News, Rants and Ephemera

Rants can vary from really ranty to just plain In My Opinion (IMO) type posts, while ephemera and news cover topics of the moment. These two belong together, because the ephemera will usually come with MO...

When Bad News Follows You: SEO Redux?

I came across the article from Nicholas Carr's post Should the Net forget? This is an interesting consequence that seems to be getting pushed on SEO, rather then perhaps looking at it from the aspect of accountable reporting, no? Nicholas... Read more »

Common Sense, or Don't take my International Order and then not Provide an International Support Phone Number

Dear Company-from-another-country-that-was-happy-to-take-my-money -but-too-shortsighted-to-have-an-international-support-number, While I think it's great that you have a toll free support number for your country, I think it pretty... Read more »

Basecamp has served us well... But Highrise...

The marketer in me sits back and marvels at the buildup that 37s have gotten so good at. The programmer geek in me would love to see the DB schema behind the application and to see some of the source code :-). It's amazing watching these... Read more »

Reality Check: Perceptions of Google

Techmeme has the links. This reminds me of people who were saying that Google was trying to become a portal. I think this latest trend of articles - and the portal thing - are cases of over analysis. Look at the home page. Read the... Read more »

Amidst all the Hype, Feedmarker

I've recently been looking around for a new feed aggregator since dropping Opera, and while it is still in it's early stages, Feedmarker could be the answer. While it does share a lot in common with del.icio.us and Bloglines, the beauty... Read more »

On Ajax and Marketing Technologies

When the word made it over to Slashdot about the article, lets just say there was an uproar. Huh, it seems that this xmlHTTPRequest object has been around a while and that people have been using remote scripting for some time. Good for... Read more »

Google Suggest Beta

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Web Standards For Free!!

Is it just me, or is 380+ comments some sort of record? Dan Cederholm is giving away three copies of his new book, Web Standards Solutions, by randomly drawing numbers from a hat. To get a number, you had to link to your favorite article... Read more »

There are those who get it...

This post over at D. Keith Robertsons "Asterisk" crystallized a few things for me yesterday. I've been a little frustrated at times when we go up for a contract against other groups who don't build their sites according to the... Read more »

Tabular Data or Data in Tabular format?

Maybe this has been mentioned before, or it's just me, but am I the only one who finds the term tabular data kind of funny? Who ever says (in official Mr. Science voice), "Lets go out and collect some tabular data today!"? Sounds kinda... Read more »

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