Dick Logan

A problem that I have not been able to tackle is my desire to post wild and totally off-topic posts in my different blogs.

Whenever I think of a post topic, I then think, “Gee, that would be alot better if that topic was related to its very own website instead of just a single post”. Or, I think, “Is it even worth just one measly post on my site, when someone could just make a whole website about it and out-compete my single post entirely”.

For example, I would like to throw around the idea or begin to start my very own web comic. But where is the best place to place a new web comic? The people that are visiting my sites now aren’t looking for a web comic at all, and so they would be uninterested. However if I were to buy some kind of domain with webcomic in it then they would specifically be looking for a comic and have a higher chance of liking it.

So when I get a new idea, I buy an entirely new website domain. But being that I have so many ideas, I keep buying new domain names without being able to develop any content on them and move on to my next newest subject. Dammit.

I even purposefully make websites that are meant to be various topic based but I still can’t bring myself to post the content there.

Basically what I’m trying to say is that I’m frustrated that everytime I get a new idea for a website or post I always feel like I have to buy a new domain name to make it successful. Which may be right anyways.

Did you ever notice that Google hasn’t updated their public service ads in over 2 years, pretty much since Adsense started? I mean, they still all mention Hurricane Katrina, so they’ve been displaying the same ad for over two years now.

I can understand that they still want to give to the Katrina fund foundation but the text that goes with it is very outdated, displaying something like “Help rushing aides for Hurricane Katrina”. Well it’s been over two years, I don’t think the aides are rushing anymore.

The other very outdated saying is: “Help support health clinics providing critical aid to evacuees”. I don’t think there are any evacuees anymore, in fact I think that they are just beginning the long process of rebuilding in the area.

I wonder what the new Google PSA ads will be when they roll around. Maybe the impeach Bush fund?

Have you ever thought about who will get your websites when you die? I usually don’t even think about as far as next week let alone after my death. This thought occurred to me while I was writing my recent post about the question where will your content be in ten years, and I started to look even further.

I think, perhaps, by that time, if you’re websites are still popular and being visited after 50, 60, or 70 years then it would definitely be something to keep in the family. That being the case, the question then remains whether or not your children want to continue your work or even have the know-how to do it. But let’s not doubt them so quickly, it may in be us that won’t know how to use the technology of the future, I mean how many old people do you know run websites by themselves and keep up with today’s trends? No joke though, not very many. So that may be us in a couple of decades, but I hope it’s not.

Regardless, will they want to continue to work on the site to generate fresh content? What kind of site is it, your personal blog? But you’ve died, there is no more of your story, unless your children or grandchildren would like to write something about you everyday, which would would just seem a bit strange and a hassle. How would you like to keep writing about your deceased uncle everyday for the rest of your life? It’s ridiculous, out of the question. So your blog ends. With no new content, it will be buried forever. Like you.

Phew. Haha did you like how I pulled that last sentence off? Yeah it’s kind of depressing but after examining cadavers in pre-med I started to think alot about life and things worth doing. Sadly right now blogging, amateur website making doesn’t seem worth it with the little time we have.

But at any rate it’s something to think about, since your investing so much time in webmastering why do it if it won’t be around long anyhow.

To all those of you blogging and content generating in hopes of gaining a profit on the Internet, let me ask you the most important question pertaining to your goal:

Where do you see your site’s content in 10 years?

No, really though, where’s it gonna be? Do you think your keyword-targeted content will still be in the third place spot on the first page of Google search?

Let’s take a look at some facts about how we understand the Internet so far:

1. Search Engines Rule – The number one way people find new and old content online is by search engines. At least up until now there is no other alternative that even comes close to matching the amount of traffic search engines bring a site other than offline advertising like magazine and tv commercials.

2. Dot Com Domain Names Dominate – Although at the moment dot com domains may not be any stronger than dot net or dot org in search results, dot com domains are desirable for their type-in traffic and real estate value alone. Every word in the english dictionary has been bought with a dot com, and are selling averaging thousands of dollars for the name alone because of the potential traffic and customers a developed site could make with it in the future.

3. Continuous New Content – The number of pages created everyday on the Internet go well beyond 7 million, which is the 2003 estimate. This means competition for your pages is growing non-stop every minute of every hour of everyday.

How can your content last 10 years?

The sad truth of it is, it may not be possible. The post you wrote on your blog last night will be apart of the invisible Internet, existing but never seeing the light of day for eternity. It seems that news sites have a very good chance of keeping their old content viewable to the public, since they can keep their audience and viewer base by reporting on current events. Sites that display facts, or purely informational sites about a specific topic will be rampant with so much competition that only the best will beat out the rest and be displayed in the first number of results.

What is the order of the demise?

1. Good Domain Name Keywords claimed (Done)

2. Webmasters look for Alternative Keywords (Where we are now)

3. All Profitable (no matter how small) Keyword Domains taken (Future)

4. With all domains taken, comes the Era of Development and Content Generation (Future)

5. Alternative Keyword domains become as competitive as Good Keyword domains in search results (Future)

6. Only good keyword domains and successful alternative keyword domains remain in search results (Future)

What does it all mean?

Basically, what this means is, if you are making money off your glow stick website and feel very comfortable about staying in the top search results because it is a uncommon or unusual keyword, later on there will be thousands of competing websites competing for your same keyword so you better make yours good if you want to stand a chance in the future.

Is there still a chance? (Chance ga aru?)

We are actually pretty lucky because even though we may feel that we missed out on the keyword era we still have the opportunity to plant ourselves into the Internet and have strong and deep roots where we cannot be buried out by new competition easily.

This look into the future is seen through a blogger’s perspective who generates income from their websites by advertising.

