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After installing two new power-toilets in my apartment last weekend, this weekend I purchased an entirely different power tool: a brand new laptop. Best of all, I have according to some people crossed over to “the dark side”, i.e I am the proud owner of a MacBook. I have to disagree with the critics though; it has been a long time since I have had to much light in my life. The sheer excitement I have felt in the past 24 hours over my pending productivity jump is worth the purchase price alone!
Apple knows the impact it has on people though; while friendly, the Apple staff was unable to give me any sort of incentive to buy the computer. No laptop bag, not even a shiny red cover I ended up getting anyways.
Other critics have accused me of “paying $50 for a piece of plastic”, I knew this person would react that way so I chose not to tell them it actually cost $69,….plus tax.
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I’m always a sucker for new money advice resouces. A new find is The Thrifty Scot, a UK based site with information on how to save money with credit cards, secured loans, mortgages, savings accounts and home insurance. Their home page states they are the “The no nonsense, plain speaking-money saving advice site”. The site is obviously still growing but it will be interesting to see where it goes. Each section has several articles related to common questions, such as “cut the cost of existing loans”. The site also publishes the latest financial news, although the news seems to be mostly focused on the UK market.
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…For both businesses and (copy) writers. Every day I am delighted to see yet new ways in which people are using them to their advantage. Relative to the small cost associated with them, blogs are a drop in the bucket for any small, mid-size or large business.
A relatively newer trend is the use of blogs to promote medical services, in particular elective medical services like cosmetic surgery. These non-crucial procedures have to be marketed like a product, because that is what they really are at the end of the day. For example, the other day I came across a cosmetic plastic surgery blog. It may remain unsaid that although blogs are popular marketing tools, they are definitely a way of doing selective direct marketing. After all, the people who will end up surfing to them are already interested in whatever the blog discusses, thus you are not just marketing to the masses but to a smaller, yet more focused, group of people.
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Millions of people have a blog, thus… millions of pages are being written each and every day! Do you read many of them? I have to say I am intrigued because I personally think I produce more than I consume, in the blog-o-sphere. I am getting worried about information overloads after years and years of articles, blog posts and information gets archived in all corners of the Internet.
Part of me hopes, and thinks, that this issue will be resolved like any other one: survival of the fittest, or rather, survival of the most interesting. I’m sure there will be people closing up blog-shop once in a while and doing everyone a favor by deleting pointless information. But on the other hand, society seems to crave pointless information quite a bit (think gossip magazines/sites/blogs). So where is all this information going? Who will be reading our blogs if we write more than we read ourselves?
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