AOL and Yahoo! are implementing a new system which will guarantee a free ride past their spam filters for senders who pay something in the neighborhood of a penny for each email they send. As long as they don't alter their spam filters in ways that generate more false positives to try to force people...
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When I first started seeing those "sales letter" webpages, I didn't find them very appealing. They're long, often repetetive, don't contain many (if any) links to more information about the product. But apparently, they're very effective. Well, I've finally taken the plunge and ditched (at least temporarily!) as design I really liked on one of...
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I've done my first interview for radio. Randall Jeppesen from KSL newsradio 1160 in Salt Lake City dropped by a few minutes ago and we discussed how consumers and webmasters can use (and how some abuse) RSS, Photocasting, flickr, and more. As he was leaving, I asked when the piece would run, and he told...
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Keith wellman has put together a package of 30 products with resell rights. You can resell them or give them away as bonuses with your products, and many if not all of them can be altered and rebranded. Or of course, you can just read and use them yourself. (At the current price of $9.95,...
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All the hubbub over Larry Miller cancelling the showing of Brokeback Mountain at his Utah theater got me thinking about potential sequel titles. Here are a few ideas:

Flatback Praire: a love story about two gay farmers.

Moneyback Mall: a love story about two gay retailers.

Comeback Field: a love story about two gay quarterbacks....
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I heard someone on NPR talking today about how we're likely to have some huge online catastophy where someone really malicious releases a virus that causes huge enough problems that people will be willing to accept some sort of "license to code" (whether regulatory or de facto) before programs that people write can run on...
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You may have heard that it's possible, depending on your current price, to increase sales by increasing your price for a product. This is because a higher price suggests that your product is more valuable. "People will sell any old junk for a buck, but who'd charge $50 unless it was really worth something?" If...
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While perusing ClickBank today, I came across a program named "Affiliate Link Cloaker". It protects affiliate links from hijackers and the like, preventing the theft of one's affiliate commissions. My first response was to be amazed that anyone could sell such a thing, as easy as it would be to build one. But then, I'm...
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I had a crazy idea today. I'm putting more time into affiliate marketing recently to capitalize on the web traffic I've built up over the years. To date, my own products are making me a lot more money than I'm getting through affiliate links. But that's starting to shift, and the changing trend has got...
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In response to user requests, I just released Moray, a script which uses CaRP and Grouper to filter and aggregate RSS feeds, and republish them in RSS 2.0 format. It's a free download, and can be used with the free version of CaRP, but requires the commercial version of Grouper ($17.97 for a single user)....
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