Author Archives: derangedpenguin

Actual Learning Happening

September 2, 2009 – 12:14 am

So I could not be more amazed right now. I knew that this site was going to be a bit of an uphill climb. It’s not every day you decide to just create a bunch of traffic out of thin air and then convince that traffic to buy books. It’s also incredibly easy to get [...]

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Tweetblocker – What’s Your Grade?

August 5, 2009 – 10:20 pm

Read Write Web did a write-up of TweetBlocker, a new service that grades users and allows you to mass-unfollow people who don’t make the grade. Given the nature of the experiment, I thought it would be interesting to see how bad Deranged Penguin’s grade was. As suspected, it wasn’t great:
derangedpenguin: C
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The New Deranged Penguin

August 5, 2009 – 10:33 am

New digs, new outlook, same old saw.
The Terms of Service over at WordPress.com are very clear about affiliate programs and whatnot. I can totally understand – no one wants to become splog central. So when they rightly shut me down I exported what I had done to date, found a new theme, kerjiggered with [...]

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