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Check out this best-of-craigslist post with fifteen reasons why geeks and nerds are better to date. Most important: reason #7 — sex.

But what if you’re a cardinal geek and also an ex-football-playing jock? Hmm..

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I was just going through Google’s results for MoodLogic, a company I used to design software and webistes for (I was *ahem* Director of Product Design *ahem*) to see if I showed up anywhere, and I came across this blogger’s old review of our MP3 jukebox software. Here’s some of what he had to say:

Ran into the MoodLogic 2.0 MP3 organizer this morning, and I think it’s the best answer I’ve seen to everyone’s growing MP3 libraries.

It’s really nice to see grassroots appreciation like that for something I helped create, even if it was so long ago. MoodLogic had its problems, but many of them were due to the time it was founded (right before the dot-com crash in 2000) and there were a lot of smart, hardworking people who put their best efforts into the company. Now if iTunes would just incorporate MoodLogic’s technology, life would be sweet — no more untagged MP3s and useless genre information!

This is another good article for website developers by John Chow, this time on whether it’s better to focus on building a few large sites, or a bunch of smaller ones.

He points out that larger sites are easier to promote & manage, and they get better deals with advertisers since they’re easier for advertisers to deal with. While this point may be less true for well-integrated networks of sites (like Gawker Media or Weblogs Inc.), it still stands to reason that it’s easier to create the coveted snowball effect with fewer sites & brands to promote than more.

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This is a nice article by John Chow on the most effective (honest) techniques to get other sites to link to yours. It’s good advice, though it’s easy to get caught up in all the comment whoring social networking and forget to give people an actual reason to visit your site.

Now to cook up some link bait… it’s easier said than done!