Digg goes beyond link sharing to outright content theft. Will the new toolbar help generate revenue or alienate users and force publishers to get their pitchforks out? I vote for pitchforks!

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About a week and a half after transferring my sites to a unique IP address, the immediate SEO results have been significant. Here is a summary of the results I've seen so far and some more information about obtaining a unique IP address for shared hosting accounts.

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I mentioned in the last post about Digg's adventures in content framing, and specifically about how these changes were affecting search engine indexing. After just a few weeks of publisher outrage, Digg finds a way to keep their frame while keeping publishers placated.

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South Park's take on internet fame, making money online, and wealth by legislation is not just hilarious, it has some valid points that web publishers and governments should take into consideration.

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The internet economy is entering a new era of stark realities as large websites begin to dump off acquisitions and dependent domains that aren't directly related to their business model.

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Rupert Murdoch informs investors that the new business model will attempt to hide content behind paid walls and he goes on to predict the very end of the internet as we've known it. Call me skeptical of his internet counter-revolution.

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The economy isn't going to recover any time soon - and when it does recover, it probably still won't be anything like the pre-2008 market conditions. Business trends can fluctuate over a long time horizon, and current shifts indicate a new paradigm of frugality may be here to stay for a while.

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The Federal Trade Commission is talking about blogs - specifically paid posts, free incentives from product producers, and how the government fits into protecting the consumer from their own lack of research.

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Dreamhost is offering cheap SSL certificates - just $15 per year while most providers charge $100. Yet even at the discount prices they're pushing, Dreamhost claims the certificates are still overpriced!

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Not all promotion strategies work for every type of website - for example, niche marketing and social media don't tend to get along in the long run.

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