I’ve been working for over a week on a review of the book Web Dragons:Inside the Myth of the Search Engines. My drafts are copious and they all suck for one reason or another. So in a fit of having to get some damn thing out by the end of the week I give you: This …
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Bloggers blogging on blogging Deep Secrets of Successful Blogging is the complication of 30 posts from April of 2007 when Chitika (a blogger’s advertising network) held a “blogbash” about professional blogging. (I’m a sucker for pdfs, or anything that I can print and take away from the computer and this one is nicely designed for …
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Today David Seah mentioned in an almost aside to a post about learning to network (a shared weakness) that he had read a couple of books by Paulo Coelho and that these were, for him, the right books at the right time. For me the right book was Coyote Blue by Christopher Moore. I’ve read and …
I spent a good bunch of time last week trying to set up some sort of basic tracking for shiny and the DH’s blog observations. There are ninety-three (guestimate) WordPress plugins that track traffic (mostly by looking at the site’s server logs.) But there is not one decent review of which ones work well and …
In a recent issue of Forbes magazine (May 7th, 2007) several authors wrote short essays on the nature of networks. One of which (titled “90 Years of Networks” by Amanda Schupak) includes a nifty little time line of significant events in the history of networks and networking. In the 1991 spot she includes the following: …
