Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Enough, enough, enough!

One day a few weeks ago frustration level about Microsoft computers was again at dangerous levels. I finally decided to take the advice that had come, over a long period of time, from various directions. I bought an iMAC!

I calculated that I was spending an average of 1 hour a day of my best time (7 per week = 50 days a year) wrestling with all the consequential crap that comes from using Microsoft-based machines. Enough, enough, enough!

Saturday, September 26, 2009

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

How many (professional) bloggers are there in America?

E. Kinney Zalesne in the Wall Street Journal has an article that starts;

In America today, there are almost as many people making their living as bloggers as there are lawyers. Already more Americans are making their primary income from posting their opinions than Americans working as computer programmers or firefighters.

Paid bloggers fit just about every definition of a microtrend: Their ranks have grown dramatically over the years, blogging is an important social and cultural movement that people care passionately about, and the number of people doing it for at least some income is approaching 1% of American adults.

The best studies we can find say we are a nation of over 20 million bloggers, with 1.7 million profiting from the work, and 452,000 of those using blogging as their primary source of income. That's almost 2 million Americans getting paid by the word, the post, or the click -- whether on their site or someone else's. And that's nearly half a million of whom it can be said, as Bob Dylan did of Hurricane Carter: "It's my work he'd say, I do it for pay."


To read the full article go HERE

Monday, April 20, 2009

ClockLink - great clocks for your site

Sunday, April 19, 2009

Check out SEESMIC 'video conversation'

The beauty of SEESMIC is that your conversation partner doesn't have to be there when you say what you want to say next. Plus you can participate in many different conversations simultaneously.