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Hub Finder

If you haven’t gotten your head wrapped around hilltop you should read Analysis and Implications of Hilltop Algorithm. While that makes the concept pretty easy to understand I don’t think it was implemented with anywhere near that level of complexity. However I see some core principles of hilltop in play, as another article link building [...]

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Seth Godin is Wrong about the Easter Bunny

From Seth Godin’s All Marketers are Liars Blog: It wasn’t until 1,600 years after Jesus that the Bunny became associated with Easter. If you think about it, it’s pretty weird (bunnies don’t lay eggs), but it’s part of a long standing pattern of new religions stealing symbols and stories from older religions. Original post Ok [...]

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Top 10 Web Books

Seth Godin started a mini buzz about replacing an MBA education with about 30 books (blog post). People have also started sending him lists of books they feel should be on it. Never one to miss an opportunity to jump on a bandwagon I’ll publish my list of top 10 web books: Don’t Make Me [...]

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Google Hypocrisy

Seems the guys at Googleplex may need to reload if they keep shooting themselves in the foot like this. Check out a thread from Search Engine Watch: Those of you who know me, know that I am the last person to find intrinsic fault with cloaking, but I’ve come across a particularly obnoxious practice of [...]

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Steve Fossett and GlobalFlyer set Flight Record

Steve Fossett piloting the Globalflyer has become the first person to complete a solo airplane flight around the world. Mr Fossett’s flight was backed by billionaire Richard Branson. The airplane GlobalFlyer was designed and built by Burt Rutan who also designed SpaceShipOne which won the Anasari X Prize last year. Many people wonder why things [...]

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Is Google the Borg?

Website content publishers, resistance is futile, your content will be assimilated and become part of the collective, prepare to surrender. I know some of you out there don’t understand what all the fuss is about, but if Google gets away with this, it’s just the tip of the iceberg. In fact in today’s Washington Post [...]

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Dear Google

I know you’re taking a beating pretty hard right now. First it was just the folks at Threadwatch, WebmasterWorld, SearchGuild and Cre8site who were giving you a hard time. Then the Blogosphere, and guys like Scoble started saying how evil you were being lately. Danny Sullivan even spoke out against it. Now mainstream media like [...]

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IM Cultural Divide

This link comes via DigitalGhost. IM Cultural Divide To most of my friends, i appear always-on. If i’m not on the computer, my IMs usually go to my Sidekick. I have a round-the-clock presence on AIM, even if frequently idle. I share this round-the-clockness with some of my buddies – people who always appear to [...]

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Danny Elfman, Serenada Schizophrana Carnegie Hall World premiere

Last night I attended the world premier of Danny Elfman’s Serenada Schizophrana at Carnegie Hall. The event was commissioned by the American Composers Orchestra. I’ve been a big fan of Danny Elfman ever since he I heard the soundtrack to Batman. He’s done a lot of other movies like Spiderman, Men in Black, Planet of [...]

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Google is a Bully

The more and more I look at what Google is doing lately, the more they remind of Microsoft. Their insidious actions are actually pretty scary. Lets look at the latest toolbar. If you install the newest Google toolbar for IE (link) it has a new “feature” called automap which will automatically rewrite any address on [...]

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Google … Relevant or Arrogant

I’ve been reading a lot of early analysis of Google’s recent update, and speculation about what people think you need to rank highly in search engines now. I was also reading Is Google Responsible for Ruining the Internet over at threadwatch. SlyOldDog brings up some good points First they spouted the content mantra. Webmasters diligenlty [...]

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Google Sandbox, Stop the Insanity

For those of you in the industry you’ve now doubt heard of the infamous “sandbox”. For those of you not in the trade, here’s the cliff notes version: The sandbox is an alleged penalty or filter that is applied to new websites to prevent them from ranking for “money” or other popular search terms. If [...]

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Internet Searchers: Fat, Dumb and Happy

According to two recent studies internet users are nowhere near as sophisticated as many people believe they are. Infact many are almost clueless which is good news for the marketing folk. Here are some experts: Only one in six users of Internet search engines can tell the difference between unbiased search results and paid advertisements, [...]

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Free High Paying Keywords from Threadwatch

If you’re a player in the search engine field, and you haven’t heard of threadwatch, I’m not sure what kind of rock you’ve been trapped under but go check it out. What you need more incentive, ok fine, Nick hooked up with CashKeywords and is offering all of his members FREE access to a database [...]

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Mini Skirts and Home Pages

Over at HighRankings.com there is a forum thread about much copy there should be on your homepage and whether there is an ideal length or word count. One of the moderators reply was priceless, so I’ll share it with you: “Copy should be like a woman’s skirt, long enough to cover the essentials, short enough [...]

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Information Architecture for Dummies

Yeah yeah I know some of you think I wear my jammies all day, goof off and blog constantly, but every now and then I do have to do some work. Information Architecture is one of those things I have to understand. For those of you who just zoned out like did high school chemistry [...]

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My Last Game of Baseball

Continued from (my first baseball game) So 5 to 6 years have passed since my game winning ball story. I’m no longer a runt, I’m now an average size skinny little kid who can run pretty fast. Perhaps the most important change is I know where glasses. Yes it makes me look like more of [...]

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Seth Godin on Copyright

While I’d like to think Seth Godin is reading my blog, and happened to see my “movie piracy is a felony” thread and became intrigued enough in the debate between myself and my buddy Cocles the screenwriter, that he started his own blog posting. I doubt that’s the way it happened. Anyway check out what [...]

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My First Baseball Game

Despite the fact that I had won the game winning ball I was still a runt and I was still pretty much a spaz when it came to baseball. With that in mind you can understand my adoration and hero worship of people who could actually play baseball and play it well. It was the [...]

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Game Winning Ball

While most people think of baseball in spring I think of baseball in October. Ok I’m not a big sports fan, and maybe it has to do with the media hype surrounding the playoffs and the World Series. But I will watch a baseball game in October over anything else. If I’m a fan of [...]

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