| Update on Winter Sowing Experiment | | 2008-07-11 12:11:08 | | Believe it or not some of my wintersown seeds that actually bore seedlings are just getting into their permanent home in the ground. I have some White Swan Echinacea and Japanese Irises that actually sprouted in June and survived the heat and rains. They are going to find their home next to some hollyhocks behind [...] | | By: 'Dig' The Earth. We are Sowing Seeds of Love for M | | |
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| John Petrucci: liquid tension experiment shows | | 2008-07-02 18:20:27 | | News:
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For those who could not make it to the recent shows. First up, thanks to Rich Brymer!
State Of Grace
Liquid Tension Experiment - Another Dimension - Live in NYC
Liquid Tension Experiment When the Water Breaks live
Liquid Tension Experiment Universal Mind live New York
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| Random Stock Picking Experiment Update | | 2008-06-07 00:39:00 | | About six months ago, I started a random stock picking experiment. I wanted to randomly select (method explained in link) 10 stocks a week, and judge their performance against those of investing newsletters I planned to review. My hypothesis was that as long as a large number of stocks was picked, the random stock portfolio would perform roughly the same as the market. And this, I thought, would be better than the majority of the investing newsletters out there. (Basically, can a monkey pick stocks better than professionals? Or, are you better off just buying an index fund?)I only did the experiment for six weeks, picking 60 random stocks. The process of picking the stocks, noting their prices, etc, was somewhat tedious, and I slacked off. However, 60 stocks is a pretty good number. My original goal was to hold each stock for a year and a day. While I don't know what I'll be doing six months from now when the first batch matures, I thought I'd update the random stocks' (all six batches | | By: Slacker Wealth | | |
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| Applied Computational Materials Modeling Theory, Simulation and Experiment | | 2008-05-17 13:43:23 | | The scope of the proposed book is to identify and emphasize the successful link between computational materials modeling as a simulation and design tool and its synergistic application to experimental research and alloy development. Compared to other areas in science where computational modeling has made substantial contributions to the development and growth of a particular field, computational materials modeling has been rather limited in its ability to insert itself as a major tool in materials design. The impression that computational modeling is simply an intellectual pursuit with no real life application has, in the long run, hindered the more widespread use of computational materials procedures by the mainstream materials community.The purpose of this book is to provide the average person working in the materials field with a more balanced perspective of the role that computational modeling can play in every day research and development efforts. This will by done by presenting a | | By: free e book | | |
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| Blogging Experiment is giving away $100 this week! | | 2008-05-15 21:20:00 | | Here's another online blog contest for you to join and win $25 with. Blogging Experiment are willing to to give away $25 each for 4 lucky winners of their online blog contest. Their online blog contest requirements was so easy. All you have to do is place a link or an image link on your website or blog (either a blog post, text link on a content site, etc) that link to the Blogging Experiment website. You can link to any page of their site. They also provide some links pointing to their site. After creating your entry, you need to leave a comment on their online blog contest post area for your post link and paypal account email address. Announcement of winner would be on Monday – May 19 where they would pick 4 lucky winners of $25 each. I know that this maybe too late, there are only have 3 days to go starting from now for this online blog contest to end. Is 30 unique visitors until Monday – May 19 that are needed to send on their website is really that too much? Do help me to r | | By: Make Money w/ Gusher | | |
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| John Petrucci: liquid tension experiment vinyl collectabes | | 2008-05-02 18:33:17 | | News:
02-05-2008:
Blabbermouth note:
Magna Carta Records will release LIQUID TENSION EXPERIMENT's self-titled debut album on double LP gatefold 180-gram vinyl on June 10. There will only be 1,000 copies of this album released worldwide.
The details are as follows:
* Limited edition of 1,000
* Double vinyl pressing (first disc on green vinyl; second disc on purple vinyl)
* 180 gram colored...
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| Million Blog List - A blogsphere experiment | | 2008-04-20 23:36:30 | | I join Million Blog List a blogsphere experiment. Its started last April 10, 2008 and right now there are 811 blogs that has been listed.
I am number 811 on the million blog list.
Some ground rules of Million Blog List:
NO BLOGS THAT ARE NSFW
You must put your blog at the bottom of the list
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| Physicists Renew Claim, in New Experiment, of Detecting Dark Matter Particles | | 2008-04-17 00:08:53 | | By DENNIS OVERBYE
A team of Italian and Chinese physicists on Wednesday renewed a controversial claim that they had detected the mysterious dark matter particles that astronomers say swaddle the galaxies in halos and direct the evolution of the universe.
The team, called Dama, from “DArk MAtter,” and led by Rita Bernabei of the University of Rome, [...] | | By: ArticlesModern | | |
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| John Petrucci: liquid tension experiment more tour dates | | 2008-03-27 18:06:52 | | News:
27-03-2008:
Liquid Tension Experiment Announce Second Same-Day Show For New York City have announced a second show for their upcoming 10th Anniversary reunion tour. It will take place on June 23rd at 11:30pm at BB King's, as the 8:00pm show is sold out.
tour dates:
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21 - Bethlehem, PA - NEARfest X
23 - New York City - BB King's (8:00pm - SOLD OUT)
23 - New York City - BB King's...
