From the monthly archives:

September 2007

AT&T and Cingular You Suck

September 29, 2007

AT&T and Cingular I’m a present customer and I have to say your 3G coverage sucks. Also the bricking of iPhones is a crappy way to treat customers. If you are going to come after me or shut off my service for breaking your new TOS section 5.1 100% of any and all communication in [...]

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An Abundance of Dyslexic Ads in Gmail

September 28, 2007

Not sure which is more entertaining the dyslexic nature of the ads (coffee, moms and Stargate) or the huge list of ads at the end … holy crap what a great user experience …

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Stop Abusing Social Media to Create Digital Vapor and Boost Your Ego

September 28, 2007

One of the problems I have with people who work in the social media space is that they use it simply to boost their own ego. It’s time for some tough love, creating linkbait in the SEO social media space is like joining in an incestuous circle jerking link orgy. While there is some content [...]

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How Digg Castrated My Friends

September 27, 2007

When Digg.com launched it’s improvements last week plenty of sheeple who don’t use Digg regularly applauded the move toward a more facebook like model. However other people who do use Digg called the update what it truly was, a mistake. Not to worry the Digg editorial staff squelched the negative feedback and continued on the [...]

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Wordpress 2.3 You Suck

September 26, 2007

Ok I’m not a programming expert, but I have been involved with computers and programming long enough to pick up a few things you shouldn’t do, like …
Don’t make massive changes to your database schemas that break existing functional programming. I worked for a retail company and had been using the same database schema for [...]

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SMX Social and Charity Party

September 25, 2007

Are you coming to SMX social in NY on October 16th and 17th? Did I mention I’m going to be speaking along with other people like Rand, Rebecca, Neil, Cameron, Chris and whole bunch of other people too? Did you know Stephen Spencer will also be there, and he always drops some good tips. So [...]

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Wordpress Plugin to Add Excerpt to Feed

September 22, 2007

I’m looking for a plugin for wordpress plugin and haven’t been able to find one, so I’m hoping one of my readers might know of one. I’m looking for a plugin that adds the excerpt to the contents of a full feed that’s already being published.
Why would I want that? If i put an image [...]

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200+ Diggs and Still Not Popular WTF?

September 21, 2007
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Can’t Tase Me Bro

September 21, 2007

Real Life News + Internet meme + Pop Culture = Link Bait Genius

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TMZ CNN OJ and My iPod

September 21, 2007

So I was on the train last night to our monthly Internet Marketers of New York get together and I bring my video iPod with me to catch up on my podcasts. I don’t watch the news on TV or listen on radio, I will occasionally scan Google news other than that if it’s not [...]

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Why Analytics Drives me Insane

September 19, 2007

So what seems like years ago when I was at SES San Jose one of the session I went to was on analytics (see Lisa’s coverage Issues In Analytics). Which wrinkled a few eyebrows, and got a few questions like “hey I didn’t know you were interested in analytics”, however I was reminded yesterday of [...]

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Whatif Google were Evil

September 17, 2007

Go read What if Google were Evil now!!!
No really go read it the whole thing, really it’s worth it.

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Blogrush … But Wait There’s More

September 17, 2007

I’ve been reading about Blogrush all weekend, and sorry I’m gonna call it as I see it. This looks like a late night informercial combined with an Amway pyramid scheme, complete with “but wait there’s more …” taglines. Don’t believe me check out the video below …

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Understanding Confrontational and Controversial Marketing

September 17, 2007

Controversial and confrontational marketing are time tested methods for bringing traffic, attention and links to your company, product or website, however there’s more to it than just picking a fight.

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Updating Stuff

September 15, 2007

Things may look a little wonky this weekend as I upgrade some stuff, will be back in action by monday

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Suggestions for Google Sitemaps

September 14, 2007

Hey Google sitemaps how about we clean up this menu to make it a little easier to understand

How about “pages with external links” and “pages with internal links”. You know this way the phrase is similar with just the condition changing. I can figure it out, but it eliminates one of those “don’t make me [...]

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When to Pull the Plug on Affiliate Marketing

September 14, 2007

When your affiliate TOS looks like this it’s probably time to realize you have gone over the edge and are now in an adversarial relationship with your affiliates

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Digg Security Hole Promotes Story with 2 Votes

September 13, 2007

If you were lucky you managed to see a Digg security hole get exposed on September 12th

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Google SERP for Wiki Jacking

September 13, 2007

Boy it sure is a good thing we have wikipedia around so Google can use it to provide relevant results like these, I mean it’s not like the wiki is given and algorithmic advantage and ranks for phrases it has no right ranking for or anything.
Although it is interesting taking note of the stemming of [...]

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27 New Career Choices for Britney Spears

September 12, 2007

One of the keys to being good at social media and linkbaiting is keeping in tune with the trends and having people who can jump on an opportunity when it presents itself. If you are a player in job or employment space you missed an opportunity earlier this week when Britney Spears performed at the [...]

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