March, 2008 Archive

10 Things American Idol Teaches About Blogging

My wife makes me watch American Idol… every week… even when I’m out of town on Tuesday or Wednesday nights. So, since I’m forced to watch it (completely against my will, mind you) I figured I might as well see what lessons the show can teach us about blogging (writing this in between frantic […]


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Sex Sells… But Does It Sell This?

Sex sells, right?  It’s one of the universally recognized axioms of advertising… but at some point it becomes comical.  Some things just aren’t sexy and don’t benefit from an effort to “sexify” them.  Prime example:

SEOhosting.com has this fairly hot number on the front page of their website, accompanied by the completely unrelated text, “As low […]


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Why Does Register.com Want to Give Me a Domain Name?

Opening my email today, I saw that Register.com wants to give me a free domain name  Awfully nice of them, isn’t it?  Here’s the email image (scaled down 50%) below:

So, why does Register.com want to give away domain names?  Surely in the week that they present this special deal, a lot of people will take […]


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