Regular guy's experiments in www

Stop looking at me!!!

Jeff Lazerus — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:33:31 +0000

Kidding. Please look at me.

Hopefully, my most popular post ever will drive more visitors to this place. Apparently, if you google the phrase “bigfoots experiments”, my blog is the number three hit. Perhaps the whole bigfoot thing has legs. Bigfoot has legs, I realize that.

Thanks for playing.

Bigfoot and Bat Boy love child discovered

Jeff Lazerus — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 01:02:30 +0000

I am coming across many many many websites, blogs, etc. which talk about adwords, affiliate programs, work from home, and all this other crap that smacks of multi-level marketing, network marketing, pyramid schemes, ponzi schemes, Chinese Finger traps, Montezuma’s Revenge, Alien babies, vampire/Bigfoot love children, creationism, intelligent design, uninteligent design… that are basically level on top of level of people who each take a dime from every dollar that gets distributed.

This is a very strange advertising world we live in. I mean, I was reading email on my gmail account, and it looks as if the Google engine parses the words inside my email then delivers ads to me based on keywords buried within. It’s really clever, but somewhat scary.

The content, the actual content, that you search for is completely secondary to the affiliate program that the person is promoting. The formula seems simple enough, and I was even just reading about it in Tim Ferris’ surprisingly weak book “The Four-Hour Workweek” (which is something of a big ad for his website/product/lifestyle/whatever, not that I begrudge Tim Ferris anything: I probably wish I’d thought of it first):

Think up something you can deliver information about,
Write a short how-to book or books or video about that subject
Throw down some bloggage, link your website for the book
sell space on the website and blog
get affiliates or be an affiliate or both
create a continuous loop of links that all refer to each other
by the time your readers realize there is no actual content, you’ve made your $0.04 or whatever

Rinse, repeat.

So, I’m going to do an experiment where I actually create a legitimate business online and report on this blog how it goes. Real information with real evidence can be hard to come by. Then again…

My friend just got back from Ireland…

Jeff Lazerus — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:12:50 +0000

and shared some pictures of Ireland with me:

Quote of the Day

Jeff Lazerus — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:29:27 +0000

I’m here…to shave away the unkempt sideburns from the face of truth!

–Spongebob Squarepants
Full disclosure: I am NOT watching Spongebob right now. It’s on in the background, I swear!!!

Full on blog making

Jeff Lazerus — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:42:17 +0000

So, I have found some extra time in between the couch cushions, and I am going to dedicate some time to blog-making for fun and profit (hate the term “blogging”, ubiquitous though it is). I will be using all the trickery and tools at my disposal to try to get readers and sell ad space. So PLEASE help me with my experiment: if you have a blog, a personal web page, or email, please link me. I will do the same for linkers. Unabashed internet takeover is what this is!

Interesting

Jeff Lazerus — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:25:46 +0000

I have to get this guy‘s book.

Why? Cause I want to, that’s why!

Jeff Lazerus — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 18:17:02 +0000

Since I’m a regular guy with a regular day job, middle-class American with the usual concerns and obligations, I will try not to get too out of control with the writing and keep it real. I want to exploit the web for my own ends, and ahve some fun doing it. There are countless tools and techniques out there to construct a www of one’s own making for one’s own purposes, anything from Google Apps to the Jefferson County library system to online to-do lists. I will be filtering through this stuff, mostly for my own use but also to share or exchange ideas to help regular people get the most out of the web.