So you know how I keep railing on Public Relations people? Yeah… That. I’ve decided to use one such PR Representative, a Mr. Cory O’Brien, as an object lesson. Though he doesn’t deserve it, I will leave his phone number and email address out.
Hi Site Owner,
My name is Cory O’Brien, and I’m the outreach manager [...]
The funniest movie I ever saw is a late 90s geek favorite film Office Space. I know you all have seen it. And if not - put the kids to bed and go watch it now. Really. It’s not only funny, but it might just be the one thing that PR folks need to not [...]
I’ve given yesterday’s Google smackdown a bit of thought over the past 24 hours. I’ve been angry, sad, indifferent, resigned. I’ve gone through the entire spectrum of emotion over the deal trying to figure out how it would affect what I do and how I do it. After sleeping on the matter for the past [...]
Yes, intentionally misspelled. Phonetics.
Phonetics and mashup are all the rage in Silicon Valley web 2.0 start-up naming conventions right now. When it was Digg, FaceBook and Skype, this was different. It was cool, fresh and neat. You could not help but ask yourself, what’s that?!?
Now, it’s not cute anymore (’sup Pownce and Jaiku!). Instead it signals, “Oh, [...]
It appears this morning that Google has issued pagerank penalties on network blogs. This was first brought to my attention by Darren over on his blog who saw his blog drop from a pagerank 7 to a pagerank 4. Interestingly, Problogger.com is a solid pagerank 6 and it redirects to problgger.net, so I don’t know [...]
