Archive for July, 2008

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The History of Social Media

Thursday, July 31st, 2008 Over the next few weeks (or less, or more) I plan on doing some research into Social Media. Now the irony here, is that traditional research would require book research, texts, etc. to get the information. Social Media - it’s the new Internets! Since Social Media is an online phenomenon, I’ll be doing most of my research [...]

What it means to be a “Social Media Expert”

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 I’ve got to be honest - I’ve been really hard on anyone that introduces themselves as a “Social Media Expert.” I’m a little prejudiced, because I’m very familiar with Social Media and the social networking movement - I signed up for sixdegrees.com back in the day, I sought out the old school “party-lines” thanks to [...]

Columbus, Represent!

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 First, let me say, I do not watch project runway. However, after perusing some of Columbus’ many blogs (like the270.com) I found out one of Columbus’ one is on the show! From Bravo!’s description of Kelli: Growing up in Columbus, Ohio, Kelli turned to retail at the age of 15 as a form of escapism and to [...]

links for 2008-07-30

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 Plurkshop #9 Recap: The Downsides of Social Media and Social Networking - The Viral Garden Interesting article over the “downsides” of social media. May need to write my own. (tags: socialnetworking socialmedia ideas conversation) The Anatomy of a Search Engine Thorough read on the details behind page ranking. (tags: web technology toread seo searchengine search research reference searchengines stanford) trickeries! » [...]

Mootools Mouse Events

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008 Something I see brought up on occasion are people that do not understand the concept of addEvent: Custom Native to allow all of its methods to be used with any DOM element via the dollar function . These methods are also available on window and document. And as shown on the new unofficial mootools mooforum -  people can [...]

SEO Research - dashes in domain names?

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008 A coworker and I were discussing whether or not dashes are applicable in domain names - from earlier research, it seems Google has some specific issues when it comes to dashes “-” and underscores “_”. ikeif_blog is the same as ikeifblog (note the _underscore_!) That’s not going to do me any SEO favors. The fix is easy [...]

What’s my IP?

Monday, July 28th, 2008 In my last post, I discussed how to block yourself from Google Analytics - but as Ms. Hill pointed out - how do you find your IP address? After all, how often are we directly connected to the internet - we’re behind corporate firewalls, routers, stolen Wi-Fi access - how do we know what we [...]

links for 2008-07-28

Monday, July 28th, 2008 moochart - charts for mootools Everytime I start figuring code out, someone else has all ready done it. I really need to delve into the canvas tag more. (tags: graph mootools webdev chart code) Ian Hickman on Software, Technology and Leadership: 5 rules of variable naming. Useful things to keep in mind while coding. (tags: code development) Die ist eine Testseite [...]

Filtering Yourself Out of Google Analytics

Monday, July 28th, 2008 As a developer and an enthusiast of metrics and media, it’s handy to help flesh out your numbers and “weed yourself out.” Numbers - especially metrics - can help define success or failure of campaigns. Why would I filter myself? Why should you neglect yourself? Ever number counts, right? Well, because as a developer (or author, or [...]

Excuse the mess…

Saturday, July 26th, 2008 I’m working on some new mootools functionality, and trying to be SEO friendly, so over the next several days the site may look a little wonky. « Previous Entries