I have been pretty busy over the past few days. But, there is so much to write about and comment on. I am hoping to get some things up later this afternoon, but as I look at the clock, I see that it is already 11:15am. Geez. Not enough hours in the day I […]

Most of us have heard of Google Answers before. Google Answers has a group of 500 or so researchers who will answer your question for as little as $2.50. The idea is simple, pay someone else to find the answer to your question. It is like having your own research department or analyst on your […]

Ok, so I just saw this fly by on a new site I put up:
219.142.118.48 - - [07/Dec/2005:19:48:45 -0500] “GET / HTTP/1.0″ 200 2154 “-” “searchbot admin@google.com”
Interesting, I have never seen this user agent before. So, I go and check out the IP address at ARIN and it comes back to the Asia Pacific Network […]

Google has released Sitemap Generator v1.4 according to the Google Sitemaps blog. According to the anonymous poster, version 1.4 has the same features found in the previous version, but corrects a problem writing Gzipped sitemap files. So, if you have some Donkey Kong sized sites and the Google Sitemap script was crapping out […]

Yahoo! just announced that you can now submit Site Explorer feeds directly to Yahoo! just like you can with Google Sitemaps. Yahoo! supports just about anything you want to throw at them inclucing RSS 0.9, RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0, Atom 0.3, a text file with a list of URLs, each URL at the start […]

I had to post a link here to a great article on protecting your online copy from theft. It is funny how worked up people get about things. I can understand getting worked up about having your content/copy stolen and published on another website. It has happened to me with everything from copy to […]

I was talking to Danielle’s (my fiance) cousin yesterday about RSS and blogs. He was looking at me like I was speaking Chinese (I was not). RSS feeds and the Sage Plugin for FireFox allow me to monitor all of the news/blog feeds I want to monitor throughout the day. It really is a […]

The Google Adsense team has released some new FireFox referral buttons in some cool FF’esque colors. JenSense covers the story first, as usual. One thing I definitely agree with is the need for some Adsense referral buttons in some jazzed up color combos…other than the awesome white with black lettering. Hello? Herro?

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Ok, so I am still wondering when Google is going to be in sync with itself (no, not the boy band). Cache dates have been off in a number of different ways for weeks. At first, I did not really pay any attention to it as the three-part Jagger update was a month-long process […]

I think Jagger has reminded many people that taking shortcuts and using unnatural linking schemes can mean a short lifetime for their website in Google. Oilman put out a nice little natural link building tutorial or tip sheet this morning. A few good tips that I think many people ignore or forget about when […]

Ok, sometimes Microsoft can be a PITA with how they intentionally try to wedge themselves into a market and free software makers out. Streaming audio has been one of those places for a long time and I really don’t know why MS just doesn’t support .pls and mp3 feeds natively…and why someone hasn’t created […]

John Battelle is a genius. I just caught this post about clearing your cache before you kill your wife. It is hard to believe that a computer “guy” would be as stupid as this guy was. But, I guess you can’t think of everything when you are plotting how to kill your wife. […]

I have been working on other things lately, but unless you live in a hole in the ground, you have heard about and seen Chitika ads all over the web. Chitika has been the hottest thing since sliced bread since their cool little ad units started popping up on blogs and websites a couple […]