Category: General

Orbitz travel company doesn’t want you deep-linking: linking into the site without going through the front page. Memo: it’s called mod_rewrite. Ask your network engineers about it. They probably mentioned it but Legal or Marketing was too busy making a case for crisis to justify their budgets.

New Scientist on the Big Hype: A new piece of software solves both these problems because it automatically sends newly posted audio files to an MP3 player’s music management software as soon as they arrive online. It differs from internet radio because you do not have to tune in at specific times.

Buzz buzz buzz. What is Beercasting? Let’s face it, we’re all social people and nothing gets us chattering quicker than a few drinks and some good friends, both new and old. These days, the Internet is growing and growing and more and more of us are turning to it as a way to get a […]

Provacative question: We as consumers have been trained by the music industry to go out and buy a new piece of plastic every few years. Why do we keep buying the same things? The new format is no format. What the consumer would buy is a data file, and you could create whatever you need. […]

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Whew! I have so been out of the blogging loop lately. Polishing the ebook, traveling, planning life post-dayjob… here’s the braindump: AskJeeves Buys Bloglines Podcasting goes through the roof. Google blows my mind with Google Maps (don’t forget Google Video and Suggest too!). Yahoo Toolbar for Firefox on the way (Sunbird hits .2). Rick (the […]

Just pointing over to my post about the current customer relations nightmare on my coach-focused blog. If you’ve ever wanted to witness an internet-spread bonfire in progress, it’s right here.

On the Blogs & Bloggers network over on Ryze, Marla Stout shared with us the delightful Life is Ruff blog of her dog Kegan. I felt I had to share this and trust that Kegan’s charm will be appreciated more widely. Then I found that while I’d been doing other things, the phenomenon of ‘dog […]

Back home now. Andrea’s conference rocked! Much much more in-depth writings in the near future. Note to self: pay the extra day of hotel room so you don’t have to take the red-eye to Chicago and spend all day Monday in bed sleeping.

How do the Keywords in Typepad help? I’ve meticulously entered relevant keywords for my over 200 blog entries, and now I’m wondering if they really help at all? How do you know? How many can I add? When I see what the user sees in the search engine listing itself, it only shows the exact […]