August 2009

This morning I remembered that Shawn Collins had started a contest on 99 Designs for a new GeekCast.fm logo. I headed over to the contest page to see what was going on with it, and was a little surprised that a winner had already been chosen (I thought the contest was going to run longer). [...]

Few things in the affiliate marketing industry infuriate me more than hearing someone say, for whatever reason, “I may have to go out and get a real job”. In the ongoing fight with various state legislatures, the tax scheme commonly called the “Amazon tax” seeks to use affiliates of online merchants as definitions of nexuses [...]

Last September, I wrote a bit about a travel reservation mix-up that I had with Southwest Airlines and how they were super cool about fixing it for me. I wrote that they had earned my respect after the way I was treated by the customer service representatives that I spoke to. Well, they just did [...]