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You can imagine how happy I was when I logged into PayPerPost to realize that I could have been paid for my previous post about Performancing.com being acquired by PayPerPost. Oh well, I have plenty more to say about this acquisition.

I sent Ted my previous post about performancing.com and blogs and his only response was him agreeing that they do need a way to keep up the good content at performancing.com. He said they were looking for good people that could be featured on performancing.com and he wondered if I was interested. What would you say?

My response to Ted was very business like. Performancing.com is a business that I assume Ted wants to use to generate a lot of income. Otherwise, why would he have purchased the company? Since that’s the case, I told Ted that I was interested in doing it, but I wanted to know what type of return I would get for investing my time in Performancing.com What incentive is there for me contributing? This is a tough question, but will be an important question that Ted will have to answer for Performancing.com to go anywhere.

In the end, I’m not sure that much should be done with the product line available at Performancing.com. Instead, PayPerPost should leverage their large list of bloggers to sell more advertisers. PayPerPost could improve Performancing’s statistics program so that it gives even more data and also so that PayPerPost can use that statistical data to better serve their advertisers. Essentially do like Google has been doing with Google Analytics and adwords. Find a way to integrate opportunities with a blog’s statistics and you have a powerful product for advertisers.

That’s all. Should be simple enough. Could I have it on my desk by Monday? Wait, that’s New Years. Let’s make it Tuesday.

I think that the bot nets that are being created by people are completely fascinating. I know I’ve had a couple of my servers become part of the bot net in the past and it makes for a fun experience searching out who it was that was using your computer and how they got in. Yes, it was on linux and a quick redo of the server put it back into production with no bot running in no time. Luckily I was in a position to redo it.

I didn’t know they were tracking this, but a recent report said that the number of bot infected PCs is down from more than 500,000 infected systems to less than 400,000 computers.

They are attributing this drop in bot infected computers to Christmas and the purchasing of new computers. I wonder if they also thought that maybe there were a few hundred thousand computers that are at people’s place of employment that are now turned off because no one is at work. It’s probably both.

I think this quote is telling of how important this news is:

“Many of the infected machines are turned off, the new shiny ones have not been infected, and the Internet is momentarily a safer place,” Marcus Sachs, director of the ISC, stated in a diary entry. “But like you said, give it a few weeks and we’ll be right back to where we started from.”

Maybe it’s not important. However, it is interesting!!