Sold at BIN

I mentioned two days ago that my aviation job site, the Aviation Employment Board, was for sale. Shortly after posting the information here, I reposted the site’s availability on Sitepoint, the big webmaster web site.

On Sitepoint, I listed both my BIN {buy it now} price and started it off as an auction. After several competing bids were tendered, a buyer stepped forward and paid full price for the site. Naturally, I was very happy; we closed on the deal yesterday.

I still have my other big aviation site to manage, the Corporate Flight Attendant Community, which is the very first site I ever started way back in August 2002 [prior to that I participated on numerous other sites dating back to 1997, perhaps earlier]. No, it isn’t for sale and I will use a little of my now “free time” to do some needed changes to it.

The best part of the sale? Being able to spend additional time writing…my real passion in life!

Technorati Spam Machine

All the hype and hoopla over Technorati has brought a painful result to me since registering with the site earlier this month: tons of spammy messages to two of my three WordPress blogs. Not coincidentally, the two spam attacked blogs are the ones I could claim via Technorati. The third one,which I could not claim for some reason, has been immune to the stupid pharmaceutical adverts. Yes, I know how to limit spam through Akismet, when it works, but I believe Technorati is driving spammers to my blogs.

Long story, shortened: I deleted my Technorati information yesterday. End of spam. End of story.