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Experimental Cookery Blog
On a mission to find out what types of content is best suited to generating adsense revenue, we are launching a brand new cookery blog. It's a standard wordpress blog containing niche vegetarian recipe content, about as far from the social as it's possible to get. We'll be weaving a little subtle SEO magic over it and watching its progress carefully with Google Analytics. Our goal is to build a resonable revenue generating site with minimal effort in just 3 months. We'll keep you posted.The blog is called No More Cow. Check it out if you get the time.
Clerics object to use of cathedral for gunbattle in PS3 game
Church of England clerics are angry over the use of Manchester Cathedral as the setting for a violent gun battle by Sony in one of it's top selling computer games. Manchester clergy preach regularly against the city's gun culture and promote the cathedral as a place of peace and reconciliation. They say that Sony failed to ask permission before using the nave of the cathedral the PS3 game Resistance: Fall of Man.
The game, written by Insomniac has so far sold over 1 million copies and features a battle between humans and the Chimera, a horrific species of unknown origin.
Right Rev Nigel McCulloch, Bishop of Manchester has called on Sony to withdraw the game.
'Spam King' Soloway Arrested
If you have ever been lucky enough to receive an email trying to sell you products to enhance your... personal life... you will already have enjoyed an indirect brush with Robert Soloway.
The .cm Boom
As well as many natural riches including oil, coffee and cocoa The republic of Cameroon has found a new, less traditional, export - a web suffix which happens to double as a mistype of the ultimate suffix .com.
Purchasing misspelt domain names has been a pass time for web entrepreneurs for years looking to drive high levels of traffic and advertising revenue and the chance to drive traffic from some of the worlds most popular URLS with the .cm suffix would be incredibly lucrative.
As such Kevin Ham the owner of a multi million web business struck a
deal with the Cameroon who agreed to direct any users who request .cm
sites which are not yet registered to his companies site - agoga.com to
capitalise on huge amounts of advertising revenue.
This hasn't gone down particularly well with a number of bloggers who claim is a sneaky, underhand tactic to grab an 'easy buck'.
David Ulevitch, the chief executive of OpenDNS, the company which corrects mistyped domain names on the fly says
"It’s a total disservice to internet users and to brand names which doesn't provide any benefit to anyone"
Graduates seek opportunity within web jobs
Figures recently released by milkround.com a Graduate recruitment site reveal that up to 75% of UK students feel that working for an internet company is a great opportunity.
However 40% of students are wary due to a lack of job security in the sector.
Of the 100 students and graduates questioned the main appeals of a job within the internet sector included the encouragement of creativity, fresh challenges and the ability to work away from the office. 70% attributed internet based companies with same amount of professionalisms as traditional office based companies.