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The Very Belated #7Link Challenge Post Via ProBlogger

by anna on 08.02.2010

I’ve been meaning to do this meme View definition in a new window thing from Problogger for a while now and am only now finally getting around to it. The idea is this: organize a “sneeze page” listing seven posts from your archives (and topical posts by other people) highlighting some of your more interesting work as a kind of retrospective for your regular readers, and as an introduction for newer readers. You can read the description of the exercise on Problogger here. As some of you know, ABDPBT View definition in a new window Personal Finance started out as a regular personal finance blog, meaning that my earliest posts discussed how I got out of debt and advice on money management and growing small businesses. As I continued to write, I became more interested in focusing on the topic of my own small business, which is turning a mommyblog into a profitable business. As such, this blog is now wholly consumed by that topic — this explains the kind of confusing name and the schizophrenic posting structure you might notice below. If you would like to participate in this meme, I believe the comments are still open over at Problogger; you can create your own version of the #7link post and then link up in the comments to have people visit your blog (though it’s an old post, so I’m not sure how many hits you will get from it).

1. My First Post

Now You Can Pay Off More Than $10,000 of Debt On Less Than $30K A Year, Too!

2. The Post I Enjoyed Writing The Most

The 5 Stages In The Life Of A Daddy Blogger

3. A Post That Had A Great Discussion

Considerations For The Online Border Personality

4. A Post On Someone Else’s Blog That I Wish I Had Written

Privacy Is The New Celebrity by Penelope Trunk View definition in a new window

5. My Most Helpful Post

MommyBlog Traffic Building Strategies That Don’t Require Major Life Trauma

6. A Post With A Title That I’m Proud Of

Dear Apple: Names Are Important

7. A Post That I Wish More People Had Read

Establishing Rules For Trips, Barters, & Other Blogger Grey Areas

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by anna on 07.17.2010

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5 Disturbing Developments Ripped From The Cultural Imagination Of Last Week

by anna on 02.01.2010

Last week was kind of strange, in business/cultural/economic/social terms. It seems like I came across an unusual number of oddities in the news and/or around the blogosphere, and though none of these happenings necessarily deserves a whole post on its own, they all seem kind of interesting to me. Some are more perplexing than others, but I thought this cross-section of information says something about the world we’re living in right now . . . even if I’m not sure what.

  1. Dooce View definition in a new window Changes Her Twitter Page.

    In support of my previous assertion that Dooce is doing a reality show, Dooce changed her Twitter page recently.This is what Dooce’s current Twitter page looks like. Don’t tell ME she’s not filming a reality show — why else would we need to have a whole cast of characters laid out like that for us?

  2. Pioneer Woman Is Running BlogHer View definition in a new window Ads.

    Who in the what now? Pioneer Woman’s site is currently running BlogHer ads on her splash page, the Confessions blog page, and the Homeschooling blog page. Pioneer Woman’s Tasty Kitchen subsite is still running Federated Media ads, as are the Cooking, Photography and Home and Garden blogs. I have no idea what is going on, but January is a slow month for ads, so I thought maybe she was using the BlogHer ads to fill in gaps when there is unsold ad space from Federated Media. So then I went over to the Federated Media site to see what the dealio was, and though she’s still listed as an author, they are not actively selling ads for the Pioneer Woman’s site!


    I find this a little perplexing. I’m not sure whether it spells doom for blog advertising, but it vexes me — I’m not going to lie.

  3. Chanel Is Making People Look Like Pirates, And Then Branding Their Foreheads.

    From ChasNote via Not Cot is news of Chanel’s literal branding exercise in which you use their skin care products and emerge with their logo imprinted on your forehead.

    You know what this means, right? Karl Lagerfeld has finally gone too far. Wait.

  4. Newsday‘s Newspaper Pay Wall Experiment A Resounding Failure

    Newsday is a Long Island newspaper that averaged approximately 2.2 million unique visitors a month up until three months ago, when they put their content behind a paywall of the type that The New York Times and other papers have been considering. As of now, three months later, the total amount of paying subscribers they have for their site is 35.

    THIRTY FIVE.

    Now, the caveat listed in the article I read was that there are several different sources of free subscription that might be affecting those numbers. For one thing, anybody who subscribes to the paper edition of the newspaper gets free access, and anyone who has Optimum Cable (a Long Island cable company owned by Newsday‘s parent company) gets it free. These two groups probably comprise a good portion of the Long Island population together, which partially explains the problem. Still, how good can people be feeling at the New York Times right about now?

  5. Pee Wee Herman Gets An iPad.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to go find an underground bunker and a tinfoil hat of some kind. Talk amongst yourselves.

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