Archive for the ‘Blogging’ Category

Goodbye Infolinks

18 March 2010 - By Ryan - Filled in Blogging

Today I finally disabled Infolinks for good. No, I’m not going back to Kontera either. I’m going sans in text links altogether. I decided to make the move last night after a comment from Laptop Briefcase, a long time reader on Blueverse.com. It wasn’t the comment that made me decide to do away with the [...]

How To Add A Google Buzz Button To Your Blog

23 February 2010 - By Ryan - Filled in Blog Design, Blogging

In my effort to embrace Google Buzz in preparation for it’s future takeoff (who knows if it will happen), I’ve added a Google Buzz button to the blog. Now you can “Buzz” a post you find interesting, stupid, off-the-wall crazy, or whatever.
In case you don’t already know how to add this to your blog, I [...]

Yes, I was a Google Buzz killer…until…

22 February 2010 - By Ryan - Filled in Blogging


I admit, I wasn’t (and still am really not) a Google Buzz fan. Probably the biggest reason is because I hate feeling like I have yet MORE messages waiting for me to go through. I like keeping my inboxes tidy and I’m a terrible multi-tasker with the biggest offender being email. So when Google fired [...]

State of the “Blueverse.com” Union

18 February 2010 - By Ryan - Filled in Blogging, My Projects & Startups

“It’s been a crazy few months.” A typical response you hear from people when they haven’t made something a priority. I’m not going to try and come up with anything better since when it really boils down to it, I just haven’t had the motivation to post on Blueverse.com the past couple of months.
Why? Lots [...]

Rule #1 For Everything You Do

09 December 2009 - By Ryan - Filled in Bloggers, Blogging


If you read either Shoemoney.com or JohnChow.com, you’re probably aware of the little brewhaha they have with Invesp.com. If you’re not up to speed, the quick and dirty story is invesp.com started an informal survey last year of the Top Online Marketers of 2008. They give you a list of nominees and you vote for [...]

What We Can Learn From Viagra & Penis Enlargement Ads

There’s something I don’t get about email. Who in the hell is clicking on the spam emails like the Viagra and penis enlargement ones?! For crying out loud, isn’t that industry about dead? How could they possibly be still making money? Maybe instead of targeting our frustration at the spammers sending these emails, we should [...]

Comments & Spam vs. No Comments & Low Spam

27 October 2009 - By Ryan - Filled in Blogging

I was catching up on some blog post reading yesterday and ran across a post on JohnCow.com about a method for killing spam on a blog. The gist of it was using a new feature in WordPress that allows you to automatically close comments on articles older than xx days. You can set the number [...]