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  • Here's an interesting concept: the Publicity Wheel is a site specifically aimed towards website promotion. From their site: "Each spin of the wheel, a featured website is collaboratively promoted via banners by the Publicity Wheel community. You will earn *publicity points*each time somebody clicks on a banner on your site. At the next spin, a new website is selected based on publicity points and promoted once again." I wonder how much traffic it'll send...
  • This blog discusses various Microhoo scenarios, including a hostile takeover, a higher offer, a walk away, Yahoo caving, and a white knight rescuing Yahoo.
  • The Soapboxxer is a new social networking site that allows users to post opinions on various topics and generate a discussion within the community. Since they're new, they're looking for some feedback on their website, so if you feel like hopping up onto a soapbox, this is a good venue to try out.
  • Wired Journal talks about the irrationality of free. It's amazing what lengths people will go to in order to score free crap (coughTamarcough). I personally hate most conference schwag, with the only exception being Google thermoses (because my boyfriend loves them) and t-shirts that will actually fit me (size small, in case you're taking notes).
  • Academic search engines bitch slap the commercial ones by saying that commercial search engines aren't discriminating like they are, so they provide higher quality academic results.
  • Apparently status is more important than cash. That must be why Rand pays me in "Rebecca's Awesome" coupons instead of actual dollars.
  • Keystone Business Solutions has a good offline marketing campaign. Too bad I don't play golf--hey Keystone, any chance you could brand a basketball?
  • Despite the recent Page Rank update, Performancing is still being penalized by Google. Internet.com and SE Roundtable both appear to still be penalized, too.

Four star links:

  • Nick Bostrom from the Technology Review posits why he hopes we never find extraterrestrial life. It's an interesting read and provides an interesting theoretical explanation of "why are we alone."
  • Google freakin' owns the UK. Their sites drive 1/3 of overall Internet traffic in the UK. I guess Bob's no longer your uncle, Google is!
  • This dude waxes poetic about the joys of collecting unemployment checks.
  • Seed Keywords Engine is an interesting new keyword research tool. You create a scenario for a search query and "watch your seed keyword list grow." Give it a try and provide your feedback and thoughts in the comments!
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  • Radar Magazine publishes a bunch of letters this guy sent to various people, including convicted serial killers, celebrities, and politicians. The author had posed as a young boy in his letters; hence the coining of "The Billy Letters." The response from Charles Manson is predictably batshit crazy.

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  • A. Ledbe is a happily employed webmaster and writer who is also proficient on Wordpress and Drupal platforms and can program in HTML.
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  • John Peterson is a marketing ops director at a Silicon Valley software company, but is currently looking for employment.