The Net

Would You Travel 8000 Kilometers To Blog?

This post was guest blogged by Mike Henry of the Beijing Olympic Games 2008 blog. Around 2005 I read about a blogger who made a lot of money blogging the Athens Olympics. It gave me an idea to register a domain and start my own blog for the Beijing Olympics, three years away. At the time I was working a […]

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Ramblings The Net

On The Cover of The Province Newspaper

I made the cover of today’s The Province newspaper. I am featured along with Markus Frind of Plenty of Fish and super domainer, Kevin Ham. This has to be one of the fastest photo to print interviews I’ve ever done. Both the interview and photo session was done on Friday in time for the Sunday edition. The Province interviewed myself […]

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Business The Net

Competitive Niche? Bring It On!

This post was guest blogged by Alan Johnson, who has just started to accept private ads over at The Rating Blog. I’m sure you’ve heard your share of opinions from people who say that a competitive niche shouldn’t be approached, since your chances at being successful are slim to none. I’ll spare you the boring introduction and will get right […]

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Fine Dining

Dot Com Burger Day Meetup

With the pending closure of Wally’s Burger, we decided to forgo the normal Dot Com Pho to do a Dot Com Wally’s. However, there were some disagreements in the ranks. Many of the fellow dot com had already been to Wally’s upon hearing about its closure. Stephen recommended we all hit Tops Restaurant instead of Wally’s. Since Tops was just […]

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Ramblings The Net Videos

Miscellaneous Ramblings – 3/8/2008

In The Sunday Province I will be in tomorrow’s edition of the Vancouver Province newspaper. Along with the Vancouver Sun, the Province is the city’s other major newspaper and the Sunday edition is their biggest issue with a readership of over 400,000. Getting old world media coverage is one of the best way to increase readership and expand your brand. […]

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Technology

Using The Santa Rosa Macbook Pro

Yesterday, the Fedex man dropped off a package from Apple Computers. Inside was a brand new Macbook Pro. Anyone who know me know that Apple isn’t on my list of favorite computer makers. To me, Apple is a music company that happens to make computers as well. The new Macbook Pro is the first Apple laptop to make use of […]

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