There are lots of great applications and technologies out there for us internet addicts to use as we read and blog. Generally these technologies are invented to fulfill a specific need, but then are frequently adapted by others to extend beyond the original purpose. Generally that purpose is advertising or spam.
Take Twitter, for [...]

Ok, I figured since my job really requires that I stay up on all this new web technology stuff, I’d jump into the whole Twitter “microblogging” thing. Probably a good thing for me since I don’t blog as much as I would like to. It’s much quicker to write something that’s 140 characters [...]

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I don’t usually get into these blogging meme things, but this one is kind of fun. Create your own totally random album cover! Here are the rules…

Go to Wikipedia’s random article page. The first article you get is the name of your band.
Go to the Random Quotations page. The last four words of [...]

Oktoberfest at the Terminal went pretty darn well this year! Our biggest problem was that while we had more tables than in the past, we didn’t have more chairs to go with them, so some people were complaining about the lack of seating. However, this year we didn’t run out of food or [...]

All Things Jennifer has made this one an annual event. It’s a Terminal thing, so we’ll be there. Will you? You don’t need to be a blogger! The Central Terminal’s annual Oktoberfest celebration is a party for everyone! Guaranteed to be a great time, as always. German food, German [...]

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Well, WNYMedia.net is finally back. It’s good to have all those people back contributing to the Buffalo blogosphere. I do have one issue, though. What’s up with the depressing black theme? It reminds me a bit of the old Central Terminal site, who’s black & grey non-color scheme was often referred [...]

While print newspaper circulation continues to decline, most newspaper publishers across the country have figured out how to counteract that - blogs. Nielsen NetRatings reported that “the number of visitors to the blog pages of the top 10 online newspapers grew 210% in the past year.” Further showing that it’s the strength of [...]

Greg Connors has a piece in today’s Buffalo News about making money from blogging, which quotes yours truly:
Derek Punaro blogs with his wife, Amanda, at Punaro.com. He says there are not interested in selling ad space.
“A lot of people incorporate ads into their site to defray their costs and bring in some income, but [...]