PSoTD

I've been trying it for about a week now. So far, I can't tell if it's really much benefit to me. Any opinion?

The dangers of it - in this case, not a financial institution, but domain registrars.

Such as:

Larry King shot dead at home

Madonna announces retirement, marriage to Alex Rodriguez

These fake "news alert" spams are VERY annoying.

And no comments on this post - anytime I mention spam, the blogspammers come out like the night humanoids of "I Am Legend".

Dotster is a good domain registrar, but I tend to think that their second page after registering a new domain - the page which tries to sell privacy and server space and sets the default option as automatically buying it, and requires an additional action to get to the payment for the domain page - is pretty damn crappy. It appears to be designed to charge the inattentive some fees that are likely not to be necessary. Good businesses shouldn't do that. So, Dotster, you know what I think you should do... change the defaults to the non-paying options.

That's the value of this website according to Website Outlook.

I'm sure that's due to higher gas prices.

For anyone that does web work, one of the pass-along costs that can really surprise is the price for stock photography. Don't get me wrong - it is a necessary and important product and people deserve to make a living building up quality libraries of images. But there's also a reality of value and budget on the web that sometimes doesn't feel "reflected" in pricing.

Which is why I like the pricing structure of iStockPhoto. When you're looking for a more "generic" image for a particular viewpoint or sentiment, it comes in quite handy. Sometimes you don't need a photo of a child holding a hat pointing at the Eiffel Tower, you just need a photo of a person pointing at a building.

We have a client that has an online email discussion group of about 700 participants, and from time to time we look at other products to see if there's any benefit to consider changing what we use to support the group. I've had this DoList product bookmarked for a long time but not done much beyond that, so I thought I'd ask anyone who has used it what their opinion of the software is.

I'm going to predict that PSoTD will reach that point on September 24th, which just happens to be my wife's birthday.

My sad admission: Most folks come to this blog searching for Lindsay Lohan nude.

And the weird thing is, I've never posted my personal pics of her online. Consider it a promise kept.

If anyone else is trying to figure out some helpful resources on Google AdWords, I'd recommend doing a search on Technorati for the blogs that link to the Adwords Blog and find your flavor that way. I can't say that Google's blog is particularly interesting, but some of the blogs I found that link to it, such as The Technology Liberation Front and SpecialistOnlineMarketing Blog that I've bookmarked.

Some of the most static-appearing and dated web sites utilize content management systems that are intended to allow dynamic and timely updates.