Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
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6 Oct 2005Apparently, the CBC wants all of the negative blog posts by the Canadian Media Guild members locked out for the last 50 days removed from their personal blogs.
CBC: Please consult the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Most notably, Section 2:
2. Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms:
a) freedom of conscience and religion;
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2 Sep 2005I am basically a lazy sod.
However, I have been dutifully tagging my posts, but being less and less enamoured of the process. For me, it is a manual process, involving visits to Technorati and copy and paste.
People would say, well, just write a widget to do it for you.
No.
It’s over. And Darren Barefoot finally pushed [...]
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16 Jun 2005I don’t. I just checked my blog stats for referrals from search engines.
Technorati outpaces Google. All because I started tagging my posts.
Cool.
Technorati: SEO, Google, Technorati
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14 Jun 2005Christopher Hawkins posts about the clients that need to be fired, and breaks them into 11 typologies. [here]
This post is in my clippings and I will likely read it again and again. I have seen them all. The question is, can you also apply these typologies to your managers?
Technorati: Consulting, Consultants, Management, Managing
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6 Jun 2005It appears that over the weekend, this blog reached a tipping point of sorts. Traffic hasn’t skyrocketed, but over the weekend, there wasn’t the usual drop-off.
I have started using Technorati tags on posts where they are relevant, but based on an analysis of the traffic, it’s not one or two posts that is increasing traffic. [...]
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23 May 2005Engadget posts on it here. Gizmodo on the same here.
Apple denies this vigorously. However, given the G5 Powerbook meme running around the blogosphere (here), the serious side of this is that unless Apple discovers a new type of physics, they have maxed out their ability to squeeze power out of their chip choice. Cooling the [...]
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22 May 2005In 48 hours, we have seen posts from Lawrence Lessig and Joi Ito reminding us that life is about more than blogging, about more than presentations, about more than being on the road 250 days a year.
What have we gotten ourselves into? Two of the most invigorating minds of the digital generation have declared that [...]
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17 May 2005Johnnie Moore posts a great quote from Jeff Tweedy of Wilco, made in an interview with Wired.
A piece of art is not a loaf of bread. When someone steals a loaf of bread from the store, that’s it. The loaf of bread is gone. When someone downloads a piece of music, it’s just data until [...]
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9 May 2005After pounding through a number of incredibly clearly written books in the last week, and being completely absorbed in brilliantly written blog posts, I have decided that it is time to start translating the jargon at my company.
From today on, I refuse to speak the buzzwords. I want to have genuine conversations with our customers. [...]
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30 Apr 2005Web page compression is not a new technology, but it has just recently gained higher recognition in the minds of IT administrators and managers because of the rapid ROI it generates. Compression extensions exist for most of the major Web server platforms, but in this article I will focus on the Apache and mod_gzip solution.
The [...]