Archive for April, 2007
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Monday, April 30th, 2007I did, in fact, get married Saturday. More digital mayhem to come.
Commercial Mash-Ups
Saturday, April 28th, 2007Musical mash-ups were all the rage for a while, but mentally, I often like doing commercial mash-ups. Sometimes, current ad campaigns just scream for it.
Take, for example, current advertising for OnStar and warning against crystal meth use:
OnStar: Ads depict real calls from OnStar users. Bad things happen to them or near them, and they are [...]
Paul Jahn: Still Funk King of Minneapolis
Friday, April 20th, 2007Paul Jahn is funk king of Minneapolis.
Ceding Control & Its Hazards
Friday, April 20th, 2007I think Aaron Wall of SEOBook wrote a great post this week about Google and the ‘death’ of affiliate marketing. He really focuses on AdSense publishing, but I believe it goes further than that.
He doesn’t mention Google Analytics, but I think GA also factors into Google’s reach for control. There’s some extent to which I [...]
News of the Paranoid
Thursday, April 19th, 2007Today’s big news:
Google revenue is up 60%. Google profit is up 69%
Google re-named Search History to Web History, and are pushing the toolbar with PR enabled to track it better.
Tinfoil futures are UP as I manufacture hats for myself, all my loved ones, and my cats.
Now, to be fair, there are ways to disable flowing [...]
New Prominence for Google Notebook?
Wednesday, April 18th, 2007Maybe I just haven’t been paying attention, but when did Google start showing ‘Note This?’ links in search results for signed-in users?
I know Notebook launched in April 2006, but I can’t recall having seen this show up like this prior to now:
Is this another collaborative filter-Web 2.0-data collection manuever? Or is it just a ‘hey, [...]
Google Ownz y00
Tuesday, April 17th, 2007The Wired interview with Google’s Eric Schmidt just confirms what I keep telling everyone who harps on the ‘Don’t be Evil!’ thing — ie, “But Google is GOOD! They have ‘Don’t Be Evil’ as a corporate motto!”
Me: Yeah, let’s define evil, shall we?
Google is pure Web 2.0 in the sense of how they collect and [...]
Paid Link Crackdown
Tuesday, April 17th, 2007It’s all over the place: Google is looking at ways to get bitchy about paid links and hidden links.
I hate hidden links, simply because playing games with CSS to hide links from users is a clear sign of some form of dumbassery occurring.
But paid links are a really messy area. There’s a billion comments in [...]
5 Reasons Why I Blog (hi paulie)
Friday, April 13th, 2007Paul Jahn, who I like to call the Pope of Search Marketing, is playing blog tag on the subject of ‘5 reasons why I blog.’
So.
Because blogs amuse me from a perspective of history. There’s some extent to which blog comment streams remind me of dial-up text BBSes. And the server this is on generally reminds [...]
E-mail Subject Lines: Who Converts on This Stuff, Anyway?
Wednesday, April 11th, 2007Sometimes, I like to go into webmail, which doesn’t have a spam filter, prior to doing a POP download. The subject lines that are coming through are increasingly surreal, like things we would have written in Very Serious Navelgazing Poetry back in college.
Here are some doozies from today’s batch. Note that none of them will [...]
