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A note from the owner

As the current owner of Wisdump, I’d like to quickly take this opportunity to say a couple of things-:
a. As was pointed out by Matt Mullenweg, there was indeed a “spammy tactic” being employed at this blog in the form of an “embedded a 1×1 pixel iframe loading the ping page for Ping-O-Matic on every […]

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Gizmodo, Lifehacker Go Political

Nothing seems to be safe from politics or political correctness. Gizmodo posted an announcement yesterday which was followed up by pretty much the same announcement from Lifehacker giving rules on how they view Digging “properly” on their sites.
-No big yellow Digg badges for articles unless they have original content, new reporting, treatment, or photos. […]

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It Is Not Who You Know, But How You Make Yourself Look

We all know the old adage about success being defined by who you know, not what you know, but in the online world I think it is completely different. Well not completely different, but there can be an addendum to it that will read:

It is not what you know, but who you know and if […]

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Ego, Being A Man, and Opening Your Eyes

About a month ago Bryan Veloso let his woman post an ominous message talking in vague words about how something has happened with his site. When someone writes something like this it is natural for friends, fans and family to be worried and you could even see the worry on 9rules. We at 9rules emailed […]

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The Same Daily Routine

When growing up I always had a fear about working for someone else and that was that one day I would become truly bored and hate my job because everyday the same thing happened. I also know that in life you have to pay the rent and lots of people don’t mind doing the same […]

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Watch me stumble over my words

At Refresh Miami next Wednesday. I will be talking about 9rules, community journalism and many other exciting topics with that Scrivs flair that you guys hate and I just happen to love. If there are some things you would like for me to discuss just let me know and I hope to see a lot […]

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A Web 2.0 Quote

When all you do is copy others, you copy their mistakes, too.

Feel free to discuss.

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Business Logs For Sale

Running a popular design firm/blog and the world’s largest non-blog-but-yet-social-content-network is not an easy task and sooner or later one has to be given up and Business Logs loses out on this one. Of course if you are a fan of Business Logs and wish to see Mike continue to write on it for the […]

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My Failures

You have to respect any person that is passionate about what they do. It could be the greatest thing in the world or the dumbest, but if they are passionate about what they do and it shows then you have to give them some type of respect in my opinion. That’s the case with Jeremy […]

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Real Interviews: Mike Davidson, CEO of Newsvine

I don’t have a category called “Real Interviews” and I’m not sure if I will do anymore because people might be scared of the hard-hitting questions I ask. Anyways, my boy Mike Davidson agreed to do one a long time ago and I never got around to it simply because I forgot about him. Then […]