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Saturday, October 20, 2007

Weekend Break: Silly String, Guest Bloggers,

Filed under: Fun — thatsoftwareguy @ 7:07 am

Silly String – Serious Subject

A wonderful story about a Mom helping our troops in Iraq. Silly String can be used to detect tiny trip wires that the insurgents use in booby traps; this woman figured out how to ship a boatload of the product overseas. Kudos to Capacity LLC for shipping the product.

Guest Blogger? No thanks.

CashQuests.com is arguing that bloggers save their best work for their own sites, ergo guest posts are garbage. I’m not positive I agree with this reasoning; a new blogger may want to show off their skills on a site with more traffic and post great work with a link back to their site.

Economists: We’re not worthy of Nobel!

Interesting story in the International Herald about the legitimacy of having a Nobel prize for Economics. Some argue that economic theory is too ideological to be evaluated with impartiality. Speaking of the Nobel, here’s a summary of mechanism design. Research into this idea by Hurwicz, Maskin, and Myerson won them this year’s prize.

ContentLink – the most annoying service ever?

Filed under: Site Design — thatsoftwareguy @ 6:46 am

If you’re looking at ways to monetize your site, for heaven’s sakes don’t use ContentLink. That’s the one that puts the double underline under keywords in your text.

ContentLink


As you move your mouse across the page, these hideous popups come out of nowhere to occlude your ability to read the content. Yuck! Guaranteed to annoy your visitors. Use something less intrusive.

(Aside: Ad Blocker Plus in Firefox works like a charm to block things like this.)

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