Linda Goin’s Net

I've been ruminating about "dirtypain.com" for the past few days, as I feel that I may have made a mistake with registering that domain name. But, I ran across Ann Smarty's article on "4 Things To Check Before You Register A Domain Name" this evening, and I used her tips on 'dirty pain' to see if they jived with my previous observations. I'm grateful for her observations, as ...

If you have a Web site that is generic, gathering interest only in, say, Google Adsense, then this message doesn't apply to you. If, however, you do business through your Web site that targets a specific area, then you might want to take note. Every state in the U.S. applies different laws, and every county within a given state might have other laws that Webmasters should check before ...

I had mentioned a few weeks ago that I was pulling the Appomattox calendar domain and had intended to build it into a 'portal' of Appomattox domains that I purchased in January. Well, the sites are coming along nicely. So far, Appomattox News, Appomattox Directory, and the Appomattox Calendar sites are building steam. Pamela Matlack Klein has joined the team and she's a real fireball - she's written ...

I had mentioned StarrySkiesAbove.com in a previous post, but at that time I was relating it to astronomy or even to light pollution. The nice thing about parking domain names at Sedo is that after a while, the domain names take on a life of their own. In this case, the StarrySkiesAbove.com site began to lean toward astrology...in other words visitors who came to the site were using ...

What? You haven't heard about "Cow Power"? Haubenschild Farms is the first Minnesota farm to produce “cow power.” The 760-cow family farm uses anaerobic manure digestion to produce methane for electricity. The waste digester supplies enough power to run the entire farm, plus 78 average homes. In the UK, government’s drive to develop renewable resources has resulted in 600 megawatts of contracted capacity. Methane produced by decomposing organic matter ...