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Ideas

Lane Hartwell, Reputation Management and Your Google Permanent Record

December 20, 2007

There’s a big debate in the blogosphere right now involving a parody video from Richter Scales and photographer Lane Hartwell. A photograph Lane took was used without her permission, she was not credited and not compensated. Richter Scales feels this falls under the fair usage act. I’m not going to take sides in the [...]

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I Need to go 3G

July 12, 2007

Ok I’ve resisted the call of crackberry long enough and I need to go 3G. I’ve sidestepped the lure of the iPhone I’m just not a Mac kind of guy, but I’m totally lusting after the big screen. I need a keyboard and I have to be able to connect it to the laptop to [...]

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How do You Edit Your Documents

May 26, 2007

I’m working with some outside writers on some projects and having some real issues finding a WYSWIG that works in an HTML programmer free blog world.

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How Easy Do You Make it to Consume Your Content

May 25, 2007

I was reading Small is the New Big by Seth Godin, and I came up wit the following question, “how easy do you make it to consume your content”?

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Competing for Attention or You’ll Never be Paris Hilton if You Aren’t Good Looking, Rich and Famous

March 28, 2007

Recently I was reading a book that a friend sent me (thanks Greg) and although it has absolutely nothing to do with the internet or marketing, it grabbed an open piece of mental Velcro.

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MyBlogLog Does the Right Thing

February 24, 2007

The MyBlogLog Blog: Everybody hurts… sometimes

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Ajax What’s it Good For

February 24, 2007

OK can anybody please tell the advantage of Ajax aside from the eye-candy and the ability to say it’s “Ajax”? Ajax pages don’t load faster, in fact I think they load incredibly slower. Maybe that’s because I design my pages with CSS to load and move like a greased pig and not bloated down with [...]

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LinkedIn Needs a Blocking Feature

February 23, 2007

Before the days of the interconnected web 2.0 world things were easy you could always disappear, but now things are different.

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Finding Your Inner Jerry McGuire

February 19, 2007

Publishing a blog on a regular basis teaches you many things, you experience the highs, and you also often become the victim of people who try to take pot shots at you and bring you down, however in the end it depends on how well you can channel your inner Jerry McGuire.

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What I’d Like to See Added to MyBloglog – Categories

February 7, 2007

I’m spending more and more time on MyBlogLog and one of the features I’d really like to see is categories. Yellow Page Optimization is not really that meaningful when I’m trying to be social. For example wouold you want to look for other blogs about say public relations or blogs that start with the letter [...]

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Kevin Federline, the Super Bowl and Blogging

February 2, 2007

When I speak with clients about blogging one of the key point I try to stress is that they should try and not only write about their niche, but try to take advantage of and tie into current events. The more widespread and front of mind the news or event is the better. To illustrate [...]

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Google Sitemaps for Large Scale Sites

October 17, 2006

If you’ve got a any first hand experience working with and submitting sitemaps for sites with over 50K pages drop me an email I’d like to talk with you.

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Looking for Mashup Testers

October 13, 2006

Allrighty so I’m getting ready to push out my ultimate mashup. I combined some news feeds, youtube, flickr, amazon, AOL, and technorati API and data all together into one site. The result is about 150,000 pages of web 2.0 mashup good-ness. I’m looking for a handful of people to take a look at it next [...]

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Flickr API Help

October 8, 2006

Does anyone know of resource that shows you how to use flickr’s API that’s written in english so that actual people can understand it. Something with examples is always helpful. This from Flickr is about the most god awful thing I have ever tried to read in my enitire life.

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Princess Leia Slave Costume for Dogs

October 5, 2006

via amazon fit her with a nice dog harness and your dog star wars fantasy will be complete
we will never speak of this moment again ….

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Profiting from Social Media

October 4, 2006

Since you’re reading this chances are you know I’m a big fan of social media, and while I do like to ‘get down with my bad self’ keeping up with all the latest trends, I see lots of other people beating up on social media because they can’t correlate actions directly with profit.

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Competing for Attention Against Politics

September 30, 2006

A view of the homepage of Netscape.com for Saturday September 30th shows anybody competing against politics is having a tough time competing for attention. (click image to enlarge). Incase your wondering the cool screen shot was taken with the Pearl Crescent Screen Saver plugin.

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How to Win an Election With Keywords

September 29, 2006

Every few days I go through my “junk suspects” email folder to see if anyone got flagged as “spam” that shouldn’t have. I noticed a large increase in spammers using political topics as subject lines things like :
“URGENT: Bush admits Al-Quada and Iran Link False”
“IMMEDIATE ATTENTION: New White House Plan Endangers All Americans”
“ACTION REQUIRED: Show [...]

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Turning Bad Customers into New Business

September 24, 2006

Many moons ago before the tubes of the interweb occupied my days I worked in retail. At that time this retailer was legendary, some might say world renown for their quality, selection and most importantly customer service (sadly this is not the case today). At that time the “old man” worked with each of the [...]

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Most Venomous Creature

September 19, 2006

Tangentially Related Search Posting Ahead …
So for my oldest daughters school they have a weekly assignment to teach them how to search for things on the internet. Last weeks question “what is the most venomous creature“. After doing initial research I my own I sent her back with a clarification question was it most poisonous [...]

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