Elliott C. Back: In Aere Aedificare

[15:51] <martinsheen> is kiwi hot?
[15:52] <Impulsive> i’d hit it
[15:52] <Impulsive> i mean
[15:52] <Impulsive> …
[15:52] <martinsheen> hahaa
[15:55] <Eventine> kiwiis very hot
[15:55] <Eventine> you should go hit that up
[15:56] <erwin_schrodinger> …
[15:56] <martinsheen> if shes so hot, why dont YOU hit it
[15:56] * erwin_schrodinger cries
[15:56] <Pseudonym> hahahaha
[15:57] <[Chatbot]kingwalterii> lol
[15:57] <martinsheen> is kiwi a guy or something?
[15:57] <martinsheen> is that the joke?

YOU say that you have the longest page on the internet? Well, let me top that. This page is infinitely long. That’s infinitely longer than whatever the “world’s longest / tallest” page is. This is accomplished with a little javascript that writes 72 pixels or one inch per second that the browser window is open. And it goes on forever:

var dvCount = 1;

function writeDiv(){
var e = document.getElementById(’longestDiv’);
if(!e){} else {
e.innerHTML += ‘<div style="position:absolute; left:’ + (dvCount * 90) + ‘px; width:72px; height:50px; border:1px dashed red;">’ + dvCount++ + ‘</div>’;
}

setTimeout(’writeDiv()’, 1000);
}

writeDiv();

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Like Darren, our 6-figure blogger, and Liew CF, I’ve quit my job and gone pro. Of course, being a TA at Cornell University part time isn’t high-paying employement, but it is a steady flow of cash. Unlike famous pro-blogger Kottke, I’m not a full-time anything so don’t get your hopes up. My goal is to continue blogging the same things as before, as well as playing with some niche content blogs to boost overall earnings.

In an interview with Apple computers yesterday, I was asked why there are advertisments on my blog. My interviewer and his team of brilliant well-paid designers and programmers were all bloggers themselves, sans ugly advertising. Unfortunately, I am a student with bills to pay and this is now my only source of income. So, we’ll make an agreement:

1) I will continue to have advertising on my sites
2) I will do my best to keep this advertising within reasonable and innocuous limits

That said, what’s my short term plan for growth? There are a few things I need to do:

1) Identify content market segments which are highly popular on a long-term basis, and thus highly profitable
2) Develop content or services for #1

Of course, this is identical to the formula for developing a successful startup, so it is probably harder to solve than just that. However, I can acquire popularity data and do regression analysis on different internet content sites to figure out which markets I should enter. I have my eyes on consumer electronics, music, video, and entertainment, photography, and poetry.

One problem I have is that it’s hard to run a one-man empire. How can I challenge weblogsinc with just 2 hours a day? Let’s just say… fall break is coming!

Currently blogsoftheday.com tracks about 1100 Wordpress blogs’ traffic statistics. Here’s where I stand:

I suppose I should be proud of my blog… even though it’s really just that Britney Post!

Last weekend I had the experience of being in my first car accident, which cause minimal damage to the car and extreme embarassment for the driver. No one was hurt, but we had to turn back from our trip to Mount Rainier to get another car, which I drove safely to the mountain.

What happened was our driver turned off the freeway, was distracted by a falling CD case, and ran over the kerb at about 60 miles per hour, causing the tire to dimple out at that place: