Category: Technology

I co-hosted AffiliateThing on WebMasterRadio.fm this week with Shawn Collins (Lisa was sick).

We had a great time and I’m proud to be a member of the “6 Timers Club” on the show (take that, Kurkal).

Affiliate Thing Podcast – March 26, 2008 | Affiliate Marketing Blog by Shawn Collins: “The March 26, 2008 episode of Affiliate Thing features guest co-host Sam Harrelson, since Lisa Picarille was under the weather.

Sam and Shawn were joined by Will Martin-Gill, senior manager of Internet marketing for eBay, to discuss eBay migrating their affiliate program from Commission Junction to in-house.

Also, they cover a new CAN-SPAM ruling, death of Facebook, Sam’s reality show of building an affiliate site, and affiliate link disclosure.”

Here’s the mp3 for your listening pleasure (or you can head here for the stream to listen).

FAIL STAMP

Over on GeekCast.fm, I’m doing a new series of podcasts called “10 Minutes With” where I have a conversation with someone from the online tech or marketing world about a particular topic for 10 minutes.

Today, I chatted with Ted Murphy of Izea (formerly PayPerPost) about disclosure. It’s a quick, but valuable and interesting, listen.

Head over to GeekCast for the streaming audio:

10 Minutes with Ted Murphy: Disclosure : GeekCast.fm: ”
As part of the ‘10 Minutes With’ series here on GeekCast.fm, I recently chatted with Izea’s Ted Murphy.”

And here’s the mp3 for download.

Lisa Picarille has started something really amazing.

She’s getting more women in the affiliate marketing space to realize that they can leave the makeup and fancy hair at the door and just hit record. We all care more about the actual content.

More on Affiliate Videoblogging » RevenueToday: “Since many people contacted me about yesterday’s post on women affiliates and videoblogging, I thought I would make a short video response.”

Here’s Stephanie Agresta‘s response:

And here’s Missy Ward‘s response.

Great job getting the video conversation going, Lisa. This needed to be said.

Keeping track of Twitter conversations can be a pain since the platform doesn’t lend itself to keeping track of threaded comments. Users have developed the “@” form of replying, but unless you are constantly observing your Twitter stream and following everyone, you’re going to miss out on comments.

So, here are two great ways to keep up with Twitter conversations involving yourself (or others you may be interested in). If you combine these with your feed reader, it’s incredibly powerful.

First, is Quotably:

Sam Harrelson’s twitter conversations – Quotably.com

Then, there’s a Yahoo Pipes app that I first heard about from @DougH via Twitter:

Pipes: Twitter Reply Sniffer with Dates

Give them a try if you want to stay on top of your Twitter presence (or someone else’s).

We spend close to $100,000 every minute in Iraq, but we can’t afford to keep NASA’s budget at its current size and ensure more incredible discoveries about our solar system (and ourselves since we are all created from stardust) from the Mars rover Spirit?

Spirit, the Mars Rover, Left to Die Before Its Time [Mars Rover]: “But now it looks like Spirit has rolled on its six wheels and done science experiments for the very last time. The U.S. government has forced NASA, this country’s national space agency, to cut its budget by 4 million dollars. And that means only one rover, Opportunity, will survive. To say that this is a tragedy is an understatement.”

Amazing. Human short-sightedness never ceases to disappoint me.

Yet another reason to vote for change in ’08.

Update: Spirt Has Been Saved!

Stickers?

I’ll put them on my laptop and make you famous at all the marketing conferences where I speak every year (not to mention the ones I attend).

Email me@samharrelson.com for my address. I’ll even send an SASE if you’re that cheap.

I’ll even blog about you if you don’t make me send an SASE!

http://btre.blogtalkradio.com/74_94716.mp3

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Salon.com does a fantastic job of presenting the situation at the Baghdad Museum after the US invasion of Iraq five years ago and where things stand now.

There’s a text transcript as well as a mp3 podcast available of a very valuable roundtable discussion…

The looting of Iraq | Salon News: “Among the many unintended and unforeseen consequences of the U.S. occupation of Iraq that began five years ago this week was the wholesale looting of Iraq’s museums and archaeological sites. Iraq has been called the cradle of civilization. Starting with the Sumerian civilization, which more than 5,000 years ago produced what may be the world’s first examples of writing and math, the area centered on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and known as Mesopotamia has been home to a succession of cultures — Akkadian, Babylonian and Assyrian. Many believe southern Iraq was the site of the biblical Garden of Eden. But within weeks of the first American airstrike, the cradle of civilization had been robbed. Baghdad’s National Museum of Iraq, among the globe’s premier repositories of antiquities, was ransacked over the course of a week in April 2003. Statues were dragged down the steps, artifacts six millennia old were carried off in plastic bags. American soldiers were not dispatched to protect the museum until the thieves were long gone. “

You can download the podcast here.

is it kosher to say “happy easter”? i should know with a divinity degree, i guess. makes me feel sorta uneasy saying “happy easter” since what we’re observing here was a rather revolutionary event.

maybe we should say “take easter seriously this year, dammit” instead of “happy easter”?