“It’s Not Me, it’s You…” When to Sack a Client.
We all know that feeling of dread, when a client seems to be moving the goalposts, or when a project just doesn’t seem to be coming together. How do you know when it’s time to cut your losses on a project and tell a client that the deal is off? They don’t understand your skillset...
Why a fireproof safe is a wise investment in 2012
Many of my regular readers know that I advocate for computer security, home security, and privacy on a regular basis. Attached to that is my aggressive passion to encourage everyone everywhere to have a fireproof safe in their homes. Not only is a home safe a wise investment for protecting valuables, but also...
Is Your WordPress Site bombarded by spam user registrations?
Recently infocarnivore.com began getting inundated with spam user registrations. My site settings were set as such that new users would be registered as 'contributors' so that they could post potential content for pending review. Always eager to receive new content from quality guest bloggers (find out more about guest blogging at info carnivore)...
E-Commerce with a Conscience
As readers to this blog now, I’ve often written about greentopics, and have strong opinions on integrity and ethics. As a blogger who writes about marketing (Read Green marketing and the art of social entrepreneurship) I found the discovery of ethicalocean.com to be quite inspiring. What is Ethical Ocean all about? Ethical Ocean is not...
A Thousand Dollars For Blogging Your Heart Out
blogengage-contest-1000 guest bloggerThe average blogger is always eager for a few things; more readers, more traffic, and more cash. Though I'm the first to point out that blogging is generally not a lucrative income nor does it produce a huge return on your time invested it can be fun, and memorable, as well as...
CloudFlare Review, how it sped up my site and made me money overnight
The service is CloudFlare. The essence of CloudFlare is simple: to protect and accelerate any website online. Sign up for an account, have your web traffic routed through CloudFlare's intelligent global network and watch the spectacular results. Now I must say making a decision to route my traffic through a 3rd party...
First Info Carnivore FAN Contest. Like and win!
Here it is, the first ever Info Carnivore Contest. I've been wanting to host a contest here for a little while. My objective increase the reach of this blog and our facebook and twitter fan base. While I'm very happy with overall readership and reader interaction on the blog, I'm not as...
IP-Echelon gathering intel on YOU and YOUR web activities
The four bolded words in their header image are monitor, report, educate and protect. The words that I think are of interest to most internet users are in the first phrase "we monitor internet piracy", obviously in order to monitor internet piracy one must monitor both legal and illegal transfers of data and then...
Twiends Review: How buying Facebook fans ruins social proof
I popped over to Twiends the other day at the recommendation of my good blogging friend Suresh who recently wrote an article "The Secret of how I got a custom facebook URL in under 15 minutes". His post inspired me to check out Twiends yet again, though I'd heard of the service a long...
New Discoveries, The Google Dance and an Oil Change
info carnivoreI want to say thank you to my regular Info Carnivore readers, you've made this ride a real pleasure. The beginning of May came and went and I barely noticed that the one year anniversary of Info Carnivore has come and gone. This blog has gone through a lot of changes in...
Being Successful on Twitter without Automating Everything
Contrary to what is constantly pushed on us there is a way to be successful on twitter without using any automation or paying for any tools. In this article I'm going to share the methods and free tools I use to manage my twitter account. I've never paid for any tools that I...
Ezine’s Tough Article Policies (Some call it censorship?)
Last week I wrote about Ezine's policy changes in response to Google's Panda Update. Ezine made some strict changes regarding the submission of articles to their directory, and these changes are specifically to combat the poor and duplicate content issues that have caused Ezine to drop in the SERPs. You can read the...