Where the Hell did this come from…

Yesterday I was looking at my Blog Stats (I’m already addicted) and I notice that after only one full day of blogging I already have an incoming link. Sweet, I say. Everybody loves the incoming links, but I have no idea where the hell this one come from.

Out of pure curiously, I click on it and discover, well maybe you should look for yourself:

The Christmas Party! « Lafawndah55’s Weblog

If you scroll down to the bottom of the page, below lines and lines of Grand Canyon University, cheap webhosting, and cheap MBA programs you will find the first paragraph of my post on the Clapper. There lies more of my confusion. What the hell does the Clapper have to do with MBA programs and why the hell is Lafawnah55’s Weblog appear to be nothing more than a single post in another blog?!

This shit is driving me crazy…

Hulu spoke up and said…

So the good people at Hulu.com found my recent post regarding that I was unable to embed one of their videos in this blog and were nice enough to give us the reason and according to them “…WordPress currently disables the Hulu embed code on their site. If you would like this feature added, I encourage you to email WordPress with your feedback.” Well, now that would explain it.

But now I would like WordPress’ side here. I like to be “Fair and Balanced” and as rich as Fox News.

Proofreading, who needs that?

So yeah, I have realized I am guilty of what probably kills most blogs: Lack of proofreading.

Nothing kills creditability like missing words and misspellings. Let this be a lesson to all bloggers out there, proofread your shit. The show Californication sums this up pretty nicely, maybe you should look it up.

Now peace out, homes.

Hulu.com, what gives?

So I’m a little upset right now at the video site hulu.com. Earlier I attempted to post the pilot episode of the afore mentioned TV show Jack of All Trades, however it appears that the site’s embed feature doesn’t like my blog. YouTube does, but hulu seems to be upset. Maybe it’s because the blog never called after that night together. Who knows.

Chow-Chow

If you know anything about blogging for profit, you probably know about John Chow and his website johnchow.com. In the last 18 months, John has taken what began as a personal blog costing him money, to a full-blown business site that now makes over $20,000 a month. Not only that, it also help lay the foundation for his own advertising network TTZMedia, which brings in who knows how much.

I first heard about John Chow via Leo Laporte and his radio show The Tech Guy. Since then his site has been in my Bookmarks. Once, I was an almost religious reader, but now I probably only check back once every day or two and only briefly.

What caused this change? Well, I’ll tell you.

For his credit, John has always been straight forward that his site is a money-making venture, and helped who knows how many people make money from a hobby. However over the past few months the character of the site has changed. When Leo talked about John’s website he noted that, yes, he had about 15 different advertisers on his site but they were tastefully done and not that intrusive. Today, the front page of johnchow.com now looks like one giant ad and has the feeling of one of those early morning get rich quick infomercials.

Am I the only one who feels this way? Maybe not. John himself admits that his total number of page views in November 2007 is down slightly compared to November 2006. But his monthly increased 10-fold because of the changes I noted above.

On one hand I applaud John for building a blog that makes over $200,000 a year, something I could only dream of, but on the other I question if John may end-up destroying his creation as tries to pump all he can out of it.