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The Legacy Paul Harvey has left us

Paul Harvey was America’s most loved radio newscaster.  His broadcast graced the airwaves for seven decades and touched the lives of millions of people.  He was credited with creating the foundations for the modern newscast and awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by George W. Bush in 2005, the highest honor that can be awarded [...]

In response to Mr. Spirko

O.K. I gave my opinion on the topic of Izea and Google. In doing so I leveled some criticism at Jack Spirko of Comtechnews regarding this post.
There was a bit of confusion in the process, as my spam filters ate Jack’s response without giving me the opportunity to moderate it. Jack was understandably upset over [...]

Are Izea “Allies” doing more harm than good?

Before I continue, I need to point out that I use PayPerPost to monetize three of my blogs, one of which is fairly popular. in that sense, this is written from the standpoint of a Postie who is caught up in all of this whether he likes it or not.
In the ongoing battle between [...]

Izea, Page Rank and the ongoing slap-down

I’ve already stated that I took a hit to my Google page rank on any blog I host that is running Izea (formerly PayPerPost) sponsored ads.  The big G took this action a step further a few days ago and removed all PR from my primary blog, dropping it from a PR 3 to a [...]

Ugh! New teeth, new plugins and the death of a project.

Well, the 30 days project hit a wall because of two very different but equally distracting issues in my “every day life”. First, CbsoP was accepted into a blog advertising network, which is driving the numbers higher than I could have managed on my own, therefore invalidating those statistics. (It’s a good thing, just bad [...]