StumbleUpon is one of my top traffic generators. Besides the visitors that come directly to your domain, most traffic is generated by search engine results or some other type of search. Social media sites and online bookmarking sites are another way to explode your traffic. I started paying attention to my StumbleUpon traffic after writing about the StumbleUpon Effect several months ago. This is the information for September. As you can see from the last post in March, StumbleUpon has been very nice to me. well, not just StumbleUpon but they great people that use it. How to get more StumbleUpon Traffic One of the hardest and most rewarding efforts I took on with StumbleUpon was building my network. Like any other social media sites, your network is everything. Get some friends. Initially I started doing this just by seeing who else was stumbling the same types of sites as me. I found some fun people online that had found some great sites so I just  subscribed to their favorites and them looked for the people that were also stumbling the same sites. It didn't take long to have a good number of people that I was following and some were in turn ...

Jason Donahue joins Acronis from ClearApp, where he served as president and CEO until its recent acquisition by Oracle. "Jason comes to Acronis with a track record of growing software companies, public and private, and leading them to deliver great products to customers and great value to investors," said Ilya Zubarev, a member of the Acronis board of directors. "His global experience and background in key growth areas including virtualization and data center automation are a perfect fit for Acronis as the company expands into new markets." Walter Scott, formerly the CEO of Acronis, remains with the company in an advisory capacity. Scott, who remains a shareholder of Acronis, joined the company three years ago when Acronis revenues were less than $20 million and built the company to its current levels -- approximately $120 million in revenue for 2008. Prior to serving at ClearApp, Donahue was the CEO of Meiosys, Inc., a virtualization company that was acquired by IBM in 2005. Before that, he was CEO of Ejasent when it was acquired by Veritas in 2004. Donahue also served as CEO of TeleComputing Inc. and Apptix Inc., and served in executive roles at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, and Telesphere Solutions. "I am very ...

What do you do when you think your child is doing drugs? Well, like most people, you write to your local paper's "know it all" and ask them what they think. This is a prime example of parents wanting to to right by their children and at the same time becoming the butt of a joke that get's printed in black and white.

I was getting real sick of my last theme. I was using Mimbo which is gerat for magazine style sites and that WP Theme just wasn't right for the format of my site. I dealt with it for a while and tested some others on the site. Thank you everyone that emailed me with your thoughts while I was looking for a new theme. I started using MassivePress from WP-Elements for the Mayor of Concord and really liked the flow. I even went as far as to test it out on SOCOM Sales to see what that would look like. The truth is, the MassivePress theme is one of the slickest I have come across in a while. MassivePress is a 3 column widget enabled WordPress theme featuring a thumbnail based posting style which gives you the ability to get more content in front of your users in a way that is clean and organized. Continue reading below for some simple usage instructions and to download the MassivePress WordPress theme. Also, you can view a fully functional demo of this theme at www.massivepress.com. MassivePress also has a few premium WordPress themes that are for sale and are availible for resale through ...

I’ve been thinking about this bailout. I’ve decided  I'm against the $85,000,000,000.00 bailout of AIG. Instead, I'm in favor of giving $85,000,000,000 to America in a We Deserve It Dividend. To make the math simple, let's assume there are 200,000,000 bonafide U.S. Citizens 18+. Our population is about 301,000,000 +/- counting every man, woman and child. So 200,000,000 might be a fair stab at adults 18 and up.. So divide 200 million adults 18+  into $85 billion that equals $425,000.00. My plan is to give $425,000 to every person 18+ as a We Deserve It Dividend. Of course, it would NOT be tax free. So let's assume a tax rate of 30%. Every individual 18+ has to pay $127,500.00 in taxes. That sends $25,500,000,000 right back to Uncle Sam. But it means that every adult 18+ has $297,500.00 in their pocket. A husband and wife has $595,000.00. What would you do with $297,500.00 to $595,000.00 in your family? Pay off your mortgage - housing crisis solved. Repay college loans - what a great boost to new grads Put away money for college - it'll be there Save in a bank - create money to loan to entrepreneurs. ...

I recently wrote about a new blog I started called the Mayor of Concord. Starting a local blog is not for the faint of heart. Depending on how many other people are writing in your community, you have the chance of pissing off a few people. Maybe I'm an exception to the rule but I got about a dozen hate emails within the first week. Everything is better now but it was a bit concerning in the beginning. I have this site among a couple others that I do not update as often as I like and for some reason I really thought that starting a new blog would be the right thing to do. (I'm addicted) Besides having a new site that can be an outlet for thoughts and opinions, it could also be turned into an online business of sorts. Now most of you know that just starting a new site and expecting the checks to roll in is a fantasy at best. You have a better chance of a leprechaun knocking on your door with a pot of gold than to have a brand new site generating a consistent revenue stream over night. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="by ...

Amazon has a device designed for mobile reading. The Kindle has been released with support from award winning authors like Guy Kawasaki, James Patterson and Toni Morrison. The idea for a mobile reading device has been around for a long time but we expensive and not scalable. Jeff Bezos has corrected these issues and made the Kindle a wireless book, blog and magazine reader that weighs less than most notebook computers. Introducing Kindle™ Three years ago, we set out to design and build an entirely new class of device—a convenient, portable reading device with the ability to wirelessly download books, blogs, magazines, and newspapers. The result is Amazon Kindle. We designed Kindle to provide an exceptional reading experience. Thanks to electronic paper, a revolutionary new display technology, reading Kindle’s screen is as sharp and natural as reading ink on paper—and nothing like the strain and glare of a computer screen. Kindle is also easy on the fingertips. It never becomes hot and is designed for ambidextrous use so both "lefties" and "righties" can read comfortably at any angle for long periods of time. We wanted Kindle to be completely mobile and simple to use for everyone, so we made it wireless. No PC and ...

I have been putting a lot of work into the Mayor of Concord site recently. I changed the theme a couple times and recently found one that looks good and is functional to my needs. I was contacted by Mike Mueller about putting a link up for a local high school's fundraiser. I gladly did it since it's nice to support the local community and I had some extra ad space available. I wanted to go a step further so I wrote something about the Ygnacio Valley Music Boosters with a video of the Marching Band.

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You hear about it everyday. People making money online with the most simplistic ideas. I had written about kids making money online before and these ideas came about from some kid with a computer being the first to start a website on a niche. A few days ago I launched the Mayor of Concord website to get into the local blogging scene. I was unaware how much of a niche this really is.

The Star Wars saga is my favorite set of movies of all time. I'm not the only one that likes Star Wars obsessively. Here are some of the best Star Wars posts I have found online.

No surprise to my readers that I bought a new domain. It is my addiction. I started looking online for some local blogs. My plan was to write a post about local bloggers and what their perceptions of this fine city are. I started with StumbleUpon searching through members that live in the surrounding area to see what sites they have. Most didn't have links to their own blogs and the ones that did only referenced their MySpace pages. Most of you know how I feel about MySpace. It's garbage. The concept is great but MySpace dropped the ball when it came to keeping the freaks and spammers in check. I have an account but I rarely use it for anything more than accepting friend requests from people that I know. I then dug a bit deeper into the internet and found a few local Concord blogs that actually surprised me with the amount of content.