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| MY ASPARTAME EXPERIMENT. | | 2008-03-14 01:44:56 | | "A FEMALE RAT DEVELOPED A MAMMARY TUMOR SO LARGE SHE OFTEN USED IT AS A PILLOW"As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words...LC Dave showed me this and straight away I posted it in an aspartame thread we have going then later though I should share it here too. I don't know how legit this is and I never did ask Dave how he came across this. I couldn't see any contact info and when checking their domain they were using domain proxy but, if this is true...According to this website the rats took aspartame to the human equivalent to less then 1 diet coke a day! :eek:Read about it yourself here: MY ASPARTAME EXPERIMENT | | By: Pinch of... | | |
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| Shockwave Traffic Jam Experiment | | 2008-03-05 05:42:00 | | I always thought that these traffic jams because of nothing are amazing.
Using 22 cars, each with a human driver driving at 30 km/h, researchers were able to see that traffic jams such as this were generally caused by one driver slowing or stopping out of curiosity to better see something else on/near the road. The [...] | | By: Random Good Stuff | | |
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| The Starbucks Experiment | | 2008-03-03 16:46:00 | | I have hated Starbucks for a long time. They are symbolic of what I hate in the American food industry, a well marketed company with bad to mediocre product making the most money. I can't blame them for trying to be successful but as a true lover of food/beverages, I cringe at the thought of their coffee.Last Tues, Starbucks closed all 7100 stores across the country to re-educate their employees on how to make their drinks. I thought to myself, great, they are going to improve their product and I won't have to suffer during all the casual business meetings held at Starbucks. Today, I had some time to kill between lunch with my friend Dot and an acupuncture appointment, so I went to Starbucks to see what improvements they've made. I walked in, stood on line, bought my coffee, put my sugar and half & half in, walked out and took a sip. Nothing had changed. The experience was surely the same and the coffee was just as burnt as before. I took a few more sips and thought about it again. | | By: FoodMayhem | | |
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| Experiment | | 2008-03-03 11:56:19 | | I did some experiment with my new digital camera at my mother in law place, yesterday. With "auto" feature With "scene" featureAnd these are videos that I made when Jason and my hubby played piano in there.
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Single (turn on your speaker)And what do you think hi hi hi hi....
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| Life Design Experiment | | 2008-03-03 07:00:20 | | In my effort to make Life Design an ongoing experiment, I actively tweak and optimize my thoughts, behaviors, and ultimately my life by forging new habits. The beauty of this system is that it is extremely simple, yet it delivers results that are life transforming.
Life Design Experiment (LDE) is a system for being the type [...] | | By: Alex Shalman . com - Practical Personal Developmen | | |
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| The Making Money Experiment blog - In review | | 2008-02-15 17:24:54 | | Since this blog was created, back in August 2007, there have been written many reviews about various websites, blogs, products and services I've considered them to be useful to you, my readers and visitors. But it've been quite a while since I haven't reviewed a blog of one of my fellow bloggers and friends. This is why today I will present you a blog called The Making Money Experiment, which belongs to Peter Leitsch, better known as Querblogger ( a very friendly and like-minded friend of mine from Germany..the country of Michael Ballack ( for those who are soccer fans :) ).Before going in to more details about his online journal, let's see how our friendship started. For sure, we first met many months ago, in 2007, via LinkReferral ( not only that this is a good traffic source, but you can also make some new friends there too ). Can't remember exactly if Peter reviewed my blog at LR or if I was the first to review his blog, but we soon become friends. And from there on, we've started | | By: My PPC Advertising | | |
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| Don’t Forget to Experiment | | 2008-02-04 15:46:30 | | “There is no such thing as a failed experiment, only experiments with unexpected outcomes” - Richard Buckminster
Sometimes we get stuck in habits that prevent us from achieving success. In my opinion, one of the main obstacles for entrepreneurs is the unwillingness to act upon new ideas or development strategies which go beyond their comfort zone.
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| Experiment for the Sporty or Nutty | | 2008-01-31 22:54:00 | | Weight training suits/jackets (like a lifejacket but heck heavier) are commonly used to develop muscle and put on weight. Experimenting with the complexities, I realised that they would be the PERFECT to do the reverse. Extravagant at first thought, but think again. Is it really?Love it or hate it! The maths:Build muscles = Increased weight = Increased energy burntBuild muscles + Balanced diet = Weight loss + Yah!As explained in my post on building muscle to lose weight, the heavier you are, the more energy you use. Wearing a weight suit removes the building muscle part from the equation, making it all into one step. Wear the suit and you will lose weight in theory (with a reasonably balanced diet), or at the minimum stabilize your weight. Booty bonus time: As luck would have it, any weight based exercise will build muscles, sexy rippled abs here we come.More menacing numbers:Weight training suit = Increased weight = Increased energy burntWeight suit + Balanced diet = Weightloss + Musc | | By: Fattie Boom Boom No More | | |
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| Random Stock Experiment List 2 | | 2008-01-27 00:20:00 | | Last week I started my random stock picking experiment, to see how random stock picking compares in performance to that of professionals, my hypothesis being that it will do better than the majority.Here are this week's 10 random stocks with their closing prices on 1/25/08.Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) $32.94Endurance Specialty Holdings Ltd. (ENH) $38.61AZZ Inc. (AZZ) $33.25Alaska Communications Systems Group Inc. (ALSK) $12.73AMIS Holdings Inc. (AMIS) $7.71OPNET Technologies, Inc. (OPNT) $8.6Royal Gold, Inc. (RGLD) $30.23Aircastle Ltd. (AYR) $22.5Valassis Communications, Inc. (VCI) $Hercules Technology Growth Capital, Inc. (HTGC) $10.72I mentioned last week that I would use Stockalicious to track the stocks. I've decided against this, however, as half the time the widget wasn't loading. A few days ago, it prevented this blog from loading. I'll be looking for something better.
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| Random Stock Picking Experiment | | 2008-01-19 22:55:00 | | At some point in the (near) future, I will review various investing newsletters and investing gurus. For some time I've had a theory that most newsletters and gurus that have decent performance records owe them not to their investing acumen but to the number of their picks. Over time stocks as a group tend to go up. You pick enough stocks, and your performance shouldn't be bad. That is my hypothesis.In the late 1990s, there used to be something called Monkeydex. It was an index of stocks picked by a monkey, and its performance beat that of many professionals. Sadly, it appears that the index is no more. I've decided to create my own version. Its results will be one measure against which gurus and newsletters will be compared.Every weekend, I will randomly pick 10 stocks, and their performance will be monitored for a year and a day (so they would be taxed at the long term capital gains rate). I will use the picked stocks' closing price on the last trading day before they are picked (usually a Friday), and keep track of them on Yahoo! Finance's portfolio feature and on Stockalicious (look for the widget on the left hand side).My method for randomly selecting 10 stocks a week will be as follows. As I could not find a list of the stocks tracked by the Wilshire 5000 or the MSCI Broad Market Indexes (please email me or post a comment if you happen to know where a list can be found), I decided to use the holdings of Vanguard's Total Stock Market ETF (VTI). It has over 3,600 stocks at the time of writing. You can see the list here.I will take this list, and paste it at a list randomizer. It "generates mathematically random numbers based on noises recorded by a microphone in Ireland, and then returns your list in the randomized order." The top 10 will be the random stocks of the week.There will probably be a bear market in the near future, but I think it's too much work to have both buy picks and sell picks (I'm a slacker, after all). Over time, I think the random p | | By: Slacker Wealth | | |
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| LOC Tagging Experiment on Flickr | | 2008-01-17 09:33:35 | | The Library of Congress has uploaded two collections of photographs to Flickr and invited people to add tags. The sets are 1930s-40s in Color and News in the 1910s. It will be interesting to see how sucessful the tagging project is.These images have the rights statement "no known copyright restrictions", an experimental rights statement for Flickr. Reaction from Flickr users seems to be extremely positive. | | By: Catalogablog | | |
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| My Leg-Shaving Scientific Experiment. | | 2008-01-06 22:19:47 | | Copyright © 2008 . Visit the original article at http://afrogtokiss.net/2008/01/06/my-leg-shaving-scientific-experiment/. Please contact me at http://afrogtokiss.net/contact if you are not viewing this post as a feed.I have decided to do a little scientific research. Being a woman who, at this point in her life, could care less about shaving her legs on a regular basis, (unless [...] | | By: Ramblings Of An Undisturbed Mind | | |
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| Redbull Experiment - Cancelada | | 2007-12-27 08:42:00 | | Desde já um obrigado ao leitor Cap pela dica, apesar que quando recebi o mail, estava no site da Redbull a ver a mesma notícia :)A Redbull Expirement foi cancelada para o fim-de-ano, durante os treinos, Rhys Millen, sofreu um acidente, num 4º salto falhado, após 3 saltos para um piscina de cartão com sucesso. Millen está a recuperar com vértebras partidas, mas fora de qualquer perigo! | | By: Quatro rodas e um volante! | | |
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| Red Bull Experiment - backflip com um automóvel!? | | 2007-12-18 10:43:00 | | Neste fim de ano, a Red Bull e Rhys Millen, vão tentar pela primeira vez, um backflip com um 4x4!A tentativa será transmitida pela ESPN a partir de Las Vegas. Millen é um stunt-pilot por excelência em Hollywood, e também já ganhou várias competições automóveis, das quais se destaca Pikes Peak!Fica aqui o filme com a ante-visão desta maluqueira :) | | By: Quatro rodas e um volante! | | |
