December 2008

What Internet Entrepreneurs Can Learn from the California Gold Rush

Above is a famous photo of deserted ships in San Francisco Harbor–left derelict by crews who jumped ship and headed to the gold fields, hoping to make an easy fortune.(Credit: San Francisco and a forest of masts. 1979.90.141. Mystic Seaport) The general thought was that gold was simply there for the taking, and in fact [...]

Can Your Blog Reveal Your Personality Type?

Saw a great post by Tom Chandler about Typealyzer, a site that instantaneously analyzes your blog and pops out a personality type along with a diagram of the parts of your brain used to write your posts.

Does your website pass the 5-point tune-up?

Want more targeted website traffic? Use my 5-point checklist and see if your site rates as a clunker or a Ferrari. (Scores below) 1. Best Practices Wikipedia states that best practices are the most efficient and effective way of accomplishing a task, based on procedures that have proven themselves over time for large numbers of [...]