From the monthly archives:

December 2005

Jeremy Zawodny in Dell Hell

December 31, 2005

Jeremy Zawodny seems to be going through his own version of Dell Hell right now, and anyone who spent 60 minutes on the phone with a call center in India can empathize with his situation. However I’ve said this before (Bloggers Influence on [...]

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Viral Blogs Without the Edge

December 31, 2005

I’m doing some research for a viral marketing project I’m working on, and I’m looking for some business oriented sites about viral marketing, and I come across Fast Company Now, Viral & Buzz Marketing Association, Word of Mouth Marketing Association , and I’m [...]

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Million Dollar Home Page Stats

December 30, 2005

Seeing how it’s almost the end of the year and the Million Dollar Home page is now almost completely sold out, I can share some stats. I had a site I was willing to sacrifice in case it blew up in my face, [...]

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Double Standards for Spam

December 30, 2005

I’ve really been trying to keep things a little more positive here but every so often something gets under my skin and I gotta call a spade a spade. I’ll start off by saying I’m a regular reader of Darren Rowse’s Problogger and [...]

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Getting Things Done in 2006

December 30, 2005

My first book for 2006 is going to be Getting Things Done or the concept known as GTD. Inefficient use of email and RSS are probably my two biggest time wasters. I’ve spent the last few days cleaning up my RSS feeds, organizing my logins in Roboform and changing my email client to Thunderbird, and [...]

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Brett Tabke Blog

December 30, 2005

C’mon Brett you’ve actually got some good stuff in your Pseudo Blog just bite the bullet and start blogging already!

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IPod Webmaster Free Content

December 29, 2005

Since the folks over at the Yahoo Buzz Report tell us that some IPod searches are up anywhere from 187% to 646% (Yahoo! Buzz Index – Buzz Log – Apple Swallows Holiday Buzz), they came to the conclusion that lots of folks got an IPod for Christmas/Chanukah/Kwanzaa/Festivus. I’ll bet that even includes some of [...]

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Google Search Tricks, Tips and Hints

December 29, 2005

Even though I work in the search engine space I have a lot of the same bad search habits that most people have. I expect Google to know that when I type in [Wedding Band] it should know whether I’m looking for jewelry or musicians. With that in mind I’m going to provide some [...]

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Protopage

December 28, 2005

Protopage is a really neat ajax-style web 2.0 internet based desktop. It is fully configurable page with sticky notes, personalized news, RSS Updates, and bookmarks. A really neat thing it does is let you set up multiple pages, so you could categorize things. [...]

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MSN AdCenter Review

December 28, 2005

Oilman has a review of the MSN AdCenter up. I finnally managed to sign in, my review will be somewhat less enthusiastic.

Thanks to comments from one of my readers I found out you can’t sign up when you are using firefox, you need [...]

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Behold the Power of Authority

December 28, 2005

It’s been interesting to watch [Eco-Friendly Flip Flops]

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The Ultimate Exit Strategy

December 27, 2005

A thread over at Webmaster World entitled Hit by a Bus is making the rounds and Andy, Jim and Barry are all talking about it. A good place to start would be making sure those daily/weekly/monthly backups you’re running regularly are indeed running [...]

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Personalized Search and My Niece

December 27, 2005

My niece who is really a wonderful sweet little girl, has a very small menu of acceptable foods. She will eat cheerios, pancakes, or eggs (scrambled only) for breakfast. For lunch and dinner the list of acceptable foods includes mac and cheese, chicken nuggets, steak, hot dogs, French fries and one or two other things [...]

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John Battelle: Google and AOL Lame or are Telling Porkie Lies

December 23, 2005

In Case you missed it Google “clarified” some of the issues about the AOL partnership on their blog. Now John Battelle wonders if there isn’t a bit of “interpretation” going on
 John Battelle’s Searchblog: Google Clarifies

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MSN AdCenter Problems

December 23, 2005

Oilman did okay when he signed up for MSN AdCenter, but I keep getting errors. Part of the problem seems to be I’m using Roboform to fill in the data which isn’t triggering the javascript calls to prefill the form fields. When I [...]

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Washington Posts Extends Free Archives

December 23, 2005

While the New York Times has a decidedly schizophrenic approach to online content (making the old stuff subscription based, but publishing a free real estate blog). The Washington Post is at least moving in the right direction (WashingtonPost.com Extends Free Content Window)

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Spam comments

December 22, 2005

After dropping my “annoying” captcha images spam has increased 1000%. Nothing was published but to be honest it’s annoying to have to deal with, so captcha will be turned back on.

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Speed Blogging

December 22, 2005

I’ll admit one of the skills I’ve honed in the past few months is speed blogging. First off a killer app for speed blogging is Copy URL + combine it with Nick W of Threadwatch Performancing.com’s jsfile (here) and you’re off to a good start.

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Eco-Friendly Flip-Flops

December 22, 2005

Eco-Friendly Flip-Flops are all the rage in cyberspace, virtual communities, and the search engine world. QuadsZilla is looking for Eco-Friendly Flip-Flops to save little Timmy. Over in the UK the Guardian wants Eco-Friendly Flip-Flops to come under close Scrutiny from Google. Happy to oblige search engine engineer Matt Cutts says there is little competition in [...]

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Technorati Charts

December 21, 2005

Ok who doesn’t love pretty charts, especially when they are about you? Nail Kenedy mentions how to create these in his blog posting. Here’s one about me:

Here’s the formathttp://technorati.com/chart/ + [keyword] + ?size= + [size]
[keyword] works for single keywords, multiple keywords, and URL’s. [...]

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