If you had $1 a day to invest in building up this blog, what would you do with the money? To get the ball rolling, we are going to give some cash away.

Post your idea(s) in the comments section below and the 3 best ideas submitted in February (in the opinion of the judges) will each receive $9.33!

Think away!!!!

PS The judges are not open to bribery, especially since they got caught the last time.

Looking for inspiration for a techy post, I had a scan through the statistics and found the external pages that had linked to The Pisstakers this month. It is quite a role of honor and made me realise what a diverse world of tech bloggers lies out there. It is also quite daunting to realise just how "fierce" the competition is. Thank god we aren't serious and don't go head to head with real experts. Take SEO...

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Since Google bought Youtube, 1.6 billion words have been written on ways for Google to earn money from on-line videos. The answer finally surfaced on Digg rip-off Netscape. Sharing ad revenue with video uploaders. Der, two things of note here.

4 Netscape members voted on the biggest story to hit on-line video in years - go Netscape, go!

And two, what were journalists doing, writing millions of words of conjecture, when three words, "copy Revver model" would have sufficed? Or are another 1.6 billion characters going to say this ad revenue-sharing model isn't a viable paradigm for Google to earn their money back many times over from Youtube?

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7.3 Megapixel cameras? For $119? Where will it end in the world of cameras?

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When Nafcom talks, everyone in the tech world should listen. And when he says he has written repeatedly, and without success, to Blogger Beta and Blogger all-singing and dancing team members since August, you better believe those guys have been ignoring a lot of emails.

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If Apple had invented iChansons, no doubt the French would have welcomed the iCosse MP3 player with open arms - assuming Steve Jobs had changed his company name to la Pomme as well. There is no nation quite as adept as France at putting its spanner in the works of anything that doesn't originate in France.

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We reviewed the Extra Life Radio podcast by cartoonist, Scott Johnson. Out of desperation for material on his own blog, he posted an excerpt & blew up our servers.

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Driving out of Philadelphia, there is a huge billboard designed to make red-blooded males veer off the road - 2700 hot slots. The banner is of course referring to the new penny slot casino opening in nearby Chester PA, and has nothing to do with whatever crossed many testosterone-pumped minds.

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eBay.com security (hahaha) sent me an email asking me to Sign In, to resolve an issue affecting poor old Baytree. I guess I had better comply with the wishes of a complete fraudster who can't even spoof the real ebay.com address.

Zwinky, the mother of all avatar creators has had a mixed review. For a balanced satirical viewpoint, we found the negative comments.

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Scott Johnson is a podcasting cartoonist who hosts a round table of quick-witted, albeit laddish, cartoon and tech geeks. Once a week for a hundred and something weeks they have been running over everything from Wii's to toilet jokes, pooh to iPhones, and games to, by jingo, cartoons. It is compulsive, and at times, repulsive, but always engaging listening! And I say this as someone with zero interest in cartoons and games.

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The third and final part of how to avoid the paypal cons.

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We have all received the plea from http://www.paypal.com saying something like, "We are updating our records and need to know a password and other account details before the sun sets, else we will cancel your account."

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Paypal is a fast growing on-line money laundering payment system. It is intrinsically secure against techno-busters, but spammers have ways and means of manipulating their way into accounts. It is a called Social engineering.

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In this day and age of spam it is understandable that Digg and many social sites require you to verify you are a human, by repeating the letters and numbers that appear in a box with a squiggly colored background. I can't tell you how many times I have envied the humans with the eyesight capabilities to actually discern the text.

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In this day and age, if your blog doesn't have an RSS feed tricked out on Feedburner, then you may as well pack up your keyboard and live in a cave. As ever, someone somewhere will take an idea to the extreme. Like CC Tech, whose inviting blog has an even more inviting multi-continental quinto-lingual RSS feed button

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OK, so, when you next decide which fancy blogging software to go for, spare a thought for the uber geek at Webmaster World who decided to write his daily thoughts in a file set aside for google robots! The inhuman readers will derive no joy whatsoever from his witty words, but now is your chance to assess a blog in the weirdest location ever !

We also came across a few other noteworthy blogs and gave them their own space in Pisstakers blogger heaven

In a Boag's World podcast last year, it was made quite clear that SEO is over-rated in the brave new world of social bookmarking and news sites. The likes of Digg let users decide what is and isnt good content. Wow! Instead of worrying about robots we can blog to readers? Content could be king after all.

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...there was no sign of one single embed Youtube vid on our blog at 1.48 this morning. They were down. Let's hope their new concoctions are worth the wait.

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In the UK there are more mobile phones than people. This blows away the notion that Brits are reserved and you cannot get them to talk. We took this satellite photo from 300 miles up just to prove the stats...

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Just wow, Mr Jobs, that iPhone is one gadget to make you drool into your cornflakes. It will also make us all work harder! Why so? How else are we going to pay for surfing online 18 hours a day with this Minority Report era gadget. Hopefully, Apple have done a sweet deal with Cingular and the first 17 hours a day will be free?

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Once you have styled the class with kbites, kspots and ksores, the following XHTML validates perfectly for embedded semantic web something or other ie it's good stuff for search engines and firefox, but bad if your boss or dearly beloved sees it.

<div class="congenital vdcard">

<h3>About the sufferer</h3>

<p><span class="fn hell, this hurts">Chief Pisstaker</span> is a horny gollicker blogger who embedded his wick in a weak moment just outside a nightclub in London, England. He thanks the staff at the

<a class="orgAN" href="http://vdclinicforpisstakers.com/">VD clinic</a> he visited. Chief Pisstaker keeps a

<a class="ur joking, husband dearest" href="http://thepisstakers.com/"> personal weblog </a> satirising web, tech and world news using videos, photos and articles. He apologises to all concerned due to the three month period between conception and treatment. </p>

</div, end of marriage....>

PS You won't see this particular example at Microformats.org

Seeing as we are supposed to reflect on the past year before hurtling forward into another 12 months of mayhem, we thought we would find some really crap software suggestions for you to avoid. We did a search in Google and went to the last page of results. On page 79 we found Magix MP3 maker. Technically it is from 2003, but ...

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The prolific columnist for PC World sits on high, lording over all things computer and PC. Often dubbed a miserable git, he was all smiles explaining his tactic to bait and trap Mac fans into reading his columns. What a pisstaker!

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After subscribing to the Wondir directory, we received an alert about a question, "How do you get around Fluffy?" Google is our friend in such circumstances and I ended up on one of the whackiest websites ever.

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If you had a spanky brand new laptop, or a company notebook, and you took it on a long journey by plane, wouldn't you be holding onto it for grim death? Incredibly, 120 computer-hauling passengers passing through Heathrow every month just plain forget they ever brought one with them. Not as bad as leaving the baby on the bus, but not far off.


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