I know from experience that you can sell a site making $5 a day in adsense for a few grand tops, for what its worth….

“I was always fascinated why people idolize certain people. One thing I know is that most of the people that are in the IN CROWD lack basic skills like saying Thank you etc.”

This is interesting – I’m curious to hear more about this.

My own experience with celebrities and big-name bloggers is that they’re pretty stuck-up for the most part, although I met a few on Twitter who were really down to earth (Karl Rove was super nice, as was Kate Havnevik).

I suspect bloggers are less down-to-earth than real celebrities, because bloggers have a chip on their shoulder: make it big blogging and you’re still virtually unknown to the wider world. But like everything I’ve said in this comment, that’s a guess.

Just look at the comments and you will know whether or not your blog is succeeding – and yours certainly is

And I could list the many other radical groups that will start blasting sites in the wiki.

Other places have tried the Sidewiki type thing & gotten nowhere. With G promoting this one it could get a bit of traction. I bet it will be more trouble to G than it is worth.

As for the big G – do not expect any PR from their sites. Even their Knol site you have to wait & ‘earn’ a dofollow link. G says that they know people want PR from them so, they pretty much never give it.

You NEVER see a DoFollow link from YouTube. Youtube itself ranks high but, G does not share it.

Oh, I am just so not wearing my rose colored glasses today. LOL

I’ll check out the sidewiki now. I see it actually shows on the site so others can see it too. I hope you are enjoying the San Antonio weather this weekend, sounds like Michigan.

I know what I want web metrics to do: I want them to tell me that even despite traffic fluctuations, I’m making progress in building links / increasing visibility of the blog, and that past efforts (i.e. getting entries dugg or mixxed, or being on Stumbleupon) haven’t been lost entirely to time.

The fact is that most web metrics are really discouraging, and don’t give solid advice on what one can do to improve. The “here’s how much your blog is worth” thing is almost a laughable corrective to that problem: I know for myself, you couldn’t pay me to do what I do online – what I want is that much more.

I think this though: if people promote my stuff and I don’t give a thanks of some sort, then I’m definitely at fault and don’t deserve the attention I get. I know it’s going to be a lot harder to give appropriate praise as the blog gets bigger, but still, I do hope once things get going I can find some way of helping everyone who helped me out.

Actually, now that I think about it, “dofollow” and “commentluv” are probably good enough. Just hope people take advantage.

Google continues to provide innovation and value to the Web, I’m always amazed how much stuff they give away for free!