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Neil Schwartzman of Return Path just posted this article: Are Spammers Spoofing Your Newsletter?. If you’re a publisher, and you send out email, definitely read that article… very insightful… and anyone with a domain should go through the trouble of setting up their SPF headers… please.

After spending greater than 5 hours on a plane today, I gotta say this:
I LOVE ROCKETBOOM!
Yes. I do.
I started watching Rocketboom very infrequently about a year ago, then I bought an iPod Video (after losing my iPod nano) and that made it easy to watch videos when I was on the road traveling.
Right now, [...]

This morning, I got up at 5:00 a.m. to drive to Dallas to call on two clients. It’s a 3 hour drive from Austin to Dallas, so last night, I made sure the iPod was loaded up with plenty of podcasts so I wouldn’t have to deal with the contant radio station changing that’s [...]

If you’re building or launching a new website, and want someone to sell the ads for you (that is, to represent your site) you might want to look at this list: ABC’s of ad networks. Not 100% comprehensive by anymeans (there are plenty of niche networks out there like Active Athlete Media and the [...]

In case you’re living under a rock, I need to point you to the relaunch of TexasGigs.com as part of Pegasus News. Why is this important you might ask?
Well, because quite honestly TexasGigs has been the most important band/music site in North Texas for the past 2-3 years, and it was really just a [...]

Here are a few links to good resources for the budding film maker:
RonDexter.com - no nonsense answers to questions about film making
The Complete EEJIT’S Guide to Film Making
No Budget Video - the making of…
Beginners Guide To Digital Video Production
Seen originally here: http://www.andyt13.com/movies.htm

I just spent an hour watching the pilot episode of Close to Home on CBS, and I’ve gotta say “wow!”
The CBS website is sadly lacking in any detail about the show, and future episodes, which is sort of sad, but, the show totally rocks. It’s a crime drama about a new-mom/lawyer and how she [...]

My friend, Drew Moynihan launched a new website this week: Loftywords.com. Loftywords.com is a website that’ll follow the loft industry and the loft lifestyle as it progresses across the country…
Congrts to Drew in his new endeavor… pretty cool that he’s hanging his own shingle out there again, and I wish him the best [...]

Performing searches for information today is still a mess. Sure, Google is a great start-point for general information. Yahoo does a great job of giving us search results for commercial queries as well, but pinpointing information about a small company, or the history of a company is generally a tough proposition.
I blame this [...]

Wanna make sure that an add shows up on your site when Google’s Adsense can’t deliver an ad? Want it to look similar, and deliver results for you?
Use AGAR.
Cool.

Prompted by my buddy Josh’s latest lament on the failings of Podcasting (and radio in Austin, for him), I figured I’d write up my feelings about Podcasting, and a cool little tool I’ve found that I think will help my iPod serve me better.
I too don’t really listen to many Podcasts for very long, primarily [...]

I found an opensource/free flash based image viewer application today that I totally dig:
SimpleViewer
I may use it to build a few special galleries in the future instead of PhotoStack, which powers my main photo gallery needs at englers.org.

I’ve read a lot about the long tail, but nothing as well written on the revenue opportunities of the long tail, as this piece written by Omar Tawakol.
These couple of comments:
“The trick is that their business models allow them to make money on the diversity of interests by aggregating sales, not by averaging [...]

Anyone know how to get multiple Google ads on one page to display properly?
update: Ok, nevermind, I figured it out. I had a problem with my PHP code that was causing more than 3 Adsense ads to be written to the page, so I fixed that, then waited a few minutes to see the [...]

Big news in the web world folks:
Dow Jones to buy MarketWatch for $520M
“Joining Dow Jones is a great next step for MarketWatch,” Larry Kramer, chairman and chief executive officer of MarketWatch, said in a statement. “Being part of one of theÝmost respected media conglomerates in the world gives us a terrific platform to grow our [...]

At the office, I’m having to define “Yield Management” as a business model.
I found a few good resources on the web by searching Google, and this Google Answer was a big help.
I found a lot of different definintions, and this is the simplest one I could find:
Yield Management is extracting the maximum amount of revenue [...]

Has anyone seen BugMeNot.com? Adrian wrote about it a month ago, so I know I’m not dreaming that it existed. I even used it to get into a few registration-only websites, but it totally disappeared a couple of days ago, and now looks like this:

Any thoughts on what’s up?

I’ve got a lot of RSS feeds (518) in NetNewsWire. I’ve got so many RSS feeds in NNW that it’s made reading RSS feeds unbearable lately… you see, I only open NNW once a day (usually around 10:00 at night) and try to read all of my feeds before I doze off at night… [...]

This is the coolest web page header design on a ‘news’ website I’ve seen in a long time.
On this page, and doubtless on the rest of the International Herald Tribune web pages, they have this really cool header that is the whole header at the top of the page, but becomes just the useful part [...]

For those not following this issue: I called Scoble’s quoteblog theft. He responded here. Comments followed on his site and mine, and a few other places.
For me, this discussion about full-post quoting on a weblog/aggregator isn’t really about copyright and legality, though I can easily see how the argument can get pushed [...]

A few days ago, Jonathan Greene asked about ‘quoting’ as a standard practice. I don’t like the practice of quoting entire posts in a weblog, because it turns the original author’s post into someone else’s post, without any work or effort.
Quoteblogs = Theft
I consider full post quoting without quotes tantamount to theft. [...]

Jonathan Greene asks a good question here:
To Quote or Not to Quote
I’ll respond to his question at some point (not enough time in the day folks) but if you’d like to comment on the question, I think it’d be interesting to see what the rest of the blog community thinks about this question. Also, [...]

Angie McKaig again inspires me with “please stop making my eyes hurt“.
Angie underscores the importance of readers to publishers that support their work with advertising, and she also makes clear the importance of good advertising to readers. Advertising and editorial have to work together on the web more than in any other medium, in [...]