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Get well soon DP.

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A lot of people who obsessively read mock impersonator John Cow (for which I am not one to be honest) Are aware that Mr Cow recently put the blog up for sale. If I remember rightly he was asking in the region of $50k.

I think ‘Bob’ (blog owner’s real name… I think) Needed the money as he mentioned he’s moving to Australia so needed some quick funding. The site was listed on Sitepoint and put up on DP. Bob gave us the impression that it didn’t sell in a short follow up post about the sale; Saying numerous buyers had not followed through.

A little while after and I’m strangely suspicious given the sort of ‘new nature’ of the posts. Everything sort of seems normal and there has been no official announcement saying the blog has been sold (as far as I’m aware) But posts seem to be a little different.

I do glance through Cow’s posts on occasion as they can often be interesting / witty but lately I’m left with a strange feeling of unfamiliarity. Is it just me or does the recognizable writing style for which Cow was affiliated with seem to be… slightly missing.

As well as an odd feeling concerning a lack of the usual literary magic, there also seems to be more posts about advertising, more reviews, a few 125 ads available (unusual for Cow) and the blog seems to have lost a bit of the usual ‘fun’.

There are also slightly new structures to posts, with similar picture insertion cuttings, and the writing seems to be much more formal. I’m slightly inclined to the possibility that a new owner may be present, attempting to keep up the norm with rigorous cow puns every now n’ then.

Some times new owners of blogs with a definitive owner can be victims of odd, vigorous comment / blogesphere abuse. Can’t think of any off hand but I think there has been a few cases.

Anyone else conform to the notion that maybe Mr Cow has sneakily left our presence, allowing the new owner to take place discreetly?

John / Bob / New owner, if you read this, let us know!

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I remember hearing about Twitter when it very first came out, like when nobody was using it and just thinking… that sounds completely pointless. It just seemed bizarre to me, I mean… why not just use MSN for quick messages and chats or if you actually need to send someone a message… Email.

I ignored it forever and it’s only recently I could start to see why some people like it I suppose. It’s very quick and you don’t need 100 chat boxes open, just quick, limited updates in which you can keep to a handful of people if you like. It’s nippy. So I just decided, before I wrote this post, to sign up.

I’m not overwhealmed by it to be honest and can’t really understand why some are supposedly obsessed with it. But I’m going to use it for a little while to give it a chance, I can see the potential for marketing though. Social marketing can be lucrative but I think inevitabely gets crushed by people over-adding friends etc. then not bothering to really keep up with anyone in particular.

Anyway, check me out on Twitter here

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This post is really just an admiration post. A shout out to SOSFactory for their awesome designs.

I’ve known about em’ a little while and might order some stuff soon. Their design really is flawlessly stunning. Fantastic artwork with skillful Photoshop precision and coloring.

They’ve designed for some top bloggers. Most notably John Cow and Tyler Cruz.

Here’s one of my favorites:

Check out their full portfolio here and have a good browse of awe as you look at these pure class designs!

I’m actually quite a good drawer, as I was a bit obsessed with it as a kid. Like… young kid, maybe 8 - 13. I’m really good at drawing things I can see. Like, I could probably duplicate that Drunken Monkey thing above very nicely.

I just cannot draw off the top of my head. It’s like my preconception of objects, animals and people is irradiated when I actually go to draw them. I can obviously draw basic things but it just seems so hard without something in front of you to actually draw. So I really admire people like this who can just draw crazy over the top art with such accuracy in terms of scale and realism of features. Off the top. Really nice.

I can sort of design with Photoshop. I mean… not really lol, I’m very lazy with it. I can create logo text I suppose but I’ve never attempted scanning an image in, digitalizing it and then coloring it.

That’s gonna be one of my new goals for 2008 actually. To become a good sketch to Photoshop designer. It can really benefit you cost wise if you can design all your own logos. It’s just time that it takes up. But you get nice feeling of satisfaction when you create a good piece of art.

There’s some great tutorials on SOS’s site as well by the way. Although, not in the best of English, looks like the text has been freely translated. But they’re pretty clear for even a complete newbie. Check out the tutorial page here.

