Bad Advice from Seth Godin

As a huge fan of Mr. Godin's, read or listened to all of his books more than once, I have to say this is the stupidest thing I've ever heard him say. While it may be a nice gesture, it would do serious harm to the people who have to pay for those clicks - i.e. the advertisers themselves.In the post, he says - >> 'If every time you read a blog post or bit of online content you enjoyed you clicked on an ad to say thanks, the economics of the web would change immediately." >>Well that's for sure! I don't understand how something so obvious could escape someone so brilliant. In a comment on Sphinn, http://sphinn.com/story/67432 someone points out that perhaps this is a vendetta against Google for having all but squished his Squidoo venture from appearing in the search engines. I suppose that's a very real possibility, because what else could explain such obviously horrible advice. Mr. Godin, are you also advocate that a company's stockholders should each have their family and friends buy up hundreds or thousands of dollars worth of products before year's end to drive up the stock price? Then they could just return all the products after the start of the new fiscal year, and get their money back, yet the stockholders make a nice profit.I find this completely appalling, and I do hope Mr. Godin addresses it...

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Just ran across my Dad in Plaxo... too funny. Seems like not that long ago I was showing him how to use the mouse, and how to copy & paste.

Finally found sitemap tool that works on a site where all the links were coded as relative URL's.

http://www.auditmypc.com/xml-sitemap.asp

Wondering why it's necessary to have three different XML sitemap creators. Why do some just not work right on some sites?

Just" blogged" right from my Digg account into an old Blogger.com blog. Pretty slick, nice integration... I'd never tried that before!

101 Reasons Freelancers Do it Better

I ran across this article on Digg, and was pretty impressed at the amount of thought that went into it... A happy worker is a productive worker, and it's hard to find a happier lot than freelancers. Whether they're entrepreneurs, Web workers or something in between, freelancers enjoy a better lifestyle than their cube-dwelling brethren.

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High Tech Cigarette

At CES I found a cool new product, and created a quick site about it. I hope to develop it into a full fledged affiliate site soon thats all about electric cigarettes.

Another Talking Dog

I'm not sure why this joke amuses me so much, but it does ;) -

A guy is driving around the back woods of Tennessee and he
sees a sign in front of a broken down shanty-style house:
"Talking Dog For Sale."

He rings the bell and the owner appears and tells him the dog
is in the backyard. The guy goes into the backyard and sees a
nice looking Labrador Retriever sitting there.

"You talk?" he asks.

"Yep," the Lab replies.

After the guy recovers from the shock of hearing a dog speak,
he says, "So, what's your story?"

The Lab looks up and says, "Well, I discovered that I could
talk when I was pretty young. I wanted to help the government,
so I told them. In no time at all they had me jetting from
country to country, sitting in rooms with spies and world
leaders, because no one figured a dog would be eavesdropping.
I was one of their most valuable spies for eight years
running.

"But the jetting around really tired me out, and I knew I
wasn't getting any younger so I decided to settle down. I
signed up for a job at the airport to do some undercover
security, wandering near suspicious characters and listening
in.

"I uncovered some incredible stuff and was awarded a bunch of
medals. I got married, had a mess of puppies, and now I'm just
retired."

The guy is amazed. He goes back in and asks the owner what he
wants for the dog.

"Ten dollars," the guy says.

"Ten dollars?! This dog is amazing! Why on earth are you
selling him so cheap?"

"Because he's a liar. He never did any of that stuff."