Ripoff First - if you're reading these words on a site or a feed other than www.bwianews.com, with my smiling visage in the upper left corner, the content you're reading is basically being ripped off from the original authors. Like every other web author, I have searches running for various keywords, etc. relevant to me, and I've seen my writing show up regularly on other sites, apparently from robotic harvesters. It probably isn't worth the effort to go after them, but such sites aren't anything I'd bother to read since there's no original content and apparently no human judgement being applied to what's posted. But then, I'm not the target customer for such sites, which seem largely to exist solely to collect clicks on Google AdSense ads.
Site Update For me, Thursdays usually aren't much for news, so that seems a good day to occasionally post such some info about site updates - Thursday's Thoughts. The vast majority of the time, BWIA / WiMAX News will be just that - news and insights on Broadband Wireless Internet Access / WiMAX.
Consolidating My BWIA Content I'm in the process of shutting down my various other BWIA-related sites, moving the content here to BWIA / WiMAX News, and then redirecting the domain names. Unmaintained blogs and sites are just too sad - for readers and for the authors. I think the idea of a "self-franchised" portfolio of blogs and sites was fundamentally sound. I believe I that I finally got the model worked out, and once I had that, I believe it could have worked if I'd had more time and money to execute... but I ran out of both. I'll be writing up what I learned and planned to do, some of it for public consumption at www.ordinaryblogging.com. The detailed business model may end up as a small, self-published book.
... Starting with Independent Clearwire Blog I'll talk more about this when I do a proper migration (learned a few things...), but the content from Independent Clearwire Blog has already been migrated here as a test.
Shameless Commerce (yeah, I'm a fan) I'll also do a more proper, formal job of this next item in the future, but I figured I'd get the ball rolling. You'll see mention of this weekly. Gotta pay the bills, especially in this era. As you can see, AdSense, for me, has degenerated into the lowest common denominator for "wireless", and thus the ads, for readers of BWIA / WiMAX News are practically useless. I have (frustratingly!) almost no control over what ads appear here - I can "veto" certain ads that are particularly galling, but that quickly becomes a fool's errand. It would be ideal if I could specifically permit ads from certain companies, but that doesn't seem to be an option for Adsense. So...
Are you or your company interested in Sponsoring or Advertising on Broadband Wireless Internet Access / WiMAX News? I'm certainly open to the possibility - just email me to start the discussion. (Serious offers only, please from recognized companies in the BWIA industry; the offers of "authored articles" and link exchanges will, and are, considered spam.)
New Feature - Other BWIA Blogs And Sites I'll also do a more proper, formal job of this next item, also due to be a weekly minor feature, but I'll be gradually populating the "Other BWIA Blogs And Sites" (AKA, LinkRoll) sidebar on the right. I plan to add one site per week, with a brief explanation of its significance within the Broadband Wireless Internet Access industry.
This week, because the WiMAX World conference is being held this week, the Link Of The Week is of course, WiMAX World, and as introduction, I'll cite yesterday's article - WiMAX World Conference Is This Week.
By Steve Stroh
This article is Copyright © 2008 by Steve Stroh except for specifically-marked excerpts. Excerpts and links are expressly permitted (and encouraged).
This article was written and posted via Broadband Wireless Internet Access (BWIA); using (authorized) Wi-Fi at an undisclosed location, on a MacBook Pro laptop.
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