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| Update: OuthouseRag.com Christmas Card Experiment | | 2007-12-04 05:20:00 | | My first Mother's Day Christmas Card (very funny) came in the mail yesterday from a Pittsburgh PA reader named Dennis. His website (page) to, I guess, his very tough neighborhood. Now this is the kind of Christmas Card I really want | | By: Outhouse Rag | | |
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| OuthouseRag.com Christmas Card Experiment | | 2007-11-26 04:51:49 | | I'm curious to see how many Christmas Cards I can receive from my readers, if any. All I ask is that you include somewhere in the card "I love the OuthouseRag.com" so I will know that it's from one of my readers and not from my dentist or newspaper delivery... | | By: Outhouse Rag | | |
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| Pinay Scandal Experiment Update | | 2007-11-19 11:44:00 | | The Pinay Scandal keyword experiment as discussed here four days ago in the post entitled Pinay Scandal or Pinay Sex Scandal SEO Project is by far getting better and better. As I write this post our Pinay Scandal entry is currently on the 6th page of google search for the Pinay Scandal keyword, occupies the 62th place in yahoo Pinay Scandal keyword search and maybe at the last page of livesearch
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| Botched Experiment For McClaren | | 2007-11-18 02:56:33 | | I had meant to tone down the criticism of Steve McClaren after Croatia coach, Steve Bilic, had his two cents about the difficulties in managing a national team. He said: “As a club manager you need a couple of years to make or build a team. In a national team you need three or four [...] | | By: SoccerNet Live | | |
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| The ImmenseHits experiment | | 2007-11-17 10:43:49 | | Well, in this post I'll talk about getting traffic to your site or blog, via a low cost method: ImmenseHits.com. You may think why would I waste my money on a traffic resource that it may not send me one single visitor? The answer: I thought to give ImmenseHits a try, since I've never purchased traffic for this blog, from the day I've started it. And, to be honest, not all the advertising methods that you may encounter will turn up to be a good investment for you. Now, let me talk about the website mentioned above..I found ImmenseHits via a Google AdWords ad, on HiStats website, as far as I remember. They were claiming that would send you lots of visitors, for low prices. Of course, many of this sites are just a waste of time and money and they'll never deliver you the promised visitors. And if you will see a slight change in your traffic stats, don't get excited: those may not be real visitors at all ( just crap traffic, generated by automated software or scripts. So basically, y | | By: My PPC Advertising | | |
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| Web Experiment 2 - Pwigg.com | | 2007-11-15 12:02:50 | | Our first web experiment did boost our traffic to something like 7,000 unique visitors per day but we found it had no effects on Alexa rankings. Instead of sending traffic, we are moving onto our new web experiments.
First, we have created a new site for page-owners of all paid wiki sites including Million Dollar [...] | | By: One Buck Wiki Blog | | |
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| Web Traffic Experiment | | 2007-11-12 22:29:31 | | We will be doing a web traffic experiment this week. We’ve hooked up all of our blogs with most traffic to bring traffic to OneBuckWiki. Although this doesn’t really lead to any sales of pages, we will be just doing it for fun. You can watch the traffic here. It seems [...] | | By: One Buck Wiki Blog | | |
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| Trying to Experiment | | 2007-10-25 14:53:00 | | In case somebody may have noticed, I tried to experiment putting a news video in my blog. Just to spice it up a little bit. I'm not sure how my visitors are going to take it. It may or may not be continued...
Hmmm, it's all going to depend on...let's just see. Coz I'm gonna observe first how its gonna fare. I just hope it will not hassle my visitors. In that case, just holler. Nevertheless, thank you for understanding.
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| Video: Interesting Experiment - Richard Dawkins on the God Machine | | 2007-09-19 05:58:08 | | Michael Persinger is a neuropsychologist at Canada's Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario. His theory is that the sensation described as having a religious experience is merely a side effect of our bicameral brain's feverish activities. He has attempted to create experiments to show that when the right hemisphere of the brain is stimulated in the cerebral region presumed to control notions of self, and then the left hemisphere is called upon to make sense of this nonexistent entity, the mind generates what is felt as a 'sensed presence.' Many of Persinger's studies detail the reactions that people have when their temporal lobes are stimulated with complex magnetic fields. Some of the subjects experience a 'sensed presence' in the form of the deity from the culture that they were raised in. They see the God (or spirits associated with their God - the Virgin Mary, Mohammed, etc) that they believe in. Others have had experiences that mimic the feeling that one would have during alien/UFO visitation - these people tend to be more agnostic. In 2003 the BBC arranged for Prof. Richard Dawkins to be a subject in one of Persinger's experiments. The results are shown in the video below: | | By: MindMods CogSciTech Biofeedback & Neurofeedbac | | |
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| An Experiment with a Viral Thingie | | 2007-07-30 16:52:56 | | Since I am in Utah at the moment getting PADI dive certified and hence won’t likely be publishing anything substantial until Tuesday or Wednesday, I thought I’d take the chance to run a kind of experiment with viral marketing.
