Unfortunately I have experience with beef, not pork.

I get all sorts of spam in my Yahoo inbox every day. On gmail I get none.

Given the state of everything else, this is hardly surprising I guess…

Owen Frager wants Obama to buy America.com for his campaign. It sounds like a good idea, but in reality could probably cause him some headaches (“people are starving and he is buying a worthless domain name for $5 million?”)

Where I really agree with Owen is where takes GreatDomains to task - saying “If you gave your $12mm house to Sotheby’s and this was their flyer how would you stand for it?”.

So true. I’m on a Sotheby’s mailing list for baseball related memorabilia . Once or twice a year I get a thick packet with a gorgeous impressive catalog that must have cost Sotheby’s $12 print. They market the hell out of their auctions, make everything look as sexy as possibly and bring in the buyers.

America.com on the other hand could sell for over $5 million and GreatDomains has up a horribly sh*tty looking single page site. And then they put up this line, which may or may not be part of a really bad publicity stunt.

Due to the huge unexpected traffic,
please find below a light version of our press release,
while we increase our servers’ bandwidth.

What a joke.

Wordtracker and other keyword tools are helpful in a general sense, but make sure to take the data with a a great big bag of salt. Check out the results for the word “Student” v.s. the Google suggestions for the word. It is amazing how obviously off the Wordtracker results are.

Wordtracker:

Google