October 2007

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Utter Oddcast #34 (a.k.a. October Oddness 2007 #4) is now available. Check it out for another dose of Halloween related oddness.

Trolley Dodgers #49 is now available. Go get caught up on the sports happenings from last week.

Do you have some Halloween memories, ghost stories or any other October Oddness to share with Utter Oddcast listeners from around the globe?  And would you like to win some Future Karnies of America  prizes?

Check out the October Oddness 2007 Drawing for more information….

This past week I found a new “pay wiki” site, OneBuckWiki, who’s offering pages for $1 (until 1000 pages are sold, then it goes up to $10).

While this is a new concept for me*, I do see the potential.  But only as long as it is moderated, page owners offer valuable content (more than just ads and a bunch of videos or simple iframe inclusions of existing web pages, as those won’t be taken quite as seriously and will drive people away from the site instead of taking the time to look around), visitors continue to come well after the buzz has died down (and people have moved on to a “clone”) AND people are still willing to buy pages after it goes beyond $1…$10?, $20?, what about $100?.

But for a one time $1 payment I guess there’s not really a whole lot to lose. If you get any site traffic from it, it’s well worth the investment, right (as long as your page rank isn’t penalized for some reason, say if the “powers that be” don’t like the concept)?

Anyway, we went ahead and purchased a few pages to help promote Watershed Studio and Surge Bucket Media. (So far we’ve only had a chance to add content for the weird news page which promotes Squirrel Dish, Utter Oddcast and Utter Oddness.) We’ll see how it goes, and hopefully it’ll turn out to be worth the investment.

* Side note, it does seem somewhat like what you can do with Squidoo (for free),  but you have a whole lot more control over the content (which may or may not be a good thing depending upon the design knowledge of the page owners…that could be a decent business service though, probably under the guise of SEO).

For those of you who’ve not caught it yet, we’re doing a Halloween/October themed episode series all month on Utter Oddcast titled October Oddness 2007.

These episodes are scheduled to be released each Monday in October, for a total of five episodes. AND we’re looking for your contributions to include in the remaining episodes. Please see the website for the full announcement.

Episodes

• #1 - Utter Oddcast #27 (October 1, 2007)
• #2 - Utter Oddcast #30 (October 8, 2007)
• #3 - Utter Oddcast #32 (October 15, 2007)
• #4 - Utter Oddcast #34 (October 26, 2007)