Random rants and miscellaneous mewsings on nothing, the internet, culture, food, cats and life in a foreign country … in three languages; English, Spanish and Rubbish.
One of the major reasons I left Birmingham, where I was born and later went back to live, was the shite weather, but never once did I imagine that it could ever get this bad! The next “freak” weather report will be “Hell freezes over”, I reckon.
Tornado injures 19 in Birmingham
UPDATE: It has been suggested […]
When everyone is chasing hi-tech markets and marketing demented crazy frogs, it does come as a bit of a surprise that the BBC’s series of Beethoven symphonies were downloaded a humongous 1.4 million times (against a mere 20,000 for the Live8 version of Sgt Pepper), even if they were free.
See Guardian Unlimited […]
News Roundup
RSS = Really Simple StealingSeriously, you guys really need to stop publishing full feeds.
Google Adsense Tips, Tricks, and SecretsWe start out with some of the basic general stuff and move to the more specific topics later on.
Advertising Of, By, And For The PeopleGetting consumers to create ads saves a ton of money — and […]
“For many, blogs are a part of life. You might keep your own blog or choose to visit several other blogs through your daily reading. You may even sit back and think, “Gee, I’d like to blog but I just don’t think I’d be any good at it.” This article aims to give you a […]
“Life doesn?t always have to be about rush, rush, rush. Many people are discovering slow as the answer to the superficial, fleeting nature of a hurried world. Not in an effort to swear off modern life, but in order to enjoy it more.”
Go with the slow
And, probably more to the point, why should you care?
Frankly, I didn’t. I had dismissed this mainly as a toy for geeks and as a nice, but none the less fairly useless, means of discovering who blogs near you. Something, I assume, teenagers would be interested in, not marketers.
It wasn’t […]
News Roundup
The 7-Step RSS Marketing Plan
If you’re wondering how to get started with RSS marketing, here’s a basic 7-step plan that should provide some needed guidance. Use these steps as your personal RSS marketing checklist to get your started and help you see whether you’re on the right track.
Displaying RSS Feeds on Your Site
RSSinclude is […]
There is mixed reaction to a new feature released recently by Del.icio.us that allows you to tag items for others. Whilst this is a great idea for collaborative projects and for allowing communities of users to contribute, unless there are safeguards in place, it could open up the social bookmarking system to tag spam - […]
In EzSEO Newsletter # 86, Andy Williams talks about bandwaggons such as “the latest tool that promises to build you a 10,000 page site in minutes”, but also suggests that “there is also a growing number of bandwagons being built by the search engines themselves”, giving the example of Google sitemaps.
Whilst untested (only […]
Apparently. Not exactly useful information, but, I have already written that surfing your own sites with the toolbar will increase your Alexa ranking.
A piece of logic I can follow from this post at SEO Black Hat is, “Having the Alexa toolbar installed on your browser is like being a Nielsen Family for […]