Stuff you should know, stuff I should remember.

Cryptome got a copy of a 2006 report written by the Joint Special Operations University, part of the US Special Ops Command. The report sees finesse and subtley in using covert blogging: Some of the possible techniques we have explored in our discussion of the military use of blogging require a certain degree of subtlety, […]

Just a quick reminder that the Six Figure Blogging Preview call is tonight (April 2nd) at 8pm EST. This is a free preview of the Six Figure Blogging course which starts next week. If you can make the call, you can still register and get the recording. Full details: http://sixfigureblogging.com/ – keep in mind early-bird […]

Egg shortages are causing scientists to seek other methods of sourcing materials: Under the microscope the round bundles of cells look like any other three-day-old embryos. In fact they are hybrids – part-human, part-animal. They were created by injecting DNA derived from human skin cells into eggs taken from cows ovaries which have had virtually […]

Slowly eating more and more MS Office lunch: (nom nom nom) As you’ll read on the Google Docs blog, starting today and over the coming weeks we’re rolling out offline editing access to word processing documents to Google Docs users. You no longer need an Internet connection when inspiration strikes. Whether you’re working on an […]

The New Yorker has a story on the death of the American newspaper. They mention The Huffington Post and their content strategy: The Huffington Post’s editorial processes are based on what Peretti has named the “mullet strategy.” (“Business up front, party in the back” is how his trend-spotting site BuzzFeed glosses it.) “User-generated content is […]

I think I did this a few months ago. Probably time to do it again. [U]sing a service like Gmail means you don’t have a local backup of your e-mail like you would get if you were using a desktop client. Naturally, that doesn’t mean you can’t store backups of your e-mail on your local […]

YouTube, which makes the bulk of its revenue from selling display ads that run on the right-hand side of the site’s homepage, has not been a moneymaker for Google. The company states YouTube’s revenues last year were “not material” in a regulatory filing. The search giant paid $1.6 billion for the company in October 2006. […]

From the del.icio.us blog: Top 100 Tools for Learning — according to lists contributed by learning professionals, Delicious ranks first. Last year we were second only to Firefox. Library Journal explains why Tags Help Make Libraries Del.icio.us. 7 things you should know about Social Bookmarking (PDF) is a primer from a university perspective, written by […]

From the Blogger blog: For all you visual learners who want to add features to your blog, but don’t have the patience to browse our help articles, we’ve created the new Blogger Help YouTube Channel. There you can find videos that show you step by step how to use Blogger features.

Shoemoney talks about his robots.txt file and how it guards against duplicate content in search engine results. Most of the strategies he’s using can be replicated for Movable Type and TypePad users.