Tragic Death of Bubbles in the Ghetto

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14 points·DanielBMarkham··6 comments

Yo, what's the story with your "Information you might find handy (other sites I have worked on)" section at the bottom of your right column? You really worked on all that stuff? Honest question, because it looks like paid seo spam links to me.

Yes. All those sites were hand-coded and written by me or my wife.

I'm both a programmer and a former freelance writer and have been playing around with writing various pieces of content --- starting off with micro-sites and working towards a more mixed app/site design template.

I don't do paid links or any of that stuff. I just like creating stuff that people might find useful.

Gotcha. No offense. I guess seeing several variations of anchor text pointing to the same urls set my spidey-sense off. Just my unsolicited opinion: it comes across as a little spammish, vs. a simple list of your your other stuff with one link per source. But if the seo gods are smiling on you, who am I to object. ;)

I get a lot of shit for those sites -- some fellow HN'ers even told me not to admit to authoring them.

But screw 'em, I spent a lot of time on each one, and as crappy as some of them are, they're my crap, thank you very much. :)

Hackers have a very finely-tuned bullshit detector. I find I can set it off by accident very easily (which is another good argument about just being as honest as I can about these things) I try to explain everything I'm doing and why in blog entries, so no surprises.

You should have seen the post where I tried to explain that scientific research showed that pictures of non-threatening buxom women could double or more click-through response rates across all demographics. I thought they were going to shoot me for that one.

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I had to laugh, thanks.

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