Here's a nice product review done my Mike Konig, the brains behind the hyper-effective traffic tool called Traffic Geyser.  Mikie apparently has a new site project for product reviews and this is the first product he's reviewing.

The review is on the Kodak Zi8 Portable HD Camcorder.  He says it is easily 4 times the quality of the Flip, which as you may know, has been all the rage in the inexpensive/portable camcorder product category for about 2 years now.

For those of you who want portability and highest possible video quality, this sounds like the unit to have.  The only extra thing you'll probably want is an extra battery or two.

The Zi8 isn't expensive either.  I think I'd like to get one soon.  See what you think. 

Here's the link again.  Click here.

Look down at the bottem of these posts.  Have you noticed that there's several options there.  If you see any of my posts that you especially like, you can Tweet it, Digg it, Favorite it, Del.icio.us it, or "Reblog" it.

Reblog is something new and unique to Typepad.  They've recently introduced something called a Microblog. 

Microblog is free and it's kinda a cross between a blog and a tweet.  I don't fully understand it because I don't use it.  I don't need to use it because I've got a blog.

But I do know that it's real quick and easy to use.  Why don't you try it and see what you think about it.  And let me know if you see any value in it.

Those other options, I'm sure you're already familiar with them.  Here's a screenshot of the page where I set them up.

Here's an interesting story about the real situation concerning Israeli conduct in Gaza and the Palestinian situation. 

Knowing something, as I do, about some of the tricks the North Vietnamese and VC used in the Vietnam War, I gotta say that I'm not surprised.

People don't change.  Bad guys do what bad guys do and good guys do what good guys do.

I'm sure all of my adoring readers know what Google is and, basically, how to use the Google search engine.  You also no doubt know kinda what those numbers in the SERP(Search Engine Results Pages) mean.

But did you know that you can get entirely different 'numbers' depending on how you enter your searched-for words (AKA: "search terms")?

Yeah......that's true. 

I thought some of you might kinda like to know, or be reminded of the difference between Broad Match, Phrase Match and Exact Match.  It could be very important if you're making business/marketing decisions and it could be casually amusing if you're just naturally inquisitive about people.

Knowing how the Google search engine works (i.e. returns results) is the difference between having a shotgun or a rifle.

Here's the page from Google itself which explains the difference:

http://adwords.google.com/support/aw/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=6100#exact

Click here.  This might be of value to those of you who teach :-)

Several weeks (or maybe it was months) ago, I read somewhere that there was a special search syntax that you could use to search out MP3s (presumably free) on Google.  It made sense to me that something like that would be possible.  I mean, if it's 'on' the net, it's got to have a URL, right?  And if you can find the URL, the........BAM!  You got it.

So today I did a Google search for 'find MP3s using Google'.  Or something like that. Bottom line....I found a bunch of stuff.  This page is just one of the Google results pages I found.

Frankly, I'm not even totally sure this is a part of the normal Google engine.  But...heck.  It is what it is.....amazing.  Like I said......it's amazing what 'on' the web.

BTW.....It looks like the prices on these downloads are very reasonable.  I would have bought some except that the first and only page I looked at only took Visa or Mastercard.  And all I have is an American Express.  And they apparently don't take PayPal.

If any of you would like to help me, I'd be happy to PayPal you some money so you can download some of these tunes for me.  I'll even through in a little profit so you can pick up a few albums of your own.  Lemme know.

Meanwhile, check out the site.  It's got a myriad of different styles although unfortunately it seems they have limited salsa or international.

If you have a blog or a website, you probably don't mind when a reader wants to share your content with somebody else, do you?

Well, how do they do it?

I'd be willing to bet that the majority of salsa people who have blogs don't have anything like Share This on their sites.  I'm browsing WordPress plugins right now and I came across the 'share this' site. 

I kinda already knew what it was and in fact I know I used to have it on this blog.  I'm not sure that I still do, frankly, but that doesn't mean it's not a good thing to do.

Check out the site, here, and look at the short but informative little video demo they've got.  Adding "Share This" is very simple. 

If you've got good content, and especially some good videos, on your site.......you really out to make it easy as possible for people to share it.

Why?

Because most of your readers will also have accounts in several of the social bookmarking sites (i.e. StumbleUpon, Digg, MySpace, Facebook are just a few of over 50).  Every time they 'share' one of your posts....BAM!  You've just got a bunch more 'authority' backlinks.

Backlinks and page rank for your site.  That's why.

I don't care what anybody says.....I've always thought cats were cool.