I received an email notification to a forum post I’d participated in this morning, and bang, there went a chunk of time…
The trigger was a new site called PopURLs which is basically a single page aggregator of some of the major feed sites. Nothing radical there but down the bottom there’s the opportunity to post a link yourself. Given the OpenSourceCMS experience I had to check it out and submit a link. (more…)
Anyone who knows me knows how much I hate smoking. Such an insidious habit, so seemingly innocuous yet, as Shane Bradbrook points out, it’s the number one killer of Maori. Then you have to wonder how much of the so called Obesity Epidemic if affected by the sedentary lifestyle associated with smoking.
I’ve long been aware that the advertising and marketing efforts of the Tobacco companies is based on aspiration - to be sophisticated and western and, lets face it, white. So many foibles in the developing nations are based on those same factors - leg lengthening, skin bleaching and smoking. All dangerous, and frankly unbelievable. Yet they happen. We even hear that Chinese brides get raunchy wedding photos taken in an effort to appear modern. That message had to come via the distorted movie industry and it’s low-class relation the porn industry.
SEO experts despair! I launched a small forum recently and as I mucked about at Open Source CMS trying to decide which software to use I renamed the test category “SH20 Activists”.
Open Source CMS refresh their test systems every hour so I know that the forum lasted no more than 60 minutes, and probably considerably less! (more…)
I’m working on a post on nofollows and created a couple of pages to test the concepts (therefore if you ever link to one page, could you link to both :), alternatively just link to this post and let the user click through.)
This has to be a potential jewel in the crown and it would be great to see the North Shore City Council embrace this idea.
Vorb have the full story on the proposed Sanders Reserve and full credit to them for spreading the word.
Checking the moderated comments on this blog I came across a link that used the BBC’s website to link to unsavory sites. In the example below I’m using one of my sites
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/mainframe.shtml?http://www.realstate.ws
and it astounds me that the BBC leave this door wide open. Surely they could have some sort of filter to ensure that the site being linked to is “approved”. I appreciate that it would take alot of effort to construct and maintain such a list but I believe a great many people will be fooled by the apparant endorsement by the BBC.
Spam is one of those topics that gets returned to time and again. Well, I was just updating this blog and found:
