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OpenID Gets Political Support. That's good news for us techies. read more »
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"The era of being number one is Google has left. The age of Conversion rates, qualified traffic, and site wide analytics has descended upon you." read more »
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There are many reasons why SEO consultants recommend that their clients create a blog for search engine rankings. However, if you are one of those clients (or have read this recommendation online) and are only blogging because of the potential SEO b read more »
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Lisa Barone understands the importance of making the connection between the writer and the reader.
Here she responds to my Dandelion post with flattering detail, although I have never been called that. :-) read more »
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According to the WSJ and Bloomberg, Yahoo thinks it’s going to reject Microsoft’s Takeover offer. read more »
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Techcrunch reports: "A patent application lodged by Google in July 2007 but recently made public seeks to patent a method where by robots (computers) can read and understand text in images and video.

The extension of the application would be that read more »
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bloggers can use stumbleupon to get the attention of other bloggers read more »
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Janet reviews how to use social media tools to make your post go viral. read more »
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Rob Watts offers 8 general SEM tips that will help your website succeed online. read more »
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Citizen journalists are now covered... This “Openness Promotes Effectiveness in our National Government Act of 2007” is now law!

Perhaps the presence of citizen journalism is merely too difficult to ignore any longer? read more »
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Vote for your favorite blogs!

The Reader's Choice portion of 2007 Performancing Awards read more »
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In which I explain the concept of "blog bets" and offer 3 bloggers who believe that the Patriots will win the Super Bowl the opportunity to "blog bet" me. read more »
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Do you really want to know how to get your new pages indexed and ranking in Google?

I do! read more »
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Interesting piece on content scraping. How do you feel about about the issue? read more »
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Sphinn time-stamps things when you START a submission rather than when you finish. But sometimes I get interrupted during the submit (or I forget that last bloody "confirm" click) and my submits end up starting halfway down the "what's new" page.
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Back in November Mashable presented their Open Web Awards and invited Collective Thoughts to be one of the Judges. The Open Web Awards is the first ever online, open collaborative awards event, to recognize the best online communities representing w read more »
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John Jorgensen of bizorigin.com has found that several more companies are using contests as a form of linkbait.

Would turn yourself blue to when a prize? read more »
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Do you like to post one article at a time or blast out many related posts to get the excitement going? read more »
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I thought I would write an amazing post with all my secrets to make it to the Digg homepage on your first try... read more »
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Blogging has now become mainstream? It is mainstream. A little too mainstream for my taste at times, but blogging can be a therapeutic avenue for some that have a hard time expressing themselves otherwise. read more »
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There are a few companies that rank sites online, but they all try to do more than just quality ranking. I would like to see one that only ranks sites and does not try to also be a search engine or a web directory.

I know there are a few coders t read more »
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If you are not posting on a regular time frame you may be hurting your online reputation. read more »
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Digg is great if you are in the Technology industry.  But what about other industries?  Pligg powered Digg like sites are popping up all over the place and they may be a much better fit for your newsworthy items. read more »
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