Stuff you should know, stuff I should remember.

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 […]

Just sent an email to Michael Port – but got an ‘out of office’ note – they had their baby! Jacob Stanton Port (Jake) – 6lbs 15oz Glorious – congratulations to the Ports!

With so many deployed soldiers blogging their experiences – it was only a matter of time before some of them would be counted among the casualties of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan: Spc. Michael J. Smith, 24, of Media, Penn., died Jan. 11 in Ar Ramadi, Iraq, when his military vehicle was hit by […]

Hey guys, interested in losing your gut this year? A few fellow bloggers and I are joining forces to try out The Abs Diet. Details over on my personal blog – should launch in a week or so.