How to Use Evernote to Create the Ultimate Post Conference Reference Guide

Evernote is a mobile cloud based note taking, storage and informational retrieval product. In this tutorial I'll show you how to use it to create a conference reference.

How to Use Evernote to Create the Ultimate Post Conference Reference Guide How to Use Evernote to Create the Ultimate Post Conference Reference Guide

How Bing and the Wall Street Journal Could Screw Google

While it's unlikely Bing and the Wall Street Journal will ever reach an exclusive deal, the treat of one does expose a weakness for Google.

How Bing and the Wall Street Journal Could Screw Google How Bing and the Wall Street Journal Could Screw Google

Twitter Lists are Teh Awesome

The power and responsibility of twitter lists in the search ecosystem

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Wordpress SEO: How to Create Living URL’s

If you watched any of the congressional hearings about the newspaper industry where Marissa Mayer testified one of the concepts she brought up is Living URL's. The basic concept is a story lives at a single URL and gets added to/edited/updated over time.

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Wordpress SEO: How to Choose a Permalink Structure

For this post we're going to be taking look at the optimal permalink and URL structures for wordpress. There are a lot of different options, and there isn't a one size fits all answer, however there are definitely better and worse choices you can make.

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Jessica Simpson is Daisy Duke

September 16, 2004

*** DISCLAIMER SOME OF THESE LINKS OPEN WEBSITES WITH BACKGROUND MUSIC ***
Ok I’ll admit it, as a kid I watched the Dukes of Hazzard, on Friday night. For a teenage boy going through puberty, it had everything you could ask for. Bo and Luke Duke were those mischievous boys always in trouble with the law [...]

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Website Advertising and User Behavior

September 16, 2004

I’ve been reading some fairly interesting articles from a new company called EYETRACK III. The first article was about online advertising

The so-called “invisibility effect” of Web advertising is no myth. We found among our test subjects that there were often instances when they did not look directly at ads, even for a fraction of a [...]

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Fonts and Greek Text

September 14, 2004

Ok I’ll admit it I’m not a font head. Now I’ve know a few MacHeads in my day who were able to spot a verdana font from and arail font at 60 yards but it’s not a skill that I posses. Quite often when I am designing a website I will need font with a [...]

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Men are Simple

September 13, 2004

Men are simple, notice I didn’t say stupid I said simple. It’s in out genes it goes back to the caveman days.
If you wanted a rock moved tell us which one and where to put it.
If you wanted an animal killed to eat for dinner, just tell us which one and we will kill it.
Ask [...]

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The Most Important Day of My Life

September 5, 2004

Everyone has milestone days in their life that change the direction of their life, for better or worse, things like the day you got married, the day that you bought a house, or the day that your children were born. These are all important days in my life, but the single most important day in [...]

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Fantasy Art

September 2, 2004

When I was a kid I was a fairly voracious reader. I read about all different things like baseball, pirates, knights, and astronomy. However one book that really took hold was The Hobbit. It laid the foundation for my interest in fantasy literature and eventually Dungeons and Dragons. Like most boys my age I read [...]

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Web Tools: Color palates

September 2, 2004

Back when the web was new responsible designers were only supposed to use the websafe color palette. This consisted of 256 colors that 16 bit computers were capable of rendering with a reasonable degree of accuracy. This became known as the browser safe color palette. When print designers came on the scene they were used [...]

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Boring Email

September 1, 2004

Seth Godin’s team of disciples over at changethis.com seem to have finally come up with something worthwhile in their “how to be a boor” article. Nothing revolutionary or groundbreaking mind you, and nothing you haven’t heard before, however it’s one of those things old timers need to be reminded of from time to time and [...]

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Farewell Mr. Scott

August 28, 2004

For those of you who aren’t big fans of Star Trek, you may not know this weekend is Scotty’s Final Public Appearance. The actor James Doohan recently announced that he has Alzheimer’s disease. The tribute tonight will have William, Shatner, Leonard Nimoy and all of the other living members of the original Star Trek Cast. [...]

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Leopard Print Bikini

August 25, 2004

When I was a kid my parents would take my sister and I to Disney World almost every year, it’s kind of like Mecca for suburban families. So many of my childhood developmental experiences are connected to the Sunshine State. Now for the record when this incident occurred I was 8 or 9 years old, [...]

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Halloween Costumes

August 23, 2004

Over the past few years I’ve noticed Halloween becoming as much of an adult holiday as children’s holiday. On my block the level of exterior decoration has been steadily increasing in frequency and complexity. What was once a few cardboard cutouts taped to the inside of bow windows, has given way to elaborate dioramas with [...]

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Scream 2

August 22, 2004

The famous expressionist painting The Scream was stolen from the Oslo National Art Museum yesterday (news story). One of the more curious coincidences is this painting was also stolen and held for 1 million dollars ransom in 1994. Which raises the following two questions, why didn’t the museum take more precautions to protect it, and [...]

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Gambling on an Olympic Advertising in a Tutu

August 19, 2004

It seems that a man wearing a tutu and with an advertisement for an online casino painted onto his chest was able to bypass security work his way onto the three meter diving board and execute his maneuver to the cheers of onlookers. Not that I encourage lawlessness, but you have to applaud a persons [...]

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Inspirational Blog from Seth Godin

August 19, 2004

I’ve mentioned Seth Godin in my blog before (see Do we Blog Backwards). He made a post yesterday that was particularly inspiring and motivating:

More than a year ago, I wrote this for Fast Company:
Here’s a question that you should clip out and tape to your bathroom mirror. It might save you some angst 15 years [...]

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Wired Magazine and the “internet”

August 17, 2004

My subscription to Wired Magazine ran out EONS ago. Ok maybe more like three or four years, but as the great prognosticator of WebmasterWorld RCJordan put it “on the internet everything is measured in dog years” (link). Anyways, I dropped my subscription to Wired Magazine for the most backwards reason of all, they had too [...]

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Jakob Nielsen

August 16, 2004

Earth to Jakob Nielsen .. come in please …
Ok maybe that’s a little harsh, I actually like Jakob Nielsen. For those of you not aquainted with him he is the foremost expert on website usability. It’s kind of like the old E.F Hutton commercials, if Jakob Nielsen says EVERYBODY listens. While not neccesarily disciples, he [...]

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Backup Your Files

August 14, 2004

I’ve been working on computers long enough to know the two most important rules:

Save your work often.
Backup Your files.

I also know first hand the consequences of not abiding by those two rules with the Murphy’s law variant, The Files you didn’t save or backup will be one of the following:

The most important file
or
The most difficult [...]

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Spider-Man 2

August 12, 2004

If you ended up here through the magic of a search engine like Google looking for a review of Spiderman 2 the movie, quickly hit your back button and return from whence you came, don’t worry I’ll wait for you to leave before I continue my story ….
… are they gone yet? OK back to [...]

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Exercise and Diet

August 11, 2004

As an American on the later side of thirtysomthing, I’ll admit it I could probably stand to lose a few pounds. Not that I’m a fatty mind you, I’ve just got a little extra padding. In fact according to the US government obesity is now a disease (news story). So why is it Americans [...]

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GoogleGuy Blogs

August 7, 2004

It’s only natural that the folks out Google started a blog, heck they own the thing. However a recent contributor is the infamous GoogleGuy. Now for those of you not involved in Website Design, Search Engine Marketing (SEM), Search Engine Optimization (SEO), or WebMasterWorld you may not know who he is. If you want to [...]

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