Since 1998 I have dabbled a bit in affiliate marketing and have been a consultant to assist affiliates with their marketing strategies. Don't believe me? Well, just hop in the Wayback Machine and take a look at this page from December of 2000.

Sorry about the eyebleed caused by my daring sense of style but the important thing to note is the fact in this iteration of the website, I had links to eight genre themed virtual stores. Don't worry, this is not one of those "OMG I made $86,000 in a day doing affiliate marketing!!!!1!" sort of posts that is clogging the Internet. Quite the opposite - I hardly made much money on the stores and the other affiliate programs that I was involved with, but rather I had them as a method of adding content to my website. Regardless of the level of financial success, I was getting a lot of people coming to the site since I was ranking pretty high in the search engines for some valuable keywords. I learned a lot about SEO as a result, and the benefits of that education have definitely outweighed any immediate financial gain.

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Like everybody else in the world, I have a few blogs and news sources that I rely upon for information. Usually these are the typical "let's make some electronic device do something it is not supposed to" sort of blogs but there are also some more traditional channels where I get news and information.

What I decided to do was to aggregate the feeds of some of my favorites and categorize them by subject. As the page is loaded, feeds are updated by an Ajax call which populates the pages.

Anyway, you'll figure it out being the clever person you are. You can get cool geek news stories here, or you can click on the "News" link in the navigation at the top. I will be adding more feeds and tweaking it out a bit, so expect it to change.

One more thing - I also want to add the ability to filter news feeds based on Bayesian filtering. I know of some open source packages and free services that do this, but I wanna do it my way.

Here is an absolutely incredible video regarding web application security that is easy to understand by laymen and computer security experts alike.

Believe me, it is worth the 55 minutes spent to see this. Grossman and Ford explore different black hat attacks across a wide scale of targets such as online polls, coupon providers, and banks while explaining that tradition antihacking and intrusion detection systems fail to recognize these attacks.