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| One More Experiment Before the Wife Returns | | 2007-06-30 03:30:03 | | My God, she has been away a long time, hasn’t she?…
As I mentioned in my last post about food experimentation at home, I mentioned that I wanted to try a turkey burger recipe that I had a modification for that I first read about on Avocado Green Oven.
The idea was simple, make a turkey burger, top it with caramelized onions and apples mixed with reduced balsamic vinegar and topped with fresh arugula and toasted almonds. All in all, I thought I had an idea that surpassed the original recipe which called for just incorporating the caramelized onions and apples (no balsamic) into the burgers themselves, and then topping them like regular burgers.
Don’t laugh, the bread tasted fine.
Well, I gave it a shot, and to my dismay, I discovered only after the burgers were on the grill that I did not have any hamburger buns. So I had to put them on some nice whole wheat bread instead. So yeah, they may look a but odd, but I can still judge the result of my experiment.
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| Make Money with Pageflakes - An Experiment. | | 2007-06-22 09:58:00 | | I’m sure some of you would have heard of PageFlakes, an personalized start page that you can set to show up whenever you turn on your computer and open your internet browser. This page is customizable and you can use it to display your address book, to-do list, blog or news feeds, calendar and many other widget-like applications.Why should you use a personalized start page?Because you’ll get to squeeze all the important information you need on one page, allowing you easy access once you open your browser. If you’re a blog reader, you can use it to display feeds from blogs that you usually read. You can also use it as a web-based for jotting down short lists, ideas, events or to-do tasks.Like other start pages like Netvibes, Pageflakes is heavy on Ajax, which means that you can drag and drop most elements on the page itself. It’s very user friendly and you can easily integrate a lot of feed-based media onto your startpage. For example you can get feeds from Youtube or Flickr for | | By: work at your home | | |
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| A Community Feed Tracking Experiment: Do you Want Me to Read Your Blog? | | 2007-06-14 10:32:51 | | Copyright © Dosh Dosh (http://www.doshdosh.com) I’ve been terribly busy lately with several online projects and haven’t had the time to follow the blog feeds I have in my Google feed reader. There’s around 100+ feeds, each with dozens of posts patiently waiting to be read. It almost feels like a chore.
I’ll probably spend some time in the next few days going through each feed and picking out the interesting articles for further reading/linking.
While this is a solution for now, I’m thinking of a better way to monitor my feeds in the long run. Megite might be a solution.
It’s no secret that I’m a fan of Megite’s interface and have recommended them as a content aggregator to help you create blog content. I’m thinking of taking things one step further by exporting all the feeds I monitor into Megite and thereby creating my own personalized content tracker.
Want to Join Dosh Dosh on Megite?
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| The Great Google Traffic Experiment By Hammer | | 2007-05-28 21:37:00 | | Do you want to become world's smartest man?If yes then visit this page how you can become world's smartest man.Links on this page represents world's most smartest bloggers.To be on the list just visit this linkThought for the DayThe Thinking BlogMarket to the Mobile MassesGreg's BrainCultural SubterfugeMattress PoliceBob Meets WorldDirt ExposedGoldy WorldDecipher WealthTasty BoozeThe Rain in SpainFiltered Design NewsHorndogWhat a WheenieBobbaramaBlog SlutRich Gentleman HideThe Rag BoxBaja Energy BlogMoney Blog SiteSpeedcat HollydaleCharles Sheehan-Miles2PerfectBarstow MamaA Frog to KissMonster Truck ManThe Psychic GuyDiscover Something Every DayEarn Online MoneyBrakar.comThe West Virginia BloggerHammer UncutWorld's Smartest ManYour Site hereThis sites are not safe and contain nudity.BodistryFetish Links And ReviewsGothic AlternativeCelebrity Buzz sawWe Hate PornSin EaterJust know how to participate in this experiment and get your link listed on the great hammer's blog.By adding | | By: Blogging Demo | | |
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| Popularity Experiment - Update #25 | | 2007-05-22 04:48:00 | | Wow 25 weeks. Almost a half a year. Also getting close to 1000 total members in my network. That will be cool. Still wish the Viewbar was released.
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| The Technorati Favorites Experiment: A Final Traffic Report and Analysis | | 2007-05-19 00:54:57 | | Copyright © Dosh Dosh (www.doshdosh.com) I started Dosh Dosh’s Technorati Favorites experiment on the 9th of April to measure the value of the Technorati Top 100 Most Favorited list in terms of traffic.
The experiment is now over a month old and I’ve finally decided it was the right time to draft up a statistical report on the nature and amount of visitor traffic from Technorati.
This detailed report was compiled using the Google Analytics stats package and its verity is demonstrated through screenshots of the specific Technorati referral traffic channels.
I have not read any other detailed statistical reports on Technorati Most Favorited list and I do think that this presents important information which allows you to determine if it is worth your time to actively encourage favoriting from your readers or other sources.
