, 2003 in - 9 comments
Recently this site has experienced an increase in traffic due to a post about a hit reality TV series I made a week ago. Although not expected or intended, this article is now the number one search (if not in the top 5) on Google, AOL, Yahoo and other major search engines. • Lesson to be learned …
Interview with a spammer
Posted by on Saturday, May 3, 2003 in - 6 comments
Co-host Patrick Norton of The Screen Savers interviewed a spammer. What did we learn? • “In defense of spam • Seventeen-year-old Michael in New Orleans called in to defend his job as a spammer. Here are his main points: • Spam is a lucrative business. He makes $1,000 a day. • He buys email …
Forced Advertising
Posted by on Monday, October 28, 2002 in
I have complained about pop-ups and spam on this site before and there is not much difference between them but I heard a very good comparison tonight from Chris Pirillo and I'm going to steal it and use it when ever I can. • What is the difference between an unwanted pop-up or walking into a …
Sites with Flash
Posted by on Sunday, September 22, 2002 in
When you code your site links in flash you take my rights away for me to right click (or shift) and open the link in a new window. A feature I use often.
A mirrored site, literally
Posted by on Wednesday, September 18, 2002 in
I found this link through lockergnome and I couldn't resist posting it here too. Hosted by alltooflat.com this google search or should I say elgoog is completely mirrored in every way. You even need to search with mirrored key words. • My attempt to search for tiurcerwen (newrecruit) • first …
over 300,000 search engines?
Posted by on Thursday, September 12, 2002 in - 6 comments
I have gotten those emails before where it said "Increase you traffic" and then it showed a picture of your site but today I got one that wasn't even my site. • "I visited REINVENTED.NET, and noticed that you're not listed on some search engines! I think we can offer you a service which can help …
Picking out the good ones
Posted by on Wednesday, August 28, 2002 in
So much junk mail, so much spam. I am probably like most and delete everything that looks like spam without reading them but now that I think about it. Exactly how many emails have I mistaken to be junk and deleted them? How many emails have I lost in the past month that I should have opened … read more »
Pop-up Advertisements - Part 2
Posted by on Wednesday, July 31, 2002 in
I was just on a site that had a pop-up advertisement trying to sell software to eliminate pop-ups.
Sites with pop-up advertisements
Posted by on Tuesday, July 23, 2002 in
Why must sites continue to use pop-ups? Nobody can possibly enjoy such an annoying feature when an unexpected window pops up in your face that you never wanted to see in the first place. Personally, if a site starts throwing pop-ups in my face then I don't want to visit that site and I won't …