A few weeks ago, I received my new laptop and had to install it from scratch. Although it’s a time consuming process, a new PC installation is a great opportunity for you to search the web for the best (and most reliable) apps for your PC. The good news is that you can grab most [...]

Googling ‘poll software‘ or ‘blog poll’ is an exercise in futility, which has got to be frustrating for beginning bloggers who want to incorporate a poll into their blog. That’s because, quite frankly, most hosted polling solutions are terrible.
It’s not that there aren’t plenty of poll applications littering searches (and the accompanying adsense ads) — [...]

One of the reasons that fudged statistics and even outright lies have a tendency to spread rapidly through the mainstream media is that the mainstream media does something that the blogosphere is only just waking up to: re-writing competitors’ stories without doing additional reporting.
In other words, one way to rapidly and cheaply generate content is [...]

I’ve seen more evidence this week that Google Adsense Smart Pricing really does exist, where after deleting 50% of my Adsense inventory, rather than my overall earnings falling, the additional revenue I’m making from my remaining units performing has improved so much it has actually lifted my total earnings!

It’s rare for Google to invest in a company–usually they just buy them outright–but Meraki is a rather exceptional company.
I had the pleasure of sitting down with the CEO of Meraki a couple months back when he paid a visit to the New York offices of Scientific American, where I work. Prior to this particular [...]