Setting a Timeframe for the Traffic Report
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| Popularity Experiment - Update #24 | | 2007-05-14 16:19:37 | | Were back…. Well still here.
Yep Last week:
www.agloconews.com/popularity-experiment-update-23
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But before you do Join Agloco if you haven’t because I really think the Viewbar will be coming soon. Be the first on your Block!
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You have seen in ... | | 2007-05-14 13:00:07 | | DIY Security system experiment You have seen in the movie that some security system uses laser as the trigger/sensor. You actually can built a simple version of that by using the cheapest material you can get in the market. Apparatus or material you need 1. Light sensitive light/chime/music box 2. Laser pointer 3. Mirrors First thing that you need to so is to install the light sensitive light or some call it "cat eyes". Then to protect it from the high intensity laser you can paste a thin film on the sensor. The more opaque the film the brighter place it can be installed to. But not too opaque because it will not function well. Set the light sensitive light/etc to switch on when the laser is pointed at the sensor and off then the laser is not pointed at it. Secondly is to install the laser pointer. Anywhere you install you need to direct the ray of the laser to the sensor or the light sensitive light/etc. Then you are done. Try to block the ray of the laser. If the light sensiti | | By: Gadget and technology | | |
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| iwebis - BlogCatalog Buzz Experiment | | 2007-05-09 02:06:00 | | I originally submitted my site to Blogcatalog when I first started blogging but did not revisit, as it seemed only a run of the mill submission and search site. With recent 'social networking' changes and a makeover it has become, for me, a contender with MyBlogLog - with regard to the amount of traffic from the site and the number of contacts that have added me. This is early days too, with membership levels on the rise; many people not yet knowing about the changes.iwebis has a explanation of the new features as well as running an experiment to increase awareness of BlogCatalog. It is asking members to post a "BlogCatalog Community Mass Buzz" post 0n Monday May 14th . Post about what you like about BlogCatalog and link to your blog detail or profile page. Read the full details at:Social Networking - BlogCatalog Buzz Experiment - Join In!Tags: blogging, social-networking, blog-tools sueblimely | | By: Blogging Sueblimely | | |
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| Popularity Experiment - Update #23 | | 2007-05-07 17:28:12 | | Still waiting on the Viewbar. Any day now?
Anyway last week’s numbers:
www.agloconews.com/popularity-experiment-update-22
This week’s numbers:
Agloco referrals
Direct
57
0
Extended
763
+ 17
Total
820
+ 17
Member Rank
0.35%
0%
www.agloconews.com info
Alexa Rank
476,928
- 68296
“agloco” position in Google
6
+ 2
“agloco” position in Yahoo
13
+ 11
“agloco” position in MSN Search
62
+ 34
Google analytics (visits)
444
+ 16
Google analytics (page views)
720
+ 15
Technorati Rank
74,979
+ 6648
Links found in Google
68
0
Links found in Yahoo
1112
- 44
Links found in AltaVista
389
- 861
Links found in [...] | | By: Agloco News | | |
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| Dealing with Some Criticisms on the Technorati Favorites Exchange Experiment | | 2007-04-30 11:55:44 | | Copyright © Dosh Dosh (www.doshdosh.com) There has recently been some criticism about the Technorati Favorites exchanges that have been taking place around the web. Amit Agarwal from Digital Inspiration has a particularly curt analysis which suggests that reciprocal favoriting harms the credibility or legitimacy of the Technorati Top 100 and reduces its value for Technorati users.
Darren Rowse from Problogger has followed up Amit’s post with a more detailed argument that addresses similar issues. I disagree with the statements made by both parties for several reasons and I think that it is necessary to continue this discussion on Dosh Dosh, because after all, this is the origin and source for all the recent Technorati Favorites exchanges.
Debating about this topic is highly important because we are all Technorati users and therefore share the same social space. Offering useful input and feedback is one of best ways to improve Technorati’s user functionality and feature s | | By: Dosh Dosh | | |
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| Popularity Experiment - Update #22 | | 2007-04-30 06:22:49 | | Last week:
www.agloconews.com/popularity-experiment-update-21
This week:
Agloco referrals
Direct
57
+ 2
Extended
746
+ 16
Total
803
+ 16
Member Rank
0.35%
+ 0.4%
www.agloconews.com info
Alexa Rank
408,632
- 46363
“agloco” position in Google
8
- 2
“agloco” position in Yahoo
24
- 4
“agloco” position in MSN Search
96
- 6
Google analytics (visits)
428
- 102
Google analytics (page views)
705
- 223
Technorati Rank
81,627
- 1027
Links found in Google
68
- 67
Links found in Yahoo
1156
- 251
Links found in AltaVista
1250
- 320
Links found in AlltheWeb
588
- 132
www.aglocochat.com info
Alexa Rank
570,273
- 8847
“agloco” position in [...] | | By: Agloco News | | |
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| Result of My Evil Experiment | | 2007-04-27 22:53:18 | | Last time, I come up with a evil scheme to direct Komiku's reader to my blog. The result is not impressive. I got about 10 new vistors who is searching for "Technorati top". They all click the Technorati favorite's button. I guess they thought I make it to the top 5,000 in Technorati. I try to be the next John Chow, but end up becoming Dr. Evil -- the guy who has all the evil ideas but not able to finish it. I learn this trick from King Gary's blog. On last Wedensday when Sanjaya got voted out, Gary was the first blogger in the entire blogosphere who blog about it. For a brief moment, Gary's post is on top of Google Blog Search for "American Idol Sanjaya". This brought his blog flood of traffic and also got dugged. Gary is working at b5media. The company who is co-found by Darren Rowse. | | By: Making Money on the Web | | |
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| Popularity Experiment - Update #21 | | 2007-04-23 04:57:38 | | Welcome to week #21.
