Dax Desai.com » admin http://www.daxdesai.com High Return Investing with Dax Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:08:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 How to tell how popular your blog is http://www.daxdesai.com/2007/02/09/how-to-tell-how-popular-your-blog-is/ http://www.daxdesai.com/2007/02/09/how-to-tell-how-popular-your-blog-is/#comments Sat, 10 Feb 2007 00:58:00 +0000 admin http://www.daxdesai.com/2007/02/09/how-to-tell-how-popular-your-blog-is/ SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "How to tell how popular your blog is", url: "http://www.daxdesai.com/2007/02/09/how-to-tell-how-popular-your-blog-is/" });]]> Why’s it important to know how popular your blog is? Well for an advertisor there are a few things. There is the simple matter of traffic, but blogs potentially offer something traffic alone does not provide and that is influence. An individual with a popular blog may potentially have a much higher influence per visitor than more generic websites. This is what advertisors strive for – influence. If an influential blogger says “I swear by [product name here].” it means much more than an advertisement on the side of a website that says “buy [product name here]“.

So how do bloggers capitalize? Well if you have a higher ranking in Technorati you will be better off. Many websites that offer advertising sharing with bloggers use Technorati as their baseline for payment rates. ReviewMe, payperpost, and many others use Technorati as part of their payout formula. In fact if your ranking is not high enough they will not even accept your blog for advertisements.

So how do I know my websites rank you may ask yourself. Well I found a Technorati Estimator on this lovely site. I’m going to improve this guys Technorati ranking by putting his link on my blog. :o ) He or she (pardon my sexism) has a good article on Technorati and a formula to boot for ranking.

Here is the Estimator below. Check your site out.

Another new site I found is socialmeter.com. At one point I actually considered buying this website. 2 measly links for this blog :o (

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George Bush loves Microsoft. Apparently he had a preview version of MS Vista and fell in love with it. Thus Iran is evil. You can buy pirated copies of Vista there for $8.

Yeah they have to pay. We should send some aircraft carriers and oil tankers there right away.

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Samsung is set to unveil the Ultra Smart F700 at the conference. The phone is a candybar form factor with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard and 7.2Mbps HSDPA plus EDGE. It has a 2.78 inch touchscreen , microSD expansion slot, Bluetooth, and a 5 megapixel camera.

The phone should be 900/1800/1900 GSM so it should hit our shores (eventually).

Phones like this support my belief that Samsung is better than Sony now at delivering innovation to the consumer.

I’d buy this phone over the iPhone. The keyboard and 5mp camera do it for me. Incidentally I love Samsung. My first phone was a Samsung and it served me well. My first digital camera was a Samsung, which I preferred over its replacement Sony.

Related Samsung posts:

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]]> http://www.daxdesai.com/2007/02/08/iphone-clone/feed/ 0 Sorry Big Bird: Bush cuts PBS budget by 25% http://www.daxdesai.com/2007/02/07/sorry-big-bird-bush-cuts-pbs-budget-by-25/ http://www.daxdesai.com/2007/02/07/sorry-big-bird-bush-cuts-pbs-budget-by-25/#comments Thu, 08 Feb 2007 02:55:00 +0000 admin http://www.daxdesai.com/2007/02/07/sorry-big-bird-bush-cuts-pbs-budget-by-25/ SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Sorry Big Bird: Bush cuts PBS budget by 25%", url: "http://www.daxdesai.com/2007/02/07/sorry-big-bird-bush-cuts-pbs-budget-by-25/" });]]> $114 of the $460 million budget for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been cut in the 2007 budget. We live in a world of 24×7 TV with most of that content not wholesome. Of course you have your cartoons. Coked up-looking animals that attack each other, Power Rangers (more violence), and then there’s good old fashioned degenerate cartoons.

I grew up on Electric Company and Sesame Street. Even if I didn’t learn my alphabet from TV, I learned that there is such a thing as calm stimuli-free TV. Now that seems counter-intuitive. How can TV be stimuli-free. Well it doesn’t cause me to start jittering, jump up and smack my brother, or otherwise act a fool. That’s what I mean. So yes, it did stimulate but in a positive way.

If there’s any public entity that I’d support it would be PBS. Sure X-Men was cool, but Wolverine never taught me how to connect C with A with T to form the word cat. If there was some mangling to be done, I’d give Wolverine a buzz. If I needed a terror camp destroyed, G.I. Joe was never too far away. I always came back to PBS at some point though.

It greatly hurts to see a great institution, a worthwhile investment seeing its budget cut. What message does this make? Education is not that important? Education is important in all its forms: the classroom, peer-to-peer social interactions, as well as entertainment.

Generations from now it will become even easier to cut education. A generation taught by example that it is not that important will learn to lose value for it. While other nations begin to prosper on the backbone of education, knowledge, and open communication others will decay in its absence.

