Sam Harrelson

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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).

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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!