March 28, 2008 @ 6:11 pm
why I unsubscribed from john chow (and why you should too)
There was a time when blogging wasn’t solely motivated by money, but instead valuable information for particular web communities. I’d like to think people are still blogging for pleasure, but John Chow seems to have forgotten his roots and believes otherwise. Overdone and just another cookie-cutter monetized site with more emphasis on income than content, he’s lost his readers in exchange for the big bucks.
I started my blog with the impression that AdSense was the only viable option for monetizing it. The n00b that I was, I subscribed to John Chow’s site so that I could learn more. However, this awful post lead me to doubt. It simply attempts to promote a eBook for generating traffic. When you have so many free options available — valuable content you can easily dig up, why pay for it?
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A change was recently implemented on digg, namely the removal of the white stripe next to each digg button. I am not sure as to why it was done, nothing official was announced but I was used to the way every button looked like.