I know this kind of looks like a review, but it’s not lol. I was just browsing their site and felt like doing this post. So I did.

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I don’t see any reason to use anything else but Gmail for your mail.

1. Huge storage space - Gigs worth of storage… unless your Michael Jackson or The Queen, your not going to run out of space no matter how long you let your mail pile up!

2. Very convenient - Easily pick up Gmail wherever you are, you can do this obviously with any web solution for your email but Gmail just ssems… so much quicker.

3. Great functionality - Logs in quickly, displays mail quickly, everything is in plain view. As usual Google’s solution is simple but major effective.

I’ve just never understood why people use Outlook Express and desktop mail clients to get their emails when you have Gmail.

With OE for example, you have a small storage capacity, it’s an external program you need to open, you wait longer for your mail.

Come on people! Gmail is the best thing for your mail. Use it!

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For some reason, the shout feature on my Digg account is not and has not been working for a long time now.

I can submit, Digg and do anything else.

It’s when I go to shout my friends now - I try it once and get no response at all. Try again and get an invalid CAPTCHA error:

Even though it isn’t as I’ve double checked and re-typed about 100,000 times. This has been happening for a long time. I even tried it from another computer.

Must be on my account specifically as I haven’t seen any other mentions of it.

Anyone else experiencing this or know why this might be happening?

PS. If you don’t have a solution or answer for this could you Digg this post so more see it and I could possibly get a solution or answer! Thanks!

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HostGator are having 20% off for New Years guys! so if you’re going to go with them… now would be a good time

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Just like a lot of hosting companies. Except HostGator actually do it… well!

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Just use the coupon code: NEWYEAR

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This is a quick flash video I put together explaining how to get RSS Feeds from YouTube. I thought I’d make a nice clear video to explain it visually. Enjoy
Watch the instructional flash video here

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I don’t listen to Radiohead, never have. Not because I hate them just because I don’t listen to soft-rock or rock or metal, just not my type of music. So this post isn’t on Radiohead themselves to critique them but more on their new album experiment.

For anyone who isn’t aware, they’ve released their new album online as apposed to releasing it commercially in stores. What they’re actually doing is allowing their fans to define how much they are willing to pay for the album. So people could literally, if they wanted. Pay nothing. So… about as useful as having it floating around the web illegally anyway!

But I do think this is a great innovative attempt to continue to make money from music sales. They’ve realised like basically everyone else that people just don’t buy records like they used to and downloading them for free is as easy as ever. So I think their true nerdy fans might actually pay something for it… don’t know why you would when you have the option to legally… pay zero! but… that’s just me lol.

Then again, if I actually really like an artist. Like enough to pay for them, I would only ever pay for the physical CD anyway. Just for the sake of having the actual thing, collection wise. With the theme of it and the book etc. So I think this may be a disadvantage for them. I would never pay for a download. Something that is so easily downloadable anyway and something they are offering you to legally download for nothing if you want.

Anyone got any thoughts on this?

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This is a great video of Shoemoney going into detail about paid links and Google’s incentive.

I just felt like posting this video as he goes into nice detail and I wanted to just give my opinion on this. Even though my opinion probably isn’t worth spit

Anyway, I would agree with pretty much everything Shoemoney said. Messing with Google just isn’t smart. I mean, look at their resources and money, trying to outsmart them or rebel against them will ultimately only hurt you. John Chow was aware he wasn’t meant to be doing paid links, reviews and all that yet he still did it so all you can really say is he has himself to blame.

But, I do think it’s very unfair for Google to blast Chow out yet allow big companies to get away with it. It’s essentially favoring the richer for their own advantage and I would say by doing that to Chow they only made themselves look worse. By doing nothing, they would of just look complacent or maybe favorable of Chow given his web status. But the fact they kicked him out yet turn a blind eye to the really big guys just makes them seem unfair and manipulative.

But… at the end of the day. With all that said, despite what you think of them, or their flaws and what not. The basic lesson is… don’t mess with Google!

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