Random Thoughts

Stop Wasting Your Time and Money On Branding

As I sit pool side at the happiest place on earth reading Small is the New Big I can’t help but come to the conclusion, that most companies are wasting their time and money on branding.

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Don’t Trust Jason Calacanis

It’s been five days since Jason posted his new rules on linkbaiting, five days may not be long IRL but in blog time it’s … like well forever … all I have to say is Dude Where’ My Link?

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Michael Gray and Jason Calacanis Best Friends Forever

This story is dedicated to my best friend, and guiding mentor Jason Calacanis.

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Video Blog Comments

Thanks for the comments both good and bad. I will be retooling so to speak and have some adjustments in next weeks segments.

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Do Spelling and Grammar Matter

Recently DigitalGhost made a post where ended with the Gunning Fog number for the post. For you lazy SEO types Gunning fog is reading level score for a written work like a book or article. Which got me thinking does Google care about spelling, grammar and reading levels?

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Logo Update

I put my new logo up this morning check it out and let me know what you think of it.

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Dave Pasternack PPC Update

I updated my Dave Pasternack ads let me know which one you like, with any luck I’ll win the best PPC prize and get to go to dinner with Webguerilla and meet the real Dave Pasternack at Esca when SES NY rolls around.   Tags: dave+pasternack, davepasternack

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Celebrity Attention

Well this is the fourth or fifth time I’ve been compared to someone in the triumverate of celebrity attention headliners, so I’m thinking when the world serves you lemons, the only thing to do is make lemonade …

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Best Advice I Ever Received

If I keep this up I’m sure someone will call me the meme whore but since Scott’s post was so good I’ll play along.

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SEO Men Vs Women

I read Andy’s Lazy SEO Manifesto and and found the whole thing really amusing. I followed the conversation across a couple of places and what struck me as kind of funny is among the men, the ability to completely abandon personal hygiene and giving up wearing clothing ranks extremely high as a perk, and even [...]

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SEOlebrity

SEOlebrity: A search engine optimization and marketing expert or guru, who’s fame and notoriety makes them recognized and sought after speaker or personality at search related industry events and functions. Having and running an A list blog is not a prerequisite, but is growing trend among many SEOlebrities.

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On Hacking and Pirates

So as many of you know this site and several other SEO sites were the target of hacker using a wordpress exploit, to gain access to my site. Plain and simple the problem rests on my shoulders for not keeping my wordpress install up to date. I was at least one or two versions behind. [...]

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Your Site is Ugly – Or Things Your Friends Say

So I was in the city today having lunch with some friends, and when someone you trust says “your site is ugly”, it’s time to make a change. Ok technically the redesign was in the works anyway I just expedited the process and accelerated the deployment schedule. I’m not entirely happy with the logo, and [...]

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Borrowed Laptop

Working on a borrowed laptop, for the next few days. Looking at a tablet pc as a replacement, if you have any first hand insight or experience let me know by email or comments, thanks.

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Laptop Dead

Heat buildup, power coupling melted, no explosions but messy plastic goop on motherboard. No data loss, however outlook backups are incompatible do to version mismatch. Email may have been lost during redirection. some scheduled blog posts will publish, will return soon.

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Let’s Talk About Reviews

All right since I’ve gotten some feedback on reviews I’d like to open the subject up for more discussion. If one of my friends friends come out with a tool, piece of software, or something else and asks me to mention it, I’ll go take a look and is long as it’s not a piece [...]

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Diogenes of RSS

Sometimes I feel like Diogenes who walked the ancient marketplaces of Greece looking for an honest man and never finding one.

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Narcissism Filter

Rich Skrenta from Topix.net moved into “his own digs” at Skrenta.net. In his 5 things tag post he mentions this: …hmmm, too much I- me- my- in this post…it will never make it past the Topix narcissism filter. I actually never considered the existence of a narcissism filter, interesting and something to consider. You might [...]

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Five Things You Don’t Know About Graywolf

All right so I was tagged by Dean aka Digital Ghost who was tagged by Marketing Guy who was tagged by Aaron Shear who was tagged by Avinash Kaushik who was tagged by the starter of this whole thing Jeff Pulver (I’m glad I only had to write that and not say it, whew). The [...]

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What is a Compilation Post

I came across a post today that was actually pretty interesting. I’ve been trying similar things but I think this execution was really good, for lack of a better name I’m going to call this a compilation post.

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