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""Affiliate marketing is a black art that needs to be repackaged." Exactly. Affiliate marketing has been misused by blackhat SEO's, spammers, and unethical webmasters. But there is really nothing wrong with recommending a product, if the recommendation is genuine. It's a fine line, but for publishers able to build trust and not abuse it, affiliate marketing is amazing. Even better if you have your own products and services to sell." - John Wesley

""In that model, display advertising will perform as well as search." Yes, for advertisers. But for publishers it's a disaster. Unless you are a big name brand, the CPMs available to you are pathetic. Generally less than $1. At those levels its nearly impossible to make money off high value, high cost content. Your only hope is to get traffic from Google and funnel that search intent into AdSense or relevant affiliate offers. I think online publishing is forming 2 distinct classes. The only sites that can survive off pure ad revenue are the high traffic, high brand recognition sites with inhouse sales teams (mainstream newspapers, magazines, massive blogs). To survive, smaller publishers will need to abandon the ad model and make money by funneling visitors towards their own products and services, or those of another business through an affiliate relationship. Basically, they need to use their content and audience to promote themselves, rather than selling display ads at basement CPMs...." - John Wesley

"How do TechCrunch stories make it to Digg's front page so often? With a little help from its friends, of course. Former TechCrunch writer Duncan Riley, now a foe of editor Michael Arrington, posted a screenshot from his inbox revealing what Riley calls "The TechCrunch Digg Club." It includes four writers from TechCrunch proper; seven from gadgets blog CrunchGear; two from TechCrunchIT, Arrington's incomprehensible enterprise-tech spinoff; plus two or three interns." - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק from Bookmarklet

Markingegno - Donato: that is a very interesting metaphor - Noah David Simon

"Bury for FoxNews. They don't need more ad money." - John Wesley

""Avoid pooping on or near food"" - John Wesley

"Hopefully they reefered you to a dictionary." - John Wesley

"No Corey Feldman?" - John Wesley

"Most people don't know/care about a better web browser." - John Wesley

"Surprised the guy is willing to prosecute..." - John Wesley

"Untrue. Top 10 nut jobs. Top 10 ear biters. Top 10 giant men with high voices. Top 10 face tattoos." - John Wesley

"I would also add to check industry specific blogs for job boards and postings." - John Wesley

say "yes" or "no" - Harry Chen

no - Fatmanur Erdogan

"No can eat Twinkeez?!?!" - John Wesley

"I've heard many companies are using a state-of-the-art technology called "firing people". Works wonders for payroll." - John Wesley

"Good assessment of the site. After wasting 45 seconds on my life I'd like to slap whoever created it." - John Wesley

"I hate secrets, they're gonna give me a heart attack." - John Wesley

Yea, looks just like the orginal </sarcasm> still cool though - John Wesley

"This is really pathetic attention whoring from Forbes. Leave Jobs alone!" - John Wesley

"ZOMBIE!!!" - John Wesley

"The true tragedy of oil addiction." - John Wesley

"Amen. Knew I'd seen that before. Bury if you hate spam." - John Wesley

"Hope this gets solved -- iPhone 3G battery life is pathetic." - John Wesley

"I would take one way that actually works." - John Wesley

"11. Exterminate humans" - John Wesley

"1. Create plastic from oil 2. Throw plastic in landfill. 3. ???? 4. Profit!" - John Wesley

"Solar is going to be huge -- its by far the most efficient of the alt energy technologies. Great mashup in Gmaps!" - John Wesley

""There's no money to be made Digging up stories, hitting the StumbleUpon button or refreshing FriendFeed or Twitter, after all." True, but there is a boat load of money in using these sites to drive traffic and attention to a business. That is the ability a social media expert should have, above merely being a user." - John Wesley

""There's no money to be made Digging up stories, hitting the StumbleUpon button or refreshing FriendFeed or Twitter, after all." True, but there is a boat load of money in using these sites to drive traffic and attention to a business. That is the ability a social media expert should have, above merely being a user." - John Wesley

"hisS guy just flipped through a Sports Illustrated swim suit edition from 2000 and listed all the babes. There is no hook as the title implies. Disappointing :(" - John Wesley

"Poor Canucks. iPhone should be a universal right. One for every child and one for the childlike wonder in each and every Digger." - John Wesley