Category: General

Much talk is being made lately about the idea of folksonomy – the idea of allowing an organic category system to grow up around a collection of content. This is showcased in the Flickr photo sharing website as well as the Del.icio.us social bookmarking system. When I add a bookmark to my Del.icio.us account I […]

W00t! We got another exclusive call-in coming up next week. This time we’re hanging out with Mike Manuel from Media Guerilla. Mike works in the PR tech industry and helps companies leverage weblogs, wikis and other forms of online communication. He’s gonna show us how the strategies he uses with large companies can be applied […]

Currently working with a client that’s using Expression Engine (same folks that made PMachine). Looking forward to hacking at yet another blog/content management system! Found these tutorials: Expression Engine Tutorials

I’ve had my head up my own ebook so luckily Lisa pinged me that Debbie has released her 41-page business blogging guide in PDF format over on ChangeThis free for the next five days. To all of my fellow bloggers at the conference this weekend – have a grand time! I couldn’t get my schedule […]

My personal blog, Andymatic, has been nominated for a Koufax Award – it’s a series of awards for left, liberal or progressive leaning blogs. I sent out a heads-up to my newsletter and clients that if they also read my personal blog to please vote. I got a ton of votes within an hour or […]

In the continued war against comment spammers – I found a hypnotist, ____ _________ leaving pointless, content-less comments no my sites. So I wrote him up in my personal blog as being a worthless spammer. Now look what the first result is when you

I get really annoyed when people use TinyURL to point people to links online. I think it’s tacky for a business to rely on a separate service just for sending a single link – it’s like people that use AOL or Yahoo! for their businses email and not their own domain. Plus, how can you […]

Last week we talked with Toby Bloomberg from Diva Marketing Blog. You can download the audio here: (also available by podcast) Easy Bake Weblogs Interview w/Toby Bloomberg (mp3 format, 22.5 MB, 49 minutes) Outline of the notes: 00:00 Introductions 03:58 Obligatory ‘What’s a blog?’ coverage. References my definition. 05:30 The ‘Grocery Store Relationship.’ Blogs allow […]

From Google blog: Google sees the attribute (rel=”nofollow”) on hyperlinks, those links won’t get any credit when we rank websites in our search results. This isn’t a negative vote for the site where the comment was posted; it’s just a way to make sure that spammers get no benefit from abusing public areas like blog […]

Off the AP wire: Euphemism and allegory have always been common in business – where few get fired, but plenty get “downsized” – but some say the tongue-twisting technology industry has gone too far. “The marketing people are so bad at hyping their products that, with all my experience, I’ll have to read and reread […]