Stuff you should know, stuff I should remember.

Still a developing resource – but I’m bookmarkin’ it for now. http://skyloom.com/Know/WikiFacilitation

[A] growing myth in the Search Engine Optimization world, so I’d like to take this post to debunk it: no, keywords in URLs do not matter. That’s the truth from about 1 mile above and should be enough to get anyone started and become successful with content.

Elise’s got a new summary of the blog tool market. Key points: Look to see MSN Spaces take off in the next 6 months. Microsoft is the 800 lb. gorilla sitting in the corner of most software markets, blogging no exception. They have just as much market power as Google does in this space and […]

Thank God somebody said it. Seth Godin goes off on half-assed ecommerce design – like using drop-down menus for countries and states when a ZIP code would be even more precise and save the user the trouble of moving from tab-type-in to point-and-click. Follow-up post from the torrent of letters he received.

Long a darling of the online porn biz, the practice of creating dozens of mini-sites to link to the main one has been valued as a great Google-snare to direct traffic to the ‘mothership’ site. It may fool a search engine into thinking that the ‘mother ship’ is hugely popular. But the search engine then […]

Sort of like Kottke’s Remainders – links that he wants to be sure to notate but doesn’t have the time for a full post – comes this ‘linkyloo’: Creating a LinkBlog with WordPress

From Rebecca: A new blog, Radio Free Nepal, has been set up as a place where Nepalese journalists and bloggers can post information anonymously… because they could go to jail if the government finds out who they are.

Measuring investment in blogging CEOS – from CEO Bloggers Club – which always reminds me of that awful miniseries Billionaire Boys Club. Are you actually measuring the investment in your blogs in any kind of systematic way? Have you been thinking about ROI at all?

San Diego State U’s NPR channel has a short program on podcasting – although in Windows Media format: http://www.kpbs.org/archive/thesedays-tue1.asx

Grabbed this link to Dave’s presentation from BloggerCon: Blogging howto for small city newspapers