I don't drink much bottled water. I work at home so I'm never very far away from the tap, and my water tastes just fine. However, the guys over at Tappening are trying to raise awareness of just how bad bottled water is for the environment, and I'm happy to lend my support. Take a look at their site for some amazing statistics. Full disclosure: I only got motivated enough to ... Keep reading »
That's all I could think of when I saw this picture on ESPN last week. :D
I added the Top Commentator plugin to this site a month or so ago. It automatically places a text link to the sites of the top 5 commentators in my sidebar on every page so that it's easy to see who's the most active here. Here's the kicker, though: despite the fact that I have an RSS subscriber count that I'm very happy with and despite the fact that the site gets very consistent traffic, everyone's apparently apprehensive about ... Keep reading »
Jangro reminds us: it's time to update your copyright statements. Off to do mine now...
Well, to be more specific, the title tags are there but there's nothing in them. I thought it was just the homepage, but it appears to be every page on their site. Title tags are the single most important element of the page in terms of search engine performance, so they're really doing themselves a disservice. We used to have stuff like that happen all the time, though, so I understand. You don't notice the title tags very ... Keep reading »
O'Reilly Radar is the only non-online marketing, non-business blog that I subscribe to, and posts like today's "The Future of Cell Phone Headsets" are the reason why. I've yet to find another blog that gives me such outstanding, quality exposure to things that I never would have been exposed to otherwise, while not completely losing me in the process. I highly recommend it.
Stuart had a fun post over at PimpMyPageRank.com yesterday comparing the page sizes of a few hundred of the largest blogs. It's a good read.
Most of the blogging business models you read about sound great, but aren't actually grounded in reality. Yaro has one tonight that's worth a read, though. Check out How To Launch a Niche Blogging Business.
Today Aaron Wall has the best definition I've seen yet of what constitutes search engine spam. It's simple, clean and true. We should all apply it to our sites.
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