Tuesday, January 24, 2012
My hat is off to Slovakian violinist Lukas Kmit for being mega cool under pressure.
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
So here’s the thing. Google’s changing their search results criteria…again…only this time it’s not just their guarded/hated algorithm. In a recent Cnet article, Why Google is ditching search, author Peter Yared describes the trend of Google away from organic search results and toward paid (which we already knew about) and their newer answers feature. Believe it or not, instead of offering up your well-thought-out, expertise-filled articles, Google’s thrown their hands up at the whole thing and decided to just answer your question themselves.
Friday, January 13, 2012
Working with my spouse often makes for some interesting conversations. Over breakfast, he spoke about all the different programs and things he was playing with. Programs like Linux, Red Hat, and Fedora. At the end of the conversation, he commented that in 2012, those programs would never have been called by those names. Their developers, in an effort to increase their ranking in Google, would have called them things like Operating System v3.4, and Free Operating System v3.4.
Thursday, December 29, 2011
Heads-up all you business people who have hired people to manage your social networking for you. There’s a new legal action that may set precedent for IP and social media and it’s something that should concern business owners, writers, interns, or anyone else making a living social networking for a company.
Friday, December 23, 2011
Here’s a new twist on advertising. In their last major update, Facebook enabled the ability for brands to attach ads to that scrolling news feed along the right hand column of the page.
Friday, December 9, 2011
A US District Court Judge in Portland, Oregon has ruled that a blogger who wrote critically about a finance firm is libel for defamation, and is not protected under Oregon journalism shield laws.
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You know, I have been designing and programming for the web since 1993. I admit that in all that time I have never come over to liking javascript. I’ve come around on flash for certain things, but never javascript and it’s not just because coding it gives me a headache. It just never seemed to be worth the trade-off in security, accessibility, or in SEO, yet over the years, more and more sites have come to rely completely on it to deliver even basic functionality.
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Something today prompted me to just put a stop to the email contacts permanently. And this is when I really got a good look at how those companies view me as a customer.
Friday, November 4, 2011
Have you ever wondered why doing all the things the “experts” tell you to never seems to make as much of a difference for you as it did for them?
Monday, October 17, 2011
I read a recent article on Forbes that got me to thinking about marketing in a depression climate – particularly Internet marketing in all its forms.