I just ran across a really cool new site called ArticleCatcher. They allow you to input your Adsense ID, and earn royalty from pages you create instantly. Making a page is easy, it’s just as simple as a blog post and you get 50% lifetime revenue per page. The best part about this is that you don’t have to know anything about html, web hosting, or have to pay to have a website, it’s all free and within seconds. O.K. now I’m going to go write some more pages before all the good topics are taken See you at Article Catcher!

YUM! is the owner of Taco Bell, KFC, Pizza Hut, and A&W Root Beer.  The stock performed well last market report and is currently trading around its market high for a year.  Around 60% of revenue for the company last quarter can be accounted for by international revenue, and with the booming economy of China, that number is looking to grow.  China is the number one growth market for YUM! brands right now.  I just bought 135 shares of the stock today.  Make sure you buy a few shares before it’s too late.

While scouring youtube I came across this clip of really funny animated gifs. I like the references in there, such as the ones of David Bowie in Labyrinth and Madness Our House. Enjoy!

Funny Clip

I sold a laptop about six months back on Ebay and received one of those now common cookie-cutter spam messages asking me to stop the auction and sell it to someone in Nigeria. It seems that the good Dr. ALEX_SMITH is constantly buying laptops as gifts for his son. What a loving father…

O.K. well if you hadn’t known by now Dr. Alex Smith and all his other friends in Nigeria are scammers, frauds, crooks. They send you a message saying they’ll buy your laptop or camera or whatever for a price much higher than it’s actually worth and that they will pay you with Travelex funds. Then they send a phony email claiming to be Travelex and say that the money is on its way, complete with all the proper grammatical and spelling errors of course.

What takes me by surprise is the sheer number of people that actually fall for this fraud. I did a google of “Alex Smith Nigeria” and it took me to this discussion on ebay where everyone was talking about their experience with the Nigerian fellows. The real shocker is that many of the people sent out their laptop and are now scammed.

The worse thing about this is that Ebay is doing very little to stop Dr. Alex Smith’s message from getting to you. My girlfriend is now selling her laptop and what do you know, she gets the same ALEX_SMITH letter I received six months back. Why isn’t Ebay doing anything to stop this scam?

“Dr. Smith” sends the letters through Ebay’s messaging system, so why doesn’t Ebay filter the scam out? Ebay has the power to stop it and it seems like they’re doing nothing about it (like simple spam filtering) while people continue to fall victim under this scam.

Normal beer pong rules and the explanation of those rules.

Standard Rules:

• A team consists of two players, and the game is team vs. team.
• 10 cups in a triangle formation per team.
• 2 beers divided evenly into the cups per team.
• Cups made must immediately be removed from the table and drank in a timely manner.
• A bounce, off of any surface whether intentional or not, counts for two beers. The second cup to drink is chosen by the team who bounced it.
• You may swat away bounces.
• Cups may be moved slightly away from the table edge to avoid being knocked over. If your ball knocks over the opponents cup unintentionally then it is a loss for the opponent. If your ball is thrown to knock over a cup intentionally then it does not count.
• If you knock over any of your own cups by mistake or otherwise they are a loss and cannot be replaced.
• Bitches blow (girls are allowed to blow the ball out of the cup when the ball is spinning on the inner walls of the cup, but not after the ball lands into the beer).
• If each player in a team makes one cup in the same turn then a rollback occurs, where that team gets a second consecutive turn immediately.
• One re-rack may be granted at any time per game, but can only be done at the beginning of a team’s turn before they have shot. During rollback, a team may use their one re-rack before the start of their second turn.
• Distracting the other team in any way as long as it does not affect the ball’s path is allowed.
• If a team interferes with the ball’s path in any way directly or indirectly then that team must lose a cup of their choice.
• The team that makes their balls into all of the opponent’s cups wins pending rebuttal. Rebuttal takes place when a team makes the ball into the opposing team’s last cup. The opposing team then gets one last turn to make one of their balls into the other team’s cup or lose. If a team makes both balls in the opponent’s last cup during the same turn there is no rebuttal and the game is over.
• Rebuttal:
  • The team carrying out the rebuttal needs only to make one cup to stay in the game.
  • If both teams have only one cup remaining, and the ball is bounced into the cup during rebuttal, then rebuttal is achieved and the defending team must then make rebuttal or lose.
  • If both teams have only one cup remaining, and a team makes both balls in the opponent’s cup then rebuttal is achieved and the defending team must then make rebuttal or lose.

Now that you know the standard rules of beer pong, why don’t you improve your game by checking out some beer pong tips.

Urban Dead is a massively multiplayer online RPG browser-based game that leaves you roaming the streets in a zombie-infested world. Join thousands of other players as a survivor hiding and barricading in houses or start off as one of the walking dead. You can play both!

The play of the game is simple, if you’re a survivor the goal is to stay alive and help others from being killed and rising up. You do this by looting malls, police departments, hospitals, and various other buildings for important items like guns, ammo, health, anything that will keep you alive. The safest place for the living is in boarded buildings, where they can re-group with other survivors to protect themselves from the zombie hordes chasing them in the streets.

Screenshot of Urban Dead

If you die, you simply come back to the world as a brain-craving zombie. When this happens you no longer want to help the other survivors, but eat them. Don’t worry though, if the zed life’s not your thing you can always come back to the living with a shot of anti-virus to bring you back to life. If you prefer being a zombie, you can develop brain rot and make it near impossible to be revived.

The game has a unique mechanism in that you’re only allowed to spend a certain number of action points per day, 50 with one point given every half-hour. You must spend these action points wisely to gain experience points, which allow you to buy skills to become a better survivor or zombie depending on your role of choice.

The game has been online since 2005 and has rich and detailed history all archived in the wiki. Lurch on over and check it out.