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Paul Short

Member since: Jul 22nd, 2005

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Download Squad1 Comment
The Jason Calacanis Weblog15 Comments

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Rafat takes on the WSJ?and he's right! (wow, two negative WSJ stories in a row.. wake up WSJ!!!) (The Jason Calacanis Weblog)

Sep 21st 2005 2:21PM Well, lets see if they're listening. Check out tomorrow's WSJ Finance section.

Ask Jason (5 Q&As so far) (The Jason Calacanis Weblog)

Sep 19th 2005 9:38PM Well thanks for the opportunity Jason. If you were to start a large content portal along the lines of About.com, what would you try to improve on or try to do better than them (or similar sites) in terms of a) organizing the content, b) initial promotion, and c) building in interactivity with your readers ,beyone comment features or newsletters. I realize the answers to this could be lengthy, but I'd greatly appreciate any input you could ovver. Again, thanks.

RentACoder.com and eLance.com reviews... (The Jason Calacanis Weblog)

Sep 7th 2005 1:06AM Yes! I lost nearly half the content on that drywall blog because of that. I don't fault the services themselves though. Being 'employment agencies' or providing the means for independant contractors to connect with potential clients is a risky game. Due diligence on the part of everyone involved is the only way. It's something I should have done in the biginning when I hired the writers.

Comscoregate day four: Anyone out there have Comscore's raw blog data? (The Jason Calacanis Weblog)

Aug 13th 2005 8:14PM Here's a link to the CNet spyware story if you haven't already seen it. Link

Google Adsense torpedoes Yahoo Publisher Network with a 15% better split?!? (The Jason Calacanis Weblog)

Aug 10th 2005 4:19PM I started seeing an increase in Adsense revenue on Sunday past and it's in line with what you're seeing, although, you're making nearly as much in a day what I am in a month. It's great to see some competition kicking in though. I've had a theory. In the past 4-6 months Adsense revenue per click has been dropping, and that trend has been seen by a lot of publishers, most notably at the WebmasterWorld forums. Could it be that G has been lowering EPC gradually over time so that when Y finally laynched their program, G could boost up EPC to previously normal levels to make it appear they were paying out more?

More on Comscore blog survey... (anyone have background on Comscore and how they make money/operate?) (The Jason Calacanis Weblog)

Aug 9th 2005 5:42PM I was origionally looking at this as another vaildation of the current and future potential of blogs to advertisers, not who has more traffic than whom. But now that you've done some digging and pretty well proven how biased the survey is, I'm looking at it in a whole different light. This kind of ties in with your appeal to the blog search engines for a more accurate and dynamic measurement of the top blogs. The blogosphere is growing at an alarming rate, fluctuations happen based on both blogger and reader influenced trends causing spikes and lulls, etc. We need a way to gauge the effectiveness of our efforts and the impact they're having in the grand scheme of things and that somehow needs to be tracked, preferrably by an impartial, unbiased entity. An entity that can be trusted by potential advertisers, mainstream media, us as bloggers, readers, etc. Jeez. My brain is hurting just thinking about it.

Quote of the day.... from Gawker (The Jason Calacanis Weblog)

Aug 5th 2005 3:43PM Way to bestow thought leadership and wisdom upon the uninformed masses NYT.

"The Blog 500" Challenge (prize: $50,000 in advertising or $10,000 in cash) (The Jason Calacanis Weblog)

Aug 2nd 2005 11:03PM Something like this would be perfect for a service like Bloglines to do. The developers could easily count the top 500 most subscribed to blogs, most read feeds, etc. and display them. After all, what it all boils down to is how many people read and subscribe right?

Ask Download Squad: What's the best alternative to Microsoft Office? (Download Squad)

Jul 22nd 2005 2:44PM I've been using OpenOffice from OpenOffice.org for months now and love it. It's cross platform, handles just about anything MS Office outputs and even exports files in PDF format.

New York Times doing popovers? (The Jason Calacanis Weblog)

Jul 1st 2005 7:54PM Interstitials Jason??? c'mon... That's one reason I stopped reading a lot of the MSM sites. You're not gonna take some of the Weblogsinc sites off my short list of still-cool destinations now are ya??