Really short and sweet, I realize it’s Halloween, my girl and kids are yelling at me to get off the computer, but I just came across something that I read and immediately printed out. I can’t go into how awesome this post is, (I will follow up later) but simply head over to Andrew Wee and read Ruthless For The People.

It’s a short post but I can also save you some time:

You can:

• If you haven’t done so, Register at Earners Forum
• Head over to Andrew’s “Ruthless For The People…A Blog Story” thread
• Click the BACKIT Icon (top right corner with little green in the icon)
• You’re done!

Just take a few minutes out of your day and read what Andrew has written. It’s ranks in the top 3 posts I have encountered online. BTW — This ends at midnight tonight, so time is of the essence. Take a few minutes right quick and go have a look at the posts, it will help you in more ways than I can explain. You’ll know what I mean when you read it. Anyway, if you like it give the “Backit” button a click and help support the post and Andrew. Also, if you have not already done so, I would suggest bookmarking Andrew’s blog, it’s a daily visit for me and I love his Friday Podcasts.

After you read it, feel free to come back and discuss it. I am heading out with the kids for a few hours, but will be back later on this evening. Happy Halloween!

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Yep, Happy Halloween to everyone from me to you! So what are you going to do tonight? For me, it’s the first year that I can take my youngest son out so he’s super stoked. With the release of SpiderMan3 yesterday both my sons of course had to be Spiderman. My oldest is more defiant and always wants to stand out from the rest (weird characteristic huh) so he chose to be a villian. (D) is going to be Venom and (A) is going to be Spidey.

On Tuesdays is when the new movies come out, so I have a promise with my sons that I always buy the new movies. BTW — I own over 3,000 DVD’s, it’s a ridiculous obsession. It doesn’t matter if I download them from the Net, I always buy them when I come out. October has been pretty cool though. I got a chance to watch Transformers and SpiderMan3 with the boys. Of course it’s been a struggle for them all year as to whether they wanted to be transformers or Spidermen for Halloween. At last they have decided.

This is my 2nd Halloween that I have celebrated. When I say celebrated, if you know a little about my history, I was never into Holidays. In fact this will only be my third Thanksgiving and Christmas that I have celebrated. Those holidays were costly in the past and I was usually working on the Eve’s of them as Wal MArt is incredibly busy right before and after these types of Holidays. So it’s quite refreshing to not have to worry about costs, and to actually know that I don’t have to rise up at 3 Am the next day to punch a time clock.

November 2006 is a month I will never forget. That month signified a tremendous change in my life. That change was quiting my jobs and working solely online. I had been working part time for almost two priors to that, but it wasn’t until then that I decided that working online was going to be my next career.

What factors played roles in this?

Quite simply, I developed a skill that I could write at astonishing rates. Don’t believe me? Ask anyone from the RJ Forum or BHW when I get on a roll. Simply put, most people piss and moan when it’s time to do a little article writing for promotion or whatever. In the very few minutes that they whine, I can complete an article. I was lucky to develop this skill from companies such as Associated Content, MPAM, SSWUG, and Freelance sites. At first I was horrible. After about a month though, it was not uncommon to pump out at least a dozen articles in a couple of hours. Some sites paid me more, but the most I made in one month was about $2500 writing articles and I never once worked more than a couple of hours every night. I couldn’t, I was holding down two jobs at any one time, and I was also into auto content generation. I developed the skill fast, and I never once grumbled while writing.

I caught an interesting article this morning offline in the October 07 issue of PC World. PC World did an extensive case study over what they felt were the top 10 Video Sharing Sites on the web which featured Performance, Quality, Features, and Specifications as their main determining points in their video sharing site ranking system. For all of you video marketers, this may be of interest to you.

BlipTv destroyed everyone. Blip’s Performance was actually quite astonishing. With features such as length limits of 100MB/None for certain types of accounts, User storage is unlimited, A Superior Revenue sharing model and they convert files to flash 8, unlike youtube unless I am unaware still only converts to Flash 7.

