Former professional journalist turned citizen journalist and professional Web Designer discussing the world of technology, culture and the two converging.
When dealing with many of my Web Design and SEO clients, I’m asked, “What’s so hard about SEO, why can’t I do it myself?” It’s not necessarily an easy question to answer. Recently, a Web design client of mine asked me what I thought of the SEO guide from Google. Having just read it myself, [...]
Google has released onto the Googling public a new form of search. Something that could be revolutionary… or not. Google has started its Search Wiki that allows users who are logged into their Google accounts to customize their search. This enables users to take notes on sites that show up and remove bad sites and [...]
Business-to-business B2B blogging is be a great way to forge relationships, talk with customers and prospects, demonstrate thought leadership, and dramatically increase visibility in natural search results for targeted search terms. Done right, it ultimately drives substantial traffic when others in the media and blogosphere link to compelling or noteworthy content. Yet the Fortune 500, [...]
Aaron Brazell, from Technosailor.com has written yet another amazing post. This time he write about what Wordpress users can come to expect from the 2.7 upgrade to Wordpress. This is very exciting for those of us who love and use Wordpress on a daily basis. From what Aaron writes this update will be a MAJOR [...]
Okay I’ll admit it, it’s been an uphill battle trying to figure out a good way to keep up on the blogs that I like to read on a daily basis. I tried feed readers and they didn’t work. I never checked them and they just filled up. I tried Google Reader and that was [...]
Digg founder Kevin Rose says this is the best time to launch a company, even if the economy is going to hell, venture capital for web startups is drying up, and consumer spending has stalled.
“I believe it’s going to be a great time to start something new,” said Rose, while speaking at the Web 2.0 [...]
As Barack Obama made history, Twitter sustained record-breaking activity on its microblogging service as voters across the globe tweeted their election night reactions.
“We’ve yet to do a full analysis for election day, but last night we saw messages per second peak at about 2-3 times what they did during the first presidential debate — which [...]
The computer systems of both the Obama and McCain campaigns were victims of a sophisticated cyberattack by an unknown “foreign entity,” prompting a federal investigation, NEWSWEEK reports today.
At the Obama headquarters in midsummer, technology experts detected what they initially thought was a computer virus—a case of “phishing,” a form of hacking often employed [...]
Viacom faces a number of challenges, chief among them is the fact that its cash cow networks, MTV, VH1 and BET, are having ratings problems.
The company claims that ratings have gone soft because teens and 20-somethings are are tired of repeat programming. The solution, according to chief executive Philippe Dauman, is to “increase the amount [...]
It used to be that, if you hoped Google would index a PDF file, you had to create a PDF that was text-based, not image-based; Googlebot couldn’t recognize the content of scanned or image-based documents. According to an announcement today, that’s no longer the case.
Google says it’s now using OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology to [...]
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