business of the web
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Hotlinking: when is credit due, and how much?
My former high school speech club coach Mike Daisey was “busted” by a blogger for hotlinking to one of the images on her blog- and Mike responded with a reasoned rebuttal. At first glance you’d probably side with Martha, the blogger whose image Mike re-posted on his site. But that’s why it’s often fun to…
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Sweet Odeo!
I got my beta invite to Odeo tonight. Checked it out some, be checking it out even further tomorrow.
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Oddjack: insert gambling pun headline here
So, it appears that Nick Denton has reached into my brain, plucked out another idea, and slapped a semi-realized site design around it: The other day, his Gawker Media empire launched Oddjack, a gambling blog. One notable element of the too-grey-heavy-site is the two choices of RSS feed: If you scroll allllll the way to…
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New website watch
An awesome new website for KUTV Channel 2 in SLC.
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Mark Glaser on search engine spam
OJR has just posted a fascinating article by Mark Glaser examining how some companies, under pressure from the increasing importance of search engine rankings, are resorting to unethical search engine manipulation tactics to improve their “organic” search results.
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Professional ad blogger: frequency, professional design matter
B.L. Ochman (one of the many fine folks I had the pleasure of meeting in Nashville last weekend) has begun an interview series on her blog, whatsnext. First up is Adrants Steve Hall, who says, among other things, that frequency matters when blogging professionally: Hall posts 12 to 15 times a day. He doesn’t have…
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The Nashville Scene on BlogNash
Here’s Brittney Gilbert’s long, interesting Nashville Scene cover story on BlogNashville.
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Holy cow
Hugh McLeod’s “why corporate blogging works” is a revealtory post. it’s practically a treatise.