The changes in the Digg algorithm over the last week have resulted in a lot of chatter among marketers, bloggers, and media.  Giving credit where credit is certainly due, I do think that Digg’s update definitely made it harder to push through non-organic popularity (read: spam).  In spite of these changes, my contention is […]

I have a few friends who will be guest posting here over the next few weeks and figured I’d open it up to others who might find some value in speaking to this audience. 
One of the guests is a business partner and general counsel for a hedge fund.  He’s been extremely helpful to me in […]

In the last post about making f*ck you money online, Duncan Longshaw asked a really, really great question that I didn’t feel I could best answer in a Comment response:
“Is bigger necessarily the way to go though?
Beyond a certain point, I’d personally rather work less time on the business, than try and make billions. If […]

I don’t know about y’all, but I’m sick and tired of this “make money online” ecosystem that is monopolizing the online marketing blogosphere.   I spent some time this weekend catching up on my feed reader and it felt like I was stuck in infomercial hell.  I took three showers afterwards, but I still feel dirty.
Listen, […]

Congratulations to all the SEMMY judges.  If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that if somebody calls you, “Judge”, you are probably an important person.  With that in mind, I want to save you some time so that you can blow through your SEMMY voting and get back to whatever it is that really important […]