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]]> http://www.daxdesai.com/2007/02/07/sorry-big-bird-bush-cuts-pbs-budget-by-25/feed/ 0 I like my heroes to be overtly heroic and my enemies to be faceless villains from a foreign culture. That’s why I like this poster. http://www.daxdesai.com/2007/02/07/i-like-my-heroes-to-be-overtly-heroic-and-my-enemies-to-be-faceless-villains-from-a-foreign-culture-thats-why-i-like-this-poster/ http://www.daxdesai.com/2007/02/07/i-like-my-heroes-to-be-overtly-heroic-and-my-enemies-to-be-faceless-villains-from-a-foreign-culture-thats-why-i-like-this-poster/#comments Thu, 08 Feb 2007 02:53:00 +0000 admin http://www.daxdesai.com/2007/02/07/i-like-my-heroes-to-be-overtly-heroic-and-my-enemies-to-be-faceless-villains-from-a-foreign-culture-thats-why-i-like-this-poster/ SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "I like my heroes to be overtly heroic and my enemies to be faceless villains from a foreign culture. That’s why I like this poster.", url: "http://www.daxdesai.com/2007/02/07/i-like-my-heroes-to-be-overtly-heroic-and-my-enemies-to-be-faceless-villains-from-a-foreign-culture-thats-why-i-like-this-poster/" });]]>

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]]> http://www.daxdesai.com/2007/02/07/i-like-my-heroes-to-be-overtly-heroic-and-my-enemies-to-be-faceless-villains-from-a-foreign-culture-thats-why-i-like-this-poster/feed/ 0 What does it take to create 1 litre of bottled water? http://www.daxdesai.com/2007/02/07/what-does-it-take-to-create-1-litre-of-bottled-water/ http://www.daxdesai.com/2007/02/07/what-does-it-take-to-create-1-litre-of-bottled-water/#comments Thu, 08 Feb 2007 02:50:00 +0000 admin http://www.daxdesai.com/2007/02/07/what-does-it-take-to-create-1-litre-of-bottled-water/ SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "What does it take to create 1 litre of bottled water?", url: "http://www.daxdesai.com/2007/02/07/what-does-it-take-to-create-1-litre-of-bottled-water/" });]]> I’ve always wondered how much water & energy it took to create a bottle of bottled water. I’ve found the answer.

From Digital Journal:

“Pablo Päster at Triple Pundit finds 1 liter Bottled Water uses 26 Liters Water + 1 Kg Fossil Fuel + 1 Pound CO2″

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]]> http://www.daxdesai.com/2007/02/07/what-does-it-take-to-create-1-litre-of-bottled-water/feed/ 0 How Iraq Trillion could have been Spent http://www.daxdesai.com/2007/02/06/how-iraq-trillion-could-have-been-spent/ http://www.daxdesai.com/2007/02/06/how-iraq-trillion-could-have-been-spent/#comments Tue, 06 Feb 2007 13:00:00 +0000 admin http://www.daxdesai.com/2007/02/06/how-iraq-trillion-could-have-been-spent/ SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "How Iraq Trillion could have been Spent", url: "http://www.daxdesai.com/2007/02/06/how-iraq-trillion-could-have-been-spent/" });]]> For Comparison:

  • Annual budget for Department of Education is about $55 billion
  • Annual budget for National Science Foundation is $6 billion
  • Annual budget for National Cancer Institute is $5 billion
  • Annual budget for Homeland Security is $35 billion

For $2 Trillion, the U.S. Treasury could:

  • Mail a $6,000 check to every person in the United State or
  • Mail a check for $300 to every human on earth (consider some nations per capita income is less than $300 imagine the Christmas lil Timmy would have that one).

We’ve got a new General out there now. Let’s see if he uses our money wisely. Our wallets are with you General.

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]]> http://www.daxdesai.com/2007/02/06/iraq-field-guide-comic/feed/ 0 Windows vs Linux Server – Why its not secure visually http://www.daxdesai.com/2007/02/05/windows-vs-linux-server-why-its-not-secure-visually/ http://www.daxdesai.com/2007/02/05/windows-vs-linux-server-why-its-not-secure-visually/#comments Mon, 05 Feb 2007 23:59:00 +0000 admin http://www.daxdesai.com/2007/02/05/windows-vs-linux-server-why-its-not-secure-visually/ SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Windows vs Linux Server – Why its not secure visually", url: "http://www.daxdesai.com/2007/02/05/windows-vs-linux-server-why-its-not-secure-visually/" });]]>

This is a great picture of why Windows is difficult to secure. This guy has shown visually what many people debate in words all over the internet. article here.

Can you guess which one is Apache/Linux and which picture is IIS/Windows?

Click on the pictures to the left for a larger view.

Hint: Apache/Linux is the cleaner/fewer system call picture.

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