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The Winner of the Purple Cow is….

As most of yall know I have been running a “contest” for the past two weeks for a Purple Cow by Seth Godin. To enter this contest all you had to do was send me your answer to the following question.
“How do you think the creation of the blogosphere and its later monetisation has effected […]

DigitalORDER is a pr 4, SO…

If you happen to not be a member of a webmaster related forum, you may not have heard but Google has finally released updated pageranks. If you dont know what pagerank is, click for an explanation.
Whats the big deal?
Until about 6 months ago, a high pr would allow you to make some pretty good […]

I’m Giving away a Purple Cow

I apologize Im not actually giving away a purple cow, thats the name of a book but trust me this book is almost better than a real purple cow. The author of this book is named Seth Godin. He’s a pretty succesful author because though he writes about subjects like marketing and […]

It takes ALOT of energy to power the Internet

the cost to run the US servers and data centers for the year 2006 was 61 billion kilowatt-hours(1.5 percent of total U.S. electricity consumption) or 4.5 billion dollars. Based on current trends this number will only increase and is expected to double by 2011. Not to mention that this study doesn’t include datacenters and servers outside the US which are growing at a far greater rate especially with the modernisation of China…….

DigitalORDER is undergoing major reconstruction

If you’ve been here before you may have noticed we are no longer using our very simplistic blue square theme. For it was simplistic but as Einstein said “Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler” and I think the old theme took simplicity a step too far. So now we have a slightly […]

DigitalORDER=Blog of the Month

Alot has happened recently for DigitalORDER and I’m quite pleased at the progress I’ve made not only on this blog but online and financially overall. I know everyone a little curious about others stat or maybe thats just me, So I’m gonna lay it all down for you in the most blogger friendly format possible […]

Interview with Kamil, creater of BlogSoc.com

If you have been reading or writing blogs for more than a day you are familiar with widgets like mybloglog, in fact if you look at my sidebar you’ll see a bunch of pictures. That is the mybloglog widget and while its a nice widget and allows me to know and sometimes contact the readers […]

Wordpress 2.3 has been released

Wordpress 2.3 “dexter” was released late last night, late if you dont live on the west coast, so I didn’t get the opportunity to upgrade from the RC until this afternoon but I have now and it looks exactly like the RC, though I have already experienced a pretty big bug. If you put a […]

Prepare for Wordpress 2.3 this monday

Wordpress 2.3 is coming out this Monday and while I normally say upgrade as soon and as often as you can for 2.3 I think it would be a good idea to wait until wednesday. This isnt because WP 2.3 is going to suck quite the opposite in fact. I installed the Release candidate and […]

Abuse causing Low BlogRush CTR, surprise?

According to the BlogRush team,
IMPORTANT MESSAGE: Click- through rates are very low right now due to problems with some users cheating the system. We are a few days away from removing all abuse from the system and you will see your click-rates increase. We are also moving to a Manual Review Process for all member […]