Updates, Ramblings and Links Roundup - 18-jan-08

There isn’t one specific topic to this post so thats why the long and offtopic title ;p

Updates

• I got accepted into Neverblue Ads which was a part of my new initiative!
• Fixed a few rss bugs here
• Caught up on all the Advertising requests made, thank you all for advertising at blueverse (ya’ll know who you are! :))
• Most of all i’ve been planning on starting a 4th blog this one is going to be a magazine with the best of the best stuff compiled into one post, kinda like Smashing Magazine mine will tackle : Life/Health/Design/Media/Web/Money - The general entrepreneur topics.
• One really awesome Premium Wordpress Theme might be coming up in a few days - Magazine Style!!

Links Roundup

• My new blog initiative - making money with 2 affiliate networks - PepperJam and Neverblue Ads
• Matt Cutts posted a really good article on how to secure your wordpress installation
• I really liked Shoemoney’s post on SEOs and their ethics, i hate it when SEOs preach something they can’t even do anything for their own selves , nothing more then a sales pitch, heh. must read - Why I do not like 95% of SEO Experts
• Two awesome posts written by Kris and Michael at Bloggingtips.com - The Secret to Blog Promotion Nobody Admits & Getting the word out - These are some great articles on blog marketing, promotion and how content matters more!

CEA’s Ban Gizmondo for inappropriate behaviour at CES

Watch the video at Gizmondo

This was quite unexpected, Reps from Gizmondo pulled an odd stunt at CES 2008 where they closed all the flat screen displays on all shows using a TV-B-Gone IR remote, which was kinda funny but mostly just mean and wasted so many people’s time and for this the CEA has banned them. For some reason all of this to me seems like a big publicity stunt for TV-B-Gone.

The conference was held by CEA and they took action against Gizmondo by banning them from further conferences and sent the following statement to the people at CNET:

We have been informed of inappropriate behavior on the show floor by a credentialed media attendee from the Web site Gizmodo, owned by Gawker Media. Specifically, the Gizmodo staffer interfered with the exhibitor booth operations of numerous companies, including disrupting at least one press event. The Gizmodo staffer violated the terms of CES media credentials and caused harm to CES exhibitors. This Gizmodo staffer has been identified and will be barred from attending any future CES events. Additional sanctions against Gizmodo and Gawker Media are under discussion.

More coverage on this:

• Bloggers behaving badly
• Gizmodo Gives Bloggers a Black Eye

Updates - Finally reached the PS5 mark.

I finally reached the PS5 mark today, it was not much of a surprise since the links were already in place (set amount) it was just a matter of time till it was validated and indexed as a valid backlink for this blog, and yes as i’ve mentioned so many times before, i consider Pagestrength to be like a PR prediction tool, during the last pagerank update i had a PS of 4 and i ended up with a pr4, 4 days later my last minute work kicked in and my PS went up to a 4.5 (which basically means a PR5), and now its a PS5 which means im on my way to PR6 (woo!).