I posted over at http://mashable.com/2008/07/22/3-ways-to-make-more-money-blogging/ but wanted to expand on the idea there in more detail.  The mashable article was linked to http://www.centernetworks.com/online-advertising-interaction which has a few more comments on the same topic: Advertising as monetization for blog content.
The author from centernetworks does a reasonable job of pitching his case - the trend, especially in [...]

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ReadWriteWeb had a thought-provoking article up today about what the future IT worker would look like.  More specifically, what sorts of skills this person would need to have to be successful.  Not surprisingly, the recommendation was, in a nutshell, the ability to communicate with other members of the business on their terms.  I don’t think [...]

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Wow - this is one of the few times I’ve had genuinely good dealings with tax officials.  Quick story:  I’d moved away from Michigan in late 2004, and did some consulting work in 2005.  One of the people I’d paid as a straight 1099 lived in Michigan for part of 2005.  In April (letter dated [...]

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I’ve been meaning to do this some time, and finally found the time to do it - jobs.webdevradio.com is up and functional (though quite empty at this point!) One of the things I mentioned on my podcast (webdevradio.com) one more than one occasion is that I tend to attract recruiters. Rather than just [...]

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TechCrunch has a story on a recently funded Facebook app which, frankly, seems stupid.  Buying and selling ‘friends’ as ‘pets’.  People have already sold me somehow on Facebook, and I just ignore it.  I don’t get it.  I thought MySpace was the place for stupid/flitty ideas, but it seems Facebook is moving in that direction, [...]

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I just read a comment over on a blog at BusinessWeek and it got me to thinking about the car industry. Being from Detroi, I still have some friends there involved in the car industry at the Big Three - Ford, GM and Chrysler.  The Big Three are having their lunch eaten by foreign companies [...]

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Just had an interesting conversation with Morgan from SaysMe.tv, and newly launched… um… service.  I paused there cause I’m not really sure what to call it.  Advertising ASP?  Are ASPs fashionable anymore?  In any event, the service looks very interesting, though limited right now to political fodder due to the primaries and election season.  I [...]

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Bill Gates is predicting that we’ll interact with computers via speech and touchscreens more in the future.
In five years, Microsoft expects more Internet searches to be done through speech than through typing on a keyboard, Gates told about 1,200 students and faculty members Thursday at Carnegie Mellon University.
I just can’t see this happening without a [...]

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Are there recruiting companies that focus specifically on web technology professionals? Some headhunters will focus on certain verticals - financial, biotech, etc. Many recruiters tend to focus on particular geographic niches - cities, regions, etc. And when talking with some recruiting companies, I get the sense that certain recruiters in a company [...]

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This link
from the UK’s Daily Mail talks about a credit card company’s plans to
’shut off’ 160,000 customers’ card because of ‘overspending’.

A banking giant is banning 160,000 debt-ridden customers from using
their credit cards. They will receive letters in the next few days
warning them their Egg credit cards will stop working in 35 days’
time…. They are being [...]

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