Best way to ship precious metals

The most reliable way to ship gold coins and other precious metals is not FedEx or UPS, but USPS. USPS Registered Mail insures up to $25.000 per package. You are sending collectibles and not gold coins or "money". Once the coins have been graded, they instantly become collectibles.

Granted it can take up to 21 days for them to deliver the package, but it will be fully insured if it gets lost.

Extra tip: Make sure you double or triple box it, in good boxes. Or even put it in a strong plastic container, then double box it.

Brazzers Buys Digital Playground

According to Mike South, Manwin (the company behind Brazzers, Youporn, Playboy and many more) bought Digital Playground. This deal supposedly took place in August or September. I wonder when XBiz or AVN will confirm the story. If true this would make Manwin the largest force in the online adult entertainment sector.

Alternative DNS Systems Sprouting Up To Bypass Censorship

After the US government, via Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) division, started seizing domains without any notification or adversarial hearing (things that most of the world would consider to be reasonable due process), some folks quickly put together a browser extension, called MAFIAAfire, that would route around any ICE seizures and take you directly to the sites whose domains had been seized. This is, as the internet saying goes, a form of seeing censorship as "damage" and routing around it.

Of course, that could be done on a much larger scale. As a bunch of the folks who built key pieces of the core internet infrastructure warned, continuing this kind of policy will lead to more workarounds that inevitably will fracture key pieces of the internet.

So now, totally as expected, we're already seeing alternative DNS systems showing up, advertising that they should be used to route around US government censorship of such websites. The one getting attention these days is called BlockAid.me.

http://domainincite.com/pirates-set-up-domain....

Pet Peeve

I see more and more people calling sponsor programs or affiliate programs, "affiliates".

Affiliate Program = Program using affiliate based marketing methods, paying affiliate websites for sales sent.
Affiliate = Owner of website sending sales to an outside website.

Clickbooth Madness

According to 'Slightly Shady SEO' Clickbooth is throwing around C&D's and suing for emotional distress. Full Story.

Viral Instigator

Viral Instigator automates the creation of Blogger blogs. It sets up the Blogger account, builds the blog, and configures RSStoBlog to post to it.

www.auto-blogger.info/viral-instigator.php

Drupal

Yesterday I started playing with Drupal, a free cms. I installed the avatar, affiliate, pingback, bookmaker and buddylist modules as a test.