A few weeks before SXSW I was invited to speak on a panel at the yPulse Mashup conference. It will be on July 16th - 17th and I’m gonna miss it. I’m gonna miss the opportunity to speak and tell people about this little site I’m a part of. I’m gonna miss the experience of another conference and the chance to go to San Francisco. Anastasia, thanks for the opportunity and I’m sorry I can’t go.
Lately I’ve also missed out on blogging. I make excuses like “I’m busy” or “I’ll do it later” and it never happens. I write what’s on my mind, save it for later and then delete it. In reality I’ve written a lot lately I just haven’t shared it. I’ve been holding back, censoring what I post and I don’t know why. …
It’s amazing what a deadline can do to your productivity. In a few short months it’s all over. Procrastinating is no longer an option and so lately… I’ve been busy.
Tomorrow Random Shapes is opening up its forum to everyone and you’re expected invited to join. Also this weekend I’m redesigning my other site and I’ll be working on the new design for this one. I have a good idea of how I want it to look I just hope I can do it. Later this month I’ll be launching another site I’m working on for a client and with any luck I’ll be releasing this design as a wordpress theme shortly after, just because. At my actual job I’m having a good time. We redesigned and launched the main Global Alerts site recently and I can’t wait …
“Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.” - Mark Twain
That man was a genius. This has to be my new second favorite quote. What’s yours?
On May 29th I wrote a post entitled How To: Bypass Your Schools Web Filtering System. The article was written to help other students get on to blocked sites. It now has 99 comments with links to proxy websites, plea’s for help, and thank you’s. Due to the amount of traffic I put a Google ad right in the middle of the post, just to see what would happen. The ad has been up for a little over 2 months and I’m just about to reach $100.
1 ad. 2 months. $100.
Why?
The search engine snowball effect.
The article has some good keywords, a good title, and some really useful information. The comments just came on there own and now I’m getting 1 - 3 comments a day. Comments are the hill for my snowball (or search engine ranking for the post), …
“The value of an idea lies in the using of it.”
- Thomas A Edison
I have an idea, a few actually, that I want to put into action before they fade. All are websites. All could be profitable. The value of the idea depends completely on how I use it. The inital cost: $8 for the domain. Estimated time required: 20 hours per project.
That’s why I love the web.