Giving Away Attention And SEO To News-Release Companies

A PR-agency rep for one of the major three news-release distribution services pitched me today on the success of his client’s ability to frequently make the homepage of TechMeme, the tech news aggregator. If you work in the tech and Internet industry, TechMeme is a big deal because of it’s influence in shaping and promoting the flow of tech news and information.… Read the rest

An Elegant Spam-Fighting, Widget-Breeding Superhero

I just had my one-year anniversary of hosting this blog with WordPress blog-hosting software. My experience has been much better than with Moveable Type — which I used prior. The primary reason? The WordPress’s Akismet:

Automattic Kismet (Akismet for short) is a collaborative effort to make comment and trackback spam a non-issue and restore innocence to blogging, so you never have to worry about spam again.

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What Would Apple Do?

“What Would Apple Do?” or “W.W.A.D.“ That’s the key question we frequently ask ourselves at my company. Apple represents a high standard of simplicity and experience we aspire to in our product and most everything we do. So much that we’re even proudly equipped with Lance Armstrong-inspired bracelets, with the W.W.A.D.… Read the rest

Five Strategies To Cultivate A Meaningful Twitter Community

I’m fairly active on Twitter, the micro-blogging platform. Each post is limited to 140 characters, so it instills succinct, efficient expression. And you only receive posts from those people you choose to follow, so you can eliminate attention polluters.… Read the rest