13 Mar, 2009
OK, I’m the other one in the business, the one that doesn’t speak, blog … in fact I don’t do much when it comes to the NSM Blog except listen to Paul complain, grumble and moan about me not doing anything with the NSM Blog. Anywhoo … moving along, in December 2008 my business partner Paul (@NorthSouthMedia) suggested that we attend #thinkvisability at Leeds, well not being into SEO and interwebby things I thought it’s not really for me. After a few months of persuasion (see bribing … there will be beer) I decided to
“tag” along.
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6 Mar, 2009
Each and every month, normally around the beginning of the month, I run a Cull on the people I’m following on Twitter. Why? We’ll, to cut to the chase, I like to rub out those that just don’t do it at any sort of level. I guess, what i am trying to say, is that perhaps after a certain period of time, no matter what another individual is posting (tweeting) to yourself and many others that they have also befriended, you just don’t want to hear their crap no longer.
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27 Feb, 2009
I’m writing this post after a heated debate (let’s really call it tepid, tbh) between, Matt Cutts, Head of Google Search spam team and Michael Grey, re-knowned American blogger and Search Consultant, better known to many as Graywolf. The jist of the debate was around some hackers cracking into a considerable number of UK School websites and injecting porn links within the hacked websites copy : source.
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1 Feb, 2009
We all suffer from them from time to time, a series of unfortunate events that may not be massive or life-ending but you can do without them just the same. Google, the search giant, has had a few of their own unfortunate events over the last 48 hrs. First off, the news broke on Friday the 30th of January, that a Google Street View vehicle had hit a small deer and then recorded the whole thing on Google Maps. Like I said, nothing shattering, just an unfortunate event, that’s all, then this happened …
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25 Jan, 2009
Twitter is fast becoming the mainstream micro blogging tool of choice. Much in the same way as Apple’s iPod cornered the music-on-the-move market – Twitter is branching its way into the hearts and minds of the public. It is also getting a helping hand from a number of celebrities beginning to use it as a way to communicate with their fan base. And therein lies a problem in the making.
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22 Dec, 2008
Late last night I finished reading, ‘The Beginner’s Guide to Social Media‘ an E-Book available to download from Blah Blah Technology and written by Wayne Smallman. There have been very few e-books which I have started and read till the end, however this is one which held my interest even when I was puffed out from a long day and looking to grab some much-needed sleep.
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21 Oct, 2008
Just over 3 weeks ago I submitted a post to a blog, contained within a very stiff collar market – health and safety. The site in question was under a year old and mostly deriving it’s traffic from the Google shopping feeds (which I ran as well). It required, nay, needed a stiff injection to shake it from the shackles of peripheral seedings within the search engines. The post was constructed to help address the situation that the site found itself within. No one, within the inner circle, expected, not even I, the bloated results that we were soon to witness.
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22 Aug, 2008
Being a blogger, my urge is to write! Sometimes, I know how the post should end but haven’t a clue how to get there from the start. It’s a bit like someone filling in all the edges of a jigsaw then telling you to finish it off but throwing the picture on the front of the jigsaw box in the bin. So you end up piecing things together blind. A poster over at Sphinn, baiduyou, summed it up perfectly for me, he said that blogging, in a particular reference to myself was like that old Eric Morecambe joke while he was playing the piano “I’m playing all the right notes”, Eric use to say while playing the paino (badly), “just not in the correct order”!
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15 Jul, 2008
Being a black sheep in the SEO environment is not always a negative thing. Noticing the amount of chatter that certain SEO types who court controversy create is indeed eye-opening. Its quite alluring, an almost head-locked type of link-bait.
For one, if you have something to say, even if it rubs against the grain of the majority and it is your total belief – then say it. Who knows? The majority may just be sheep following the bark of someone already established and your outcry may make others think hard enough to look twice at what was-said-before. Individuality online is not easily classed as black or white its about being the many shades of you.
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25 Jun, 2008
I loved Twitter for its simplicity, its ease of use to communicate, its way of bringing instant friend referrals straight to my desktop (I did use Twitter Fox) then it got bloated and some executive or two never made the call not to keep-up with the data outage. Then Twitter died … almost daily, and my usage of the service curled up and withered with it.
However, before I could suck my last Twitteresque breath, some micro-blogging-evangelist leant before myself and began to chant – plurk, Plurk, PlurK, PLURK … – then my world greyed and became finally focussed on a headless something, I think it’s a pig but that debate is still open for argument.
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