Comments (2) In November 2007, I posted a series of articles sharing my most common advice given to advertisers (merchants) who had hired me to advise them on the design and launch of their affiliate programs. Below are links to the whole series in proper chronological order. Read more »
What are the options for “low-cost surveillance camera” setups? Read more »
Comments Off on Perverse Incentives “Perverse incentives” is a phrase I seem to use quite often, lately. We create (or accept) the perverse incentives that create the perverse outcomes we detest. Read more »
Everyone seems to be criticizing the search of a blogger’s home-office by a law-enforcement task force, following the blogger’s report (at Gizmodo.com) about an iPhone prototype, which he said he’d purchased from someone who found it in a bar.
While I’d love to join the chorus criticizing both Apple and law enforcement, I simply don’t have enough information to make a reasonable decision about the conduct of various parties. Read more »
Because of a flood of spammy comments, I’m considering whether I should change the way I allow comments to be posted on this blog. Read more »
Comments Off on About Mark Welch In the 1990s and 2000s, I was both a web publisher and an internet marketing consultant. Read more »
Comments Off on Mark Welch – Publisher Role As a web publisher, most of my time [was] spent developing and maintaining “niche” web sites focused on specific audiences, communities, and product categories. “Relevant and Useful” is my web publishing philosophy.
Comments Off on The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education After reading some very positive reviews, I was quite disappointed with this book (The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education, by Diane Ravitch). While there are many good ideas in the book, it’s excruciatingly repetitive, poorly organized, and fails to persuade. Read more »
I was intrigued by a brief mention of 101 Theory Drive: A Neuroscientist’s Quest for Memory (by Terry McDermott) in a local bookstore’s newspaper insert, which led me to search out some reviews online. Based mostly on one positive review (by B.T. Shaw, in The Oregonian), I bought the Kindle edition of the book from Amazon on the day it was released. After finishing the book, I was satisfied because I felt that I’d learned a lot about the biology behind memory; but I was also disappointed because the review had left me with higher expectations. Read more »
When I discovered that the City of Hayward simply couldn’t keep up with the hundreds of graffiti reports I have submitted, I decided to try another strategy during my daily walks: I’m trying to clean some graffiti myself. Here’s my initial report of the products I used, and my results. Read more »
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