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September 30, 2008
Ed Kohler I was recently perusing a blog called "THE Facts on Print Yellow Pages" when I stumbled across a post about Minneapolis pizza. Being a Minneapolis resident and a big fan of Pizza, I checked out what this site had to...






September 24, 2008
Ed Kohler According to Zillow.com, the home I purchased last fall has increased by 70% in less than a year: While I wish that was so, I have a hunch that any real estate agent I talked to would collapse if I...






Benjamin J. Higginbotham

I love this show! Not only do we always have a great time, but I get to show off the latest and greatest technology to the masses. In this live episode we cover: TWITTER! Now keep in mind that TE is a bit more of a techie blog, but just the idea that Twitter is now on TV shows such as CNN and even the afternoon talk show tells me that it is either mainstream or very, very close to mainstream now.








September 22, 2008
Ed Kohler Google's policy against clicking AdSense ads on your own website continues to annoy me. This time, it was a post on the Inside AdSense blog that drew my ire: However, we strongly advise against using your own AdSense for search...






September 21, 2008
Ed Kohler Being a opportunistic lawyer has never been easier, than to the web, as Kevin O'Keefe points out on his law blog. One used to have to actually hang out at the emergency room to find injured clients. Now you can...






September 17, 2008
Ed Kohler Dear PR Spammers, I'm been wracking my brain trying to figure out why you send spam to the people who write blogs you clearly do not read. For the longest time, this practice of yours has made no sense to...






September 15, 2008
Ed Kohler Chris DeLine declared social networking bankruptcy earlier this year after deciding that he wasn't getting enough value out of services like Facebook and Twitter. However, after taking an aggressive step away (he went as far as deleting his accounts) he...






September 14, 2008
Ed Kohler Here's an easy way to double your email value: Wait 5 minutes before sending. That's it. That's enough time to come up with one more idea that you could include in your original email. Time enough to fix a typo....






September 10, 2008
Benjamin J. Higginbotham I think eReaders are awesome. While Ed and I disagree on the subject quite a bit, I do end up using my eReader every day. I think the technology is so cool that recently I appeared as a guest on...






September 9, 2008
Ed Kohler Google announced yesterday that that made a change to how long they'll associate a search with an IP address in order to better protect user's privacy: Another step to protect user privacy We'll anonymize IP addresses on our server logs...






September 2, 2008
Ed Kohler The Wall Street Journal is reporting (in what sounds like a Verizon PR piece) that there is a broadband Internet price war going on in the United States. My question to you: do you see it? It seems like few...








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