Today, I have been working on a new design for my site that’s related to camping and travel. The income that I do make online primarily comes from advertising on that site and a related site. I’ve pretty much cleared my online related activities so that I can concentrate on Haw Creek, which [...]

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Mike Goad on December 22nd, 2007

After posting Be careful and don’t post your draft… unless you mean to! yesterday, guess what I did?
That’s Right!
I hit publish before I was ready to.
Yesterday, I wrote: “Generally the post is essentially done, but I’ve not proofed it for errors or not identified the tags or some other relatively [...]

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A year is a long time in the on-line world. A large percentage of the blogs out there today will shrivel up and disappear by the end of 2008. Many others will still be there, but posting on them will have slowed down to a trickle… or will have stopped all together. [...]

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Mike Goad on December 21st, 2007

I’ve just been using Google Reader for several weeks now and have already seen some instances where people have inadvertently posted a draft and then retracted it when they realized it. The first one I saw was one on Opal Tribble’s Vegan Momma and I think that another was on Dan Rinnert’s DCR Blogs. [...]

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Mike Goad on November 23rd, 2007

So much for following through on my plan not to make any more major changes until ‘08.
I did like the WordPress theme that I was using, but it wasn’t able to do some the things that can be done using WordPress 2.3. Even some of the capabilities it did have didn’t produce [...]

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Mike Goad on November 19th, 2007

While modifying the feeds to my feed reader, I read an interesting post by John Chow, the guy who made $23,448.59 in blog income in. In There Is No Secret Formula, John says:
Making money online can summed up in four words as well: Get traffic, optimize ads. There. I’ve just given you the secret [...]

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Mike Goad on November 17th, 2007

Canoing On Lake Bailey (not us!)

We got to Petit Jean State Park, which is south of Morrilton, Arkansas, yesterday afternoon. It’s not a very long drive from where we live, so it didn’t take long to get here. We’ll be here one more night and head back home after lunch.
One [...]

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