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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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! » [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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