Archives for October 2009

Just wanted to get some of your thoughts about sponsored tweets. There’s a lot of companies popping up offering cash for twitters, and I’m sure we’re going to start seeing an influx of the #ad and #sponsored tags. What will you do if people you follow start trying to make a buck with their tweets. […]

Danny Sullivan recently posted a rant about link spam where he uses his wife’s site as a sympathy case to display his hatred for link spam. Danny, I agree 100% with you that link spam is evil and that people who do it should DIAF, but I also think the responsibility lies on the webmaster […]

Tonight is the first (of hopefully more to come) 21slides social media presentation at ZAAZ in Seattle. If you’re looking for a fun time discussing social media (or just some free beer,) stop by ZAAZ tonight at 6pm PST for the event. 21slides is a unique concept: 8 social media presenters, 5 minutes each, no […]

I know I’m helping his cause more than mine by linking to him, but Derek Powazek (who?) seems to be causing quite a stir in the SEO community with his recent rant about how SEOs are useless and all SEO should be done by web developers. While it’s true that SEO starts with web design, […]

With more and more news agencies (like newscorp and the AP) demanding payment from places that don’t owe, it’s pretty clear that newspapers just don’t get the internet. It’s also clear they just just don’t want to try to understand it either. Newspapers demanding payment from search engines is like grocery stores demanding payments from […]

One of the most common words I hear every day is the word data Ordinarily it would go unnoticed, but lately I’ve been noticing a lot of controversy around the word. 4 simple letters: D-a-t-a. How could there be any argument? One of the things I’ve noticed is that depending on where people are from […]