dusky - 5:59 am on Jan 2, 2010 (gmt 0)

I see dusky, look on the bright side: you can still squeeze a few dollars out of it. I totally understand your attitude and how it went, now it will be tough for everyone since they are only 10 good spots and all the media is online. Buy a house in Mexico or somewhere in small town Montana and semi-retire on 2k a month. It will be a challenge and exponentially harder to make a living online. If you have a good year, save and do something else on the side. I am hoping it's not too late for me :) The only 'forever' seems to be a good domain name--at least so far.

The only way I'll leave my desk and quit the online world is if I am locked-up, heck, even there apparently you can get to surf the internet as the new human right thing. Better still, get kidnapped or leave under house arrest WITHOUT internet privileges, ouch that will hurt!

I thought I retired in 1995 and never looked at managing online ventures from my home office as work per say, it seems I was and I am still working. Yes I can still squeeze few bucks out of it and that site still has its own pride and "personality", it refuses to give in and let me subsidies it, still makes more in ads and sponsorships than it deserves, but the the whole thing is about PR and this thread is about precisely that. When that site was PR8 going on to PR9, its PR justified its rank and strength as well as value, PR6 and under is almost unreliable an indicator but still counts. There are a lot of PR5/6 sites that get no more than 200 unique daily (except authority sites), but in 2005 they had to be doing 2000+ at least daily and that's my point.

I hear from reliable sources that G* (and B*g) are set to turn the internet upside down, I was expecting a massive announcement which was due back in early September, apparently it is delayed due to technical and strategic issues, not sure of the nature of announcement or indeed if it was already announced, but apparently equivalent to Florida in terms of shock value such as G* and Ama*on merging, something of that magnitude, let's wait and see, wouldn't be surprised if it's around the corner early 2010!

Oh, (off topic-ish) has anyone noticed now G* search result include categories and subcategories, i.e taxonomy of sites where the term is from right ubder the site domain, example Computer > Internet > Web design..., however, the algo seem to be more machine based than before and has more A.I. feel to it, which is fine, but it is silly sometimes, search for "wireless links" and you get linksys, I was searching for links to sites on mobile or wireless content, it's kind of tongue in cheek, granted linksys (owned by cisco now) manufactures wireless products, BUT LINKSYS was taken literally from the company name and site domain and sort of told me, looking for LINKS? here is a LINKS + YS added for good measure. Just a remark!

It's not too late for you, as long as there is life there is hope, I am on the wrong side of 50 and still marvel at this internet thing we all grew to love and hate at the same time, OK one is getting perplexed at grasping the speed of it, when my grand kinds can grasp new online ideas faster than I can say Linux, it's either things are getting faster or I am getting slower!