You can download the whole thing.
http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20100130/
31.9 GB compressed

One thing I'm going to do is build small, focussed websites catering to profitable niches.  I am hoping to spit a couple dozen of these out by years end.

I'd like to mix it up so that I don't have to rely on google too much.  Have you any good experiences with other PPC content networks? 

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/universe/features/astrobiology_toxic_chemical.html

QuoteResearchers conducting tests in the harsh environment of Mono Lake in California have discovered the first known microorganism on Earth able to thrive and reproduce using the toxic chemical arsenic. The microorganism substitutes arsenic for phosphorus in its cell components.
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"We know that some microbes can breathe arsenic, but what we've found is a microbe doing something new -- building parts of itself out of arsenic," said Felisa Wolfe-Simon, a NASA Astrobiology Research Fellow in residence at the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park, Calif., and the research team's lead scientist. "If something here on Earth can do something so unexpected, what else can life do that we haven't seen yet?"

Makes you wonder what else is out there waiting to be learned.

http://bieh.net/wordy/#

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With the exception of apps, ringtones, and music, is it unanimous that mobile traffic isn't worth coveting.

http://www.google.com/landing/instantpreviews/

No preview on Adwords though 

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http://www.hype140.com

These guys claim to be able to generate thousands of real followers on Twitter for a penny each.  My first thought is that they are drone accounts.  Still I'm intrigued.

On their "How It Works" page they layout their strategy, it could act as a recipes for someone who wants to try doing the same thing on their own.

http://www.hype140.com/how-it-works.aspx

Anybody hear anything about them good or bad?

Sorry about being down.

http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/10/1462&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=fr

Apparently there is going to be a lot of changes since they last setup rules in 1995 and there will be legislation to promote the "right to be forgotten" .  This could really effect how things are done on the web.  I'm sure they are reacting to the recent privacy issues with Facebook and Google.

For me it seems to be a constant battle.  I tell my self that I need to be more diversified, but then I settle down to what is easy and I have recent success with.  It works for a while, but then I get blind sided and 50% o my income disappear as there is some fundamental industry shift.  That's the one constant, right?  The industry is very dynamic and what works today has a good chance of being an utter failure tomorrow.  So, I have this constant nag in the back of my head. "you need to be doing something, don't get caught relying on this one thing."

Over the years I've got battered by tectonic shifts probably five or six times.  Still, I don't think I'm diversified enough which always gives me that nagging voice.  Give me some inspiration on this topic.

Yet further blending of Adwords into the general search results.  Too bad they don't publish how each of these changes effect CTR.  Between this, instant search, and the little triangle now pointing to the top Adwords bid I am sure their PPC numbers are going through the roof.

I go outside to help the wife with some groceries and up in the sky this is happening.  It took five planes working in tandem.  My kids said that it has been going on all day and that they were reading it at school.  My wife took the pic for me.

Here is a SciFi writer who gives his ebooks away for free and still manages to make $70-80k/year.

The NPR article:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2010/10/25/130811846/doctorow

His website:
http://craphound.com/

affbuzz.com sometimes has links to stuff worth reading.