This video is a little old, but it’s been making it’s way around the internet lately. If you’re a national geographic or discovery channel aficionado like I am, it’s definitely a must see.
Basically Mr Lion decides to make lunch out of Little Baby Buffalo. Upon tackling Little Baby Buffalo into the water, Mr Lion begins trying to pull his prey back up onto dry land (I guess Baby Buffalo soup isn’t as good as plain old Baby Buffalo.)
Meanwhile, Mr Crocodile thought that Baby Buffalo soup sounded plenty fine to him, and a baby buffalo tug of war erupts between Mr Lion and Mr Crocodile. Mr Lion eventually hauls his prey back onto dry land.
That’s when Little Baby Buffalo’s family gets involved and starts kicking some Lion ass.
Check it out:
I just had to share that.
Oh yeah.. Expect some light posting from me over the next 2 weeks both here and on shoutwire. I’ve got a lot of work to catch up on this week (not to mention 2 softball games and a hockey game.) Then I’m going out of town this weekend for a wedding, and when I get back I’ll be in the Seattle area (Bellevue) on the 26th and 27th. Hopefully I’ll have some good news to announce after I return.
When it comes to freshness of sites and indexing time, it appears to me that Google is the hands down winner - Especially when it comes to spidering deep links.
About 3 days ago I added another trap word to NoSlang.com, my Internet slang dictionary. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the term, a “trap word” is simply a word that doesn’t exist but is added to a dictionary for the sole purpose of seeing if anybody is copying your material. I’ve got about 5 or 6 in the whole dictionary, and they’ve been very useful for spotting copycats.
I always hate being that asshole, but I’ve actually had 2 or 3 sites shut down at the web host level after their owners repeatedly ignored my requests to stop copying my shit.
After 3 days of having this word up there (on a page about 3 clicks deep) I can say that only Google shows results for the search term. This particular word is istwfn - an abbrevation for “I stole this word from noslang.com.”
I just posted this over on shoutwire, but I’m reposting it here too.
With their constant attempts to sue Google for sending them traffic or lock up their content, it’s pretty clear that most newspapers don’t understand the internet - and why should they?
The internet is basically the anti-newspaper. Where a newspaper is designed to be one source of news for people in a specific location. As sites like this prove, people want differing viewpoints in their news. We read the stories that interest us - and only those stories.
Call it “infosnacking” if you want, but that’s how today’s youth gets their news. Actually, I’m not even sure what infosnacking means, but I haven’t used it since it was declared word of the year.
Unfortunately, newspapers aren’t following the trends. Almost every day I see a new article popping up about somebody suing Google for having their articles in Google news while search engine marketers like myself are pulling out hairs trying to get our content listed there.
If you’re not familiar with Google news it’s basically an aggregator like Shoutwire. Instead of being user submitted though, Google scans the web for news stories, shows a snippet, and links to the original version. There are no ads on Google news.
The newspapers don’t like this. It doesn’t allow them total control of their content, and it really screws up their advertising demographics. Whereas before a Colorado newspaper could ensure most of it’s visitors lived in Colorado, Google news brings a whole slew of new visitors.
They’ve gone so far as to accuse Google of stealing their content where it’s clearly fair us, and they’ve even tried to sue over increased bandwith costs from the Google traffic.
I’m not even going to elaborate on the newspaper outrage over the recently released feature allowing involved parties to add comments or clarifications on news stories. (or in the case of Fox news, a non GOP spin on things.) Editors everywhere are crying foul - as if it’s not possible for a non journalist to have an educated opinion.
Well, earlier this month Google released a feature that my just give newspapers their wish.
After signing a deal with the AP, Google news will no longer link to AP syndicated stories. Instead, they’ll host them on their own servers.
This move not only reduces thousands of redundant links (as many AP stories show up in well over 50 newspapers) but ensures that readers view the original version credited to the original author. It’s helpful to the user while giving credit where credit is due.
It’s also very likely to cause huge traffic decreases for newspapers who only republish AP stories without adding any insight of their own.
Papers that “get it” and do actual reporting of their own stories however will most likely see more prominent listings and more traffic.
The question is: will the other papers notice the lack of traffic? If they do, will they care? I’m sure their advertisers will.
A while ago I wrote a post about how magsforless.com ripped me off. Looking on the web, it appears I wasn’t the only one who complained. It also appears that the company has many unresolved complaints at the BBB.
After my post I’ve gotten tons of blog comments from them saying to email them and they’ll resolve the issue… however all my emails go unanswered. I actually think they have a PR bot running that automatically posts the same comment on any bad press they get. I’ve seen the same response in a lot of places
So it’s pretty clear that magsforless.com is nothing but a huge ripoff - but why hasn’t there been a class action lawsuit? The company is based in the US.
Luckily, I was only burned for a few bucks from this shady company - but I’m sure others have lost a ton of money. Money that magsforless doesn’t deserve.
If you ask me, Joel Simkhai is a thief and a con artist. Go ahead and post your “email me directly” drivel here but until you refund the thousands of dollars you’ve apparently stolen from people you’ll still be slime in my book.
I haven’t gotten any sleep the past few days due to my cat being in heat. If you’ve never experienced the pleasantness of a cat in heat, do this: Take your bed to the busiest intersection you can find and put it right in the middle. You’ll get more sleep than I did.
They say it lasts 5-10 days, and this is day 6 so hopefully it won’t be that much longer. I have to think my neighbors are getting a bit fed up, because I can actually hear her from outside - through a shut door - while in the car - with the windows up - the air on - the motor running - and the music playing.
I’ll be posting an update soon - after the screaming stops and the cat gets fixed.
