Monthly Archives: March 2008

WordPress 2.5 First Impressions

My initial impressions of the new Wordpress 2.5 Blog Engine

NYC Pillow Fight 2008

The annual NYC pillow fight was this past Saturday, March 22nd in Union Square.

Search Engine Strategies 2008 – 2 Questions

Last week was then annual Search Engine Strategies New York conference. It’s billed as “the intersection of search, marketing & commerce”, and includes talks, panels and discussion on many aspects of the online search world – both Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Search Engine Marketing (SEM). I work in SEO, and attended most of the [...]

News from the Moon – Lunar Ark and the Mythbusters

Two interesting pieces of “News from the Moon” lately. First, European Space Agency scientists, at a conference in Strasbourg last week, discussed the possibilities of building a “Lunar Doomsday Ark” on the moon. The concept is to have a repository of all the necessary information needed to rebuild civilization on earth, should a catastrophic event [...]

Is Road Runner snooping my internet?

Surfing the web a few minutes ago, I accidentally typed in a URL incorrectly. Instead of a normal 404-not found error page, lo and behold, I got this Road Runner Internet “Website Suggestions” page. What’s going on here? Is Road Runner really snooping my web traffic that aggressively? This is the first time I’ve seen [...]

Nike+ to be integrated into gym equipment

It’s great that the industry is finally getting on board with the Apple+Nike tech partnership, and starting to work the technology into gym equipment. I’ve been using the Nike+ situation since day one, and it’s motivating to have as much data as possible available to me when I run.. both at the gym, and out [...]

Should you have a company profile page on Wikipedia?

A friend of mine recently asked me about whether or not she should make a Wikipedia page for her company. Here’s my response… Choose carefully. Having a corporate wikipedia page can be a mixed blessing. On one hand, its great to have public info out there descibing all the wonderful services your company offers, interesting [...]