Archives: January 2009

Odd scholarships

January 31st, 20090 comments

Do you have a twin that you can stand to be with without strangling? Are you uber-creative and can think out-of-the-box? Can you play (or at least interested in studying to play) the bagpipe? Are you open to the thought of going to the prom with your date wearing a fashionable duct tape dress? There [...]

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Obama’s stimulus plan gets the Google Spreadsheet treatment

January 27th, 20090 comments

I’m guessing you’ve all heard about President Barack Obama’s stimulus plan. Currently, it’s worth $850 billion, written in 941 pages of legalese. He plans to have it signed into law by mid-February, but that’s probably a little optimistic, given the Republican response. John McCain himself already stated that he’s not going to vote for the [...]

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Freshman survey reveals pressing financial issues

January 25th, 20090 comments

UCLA just released the findings of its annual national survey on college freshmen, as part of the Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP). Parts of the survey dealt with political engagement, self-evaluation of skills for a diverse workplace, core competencies, learning disabilities, and support for green initiatives. One most relevant parts of the report was the [...]

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Join My Reddit Sub-Group: hotlinks – yummy!

January 24th, 20090 comments

I’ve decided to setup my own sub-reddit with a few friends primarily because I felt like there should be a section of reddit where people posted the kinds of links they would be likely to send around to their friends via Facebook or email. If you use reddit and are interested in contributing to this [...]

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How Economic Cycles Effect Affiliates

January 23rd, 20090 comments

As a relative newcomer to affiliate marketing, one thing I’ve learned pretty quickly is that most niches are subject to the ebbs and flows of economic cycles. Take the credit card industry for example. For a long while, credit card companies basically had a mandate from share holders to increase their market share of the [...]

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