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One of my fellow moderators on an Entrepreneur forum we both spend too much time on,Todd Chism, just got nominated by his colleagues for Entrepreneur of the Year - and made it to the final! Todd's a great guy and has built a great company selling patio furniture amongst other things. Why am I telling you all this? I need your votes to help ...

Yeah, working as a FTE does change your perspective. Way, way back I loved reading about and playing with SEO techniques - all new and sneaky. Just this month I've started looking around again at what's going on and frankly I'm stunned. All this talk of people earning $1m/month. wtf? I hadn't even heard of Google TrustRank until ...

I went to renew my Microsoft Partner Program membership today before it runs out at the end of the month. For a few hundred bucks I get 10 copies of XP and Office to use around the house - there are other benefits, but that alone makes me renew each year. This year, something is different. I'm now using FF as my default browser... So when I ...

I've had a blog post from Seth Godin marked as unread for a month now, even though I've read it a few times. I'm not sure why it struck a chord with me, but this wasn't actually something that Seth said - he was just reporting on some marketing that w00t did on adwords. Search for "goog" and you'll see ...

I've posted about the ups and downs of Blockbuster before. This morning Mike points us to the latest pundit who says that Blockbuster will die within 2 years. I can't refute his findings, and if true it's pretty sad. Everyone needs competition, and I'm sure it's done something to keep Netflix honest. Remember throttling? ...

I didn't intend to post about Blog Action Day, but I had to at least respond to Daniel's 5 Practical Tips:Turn off the lights when you leave the room - Check! I program in the dark like many people. There are no lights. Turn off the computer when possible - You can't be serious. My desktop takes 10-15 minutes to power up, boot, connect ...

I'm being slow to catch up on reading blogs since my recent week vacation - most I delete (unread) when they get old, but I never delete Seth's. So, today's read was Bought and Sold - and I remembered that this actually happened to me. We were happily living in a house once when I got a letter from a realtor saying that they had ...

With just one day to go, I wake up and realize that I never did link to Scott Cate's promotion in aid of Diabetes. EasySearchASP.NET is cool regardless, so it's worth checking out. (One side-effect of using this title - at least 1 in 3 developers are named Scott so I'm guaranteed to get a lot of readers for this post ...

Before I talk about the subject at hand; Seth Godin is a genius. I still can't believe that he blogs multiple times a day and almost every one of his blog posts makes me smile and nod my head. Anyway, the blog post Loss vs. Gain struck a chord today because last night I switched some of my "extra" domains from manual renew to ...

Hmmm, Dave' post was quite interesting today: Nordic Track Book Club Review: The Starbucks Experiencep.73 The Starbucks brand, and every company's brand, is nothing more than the sum total of the individual actions its people take.  "No matter what the music, the flavor of the day, or the wireless availability, Starbucks success ...