For a few years now I have been working with a few friends on conjuring up a personable news source for our local community: happy hour specials, entertainment, events, and the normal local news. However, I have found it very difficult to bring the creativity from my brain to the table of development. Honestly, using Wordpress as the blog engine and CMS makes perfect sense; but what about a theme to really utilize its full potential.

There are various elements that one really must utilize to make a news source or magazine style website successful. Lots of content, accessible content, feature rich columns and navigation and a beautiful design to go right along with it. Adii from Live Wire has done just that with his new professional news and magazine themes at Live Wire Series from PremiumNewsTheme.com. The themes are feature rich and hearty with design flavor. They’re very top-notch, similar to the styles found at Revolution Theme from Brian Gardener.

I spent a few moments surfing around today and checked out Gazette and the Red Live Wire Series templates. They’re both absolutely beautiful! Then, my good friend David introduced a give-away he is having on , to give away a theme from Adii!. It does not get much better than that, if you asked me.

So, what would I do with the theme? I would hack it all to hell and make it completely functional for my personable news site, which URI will keep secret for now. However, I would definitely put the theme to work and overtime in providing news and content to my fellow local community bloggers and readers. Travis would probably appreciate the fully developed theme to work with as well.

Now how do I acquire it… thats the real question! Working capital for blog startups is always ridiculously tight around here. I often use my pocket book to fund projects that I can guarantee a little return revenue, but I think this is completely worth the money spent.

Great work Adii!

Confusing title huh? I know I was confusing myself just writing it out, however it seems as though all the confusion witnessed within that title, is the same confusion I am experiencing today. Unfortunately my confusion is turning into frustrated in terms of finding a new way to save a few bucks on my automobile insurance.

Allow me to break it down

For the past seven years, I have been a satisfied and loyal customer to Allstate insurance. However, it seems as though they are not exactly keen on keeping my pocket book satisfied and my payments loyal; therefore I have found myself on the constant search for new insurance. The hunt for reliable and affordable car insurance reminds me of the battle against good and evil.

The good providers are all over-charging for their services based on this point system: credit score, traffic record, citations, accident reports, and association with particular organizations. On the flip-side, evil, less good, and mediocre insurance providers are stepping up with their offerings of coverage at an affordable rate — with an overall sacrifice in the quality of protection.

After my summer project came to an end; I was left with a laptop, camera and contract for an EV-DO connection. I still am not quite sure what to do with this equipment. I could sell it, or I could just keep using it! For now I have removed the vitals page and created a lifecast page where my live video feed can be viewed.

Check it out

As a blog owner, I take a great deal of interest in monetization, especially advertising mediums such as: text ads, reviews and banners. However, I have just begun to receive a great deal of interest amongst other web property owners in advertising on my website, privately. During this time, I have paid close attention, more than usual, to the requests of these potential advertisers and always ask the question, “Why me?”

Usually, I get an educated and wonderfully worded response back to my question, these inquiries I take seriously. However, lately I have received an increasing number of fake advertisers inquiries. Now, I emphasize fake, because I don’t honestly know if these potential advertisers are pulling my leg or just magically and coincidentally disappearing from the face of the earth.

In the past week I have received three similar email messages. Each correspondence relates to my website because, each author says, “I have a great deal of interest in your website.” Well that is great, interest in my website, thanks! But why? They continue on to explain to me that they would like to pay for private text-link-ads on specific pages of website, however for this small amount of money I must agree that the links stay permanently.

Problems with this?

Why would anyone in their right freaking mind agree to permanent text-link-ads, without seeing the product, service or link prior to agreeing? Not only this, but who the hell would want a link to be permanent in the first place. Each of these individuals offered me sub $1000.00 for anywhere from 4 to 9 statements, each statement containing an average of 3 links!

I was a little in shock at first, now completely outraged because all three jumped ship when I asked to see the link statements prior to approval. Honestly, I was entertaining the idea, however, knowing I would never follow through with their agenda, not for that little of money.

Consider this post a mere vent, a disposal of my thoughts towards the topic of these so-called text-link-ads. However, I believe they’re a scam.. anyone else have any experience with them?

That’s right, today is the day! I’ve kept this baby under the hat for quite some time and today I am finally launching! I will be giving individuals rides to anywhere they want to visit in North America! I even pay for half the gas! You can find all the details and information over on the summerrideshare.com website. I have a live video streaming to the internet from the vehicle as well as GPS tracking. Doesn’t get much better eh?

Anyways, tell everyone you know, show some support and link love. I appreciate everyone’s enthusiasm and efforts to help my project be a success!

Go to Summer Ride Share’s Website!!

My site will be “updateless” for the next month..

As a resident of Oklahoma, our state turning 100 years was a big deal. We celebrated for a week; if not longer. In order to properly align our states goals, missions and objectives with those of our current present day time, the website 100IdeasOK.org website was established. Although there are some great ideas posted on the website, OkieDoke launched an alternative, Okie100.org. I’m personally a big fan of it. Give it a visit and post anything you find useful. I’ll be keeping my eyes open!

Over the next two months I am going to be randomly revealing some of the methods I use to make money online. Everything from tricking Google Adwords to Spam. Granted some people are not going to like the methods and or information listed and explained during this series, honestly, if you don’t dig it don’t read it. Some is used by me, some is not, some scripts I wrote and some were purchased. Either way, this website is completely white-hat traffic driven but that is not to say that I won’t explain how to boost your revenue with some blackhat methods.

If you’re interested, I would suggest you subscribe to my feed.

This service has been discussed heavily across the blogosphere for nearly too long. In fact, my good friend David signed up for an account, which means I am only two steps behind him. First, all I have to do is decide to get an account and second, actually sign up. However, as the title mentions, my mother did not raise no twitter, user! (Get it like quitter? I’m done.)

Every day I come into contact with a new blog or blogger. It is wonderful to see new websites and read the content that they hold, however, it is definitely annoying to be bombarded with advertisements and images. That is just a minor outline of things about blogs that annoy me. There are probably a hundred different situations I’ve come across where I’m saying to myself, “are you f-ing serious?” But I compiled a list of just a few things that really urk me.

1. Link love, it makes sense
2. Make your content accessible
3. Wow, thats alot of ads
4. Echos are getting old
5. Admins, stop being lazy
6. I know who I am
7. Stop filling forms out for me
8. Direct linking is stealing
9. Snap f$cking sucks!
10. So many images, dumb.