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BlogRush: Madness makes traffic!

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With the recent launch of Blogrush, there has been quite a rush of blogs seeking to capture the excitement, build up credits and win new audiences.

It works quite simply: you install a little widget in your sidebar which displays links to other members’ websites. Your visitors get to view this widget, and they can visit other related websites. In return, you get credits that allow your blog to be advertised on other websites and attract additional visitors to your blog.

So do you have a Blog? Join in and Get Massive Traffic! Why wait? Most of the benefits will accrue to those who got in early!

Buzz: Blog your way to court with the LA Criminal Law Blog

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The LA Criminal Law Blog is run by Los Angeles Criminal Attorney Blog | California Criminal Defense Lawyers Forum is a little dry in most places (it’s law after all!), but a search through its archives some stories that might interest investorbloggers everwhere.

There are a couple of posts that examine Consumer Fraud. This is something that affects us in a number of ways: loans (or loan fraud), immigration fraud, contractor, car insurance, solicitation, scams, and credit repair fraud.

Of course, there are links and notes on a number of other important cases, including information on celebrity cases, state and federal crimes, and a whole lot more. It’s authored by a lawyer and blogger called, Dmitry Gorin, who is a Professor at UCLA and Pepperdine Law School, and who provides frequent commentary on Court TV.

I’m also interested in white-collar crime, and indeed there are a lot of good postings that examine the different aspects, such as rehabilitation, embezzlement, and tax evasion.

Looking forward to a lot more juicy reading. Lawyers really are precise about every little detail, am I right, Andrew?

Buzz: Are you too complex to categorize? Can you defy categorization?

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Well, everyone’s been all abuzz about the recent book by Tim Ferriss, called the 4-Hour Workweek. I actually just visited his blog for the first time. Though there are quite a few excellent, and not a few esoteric posts (like the one on how to toss your pen), the one that stood out for me was the one I cited in the recent quotation “The Top 5 Reasons to Be a Jack of All Trades“.

The advice in the column is really quite contrary to most advice that one is given in the ‘real’ world, and that in, and of, itself gives it quite a punch. It is the contrarian’s viewpoint, not the mainstream. Here are some more quotes from the article:

  • It is entirely possible to be a jack of all trades, master of many. How? Specialists overestimate the time needed to “master” a skill and confuse “master” with “perfect”….
  • (T)he big-picture generalists who will predict, innovate, and rise to power fastest.
  • Lack of intellectual stimulation is what drives us to depression and emotional bankruptcy.
  • Be too complex to categorize.

Roused your curiosity? Good. Now go read it! Then come right back here and answer the following question:

Do you consider yourself a “Jack(ette) of all Trades and a Master of none?” Is it a good thing or not, in your opinion?