Day Two - Junction, TexasÂ
9:00am
We survived the night and there is great rejoicing. “Yeaâ€.
Almost nothing compares with a beautiful West Texas morning!
December 2nd, 2007 — General
Day Two - Junction, TexasÂ
9:00am
We survived the night and there is great rejoicing. “Yeaâ€.
Almost nothing compares with a beautiful West Texas morning!
December 1st, 2007 — General
A few less than notable moments from driving the PubCon Conference materials to Las Vegas from the WebmasterWorld office located in Austin Texas. Adam Young (jatar_k) and I spend 24 hours on the road over 2+ days. I make no claim that this is anything but boring and is meant only to highlight how mind numbing the actual event was.
3:30 pm
It’s time to get on the road since we have a mission. The eventual mission is to get to Vegas but the more immediate concern is the Dallas vs.Green Bay game that is scheduled for 7:15pm tonight. This is the game that has caused a stir because of the fight between the NFL and cable companies over the inclusion of the NFL network amongst the general cable offerings. The majority of the U.S. population with cable cannot see the game making any home or business with satellite an instantly popular location. We tried to map out stopping place options that were large enough to have at least one sports bar where we could watch the game. The trouble with West Texas is that “stopping places†are very limited and you usually have to take what you can get. We decided Junction Texas was our best choice given the number of hotels that were in the area and the fact that a college was located there. Any place with a college must be large enough to offer several bars and at least one would must have the NFL Network. We were off.

November 21st, 2007 — Search & Marketing
SearchEngineWorld, the site that originally hosted the forum that would become WebmasterWorld is back online.Â
I had seen articles and video on WebmasterWorld with the SEW name and logo attached to them for the last few months but this is the first time I have seen that the site is live. Since there hasn’t been any real fanfare (yet) it appears that SEW is either being rolled out quietly or we’re getting an early sneak peak. Regardless, Search Engine World looks like it will be a very worthwhile resource offering both print and video news content on Search and related technology topics. Continue reading →
October 25th, 2007 — Search & Marketing
When it comes to music my taste is pretty eclectic. One musical style I have become fond of over recent years is acoustic music particularly some types of folk, blues, etc… An example is Little Willies and while they have a famous lead singer in Norah Jones (the multiple grammy award winner) the general public is not overly aware of them. I did a search on Little Willies today looking for some online examples of their music to share with a co-worker. I decided to try Ask.com who has been making a lot of noise about how “helpful” their search results offering images, songs, maps, and more tied to the search query of the user.
October 20th, 2007 — Quotes
Dad, If you fart a lot then you’re healthy, and I fart a lot!”
Shaye (Weasel Boy)
While recounting this story to family members (some of whom have worked in the medical field for a number of years) I was surprised to hear one of them say, “that’s true, a lot of gas is healthy”.   Continue reading →
October 17th, 2007 — General
I have been awol here for the last 6-8 weeks and there’s a pretty good reason for it. Okay actually there are 3 good reasons.
Needless to say the above took a lot of time away from my normal day to day life. I am just now coming out from under a siege of emails, etc… and finding time to relax just a bit.  Granted, our family won’t be too relaxed for some time as grandpa and mom are going to be longer term concerns.
 Speaking of health concerns. Given the tough news we’ve had in the last couple of months I have spent some time trying to research what we’re up against and/or just what the heck those doctors were saying. In general I found that medical information on the internet fell into one of two general categories.
Yes, I’ve seen the commercials for WebMD and looked at a ton of other supposedly great health sites as well. But in my experience they came up lacking, seriously.
August 10th, 2007 — Rants
Yesterday I was doing some research on auto related websites for a client and ran across a respectable looking ecommerce site that I swear I will never purchase from. The reason? They weren’t respectable sounding! Continue reading →
August 2nd, 2007 — Search & Marketing
I’m sitting in SEOClass in New York and Brad Geddes just made the comment “Google actually sucks at SSL’s”. Aside from enjoying it when people say Google sucks I was amused because the example he showed is something that I run into quite regularly. Continue reading →
July 18th, 2007 — Search & Marketing
If you are a webmaster and a facebook member you need to check out the new WebmasterWorld group that was recently created by Sugarrae. The group has over 60 members and has been up for less than 24 hours so you know this is going to be a fast growing group.  Continue reading →
July 12th, 2007 — Search & Marketing
Nielsen/NetRatings recently stated that Wikipeida (the online user generated encyclopedia) is the top online news and information destination after adding roughly 20 million unique monthly visitors in this past year. While Wikipededia’s value as a “source” is hotly debated what shouldn’t be is how they added such a large number of new visitors. The answer to that is quite simple, Wikipedia is Google’s new favorite toy much in the way that blogs were a few years ago.