I started a new job a while back. A very good move for me and my family, but horrible for my free time and my free brainpower. I tried to deny it, but the reality is that I've got nothing left. I could pretend otherwise, but that's self-delusion. I still believe in Prosper and will keep lending, but Prosperous Land is going DOA for a while.
If things settle down, I may return.
I know it's been real quiet around here. I've had to take a few weeks to work through some non-Prosper things and it's seriously cut into my blogging time. I should return to a more normal blogging schedule next week.
I happened to be playing with Prosperous Land visitor statistics and I happened to notice that about 10% of my web traffic in March came from San Francisco. What are the odds?
While I'm mentioning the site, I'll working up the mental fortitude to tinker with the site layout. It's a confluence of Google adding some cool (beta) widgets to the Blogger system and my desire to get away from one of their standardized templates. Will I actually do it? Who knows, but it's possible.
And finally, rapping economy students are funny.
Yup, it's been a year since I got started with this whole thing. I was naive then. I'm not much better now. So, crack your favorite beverage in celebration of my unwillingness to go away quietly.
Yes, I have befallen the curse of the idiot blogger. In early January I put up several noteworthy posts (if I say so myself) while running back and forth to Las Vegas. Little did I know that I had completely forgotten that it was 2008 and entered the posts as if they were written in January 2007. So, for those who completely missed out because they were, you know, in 2008, here's the rundown on what was lost in the time warp:
Yes, happy new year. Glad you made it through 2007.
If you're looking for a profound year-end summary, try somewhere else (like RateLadder or Prosper Lending Review). I'm just going to keep doing what I'm doing. My only goal is to be less stupid in my bidding, but that's not something specific to the new year.
The posts are going to continue to limp along for a bit. My day job is sending me to Las Vegas to man the CES booth. It will no doubt be exciting, but free time outside of airports will probably be lacking (DFW has free wifi, so there's hope for the layovers).
The "When Will Ads Appear Competition" is running and I'm still taking guesses.
I think it's likely that Prosper will place ads for some well meaning financial institution along with the Low Estimated Return warning (probably for CDs or high interest savings accounts). The reader whose guess is closest to the date the ads go live will get a copy of Banker To The Poor: Micro-lending and the Battle Against World Poverty.
So, here are the rules (for you legal-types).
My family and I have safely returned to
I'm going to be taking what I think is a well earned vacation over the next several days. The downside is that the relatives we're staying with are not quite so tech savvy so my internet access may be quite spotty. All that translates into slow motion on Prosperous Land if I'm truly staying at an internet deficient household.
If you're missing your Prosper fix, try some of these folks out:
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