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My Email Inbox Reduction Experiment

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So this summer Matt decided to try biking to work for 30 days, Quadszilla tried blogging for 30 days, both worth while endeavors but I was looking for something to do that had value that would last longer than the 30 days … so I decided to reduce my inbox.

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My Customized Laptops from Skinit.com

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So those are my three skinit.com customized computers. The middle Yoda one is a Tablet PC, it’s a little old, slow and very heavy, mostly my wife and kids use it. The Battlestar Galactica one is my main laptop It’s got a big enough screen, decent memory and pretty fast, it also cost about $800 [...]

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Dear Michael Arrington Please Save Techcrunch Before it’s Too Late

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The following is an open letter to Michael Arrington owner of  Techcrunch.com, you still have a chance to save Techcrunch before it’s too late.

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Philip Rosedale From Second Life on Information Retrieval

December 8, 2008

The following is a video from Philip Rosedale of Second Life speaking at TED. From a search engine and information retrieval perspective the video get interesting at about minute 9:00 . He poses the thought that things are going to change that the text web will eventually be replaced by imagery and symbology in virtual [...]

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So Where Have I Been and What Have I Been Up To

December 5, 2008

Blogging’s been a little lighter than usual the past few weeks as I was getting caught up, but now that my heads back above water, the regular blogging should kick back in.
Also by special arrangement I’ll be blogging weekly-ish over on DIR Journals you can check out my first post Tips for Optimizing for Universal [...]

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Why Font Selection and Usability Matter on Your Product

December 4, 2008

So last night I was chatting with Rae about Partnering for Profits program on Copyblogger. I paid signed up and downloaded my PDF copy. I sent myself a copy of the PDF by email so I could read it on my iPhone. When I did I encountered a problem I see with a lot of [...]

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Apology to Guy Kawasaki

September 17, 2008

Earlier this week I made a post about Guy Kawasaki, and in retrospect it wasn’t the best course to take, and I’d like to apologize. My intent wasn’t to damage his reputation, because he is an author and speaker I like and respect. My intent for the post was to put Google on the spot [...]

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FlyClear Discount Code

September 13, 2008

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Conducting a Real Time Google Experiment on 7/30/2008

July 29, 2008

I’m going to be doing some real time experiments on Google tomorrow, if you’d like to participate be sure to follow me on twitter and retweet the messages … lets see what happens shall we

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IMNY Party Dani’s Strike Zone

May 16, 2008

Earlier this week we had our IMNY monthly meet-up and our member Dani Horowitz was nice enough to host the event at her bowling alley Dani’s Strike Zone in Elmont NY. I have to say for bowling alley the place was pretty cool. Nice and clean, good food, and a huge party room. So big [...]

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How Seth Godin Keeps Pissing me the F*%$ OFF

April 8, 2008

Dear Seth Godin,
I read your blog and I buy your books I like your stuff so much I gave them as Christmas presents to my clients, but when you write this kind of stuff it pisses me off
A quick glimpse at just about any profession shows you that the vast majority of people who succeed [...]

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Hey Vanessa Fox Have You Seen the New Wonder Twins

March 21, 2008
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Untapped Niches and the Mile High Club

March 10, 2008

On my flight to the SMX Search Marketing Conference the stewardess made this announcement over the PA system …

“Do we have any newlyweds, married couples or lovers on board … (some passengers raise hands) I’d like to remind you that the bathrooms are single occupancy rooms, so please wait till you land and get a [...]

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IM-NY SES NY Charity Party Sponsored by BOTW

February 23, 2008

I’m a member of the Internet Marketers of New York and we meet once a month to talk and chat with some other search people in the NY area. Whenever a conference rolls into town we like to have a little fun, meet new people, and help out a charity who deserves it. So I [...]

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Do You Lie as Well as Oprah

February 22, 2008

You would think that snow day wouldn’t have much effect on someone who works at home, except that all the other people who usually leave around 9 didn’t and threw off my groove. So while I was eating breakfast I looked at yesterdays mail looked at the Oprah magazine, and had this thought “Do you [...]

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Gray Wolves to Lose Endangered Status

February 22, 2008

From the article:

Gray wolves will be fair game for hunters

Should I be worried if Matt invites to the Googleplex next week during SMX?
Heh thanks to everybody, who sent me links to that or similar stories in the past day or two.

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USAToday and Forbes How to Screw up a Good Idea

February 18, 2008

So I’m cruising through my reader this AM and come across this piece on USA Today Hottest shows in Las Vegas. Lots of blah balh copy, but what I really want to see is the list of the 10 shows. Inside the middle of the article I follow the link to the slide show (yes [...]

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How to Not Write a Page Title

February 13, 2008

Am I the only one who finds a significant amount of irony in the title of this story:
Changing of the Guard: How Dan Pulcrano Became The Point Man in the Historic March From Old Media to the New World Online
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If it’s all about new media how about you write a title with a search engine [...]

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Shameless Friend Promotion

January 24, 2008

If you’re into comics please check out Urban Monsters written by one my friends, you can also check out his blog where he talks about storytelling and lore surrounding video games. He also was involved in writing for Bat Thumb.

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Privacy and Security Aren’t Opposites and Google as Tool

January 24, 2008

You know I speak against the Google machine a lot, sure some of it is good theatre, but deep down our Google overlords and the church of google can get two powerful. Here’s and article from wired that knock it out of the park:

You can see it in comments by government officials: “Privacy no longer [...]

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