In The Sphere: Net Worth, DoFollow, and Old Japanese People

Published on Dec 14, 2007   //  In the Sphere

It’s Friday again, so let’s have a look at what people said this week.

Zac Johnson loves money. We all do. With the US presidential election just around the corner, we’ve been inundated with the opinions of all the candidates, but how much money do they make? How rich are these fat cats who are destined for Washington? Wonder no longer, because here are the net worths of all the presidential candidates. Obama is the poorest of the bunch with a net worth of $1.3 million.

Jennifer Mattern is a freelance business writer and she offers all sorts of freelance writing tips at her appropriately named blog All Freelance Writing. As 2008 is just around the corner, she has discovered a free 2008 writer’s calendar that you can download without paying a penny. It comes with inspirational quotes as well as notes for important tax dates for the self-employed.

Derek Semmler instituted the do-follow WordPress plug-in on his blog back in May, but now he’s reconsidering his decision. Help Derek decide whether he should revert back to NoFollow. His biggest motivation to revert is that he has been hit by a lot of “browse-by” comments, because many people drop a comment just to get a free linkback. Who can blame them?

John Chow is evil and loves to laugh at people. It should come as little surprise that he got a kick out of a certain YouTube video depicting how not to roll in your Bugatti Veyron. The Veyron is a $1-million vehicle, but the guy in the video is having a little trouble with it. Where’s the closest gas station anyways?

Nick Ramsay, you might remember him from Nice4Rice, addresses Japan’s aging population problem with an alternative solution. It’s easy to say that Japanese people should have more babies to fill out the working population, but Nick’s proposal is a little different than that.

2 Comments to “In The Sphere: Net Worth, DoFollow, and Old Japanese People”

  • Hey, nice blog you got here. Thanks for the link back!

  • Thanks for the link! The verdict in my poll has been in favor of keeping the DoFollow although a few have suggested using one of the plugins that removes the NoFollow after a preset number of comments.

    As I stated in the post, I am always happy to share the link love with people particularly when they invest an interest in being part of the community.