In the performance department of Blip, the Video and Audio quality was rated Superior, ease of uploading videos rated at Very Good, Embedded player design rated very good, and the sharing options rated in at Superior.

PC World when on to quote:

Video Quality: Blip.tv gets the nod here because it permits users to stream and download the original, high-quality file. Stage6’s DivX (which came in second) also got high marks. Besides streaming and downloading high quality videos Blip also let’s you make videos that are ideal for iPods’ and cellphone playback available.

The thing that surprised me was that Youtube came in at #7. Youtube is a little behind because it still uses the lower-quality Flash 7 format, (which relies on the older Sorensen Spark Codec). With this in mind Youtube’s video and audio quality were knocked down as fair/very good. PC World must not be aware of the director accounts as they rated the upload limit as 100MB/10min. With a director’s account the upload is permitted as unlimited. Revenue sharing also took a hit as Youtube only allows selected users at the time of the article.

HaHa,

TechCrunch is widely known for taking huge dumps on breaking stories. Well, here’s one in case you haven’t heard already. Tom’s brithday is coming up and turns out he wasn’t this hip, younger gentleman that wanted to be your friend.

Obviously, who cares now right? They are pulling the cheese but I bet things might have went a little bit differently had people known his true age.

So here’s the poll:

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No need to get alarmed :)

I have found little trinkets and all kinds of cool shit today browsing the web that I want to test out on the blog, so at times it may look a little funky. Hopefully, I am done by morning:)

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I was cruising around my favorite blogs today reading up on the peeps to see if I could find just one post that wasn’t talking about PageRank. This shit over the last few days has really got me on the edge of maybe wanting to overdose a little on my meds. Seriously, if I see another PageRank post, I just may go into a deep, long sleep. As many people that there are out there claiming to make money, it sure does strike me odd that a shitload of them are talking about PageRank. I guess using it to squeeze some dollars is somewhat of a business model, I don’t know because I have NEVER once sold a link on ANY of my sites. Oh, I optimize for Search Engines and have been in some heated debates about PR before, but over the last few days watching the big boys get nuked has never made me laugh so hard.

Anyway, that’s another can of worms…back to the topic.

I’m cruising along my favorites such as Jon’s SEO Blog, Eli’s BlueHatSEO and then Stuart’s PPC and Affiliate Marketing Blog when I came across this post by Stuart. At first I was relieved I finally found something being written about other than PageRank, but as soon as I saw this:

Looking further down the list past 30 you’ll actually find more useful tips about Making Money Online, why? Younger blogs have to give away much more useful information to attract new readers, whereas larger & much more established blogs can get away with writing paid reviews & such but still keep the readership due to their authority status.

PS — (Sorry, for the dupe here Stuart)

I imagine that this post will bring some hate down on me, then again when I go to ranting about the people that are posting this type of shit, I seriously question their ability to navigate the web thru a –B.R.O.W.S.E.R.

Now I am not calling anyone stupid, no I would never say that out loud and in this case I don’t have to. I am cruising forums today trying to engage in whatever conversations I can find. Talk is pretty scarce usually on Saturday and Sundays. Most people unlike me have lives outside of work, so I tend to get bored and start snooping in other forums from which I normally don’t associate in heavily.

Enter DigitalPoint

I have lurked there for god knows how long. Over a month ago I engaged in a thread or two, but honestly since then, I have yet to find a thread where someone was asking for help or where a good conversation was sitting. No, it is very apparent when you login and look at the “New Posts” that there ain’t nothing but a bunch of newbs peddling for a dumbass Digg or Stumble.

It’s totally turned into the Ebay of StumbleUpon and Digg Exchanges. I know they have a large section for Buy, Sell, and Trade but dammit that is just one section. Isn’t this one of the largest discussion forums online? The only thing I see being discussed is how much wang someone will fit in their mouth to reach one more Digg. Shit, I would go bust that party in an instant but it seems that the Mods over there are sucking as much pee pee as it’s members. You can’t even sneeze wrong and they will ban you without an explanation.