I need to warn youabout using a "refer a friend" service called refer-a-page.com .While their "privacypolicy" (excuse me while I laugh till I hyperventilate) states... "We do NOT collect email addresses of either the sender or the recipients of any referral message."         ...you might wantto have a lookat this page. That's right -- 34+ Megs of harvested emailaddresses (including sev...

What's a Google Bomb?         A Google Bomb iswhen a cabal of bloggers and website operators use their linkingpower to manipulate search engine results. It came about when Adam Mathes discoveredthat Google's results are based partly on the text used to link to asite. He noticed that searching Google for "internet rock star" leadto a page for musician BenBrown even though the words "internet rock star" did not appearon that page. Why was it thus li...

[a repost from one of my other blogs.] What is up with people who ask for invites but don't sign up? What is up with people who say, "Yes, sir, give me one! I want to use it!" then blow it off as if it's nothing? As I mentioned before, I'm promoting a new, by "invitation only," ad exchange service called InstantBuzz. I clearly state to only request an invite if you will actually sign up, because I have only a limited number of invites. That's not a gimmick. I have only a l...

        For a while now Ihave noticed my number of referrals listed down there at the bottomof the sidebar has not been changing. I wondered what was up withthat. Then I noticed, as I scanned my articles, that the referralsfor all my recent articles read zero. Now I'm getting reallysuspicious.         Last night I didsome poking around. All of my articles (except the one on GoogleBombing I just posted last nigh...