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Introducing an Online Budgeting Tool

Nov. 10, 2009

As we struggle to make ends meet in tough economic times, there are many well-written blogs that focus on personal development and budgeting. If you identify yourself needing this help, do read on…
Recommended sites on living frugally and being successful include advice by Steve Pavlina, Erica Douglass, and Lynnae McCoy. Echoing my suggestions 12 months [...]

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Would You Pay to Visit a Blog?

Jul. 26, 2009

If not a blog, how about any website?
Fred Wilson poses a concept about online newspapers–or any company–monetizing audiences instead of content.
He cites the Financial Times which enables its readers to visit ft.com so many times per month for free. A cookie is added to your computer, and when you stop by, say, the 10th time [...]

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Show Me the Money or Twitter Will Fail

Jul. 15, 2009

I sent this Twitter message moments ago–half out of curiosity and half out of expectation–that assumed certain “robots” would auto-follow me because of the content therein:
With LOS ANGELES, SEX, QUICKBOOKS, and TRAINS, guesses on auto followers?
I instantaneously noticed @QuickCashMaster follow me–for the same reason the two Foxwoods accounts followed (or as I phrased it, stalked) [...]

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Ideas How Twitter Can Earn Income

Jun. 16, 2009

This is a follow-up to my last blog post on the unfriendliness of Twitter.
If we agree that programming and design interface changes are limited without income, there are four ways Twitter can make money, according to an August 2008 story contributed by Ben Kunz in Business Week:
• Twitter could ask users to pay. It’s been [...]

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On College Porn and Money, the Policy Way

Apr. 22, 2009

Responding to my blog interview two weeks ago with adult entertainer Stoya on how she uses social media, several people added heated comments that pornography was unjust and immoral.
I have a question for them–and for you.
Which is the greater evil: the First Amendment right of a taxpayer-funded university to screen a pornographic film on campus, [...]

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