As usual check out last week (not that you have to go far):
www.agloconews.com/popularity-experiment-update-20
Join Agloco
This week’s numbers:
Agloco referrals
Direct
57
+ 2
Extended
730
+ 24
Total
787
+ 26
Member Rank
0.39%
- 0.1%
www.agloconews.com info
Alexa Rank
362,269
+ 2810
“agloco” position in Google
6
- 1
“agloco” position in Yahoo
20
+ 3
“agloco” position in MSN Search
90
+ 5
Google analytics (visits)
530
- 112
Google analytics (page views)
928
- 185
Technorati Rank
80,420
+ 367
Links found in Google
135
+ 1
Links found [...] | | By: Agloco News | | |
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| Popularity Experiment - Update #20 | | 2007-04-16 05:22:43 | | Wow I have been doing this for 20 weeks. Thats a pretty good amount of time. I’m hoping I will get the email tomorrow saying that the Viewbar has been released.
Last week for reference:
www.agloconews.com/popularity-experiment-update-19
This week:
Agloco referrals
Direct
55
0
Extended
706
+ 42
Total
761
+ 42
Member Rank
0.38%
+ 0.5%
www.agloconews.com info
Alexa Rank
365,439
- 7908
“agloco” position in Google
5
0
“agloco” position in Yahoo
23
- 1
“agloco” position in MSN [...] | | By: Agloco News | | |
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| Popularity Experiment - Update #19 | | 2007-04-09 18:58:55 | | Viewbar is almost released.
Last week’s numbers:
www.agloconews.com/popularity-experiment-update-18
And this week….
Agloco referrals
Direct
55
+ 3
Extended
664
+ 42
Total
719
+ 45
Member Rank
0.43%
+ 0.01%
www.agloconews.com info
Alexa Rank
357,531
- 26593
“agloco” position in Google
5
+ 1
“agloco” position in Yahoo
22
+ 51
“agloco” position in MSN Search
111
+ 22
Google analytics (visits)
539
+ 19
Google analytics (page views)
978
+ 154
Technorati Rank
84,830
+ 163
Links found in Google
138
0
Links found in Yahoo
1565
+ 246
Links found in AltaVista
637
+ 405
Links found in AlltheWeb
794
+ 197
www.aglocochat.com [...] | | By: Agloco News | | |
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| An Update on the “Chinese Yuan Carry Trade Basket Experiment” | | 2007-04-08 02:29:30 | | The success of this basket so far is exceeding my initial expectations. I have uploaded a spreadsheet of the account transactions, including interest payments, available for download if you wish to inspect the results. While the overall sentiment over the past few weeks (since March 20, 2007) has been bearish the dollar, I still feel that this basket can still continue similar returns in any currency environment. I am a bit disappointed with Oanda for increasing the interest rate at which an investor can borrow at in Chinese Yuan (Previously it was -1%; now it has increased to .5% for a total increase of 1.5%), but we can make due with what we have.
The results after two weeks:
Total Increase (Decrease) in Account Balance: $1,855.44
Total Increase (Decrease) in Unrealized Gains: ~$6,000.00
Total Increase (Decrease) in Net Asset Value: $7,855.44, or a 7.86% Return in Two Weeks
The 7.86% return in two weeks represents an annual return of 204.36% without compounding. Now the timing of the | | By: TheFinancialWhiz.Com | | |
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| An Update on the “Chinese Yuan Carry Trade Basket Experiment” | | 2007-04-08 02:29:30 | | The success of this basket so far is exceeding my initial expectations. I have uploaded a spreadsheet of the account transactions, including interest payments, available for download if you wish to inspect the results. While the overall sentiment over the past few weeks (since March 20, 2007) has been bearish the dollar, I still feel that this basket can still continue similar returns in any currency environment. I am a bit disappointed with Oanda for increasing the interest rate at which an investor can borrow at in Chinese Yuan (Previously it was -1%; now it has increased to .5% for a total increase of 1.5%), but we can make due with what we have.
