Ms Google - your new virtual teacher. "A useful blog post once a week is better than low-quality content published daily." – Ms. Google Last week, Google released an helpful SEO Guide [PDF Book] that discusses factors which are often responsible for improving the rankings of your websites in Google and other search engines. Now there’s a new document from the same Google Webmaster Central team that offers tips on how bloggers can improve their blogs. It suggesting publishing full feeds, using tags and getting readers though comments on other blogs. If you have a blog, you probably know...
There is damning evidence that this activity has been going on there for way too long, and plenty of people in the security community have gone out of their way to raise awareness about this network, but nobody seems to care. – Paul Ferguson, a threat researcher with computer security firm Trend Micro According to security experts, Web hosting outfit McColo is responsible for enabling the broadcast of more than 75 percent of all spam globally.Its client list is a rogues gallery of bad-guy syndicates involved in everything from botnets to counterfeit pharmaceuticals and kiddie porn. So how is it...
Members of the sprawling Ontario art rock collective Broken Social Scene are on tour in support of founding member Brendan Canning's solo album Something For All of Us... It's the newest record in the "Broken Social Scene Presents" series, in which individual bandmates take charge to create their own set of songs, with varying degrees of collaboration from their fellow scenesters. (You'll recall that the first of these was Kevin Drew's Spirit If..., which established the trend for albums with ellipses.) Reviewing Something For All of Us..., Spin declares, "Brendan Canning makes the case that he might be the guy...
I’ve been thinking about this question a lot lately. What does it take to be a happy person? Obviously the answer is going to be different for each person, but what worries me is that, as far as I can tell, most people don’t even ask – and those that do don’t have a very good answer. Ask someone what would make them happy, and their answer is likely to be pretty vague. “A good career”,” they might say. Or, “Family.” “A strong relationship with my partner,” they might add after a moment’s reflection. There’s nothing wrong with these...
Digg for programming questions? Joel on Software and Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror start letting users into their well built site. The highly anticipated general release of StackOverflow, the social site for programming questions developed by rock star programmers Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood, hasn't happened yet - but the doors are cracked open and many new users are streaming in this morning. You can get in via this beta URL, using"twitter@twitter.com" as your email and "falkensmaze" as your password. At least you can get in that way for now. Below are screen shots and our first impressions of the...
Okay, so Sarah Palin agreed to an interview with Charlie Gibson at ABC News, but we all know (right?) that it's going to be softball questions that can be answered with glib one-liners. Not going to get answers to the questions real citizens (i.e. taxpayers, voters) have. But it turns out if you happen to run into Sarah Palin in a restaurant, she'll answer questions, and say things that her handlers almost certainly don't want her to say. AmericaBlog: "I don't think this question will be answered until after Senator Stevens' trial in September and perhaps never. After all, Ted...
Written on 8/21/2008 by Michael Miles. Michael is nearing addiction to personal growth, communicating, and increasing personal wealth. If you like him here, you'll love him at his blog Effortless Abundance. Photo Credit: dmitrykuWe all want to grow. Whether that means being more successful, having more control over our lives, being more financially secure or being happier and more content. One thing we know for sure, day dreaming will not get us there.We need to have goals and we need to work towards achieving them. But so often the things we want to achieve seem so far off and so...
This is a guest post written by Michael Cerda. He blogs about startups, people and the variety hour at Cerdafied. There is a certain psychology to fund raising. Here are seven questions VCs ask, what they really mean, and how you can answer them: 1. How long have you been fund raising? Translation: How important am I to you; are you giving me the first look or has everyone already seen it? Talk to a friendly VC or two to beta test your pitch and if you don’t know any, well just don’t go into the most popular firm in...
Portable Document Format (PDF) has been widely used for electronic documents in our daily life, either in work or personal file exchange. According to Adobe, PDF has been around for more than 15 years, with more than 250 million circulating on the Internet. But why PDF, and not the typical text files, docs, etc? Adobe has a good answer for that - Multiplatform, Extensible, Trusted and reliable, Rich in file integrity, More secure, Searchable and Accessible. Click here to read more about Adobe PDF. We present you 80+ Free Tools, Tips and Resources to help you master and get...
Continuing with our Bay Area Innovators series, where PSFK chat with Bay Area-based entrepreneurs about their innovative new businesses, we bring you Zack Rosen. We met Zack last month while we were out in San Francisco; he is the co-founder of Mission Bicycles, an online retailer that builds custom fixed gear bikes. We asked Zack to tell us a little bit about his company and what makes fixed gear bikes so special. What is Mission Bikes? We build custom fixed gear city bikes. Our customers choose the components and colors they want and we build them their dream bicycle....
One of the ways people use Twitter is to ask a question to a large group of people at once: “Does anyone know a good recipe for Lobster Bisque?” “What are the best games for a four-year-old’s pirate birthday party?” “What is the best tech conference to attend this year?” Whether or not you get a good answer depends on how many people are following you and how smart they are. It’s not like Yahoo Answers where there are millions of people coming to look for and answer each other’s questions. But what if you could combine the two: ask...
