That would be an minor understatement :) - Paul OFlaherty
LOL, too true :) I have found myself that even if actual writing takes, say, 1 hour, I will finish it in 2 hours because of distractions like FriendFeed. Trying to enforce a schedule :) - Svetlana Gladkova
If Spam didn't work, you wouldn't get any. Just like direct mail and telemarketing - it will stop when it becomes unprofitable. Until then, get used to it. (Spam has an even greater head start because it is inherently cheap.) - AJ Kohn
I can believe it. If it weren't for spam I would never have met my husband. - April Buchheit
I'm still waiting for unsolicited email trying to sell me Spam. - Kevin Fox
oh yes, i have for fun. my limit is $20 and we have product demostrations. on my old blog, i had reviews on some of the crap i bought. - Faboo Mama
Brian, I agree. It should be closer to 80% with the 90,10,1 rule. The rest are just too embarrassed to admit it. - John Frost
No way. If it worked this well, more legit organizations would be using it. Right now, spammers who sell products are often deceiving even their customers about what the click-through rate is going to be. The rest are organized crime. - Neil Kandalgaonkar
I suspect these 'surveys' are using expansive definitions of spam, including newsletters from organizations that you've bought from before. - Neil Kandalgaonkar
About 29% of Americans can't find Canada on a map. The same 29%? - Dror Shimshowitz
29% of Americans support President Bush. - James Prudente
You're joking?!!?? Absolutely not, are there really people out there that are that stupid? - Kol Tregaskes
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About 2-4 times a year, I get a SPAM e-mail that I like. That's about 2-4 out of 40,000 = 0.005-0.01%. Lousy ratio compared to 0.5-3.0% direct mail or opt-in-e-mail, but I guess it works for many companies. - Mitchell Tsai
e-commerce, 'e' stands for e-mail :-D - Yung-Hui Lim
Never forget that things happen for a reason. There wouldn't be spam if it didn't work at least one in one billion times. That's all it takes. That's okay. Bill Gates solved spam back in 2006 or so. - Chris Brogan
i'm still waiting for my $29 million check from those guys in Nigeria. what's up with that? - .LAG
Where the hell did they find these people? At an idiots conventions? That number sounds exceptionally high!! - Paul OFlaherty
a security company suggests that 29% of survey "respondents" admit to purchasing something from a spam email. 622 survey participants, ~150 admit to purchases. So, 150 purchasers who visit a security company's website has been extrapolated to the entire population of the internet. well done. - Chris Hollander
oh, and by the way, the security company that did the survey happens to sell anti-spamware software. but I'm sure that's just a coincidence. - Chris Hollander
Makes perfect sense. There's a reason there's so much spam -- people respond. - Charles Barthold
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Congratulations to you and the missus! - Andy DeSoto
Congratulations to the Gray family and best wishes! Looks like you'll be doing things one handed for a while (considering that your wife will be holding the other baby) ;-) - Larry Kless
Love the names and that you didn't go wacky with Pomegranite and Octane or somesuch. Sending all my best health vibes your way. - Carla Thompson
Twins? Congrats! Farewell to sleep, energy and the ability to think! Still, imagine the social networking experiments you could conduct with them when they're old enough to twitter. - Slippy Lane
Great blog post by someone who has the guts to open her heart, life and finances to the world.
Would be nice if more people could be as honest when talking about life lessons that matter more in REAL LIFE than worrying about the next BIG web2.0/3 things.
Thanks for a great honest post :) You may have financial difficulties right now, but you've made others richer. - Paul OFlaherty
"Don't get me started on this one mate. As you know I hate these "defining" terms and would much prefer to see us all just realize that we are bloggers first and don't need to define ourselves any further. The beauty of the tagging ecosystem that we have now is that we can put out content about anything and if properly tagged it will be found in that arena. What gets me though is when bloggers of any type complain about being in a nice, or feel that they have to be in a niche. Nobody puts you in a niche except yourself. The beauty of the internet is that we can all define who we want to be. Bundling your blog with other blogs of a particular niche may well have benefits initially in terms of traffic, however in the long run it can restrict you as an author and you may well find yourself always playing second fiddle to the "authority" or "a-list bloggers" in your niche. If you go it by yourself, you will suffer somewhat in terms of initial exposure and becoming part of a ready made..." - Paul OFlaherty
Blogging more, but it's my FT job (to put things in context). Finding more "hidden gems" in Twitter than in the tradit'l outlets like techmeme, RSS, etc - Kevin C. Tofel
Blogging as much, but they all have different functions and "feels" so they're not really the same to me - John Frenette
I think it is a good thing. Blogging should be for punctuation - AnotherⓃⓄⒶⒽ
