Archive for the 'Miscellaneous' Category

Taking A Look Back at Selling Books

As I have been going back into the archives I have noticed some interesting combinations of posts. For example, my feeling towards selling books over the years really changed. Here is a chronological look at the posts I made where I referenced selling books on Amazon.com:
Jonesing for a Good Book - Posted on [...]

Ted Leonsis’ 101 List

Read an interesting article on Monday about Ted Leonsis, Vice Chairman of AOL and owner of the Washington Capitals. It described how he has used his blog “Ted’s Take”:http://ted.aol.com/index.php to improve the search results for his name, allowing him to better control what people found when they Googled him. Ted “responded”:http://ted.aol.com/index.php?id=501 yesterday, making clear that [...]

Garage Sales

Alex Scoble got me thinking about garage sales. Our inventory has been depleted over the last few years but it seems like we still manage to scrape enough stuff together for a garage sale each year, sometimes even twice. If I can get the garage cleaned out this summer we’ll probably have another one this [...]

Jabberings #13


The $1,150,000+ Homepage

You can’t call it the Million Dollar Homepage anymore. The college student who created this many times now duplicated phenomenom has sold 999,000 of his pixels at a dollar a pop but he wasn’t satisfied with that and is auctioning off the last 1,000 pixels. Highest bid to date is $153,000. This looks to be [...]