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To Have Ads or Not To Have Ads

by Socrates
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I hate ads. Chances are you hate them too. So why do I keep showing ads on SingularityWeblog.com?! Well, it is because I don’t want to lose the meagerly $100 per month that I make from Google AdSense. In fact, I’ve been frantically searching for ways to improve my revenue and make this blog financially viable. If I fail to accomplish that, then, I will eventually be forced to move on and find an alternative vocation – one that not only makes me happy as this one, but can also put some food on the table. It is for this reason that I took Daniel Scocco‘s course on improving AdSense revenue. Taking the course, however, got me thinking about the exact opposite alternative as a potential solution: What if I remove all the ads? Surely, the value of the annoyance [...]

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A Better Future, Better You: What Is The Best Singularity Tagline?

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Greetings Friends, It seems that I am finally getting some traction on the blog re-design and we may have a brand new and improved look and feel for Singularity Weblog within a couple of weeks. A big part of it all have been your thoughts, comments and other input from The Singularity Survey Contest so I want to thank you for your help. As promised before, the winner of the contest — Mito66@*******.**, will receive a hardcover copy of Ray Kurzweil‘s seminal book The Singularity is Near. Mito’s winning idea was his suggestion for the following Singularity Weblog tagline: A Better Future, Better You! I have been looking for a better slogan to replace my original, but rather obscure Will Technology Replace Biology? and think that we may have found a good one. Mito’s tagline is brilliantly short, clear, positive [...]

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The Singularity Survey Contest: Socrates’ 7 Questions For You

by Socrates
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I want to make Singularity Weblog better. I want to create the blog that you want to read instead of the one that I can make alone. Will you be willing to answer 7 quick questions to help me? It is easy: Just tell me what you like and I will give you more. Tell me what you don’t like and I will stop doing it. All you need to do is answer the 7 questions below. The best tag line or survey entry will receive a free hardcover copy of Ray Kurzweil‘s seminal book the Singularity is Near which is sold for 74 dollars on Amazon.com. I will also pay shipping and handling.

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