Monthly Archive: February 2010

Feb
25

Attacking tech

I’m glad to see that we’re coming to a consensus about texting and driving. Most people these days recognize that it’s a dangerous activity — one that should be avoided at all costs. As my friend at aplaceforthoughts.com writes, Oprah is using her considerable influence to raise awareness, and many states are enacting laws to …

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Feb
20

Times' Paterson story was a hatchet job

On Tuesday, the New York Times skewered David W. Johnson, a top aide to New York Gov. David Paterson, in a news report that brought to light Johnson’s run-ins with the law as a teenager, questions about his qualifications to serve as a campaign advisor, and domestic violence allegations. To be fair, it would concern …

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Feb
14

Location ain't everything (or, how you're ruining Twitter)

Edelman Digital’s David Armano recently tweeted out a thought that pretty much sums up Twitter’s future: It’s unlikely people will abandon networks unless they become so polluted we have no choice. Twitter can be pretty awesome. I use it every day to catch up on local news, national news and tech news. In the past …

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Feb
01

Just why is "conversion optimization" the "new SEO?"

According to this post at Search Engine Land, there’s a new game in town. It’s called conversion optimization, and it’s the next big money maker for the SEO crowd. Apparently the columnist has just discovered that the promise of SEOs — getting lots of people to your site — just isn’t enough anymore. Now visitors …

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