Today.com continues

...their unreasonable dumping of bloggers.

I've added a couple more exiles to the blogroll here, including Dr. Faustroll and my own mom - who got tossed because back when she started her today.com blog I was helping her with it and covering it for a week while she was away, so she had added me as a contributor.

Of course, once I'd been locked out of today.com I could no longer log in and get to her blog (I assume; I never bothered to try). Apparently having a banned user listed as contributor is a major offense though.

Both of my kids (Jessica and Tamara) are today.com exiles as well; they deleted some posts after my issues with today.com and were tossed for it. No biggie - I'm sure they too would have been tossed for the crime of being related to me at some point anyway. I didn't see that particular crime listed in their Terms & Conditions, but it must be in the fine print somewhere or they would simply have asked mom to remove the totally useless listing from her blog and left her alone, right? They are such a$$holes over there! Picking on my mom!

Also added Ms Teri's newest Top Of the Chart blog to the blogroll

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I wonder....

Given the supportive and positive nature that the today.com forums USED to have... what might have happened if Dave, rather than turning into the power-tripping jerk from hell, had, when his business partners bailed and he was under pressure, explained the problem and asked us for our input?

Too bad we'll never know... but I have very little doubt that many of us would have been all over pitching in to try to make Today.com viable.

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Look where they're trying to recruit now

This is the first that I've seen Today.com recruiting in such a location: The Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.

I don't know why, but something about that just sickens me. Maybe I'm projecting.

Think this is the sort of place they expect to recruit the new "Rocket Scientist" or others like that?

I'd like to hope not many graduate students would settle for something like this, though I suppose some could consider it practice, and pocket money while they're in school. They may produce some real quality stuff too, as they put their new skills to work. I wonder how long they'd last there, under the new conditions.

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So ...What d'ya think?

Our blog makeover was done for us by Lady Java, and was based mostly, you might have guessed, on our discussion about tag lines.

Feel free, if you have author access to this blog, to post updates about anything you're posting on your nonToday blogs - they don't have to be related to why today.com sucks or why people are so irked with today.com.... although those sorts of things are welcome too, of course.

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Today.com Bites Bloggers in the Ass

I admit. Today.com has me paranoid. I have worked really hard on my blog there and I believed that today.com was there for the long haul. I believed that today.com had my back. I believed that today.com was a great group of bloggers and administrators that had our (the bloggers) best interests at heart.

I was so wrong about today.com. I can't believe I fell for today.com's party line, that all blogs will be reviewed, that good content will get rewarded. That today.com will pay you $2 per 1,000 visitors and you will reap what you sow at today.com.

So far, I have never met a today.com blogger that has actually had their pay increase. So much for blog reviews and raises. At $1 per post, today.com can hardly consider their bloggers paid. It is less than minimum wage, the amount today.com pays their bloggers and they should be ashamed of themselves.

To be ashamed of yourself, though, one must have a conscience and it is clear that the "top dog" Dave, does not have one. He has whined on the today.com private forums that he has lost his life savings and that all of his business partners have bailed on him. Wow. I wonder why all of the business partners at Today.com have bailed? Could it be his inability to have any compassion for his bloggers? Today.com's lack of business sense? Today.com's shady practices and empty promises?

Why in the world would anyone go to today.com, to visit a blog at today.com to buy a toaster or coffeemaker?

Today.com claims high click through rates for advertisers and overinflates blog statistics in order to impress potential advertisers. If today.com sells advertising stating that a blog gets, say 100,000 visits a month, but the blogger gets paid for 45,000 Unique visits, what is going on? On top of that, the blogger really only gets reimbursed at the rate of about .75 cents per 1,000 visits. Will today.com explain these discrepencies? I advertised and out of 1,000 page impressions, 3 people clicked through. So, for the $80 I spent on advertising, I've earned about .02 cents. Cost effective, right?

Today.com's answers to repeated questions about traffic pay rates has been, "we'll get that right to you", "working on it", "sell toasters", and my favorite, "it's a complicated algorithm that can't be explained." In other words, we're not going to tell you because you are a bunch of stupid bloggers that we have absolutely no respect for. We want you to sell our crap you morons and get your friends and family to pay for advertising on your blog. Better yet, why don't you advertise on your own blog, for fun?

Today.com does not provide what they say they will provide. I am ashamed at myself for all of the work I have put into the site. I have met a significant number of great bloggers, all of whom are on to today.com's scheming ways and have become members of the today.com exiles.

Today.com will not get your back, they will not let you complain, and today.com is certainly not going to let you reap passive income when they can just lock you out "because you're not happy" and refuse to pay you anything for residual traffic to your blog. Run, not walk away from today.com.

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