It seems every major corporation and conglomerate has grokked on to social media as a broadcasting tool.  As a result, there’s a drive for businesses of all types and sizes to make the leap from ‘broadcasting at’ to ‘communicating with’. It’s a great idea for businesses and entrepreneurs to get inside the minds of their [...]

I’ve been having an unrequited love affair with semicolons for some time now. Oh, if you look through my posts you won’t be likely to find any; I haven’t been comfortable that I’m using them correctly when I write.  That is, until now.  Inspired by a 2009 post on Daggle titled conjunction complex sentence misfunction [...]

Applied Theory is a web comic about axioms, models, theories, maxims, principles, laws and postulates.  This is the first issue.  Click on the comic for a larger version.  Also, go ahead and download it, share it, hot link to it, repost it or whatever – just leave the copyright intact.

All this talk about privacy, I didn’t even have a privacy policy on my site. It’s a massive oversight on my part, something I should have done as soon as I set up a contact form and launched a newsletter signup form.  If you collect information from your visitors, it’s never too late to put [...]

I don’t want to sound like a nerd, (ok, maybe I do), but I was just reading a paper called ‘tagging human knowledge’ by Paul Heymann, Andreas Paepcke, Hector Garcia-Molina.  Because I’ve been speaking recently about categorization and taxonomy and their importance in defining relationships of things, I completely neglected tagging as a viable method [...]

It’s surprising to me how many websites are still being built without a thought to future online marketing efforts. What I find especially surprising are the number of web development frameworks and tools that were built without a single thought of search engine optimization. When I develop a website these days, whether it’s for personal [...]

My previous post on the new Google features was published today (June 5th) at 11:48am The screenshot of the search result below was taken about 5 minutes ago.  I’m not certain why this post was indexed so quickly while others remain un-updated. It definitely calls for experimenting. I do know that blogs tend to get [...]