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Technology

  • Rambling thoughts on my stats

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    In looking at my stats, it appears that I’m getting a huge amount of my traffic from search engines. So…does this mean that my site is either: * Excellently positioned to gain reasonable-to-high rankings on a wide variety of keywords, or… * Valuless, in that visitors from search engines are only interested in one thing…

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  • Just one of the personal uses of del.icio.us

    I’m adding a new personal tag to my del.icio.us habit/space: “toread”. It’s, obviously, stuff I want to read later on. So then I’ll use the automagically generated del.iciou.us feed of that tag to dump back into my RSS reader (making sure to set the feed *not* to expire after I open it) so that I…

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  • Gmail Notifier

    Gmail Notifier hasn’t been working for me of late…for the past couple of days, it can’t seem to ever connect or stay connected. So is it down, or is it just me? I wonder…

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  • New website watch

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    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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  • Tales from The Long Tail: an interview with the co-founder of Peerflix

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    Today’s Tales from The Long Tail link is an interview with Peerflix co-founder Billy McNair by my closest-in-geography-blogger, F-Stop Blues‘ Tim Coyle. In the interview, Peerflix is explained (if you don’t know what it is, read the interview!), and its founder talks about the service’s bright future: Currently people mail DVD’s to one another. Do…

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  • Hammersley’s new RSS book

    Thanks to my affiliation with the Media Bloggers Association (disclosure: I am a board member and web developer) and the organization’s book review copy distribution program, I came home the other day to find a free copy of Ben Hammersley’s new book, Developing Feeds with RSS and Atom, waiting for me. I’ve only glanced at…

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  • Congrats, Jeff

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    One of the media/tech gurus I look up to, Jeff Jarvis, has quit his big-media job at Advance.net to strike out on his own as Buzzmachine, LLC. Among other things, Jeff will consult for The NY Times Company and is working on a “stealth-mode” citizen’s media startup. I first became a fan of Jeff’s when…

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  • Watch this trend: Service blogs and feeds

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    I’ve been following some “Service” blogs and RSS feeds of late (my definition for a “service” blog or feed is one that provides some time of factual info, such as movie releases, weather forecast, dvd releases, etc). Recently, two new sites along these lines launched, and both look to be quite interesting: * Chicago Crime:…

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  • Two minor issues with WordPress 1.5

    I love WordPress, but I have two minor issues: 1. Let me add categories from within the Write Post page. This could be done relatively easy by Ajax, right? Or something less trendy? Whatever works, gang. But as categories (and bloggers) migrate more towards tagging, I for one often find myself saving a finished post…

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