The results after two weeks:
Total Increase (Decrease) in Account Balance: $1,855.44
Total Increase (Decrease) in Unrealized Gains: ~$6,000.00
Total Increase (Decrease) in Net Asset Value: $7,855.44, or a 7.86% Return in Two Weeks
The 7.86% return in two weeks represents an annual return of 204.36% without compounding. Now the timing of the | | By: TheFinancialWhiz.Com | | |
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| Popularity Experiment - Update #18 | | 2007-04-02 19:36:52 | | Getting closer to Viewbar release.
Last week’s numbers:
www.agloconews.com/popularity-experiment-update-17-cont
This week’s numbers:
Agloco referrals
Direct
52
+ 2
Extended
622
+ 75
Total
674
+ 77
Member Rank
0.44%
+ 0.04%
www.agloconews.com info
Alexa Rank
330,938
- 4923
“agloco” position in Google
6
- 1
“agloco” position in Yahoo
73
- 6
“agloco” position in MSN Search
133
+ 6
Google analytics (visits)
520
+ 40
Google analytics (page views)
824
+ 30
Technorati Rank
84,993
+ 4982
Links found in Google
138
0
Links found in Yahoo
1319
- 26
Links found in AltaVista
232
- 30
Links found in AlltheWeb
597
- 16
www.aglocochat.com info
Alexa Rank
576,371
- 23151
“agloco” position in Google
65
+ 16
“agloco” position in Yahoo
47
- 10
“agloco” position in MSN Search
155
- 6
Forum members
270
+ 32
Forum posts
462
+ 12
Links found in Google
24
0
Links found in Yahoo
447
+ 7
Links found in AltaVista
455
+ 3 | | By: Agloco News | | |
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| Popularity Experiment - Update #17 Cont. | | 2007-03-27 15:12:05 | | The Numbers:
www.agloconews.com/popularity-experiment-update-17
Agloco Numbers
Close to 600. Joining my network seems to have cooled off a little. Was getting about 18-19 per day in the beginning of the week. But now probably about 8-9 per day. Still very good, so I have no complaints. I remember a few weeks ago I was lucky to get 7 sign-ups in a week. I know everyone is really excited about the release of the Viewbar and they want to get all of the sign-ups they can before. (Umm… OK you found me out, I don’t know but I’m guessing…) But you should remember that for a lot of people it will be easier to get sign-ups after the Viewbar is released. So don’t don’t worry if you are having trouble getting people to sign-up right now. Just keep plugging away and you will get there. The biggest thing you have to remember is that the more you put in the more you get out.
AglocoNews.com
Still #5 on Google, which I’m psyched about. All of the other searc | | By: Agloco News | | |
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| Popularity Experiment - Update #17 | | 2007-03-26 06:08:41 | | Last week’s numbers for your viewing pleasure:
www.agloconews.com/popularity-experiment-update-16
Breaking out the numbers…..
Agloco referrals
Direct
50
+ 2
Extended
547
+ 86
Total
597
+ 88
Member Rank
0.48%
+ 0.11%
www.agloconews.com info
Alexa Rank
326,015
- 6465
“agloco” position in Google
5
0
“agloco” position in Yahoo
67
- 15
“agloco” position in MSN Search
139
- 13
Google analytics (visits)
480
- 119
Google analytics (page views)
794
- 239
Technorati Rank
89,975
- 8384
Links found in Google
138
+ 122
Links found in Yahoo
1345
+ 43
Links found in AltaVista
262
- 57
Links found in AlltheWeb
613
- 8
www.aglocochat.com info
Alexa Rank
553,220
- 28874
“agloco” position in Google
81
- 17
“agloco” position in Yahoo
37
+ 5
“agloco” position in MSN Search
149
- 118
Forum members
238
+ 32
Forum posts
450
+ 17
Links found in Google
24
+ 10
Links found | | By: Agloco News | | |
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| The Chinese Yuan Carry Trade Basket Experiment | | 2007-03-24 07:35:07 | | After writing about the viability of a carry trade involving the Chinese Yuan, I got to thinking about how I could develop a basket of currencies to create a diversified carry basket involving a number of major and exotic currency pairs. This basket would seek to profit from the low volatility of the Chinese Yuan and from the large interest rate spread received for holding the USD/CNY.
In my previous post in regard to using the Chinese Yuan as a short, I illustrated the interest rate spreads with ten different currencies; I have taken those ten currencies and equally invested them against the Chinese Yuan.
The basket is currently set up to make approximately 38.05% in interest a year, at the current interest rates. At first glance the strategy may appear to be risky, but this basket is only leveraged at 5 times the balance. The asset allocations for the basket are below with unit values and approximate USD values. As you can see from the $100,000 basket, I am short $500,000 worth | | By: TheFinancialWhiz.Com | | |
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| Popularity Experiment | | 2007-03-06 13:28:25 | | Agloco Numbers
Another good week. At this pace of about 12 per week, that would be over 100 members. I still think those numbers will go up when the viewbar is released.
AglocoWorld.Net
Dropped a little in all the search engines, but not too bad. The total number of visits went up as did the page views but [...] | | By: Agloco - Own The Internet | | |
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