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Have you ever stopped to look at examples of herd mentality in every day life?
Lately the blogosphere has produced a few examples of herd mentality - BlogRush and WidgetBucks.
You might recall not too long ago that there were quite a few bloggers, including well-known “A-list” bloggers, promoting BlogRush. As smaller bloggers witnessed the big [...]

When I first thought about writing this post, I wanted to re-write the lyrics to the song Pimpin’ Ain’t Easy with a spin on blogging. But then I couldn’t decide if I should use Big Daddy Kane’s song as a base or whether I should recognize the O.G. Ice-T with his song.
So…I’ve scrapped the [...]

In the event that you have not noticed, ShoeMoney and John Chow are currently competing in an RSS contest with one another.
As a brief recap of the contest, they are conducting a “marketing challenge” to see who can gain the most RSS subscribers in the month of October. They each noted their FeedBurner subscriber [...]

Last week was a little crazy with various ailments being passed around at our house and a busy work schedule. As a result I was only able to get three posts out for the week, which I believe is an all-time low since I started this blog seven months ago.
While I wasn’t able to [...]

Picture the following scenario - you are away from your normal work area when you have a great idea. You make a mental note of it and promise yourself that you will remember once you have a chance to get back to your work area and record the idea.
I’ll bet on at least one [...]