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[2005-04-28] Why Adsense is Not Suitable for All Blog Topics
One of the most striking things that hit me in my analysis of the 30 most visited blogs at Truth Laid Bear was the small number of blogs using the Adsense program.
[2005-04-27] RSS Feed Hijack!
A very peculiar thing with the RSS feeds for some of the blogs that I read has happened since yesterday.
[2005-04-26] Multiply Gives Social Search A Shot
Social networks like Friendster and Orkut are often viewed with excitement when they are first launched. However, with the proliferation of social network-based services (Yahoo and MSN have each started one), the luster seems to wear off shortly after the public becomes aware of them.
[2005-04-19] Adsense Smart Pricing Explained
A few days ago I attempted to explain Adsense Ad Click Value Variations (or why sometimes clicks are worth a lot and other times they are not).
[2005-04-19] Donation Buttons on Blogs?
Jeremy Wright has a good post answering the question - Why I Don't Have a Donate Button? His answer ...
[2005-04-18] Web-Mail Bridges Gap Between Thunderbird and Web Based Email
A coworker pointed out the Mozilla Web-Mail project: "The Web-Mail extension creates a platform which other extensions use to integrate web based email accounts into Mozilla Thunderbird.
[2005-04-11] Are Bloggers Journalists?
Ana Marie Cox, author of the Wonkette blog and keynote speaker at the upcoming IABC international conference, dismissed the question "Who is a journalist?" when it was posed to her at a panel discussion telecast on C-Span.
[2005-04-11] Persistent Spam
Like many over the past few months, I have happily filled my aggregator with persistent queries from the likes of PubSub, Newsgator, Technorati and Feedster.
[2005-04-11] Why Search Marketing Will Continue Growth
An interesting article from the Washington Post takes a look at what makes Google such a success.
[2005-04-09] Flogging flogs
I've been rolling my eyes at the uproar over fake blogs (or "character blogs," as some are calling them). Now it appears they have a name: flogs. And a wiki has appeared to keep track of them called, creatively, FakeBlogsWiki.
[2005-04-07] Google Testing Alternate Searches
Google is testing a new feature called "Alternate Searches" intended to enhance the user search experience. Other search engines like Yahoo! or AskJeeves have included in their results pages some suggestions of related searches.
[2005-04-07] Google's Specialized Number Search
When you search for a number in Google, it's not necessarily going to do it's normal web search, looking for pages with that number in them.
[2005-04-06] Why Google is Syndication Shy
For over a year now I have been wondering why Google hasn't more openly embraced syndicated feeds - be they RSS or its splintered sister, Atom. When you look at how MSN and Yahoo are partying with RSS like it is 1999, Google is like the nerd sitting in the corner in the corner with no one to dance with.
[2005-04-06] CNET Heats up Digital Photo Space
Congrats to James Park. He's president of Windup Labs. That's the company that did HeyPix and they just sold to CNET.
[2005-04-04] When It Comes to Tagging, You're It
BusinessWeek takes a good look at tagging (sometimes called folksonomies) from an interesting perspective - the threat they pose to search engines...
[2005-04-04] Pope Podcasts Show Importance of Medium
Regardless of your religion, I think you can agree that the passing of Pope John Paul II is an historic event. When I visited Catholic Insider and listened to the podcasts there, I connected to this event at a new level.
[2005-04-04] Evolution of the SEO Tool Set
With the discovery and consequent analysis efforts over the contraversial Google Patent that has fueled small amounts of paranoia and large privacy concerns recently, some SEO's are rethinking their toolsets.
[2005-04-02] Taking Yahoo 360 for a spin
What a dilemma - six invitations to sign up to Yahoo 360°, the new social networking offering from Yahoo that launched in beta earlier this week. Which do I choose? So as not to offend anyone, I've accepted the first one I received based on the email date/time stamp.
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