My new image is an important public service announcement, particularly to those who visit Australia for the first time. Kangaroo’s and cars don’t mix.
Me, I’m lucky, I’ve only destroyed a windscreen and side mirror thanks to local members of the Skippy gang. My Mrs, well she’s rolled a car before, and on another occasion she’s destroyed the undercarriage of another car.
All thanks to the evil that are Kangaroos.
Remember, if you see a Kangaroo, it’s dangerous!
Darrens got a great list of Blog Tools over at Problogger at the moment, including a list of blog editing software. One struck my eye as being worthy of download:
Why did Blogdesk stand out you might ask. I’ll tell you why. The image. Yep, the image directly above this text! It comes with a built in image editor that allow you to crop images and add things like shadows, and the best thing of all: it uploads the image to your server, so you’re never showing images from another site like sooooo many of the blog editing tools out there do.
It’s always been hard for me to use software like this, but with image editing and uploading built in, as well as trackbracks and what not….it’s looking good.
Tags: BlogDesk
I sold two sites today. Weblog Empire for $1k USD and Coupon Weblog.com for $250. It took one and a half hours. Scary. Scary in that they could have been worth easily more. Scary in that even relatively non maintained sites can be worth so much. I’ve still got a long list of fun/ trial/ experiment sites I could sell… given these prices, well the ducted gas heating at $6k AUD is looking a distinct possibility 🙂
But the question then arises? what is a blog worth. When I sold the Blog Herald it was a really hard question. Anything above $10k is a hard sale…really. But even smaller blogs? PR6 blog? Is it worth $1k, $2k, $5k???? interesting question.
What I do hope (oddly enough) is that we see more blog sales, because we need to establish a proper market for blogs, and then we can establish a market price.
OK, I don’t need food but I know when I’ve reached my limit with new projects and old ones and its time to part ways with the old Weblog Empire site. I totally loved the idea of a blog link exchange but I just don’t have the time to run it or promote it at the moment, and I could always do with a little extra money to spend on Scriptlance for my next big idea 🙂
I’ve also got CouponWeblog up for sale as well. It was based on an old MT Weblog I ran years ago that listed coupons. I sold the original site in 2004 for a reasonable sum, and I thought I might give it another go last year with this blog. Again, time was limited, b5media comes first, so I’m selling this as well
If you are interested they are both listed on Sitepoint here.
Update Both sites sold within 1.5 hours. WOW. Maybe I shoud have asked more 🙂
The Inquirer gets it totally right. Even if you vote Republican, you’d have to start seriously considering the fact that something is extremely wrong with the current US Administration with laws such as these.
I was just reading Valleywag and it hit me: Nick Denton is taking the community out of Web 2.0. Why? easy: closed comments. This whole you’ve got to apply and be approved to be a commenter on his sites….well it sucks. Sure, we all know the difficulties of managing comments and the risks open comments present, but you’d think a company the size of Gawker Media could manage it, Weblogs Inc., does, and does it pretty damn well I’d add. Gawker Media’s model is elitist and does nothing to add to the community.
Sorry Nick.
Anyone experiencing semi-regular crashes of the latest release of Firefox? It updated itself last week and ever since it’s crashed for me maybe 3-4 times a day….damn annoying, but it’s still safer than using IE 🙂
I’m not sure how long this listing will last….but I’ve got to love the response:
Project: Blog commenter
ID: 1145900161Status: Open
Budget: N/A
Created: 4/24/2006 at 13:36 EST
Bidding Ends: 5/1/2006 at 13:36 EST (6 days left)
Project Creator: oxley1165
Rating: (No Feedback Yet)
Description: I would like a program created which will post comments in thousands of blogs and guestbooks on the internet.Regards,
Joe
Additional Info (Added 4/24/2006 at 13:42 EST)…The programmer would have to get a list of blogs to comment on. Idealy I would like to be able to enter a desired keyword and have the program comment on many blogs and guestbooks relating to that keyword.
The response:
hex251 $27,650 850 days 4/24/2006 at 14:02 EST
10/10
(1 review)
My standard bid for spammers.
Lest We Forget.
Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead!
There’s none of these so lonely and poor of old,
But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold
These laid the world away; poured out the red
Sweet wine of youth; gave up the years to be
Of work and joy, and that unhoped serene,
That men call age; and those who would have been,
Their sons, they gave, their immortality.
Blow, bugles, blow! They brought us, for our dearth,
Holiness, lacked so long, and Love, and Pain.
Honour has come back, as a king, to earth,
And paid his subjects with a royal wage;
And Nobleness walks in our ways again;
And we have come into our heritage.
III. The Dead, Rupert Brooke (1887 -1915).
