What’s the hottest trend in search engine optimization that you’ve never heard of (yet)? The folks over at SEOmoz have been doing a great series on Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), which is a context-based algorithm for determining search relevance. Their research has shown strong correlation between LDA and search rankings. However, it’s little things like…
Here’s an easy test to assess the value of any slide in a presentation, if the presenter is using slideware: Credit: Norvig’s Gettysburg Address in PowerPoint Would this slide make a decent blog post? Not the slide itself, per se, but whatever the content is that’s on it or that accompanies it. Would it make…
Many thanks – no, HUGE thanks – to someone for repairing the home base here with a fresh install and leaving my old hosting company, which has had huge security issues for its shared hosting service. Big thanks also to everyone who noted that the blog was having some serious issues over the last week.…
It’s useful from time to time to remind people where else you participate. For those who believe that I provide additional value to your work or your life, thank you. There’s more than just what’s here on my blog, though certainly this is the place I like to call home. Here are other places I…
What’s in common? A simple Google Reader heuristic Want to see what happens when you don’t just wantonly add everyone in your address book to your Google Reader shared subscriptions? If you are subscribed to people who share good stuff (presumably respected colleagues and friends), you’ll know when something REALLY important happens because suddenly it’ll…
Latest update to this is at the bottom of the post. Both Marketing Over Coffee and my blog are getting nailed with this hack described by Chris Pearson. Here’s the solution for tackling it, for the moment, until the attack adapts. Log into your MySQL database (most hosts have this via PHPmyAdmin) and execute this…
A recent tweet from CC Chapman at SxSW about his hotel room having no amenities for preparing food (fridge or microwave) got me thinking: what’s the best food you could prepare in such conditions, assuming you had access to a local grocery store but not much else, and you didn’t want to buy a ton…
